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How Childline Became Captured by Trans Ideology

by Nick Dixon
8 January 2023 3:17 PM

James Esses has written an excellent piece in the Spectator in a genre I call ‘shocking but not surprising’ about his time as a volunteer at the counselling service, Childline. Esses claims that, after five years , his contract was terminated for ideological reasons. Here is an extract:

Over time, I began to notice a change in the presentation of children coming through to speak to me. Increasing numbers of children were telling me that they were ‘trans’; that they felt trapped in the wrong body. These children were also becoming younger and younger. 

Some of the foundational principles of counselling include exploration, neutrality and not going into the conversation with a pre-determined outcome. However, I noticed that gender ideology was becoming more prevalent within Childline. I believed this was in breach of the core therapeutic ethics of the charity. 

It became clear that Childline were collaborating more closely with Stonewall. The first time I became aware of this was when I attended a shift and noticed that there were Stonewall posters plastered throughout the counselling room. They read: “Some People Are Trans; Get Over It.” This immediately raised red flags for me, especially given safeguarding concerns that have emerged regarding Stonewall. Examples of this include Stonewall’s statement that toddlers can “recognise their trans identity”, recommending the book Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl (which suggests that children can be trapped in the wrong body) for two-year-olds, as well as glorifying double mastectomies in their Christmas cards. Stonewall’s CEO, Nancy Kelley, has even previously compared ‘gender critical’ beliefs (that sex is binary and immutable) to anti-Semitism.  

I raised my concerns with senior management within the organisation at numerous meetings and even submitted a briefing document. I assumed that I would be listened to, especially given the significant implications for the welfare of vulnerable children. My concerns were acknowledged but ultimately ignored, with no action taken. 

Esses goes on to explain how he was cancelled because his ethical concerns went against the charity’s new-found ideology. 

Around the same time, I had started to speak out publicly about my concerns regarding gender ideology and the risk of harm to children. Childline sought to limit my free speech from the outset by requiring me not to refer to the fact that I was a Childline counsellor in any of my advocacy.

When I requested them to re-consider their position in the interests of transparency, I found myself invited to a meeting with the head of Childline. At this meeting, I was informed, without so much as having a conversation, that my volunteering with Childline was being terminated with immediate effect and that I should not come in for my next shift. I appealed the decision, which was swiftly rejected, even though it was found that there had been numerous policy breaches relating to how my complaint was initially handled. 

The fact that Childline terminated my contract after five years of service, without a single concern regarding the standards or ethics of my counselling, made it clear to me that this decision was based on ideology. 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Cancel CultureChildlineChildrenFree SpeechStonewallTrans

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago

There is clearly something going on beyond just ideology. Why is the trans agenda being pushed so hard and who is behind it? Unscrupoulous politicians looking for the next victim group to ‘champion’ and then abandon when they’ve moved on to the next? Depopulation enthusiasts happy to help people to sterilise themselves? Pharma companies, surgeons and psycho-the-rapists psychotherapists who stand to make big money off of all the drugs, surgeries and treatments?

If someone with expertise in the field notices an increasing number of children bringing up concerns they hitherto had not, and the children doing so are increasingly younger, it suggests the children are being fed ideas and they are not voicing these concerns out of their own awareness.

Are we all being groomed for a time when a 5-year old suggests that he or she is “attracted to an older person” and we should then accept this as normal and encourage it? This whole development is beyond insidious. A child cannot have a sip of wine or one puff of a spliff due to concern for longer term damage (which we rightly deem them too young to comprehend), but pumping them full of hormones and chemicals is just hunky-dory?

One of the things that really bothers me about this is that I do not doubt that there are children, teenagers and adults who are struggling with some type of identity crisis, depression, anxiety issues, however one wishes to term it. It would now appear that most of that will quickly be categorised as some type of gender issue, drugs will be administered, and whatever is truly causing their unhappiness will be ignored. When they remain unhappy after self-identifying or fully transitioning, they are then abandoned, as their use as political victims is over.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

A partial explanation, perhaps, is that on the one side activists have an ideology and a well-tested playbook of infiltration and propaganda. I noticed it a few years ago when you would have half a dozen articles in one day in (say) The Independent on gay marriage, homophobic attacks, rainbow flags etc. That’s all gone, because society was successfully conditioned, but now there are half a dozen articles at a time on people going trans, on transphobic attacks, and flags like a Dulux patch-chart.

On the other hand, the rest of the society (probably thinking they’ve outgrown religion), has no ideology and so caves in to the one on offer, failing to notice that they have been groomed over decades to an ever more bizarre belief system in which they can’t even be sure that the ground under their feet is real. As you rightly say, paedophilia seems the new rising star – and that was on the agenda way back when Foucault and the trendy left were advocating it in Paris in the late 1960s.

Look for the origin of the trajectory in the first intellectuals to advocate the abolition of the family. Abolish the most fundamental human ties, and atomised and confused individuals can be manipulated at will (ie, the will of those who stand to gain).

