Safeguarding Mostly Involves Protecting Children From Their Families: The Safeguarding Scandal of a Labour Council Shutting Out Parents to Push Gender Identity Ideology in Schools

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Only in my hometown of Brighton and Hove (a delightful seaside city turned wretched by its political class) could such a thing happen. Only here could a city council be so captured by gender ideology, so eager to be its loyal flagship, that it would physically eject a woman from the town hall chamber for simply opposing its cloyingly woke groupthink.

The opposition that resident Kay Lyons tried to voice in the precious time-slot the public are allowed was no more than a passionate plea to repair what she believed to be breaches in schools child safeguarding procedures. In Brighton and Hove, a growing number of parents share these concerns. In one instance, known to the council and freely admitted by the secondary school concerned, teachers were aware of a child’s use of a breast-binder in school but tacitly supported its use and withheld the information from the parents.

As the video webcast testifies, Kay Lyons hadn’t used foul or threatening language or accused an individual of wrongdoing. She hadn’t glued herself to the table in front of her or got up and sprayed paint across the Mayor’s crimson robes. Nor had she grabbed the ceremonial mace and waved it about (as our tantrum prone MP for Brighton Kemptown Lloyd Russell-Moyle had done in parliament in 2018). No – in fact, Lyons hadn’t even finished her question when, without any warning, her microphone was cut off and three security men surrounded her.

Whilst the manhandling and ejection of a member of the public is surprising (and possibly a criminal offence), the council’s determination to silence anyone questioning schools’ use of the gender affirmation approach (alongside the practice known as ‘social transition’ whereby a child’s name and pronoun are changed, often without knowledge or consent of the parents) is not. You can read more about these dubious practices here.

Full article https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/13/safeguarding-mostly-involves-protecting-children-from-their-families-the-safeguarding-scandal-of-a-labour-council-shutting-out-parents-to-push-gender-identity-ideology-in-schools/

(Well it had to be Brighton - or could be increasingly too many!)

It's a terrible thing to alienate children from their parents. Only the courts are allowed to remove parental rights. All the national data we have shows that the State makes a poor parent and children in the care do dreadfully in terms of education, mental health, life chances etc.
It's why the State errs on the side of caution and the bar for intervening in family life, let alone removing children from parents is incredibly high. The police, social services, the NHS all have to abide by the law and seek the consent of the courts before intervening against parental wishes.

Trans extremists must be stopped from imposing their dangerous beliefs on children and parents.

Can you give a time stamp for the video? Thank you

Sorry no, I cant. Isn't it in the article?

If not add a comment to the article and whoever wrote this seems to be someone local and either there or had direct info.

Am not at all surprised it is Brighton. Though, to be fair, could just as easily be anywhere in Scotland.

I can't remember the exact statistic but isn't the percentage of those using binders and reporting issues (damage to ribs, trouble breathing etc) somewhere between 80 - 90%?

Regarding this bit - 'Nor had she grabbed the ceremonial mace and waved it about (as our tantrum prone MP for Brighton Kemptown Lloyd Russell-Moyle had done in parliament in 2018).' I thought I'd missed a joke or something so just googled it - fucking hell!)

I thought I'd missed a joke or something so just googled it - fucking hell

Its hard not to think that all these people who want to be known to be TRAs are little more than attention seekers.

And not only are they damaging women's rights, but also are doing harm to those who are genuinely dysphoric. Not many people speaking up for them.

I fucking hate Brighton. Everytime I go there, random men try to chat up my ten year old son unless I’m right next to him. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

How parents manage to raise kids there is beyond me.

This is so awful. I hope she sues.

People who are genuinely dysphoric don't need you to speak for us or pretend to care about us thank you.

^ you might not. But I do, thank you.

People who are genuinely about to be thrown under a bus don't need you to speak for us or pretend to care about us thank you.