Joanna Williams: Indoctrination in Schools

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"Trans ideology has no place in our schools

Young children need protecting from gender extremism"

Welcomes the closure of the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Clinic, "But the fight to protect children from the grip of gender ideology is far from over."

"The Tavistock lay at the end of a pipeline, with children being funnelled in from organisations like Stonewall, Mermaids, Gendered Intelligence and Pop’n’Olly. Children were – and continue to be – pushed along by social media, television, comic-strip books and, most disturbingly, libraries, schools and even nurseries. And activities for children, like Drag Queen Story Hour, normalise the idea that gender is an identity, distinct from sex, in the minds of the very youngest children.
Schools have played an especially large role in promoting the idea that children can be born in the wrong body and that their new gender identity must be respected above all else. One reason this situation has come about is because each school in the UK is free to set its own rules on how to deal with children who question their gender. And while some may keep parents informed in the face of such potentially life-altering decisions, many more do not."

She goes on to explain how schools policies come from local councils and education authorities with involvement from other organisations:

"The input of these organisations can be readily spotted in policies that say ‘there is a spectrum of gender which is wider than just boy / man or girl / woman’, or in advice that some children ‘will be aware that their gender feelings and expressions do not match the expectations of society, while others will not have “worked it out”’.
Teachers are told to ‘remember that a pupil who identifies as a trans girl, but was born a genetic male, is not a “boy dressed as a girl”, but is a girl who outwardly at this point resembles a boy.’ "

"More concerning is the fact that such nonsense is now part of the school curriculum. PSHE – made mandatory for all children by Theresa May’s government – is used to promote gender ideology, with children as young as eight being taught vocabulary such as: bisexual, pansexual, asexual, intersex, non-binary, genderfluid, transition, gender dysphoria, questioning and queer."

Now the government is producing guidance but everything has stalled as we await a new prime minister.

www.spiked-online.com/2022/08/07/trans-ideology-has-no-place-in-our-schools/

Thank you for linking that article.
The fact that ‘gender identity’ is part of mandatory lessons in schools is appalling.
It is no use just closing the Tavistock if schools are promoting the ideology that confuses children in the first place.

Also - please do not criticise the teachers. Teachers have no say in this nonsense - we are not allowed to speak up on this.
our unions are totally captured.
the implied message us that if we do not go along with this, we will have teen suicides on our hands.
we are in an abusive, toxic relationship with TRAs.

I am sure you are right overall, and it must be so difficult for teachers to have their hands tied, but I think unfortunately some younger teachers are personally captured as well, PamDemik

Another good article. BUT - these all need to be published in the Times Educational Supplement and other education publications as a counter to the trans ideology / queer theory that teachers are currently in receipt of.