Civitas: The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology - is this the briefing that has informed Government thinking?

[stumbledin]

Apparently Civitas is linked to Gove according to wikipedia, but general described as "right wing".

Wonder if this is the background briefing that has informed current Tory thinking? They say:

The expansion of transgender rights has gone hand in hand with an expansion of state and institutional (both public and private) regulation of speech and behaviour. This highlights a significant difference between today’s transgender activists and the gay rights movement of a previous era. Whereas the gay rights movement was about demanding more freedom from the state for people to determine their sex lives unconstrained by the law, the transgender movement demands the opposite: it calls for recognition and protection from the state in the form of intervention to regulate the behaviour of those outside of the identity group. Whereas in the past, to be radical was to demand greater freedom from the state and institutional authority, today to be radical is to demand restrictions on free expression in the name of preventing offence.

Recommendations

1. Both the UK Government and the Scottish Parliament should announce a moratorium on all reform of the Gender Recognition Act for at least the duration of this parliament.
2. The Government should clarify the distinction between sex-based and gender-based protections as set out in the Equalities Act 2010. The Act’s permission for sex-based discrimination to preserve female-only services should be reiterated.
3. The prescribing of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to anyone under the age of 18 should be immediately prohibited.
4. No child should be permitted to ‘socially transition’ at school (i.e. change name, pronouns, uniform or use the changing rooms and toilets intended for members of the opposite sex) without the permission of their parents.
5. Schools should be encouraged to separate out the teaching of lesbian, gay and bi-sexual relationships from teaching about transgender as part of the Relationships and Sex Education curriculum. Teaching on transgender should not contradict the content of the science/biology curriculum.

civitas.org.uk/content/files/2454-A-The-Corrosive-Impact-of-TI-ppi-110-WEB.pdf

Saw this earlier, was wondering how influential they are.

Stopped clock.Right.Once.

Sunlight. The facts speak for themselves.

There is already a thread on this.

Where - useful to give link.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3943320-Civitas-Report-The-Corrosive-Impact-of-Transgender-Ideology?msgid=97594733