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

The trans push is being used so that once ‘transness’ is made normal the push to legitimise paedophilia will be ramped up. I am convinced that paedophilia is at the root of our current problems. One way or another too many people have been trapped in paedophiliac webs which is why they so readily go along with the orders of the Davos Deviants.

The grooming gangs issue has never been fully investigated and it is now clear why – too many officials are caught up in this. They dare not let the people know what is really going on.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

https://stopworldcontrol.com/wef-pedophilia/

This is a disturbing read. Whether we believe it or not an awful lot of world politicians appear to have been compromised and this article suggests the reasons why and how.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-07-oregon-hospital-expansion-gender-mutilation-children-castration.html

And there’s more.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

As it’s (see other comment) based on the necessarily religious assertion that humans are a composites of souls and bodies which are inherently different from each other and that there’s some procedure/ deity pairing souls with bodies which doesn’t always work (and they’re doubtlessly secretly convinced that it really never works) what’s going on here is simple: It’s a cult (and a particularly digusting and dangerous one as it glorifies chirugical multilation of teenagers to turn them from biologically functioning mammals into bizarre fantasy creatures).

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

Sounds to me like they want to make trans compulsory!
How did we let things slide this far?

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago

It’s almost as if there is some sort of Common Purpose infiltrating these organisations one by one.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

It bears repeating here that the ideological basis of this nonsense is the Christian body/ soul duality, something people with a Christian background have been strongly conditioned to believe in. But who is the trans-god Stonewalls claims to have created its souls somehow ‘trapped’ in bodies (as opposed to the conscience being a function of the body just like the digestive system)? If they’re preaching in xis name and seek to proselytize, they ought to tell us. Also, their status should be changed from charity to an organization of the Scientology-type, ie, a modern day (pseudo-)science religion.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Some of us Christians are hylemorphic dualists, rather than Cartesians, and that’s a lot more consistent with the biblical view and totally opposed to the “wrong body” idea. Who would want to worship the god who can’t even get his assembly process right?

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

One of the points I was trying to make is that Stonewall, being modern, certainly rejects the notion of a god and especially, the Christian god. They’re just stealing the concepts and hope nobody notices this (a very common practice for all branches of wokery). But without one, their central theological (for it is one) axiom makes no sense.

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Lancer
Lancer
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

A fair observation though this duality of soul separate from body has never been used as some sort of subversive mechanism within Christianity and its teachings – as a Christian my soul being separate from my body gives me great comfort knowing I won’t need my body after it dies (to continue on somewhere). If Christianity – The Religion had some nefarious intent, the orthodoxy would’ve eventually used it for some evil purpose – off the top of my head.. you can commit suicide with no consequences to your soul (which is separate).

Maybe you can, I’m not all-knowing of course but there’s something inherently negative about suicide, conversely challenged by our celebration and respect for life. Of course some might argue Jesus committed suicide on the cross though that is surely misguided. Jesus did not desire to die, it was the Romans and the state of humanity at that time that put him on the cross. Jesus was giving us a reason for hope.

So where there are similarities in this duality of body and soul within Christianity it’s never been used for evil so the similarities are only coincidental – why our leaders within the CofE should know better. Why this more recent push to use it as a mechanism to confuse our young is evil at its very core (at least with no definitive evidence – I’m open to change my opinion but on the face of it it’s highly subjective). That and other more disturbing trends like arguing the case to rid ourselves of the so-called useless eaters is all borne out of pure evil in my opinion.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Lancer

They’re certainly not coincidental. The w-hucksters have also misappropriated the original sin in various forms, eg, white privilege, male privilege, (completely idiotically) German privilege (some American actually came up with that) and I’m convinced they’re either doing this intentenionally to exploit the already existing acceptance for the concepts in their target audience or because it comes naturally (so to say) to them because of their own Christian background.

I think this makes an important counter-argument here: People can only be trapped in their bodies if these just something like a garment they’re forced to wear. Hence, someone preaching such theories ought to be able to answer the question If people are separate from their bodies, what are they and where do they come from?

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Lancer
Lancer
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Again, fair enough though with those examples and beliefs like that, some might argue they’re not Christian anymore (or perhaps never were). I’m reluctant to get too bogged down in to the orthodoxy and dogma of Christianity, it’s riddled with inconsistencies. The best way to describe my personal beliefs is I am a Christian (because I was brought up that way) and find comforting fables to explain things and live my life.. but I’m not religious.

Christianity and by extension.. Religion is a funny phenomenon, our humanity trying to define the impossible. Sure there are fundamental beliefs that are formulated with no proof or perhaps even make sense, that is its power which can be used for good AND bad – why it’s difficult to argue against your comparison.

On the whole though it’s been a force for good, though if out of context with all other commandments this duality of body and soul suddenly becomes its achilles to argue the case of sex and gender being separate it’s a subversion of its true meaning – a meaning of there being more to life that this simple existence – not.. you’re a woman in a man’s body etc etc. That’s a perversion of our confusion with the unexplainable. A longing for there being something more than just our physical body. (as I said, I’m open to change my opinion, but on the face of it with next to no evidence, there’s no doubt we’re experimenting with children’s lives).

Interesting discussion RW 🙂

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