I hadn't realised, but at the end of the Telegraph article, there is a comment from Louise Chivers herself:
Do gooding social work halting critical thought and evidence-based practice
Every week, social workers have to make decisions on whether people have “capacity” in a whole range of choices.
They then have to make “best interest decisions” if the person doesn’t, which requires critical thinking skills.
Social workers who do not think critically and follow the affirmation dogma will set vulnerable adults on false affirmation pathways.
I’ve heard of social workers in children’s services threaten child removal if parents don’t follow gender ideology and of kids sent straight to gender reassignment clinics after one trip to a doctor.
Social workers need to be aware of the social contagion phenomenon, particularly in teenage girls and the inherent homophobia in telling gender non-conforming youth they can achieve the impossible and “be” the other sex.
All social workers should have read the preliminary Cass Review into the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the full report, when published, should be compulsory reading for everyone in the profession.
Learning disability social workers need to be aware that clients with DSDs (differences in sex development), like Klinefelter syndrome, which is where a boy is born with an extra X chromosome, are at risk of being groomed into believing they are intersex and being brought to misogynist trans-rights activists rallies. I talked to one such person outside an LGB Alliance event in Newcastle last month. These males often have learning disabilities, low testosterone and behavioural problems. They are very vulnerable.
Forensic social workers and probation workers also need to be keeping a very close eye on the statistics of trans men identifying as women to gain access to female and child victims. These men’s fantasies should never predominate women’s spaces and safety, especially so with the most vulnerable and abused women who end up in prison.
And they all need to be able to voice their concerns without fear of recrimination.
Social workers are being indoctrinated into the homophobic and misogynistic mantras of Stonewall. Social work has always had a problem with being predominantly dominated by white liberal middle-class women. But this “do gooding” social work in an echo chamber of “be kind” has stopped critical thought and evidence-based practice.
Ultimately, if social workers are to be censored and, in my case, blacklisted for sticking up for women and children, then we are doing a huge disservice to the very people we are supposed to be helping.
This should be shared far and wide. Her words based on lived experience would probably reach far more than an article about her employment status (which obviously is really important) but in getting people to understand what is happening every day.