drum123 Andrew Gilligan in The Sunday Times picks up and expands on many of the issues in the program.
Where Stella O'Malley says at the end that these are 'children who are lost.... and being led', Gilligan's article identifies the roles played by some TRA organisations & charities:
'Trans groups under fire for huge rise in child referrals
Activists and vloggers are in the spotlight as one school says 40 pupils ‘do not identify as their birth gender’
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"To trans activist groups that focus on young people, such as Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence, this is a flowering of public awareness and acceptance that has lifted people’s fear of revealing their innate gender identities.
Others say this cannot be the whole reason. “If that’s the case, where are the adults, the middle-aged people seeking transition?” said Jane Galloway, a parent and women’s rights campaigner. Over the same five-year period there has been a rise in the number of adults referred for gender treatment of 240% — big, but lower than for children.
Part of the explanation, say some professionals, is the activist groups themselves. Helped by funding from the public sector, the national lottery and the BBC’s Children in Need, they have undergone their own transition, from marginalised outsiders to darlings of the Establishment, fixtures of official panels and glossy diversity awards ceremonies.
“They are not just supporting transition, they are promoting it,” said Moore. “They have created a market for it.”
In Brighton, an LGBT charity called Allsorts Youth Project has launched the UK’s first group for “trans or gender-questioning” children aged 5 to 11. As of March, according to Allsorts documents, it had 27 local members with an average age of nine. “Trans adults facilitate the space in order to give children positive role models,” the documents say. The charity’s Facebook profile picture states: “Allsorts means family.” (continues)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-groups-under-fire-for-huge-rise-in-child-referrals-2ttm8c0fr