This is an important piece on the way that Stonewall has operated to get the non-contentious banner of 'trans equality' to dupe boardrooms and public bodies.
The writer makes a pointed observation towards the end:
^In the meantime, the council is currently working with Stonewall to finalise its Gender Identity Guidance for schools. Will there be a debate about it in the council chamber? Clearly not, because “controversial and potentially discriminatory language” might get used and views which the council leadership and its advisers have decreed are transphobic might be expressed.
Will parents who might be critical be given a look at what is proposed for their children before it gets enshrined in council policy and moves Leeds up the Stonewall equality rankings? As if.
Will any councillors raise any questions about the guidance, whatever it ends up saying? On current form, no.^
Any parents in Leeds happy about that? 