Munroe Bergdorf has considerable media and political influence both in UK .
Like Fox & Owl, they are promoted as 'role models' for vulnerable children questioning their gender identity.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a3509672-Trans-Teen-Survival-Guide-by-Fox-and-Owl
As identified in the recent GIDS report, trans rights activists are affecting Safeguarding frameworks intended to protect children and young people.
Many prominant trans rights advocates including Aimee Chellenor, Stephen Whittle, Jane Fae Suzie Green etc have demonstrated repeatedly that they do not understand Safeguarding.
Parents and adults who do understand Safeguarding and the duty of care required towards children and vulnerable adults will of course interrogate and identify the Safeguarding concerns. They are required to do this.
Sunday Times, 'Staff at trans clinic fear damage to children as activists pile on pressure'
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"The report was compiled late last year by David Bell, then staff governor, whose role was to present staff concerns. It says some children “take up a trans identity as a solution” to “multiple problems such as historic child abuse in the family, bereavement . . . homophobia and a very significant incidence of autism spectrum disorder” after being “coached” online and by trans activist groups.
The true histories of “highly disturbed or complex” child patients were not properly explored by Gids clinicians struggling with “huge and unmanageable caseloads” and afraid of being accused of transphobia if they questioned the “rehearsed” surface presentation. The report says the concerns voiced by staff are shared by Sonia Appleby, who is in charge of safeguarding at the trust.
Some youngsters were referred for puberty-blocking hormones — which are usually followed at 16 by cross-sex hormones causing irreversible change and lower fertility — after just one session, the report says. The trust denied this.
Examples of cases in the report include a girl from a family with a history of abuse of females. The mother’s anxiety about having a daughter was transmitted to her child, who resolved to change gender. Another girl felt “deeply guilty” after her brother died tragically, so she decided to give her parents “their son back” by changing gender. Some openly homophobic parents sought transition for their children because they were gay.
In other cases, uncomfortable feelings that are normal for adolescents are being “relabelled as to do with wishing to change gender, a position . . . which the service is unable to challenge” Gids has “close relationships with organisations that are identified as part of the pro-trans lobby such as Gendered Intelligence and Mermaids, and [went] to some lengths to placate them,” the report says." (continues)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/staff-at-trans-clinic-fear-damage-to-children-as-activists-pile-on-pressure-c5k655nq9?shareToken=14ca44214d620680c9d1898b96492582
[[www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3509817-Times-16-2-1-9-Staff-at-trans-clinic-fear-damage-to-children]
I have linked to an important Sunday Times article, am I required to check the comments under the line to ensure that these all comply with current interpretation of MN rules?