Nearly half of secondary schools are allowing children to self-declare their gender without parental consent, an investigation has found. The Telegraph has the story.
Downing Street is being urged to intervene by MPs and peers in light of the findings.
Freedom of Information requests to more than 300 state secondary schools in England have found that 40% are allowing children to self-declare their gender.
The research, by the think tank Policy Exchange, also found that more than 30% of schools are failing to inform their Designated Safeguarding Lead when a child wishes to change gender.
The report claims that the practice of affirming a child’s feelings of “gender distress”, where a child thinks there is a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity, has become “embedded within the classroom, meaning secondary schools are effectively facilitating medical interventions on site”.
Nadhim Zahawi, the former education secretary, said: “This Policy Exchange report marks an important contribution to the growing body of evidence demonstrating that urgent attention needs to be paid to the ways children are being impacted by gender identity beliefs.”
Baroness Morris of Yardley, a former Labour education secretary, said: “Children deserve to be kept safe and action is now urgent.”
According to the report, only 28% of schools said that they would reliably inform a parent as soon as a child disclosed they were questioning their gender.
The investigation also found that 28% of schools do not have single-sex toilets, while at least 19% are not maintaining single-sex changing rooms.
Schools have been waiting for almost a year for new transgender guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) to help them navigate a rise in the number of pupils who say they want to change their gender identity.
Civil servants started working on the guidance last April when Mr Zahawi was in charge of the department. However, work on the guidance has stalled under a succession of new leaders and is now due to be published “later this year”, according to the DfE.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Backbencher-of-the-year Miriam Cates appeared on GB News earlier today to discuss this report. She’s not happy.
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“BBC’s resident ‘disinformation expert’ Marianna Spring unveils the new ‘BBC Verify’ initiative, attacking ‘alternative media’”
Transparancy..? The BBC..? Yes, we saw through you a long time ago.
Why does the downticker pay £5 a month just to downtick everything? Grief, it must be a “just stop oil” freak with loads a money and no brain!
I thought that at the weekend – someone had downticked every single comment and reply on one article. Perhaps its some weird algorithm thing – or ChatGPT feeling vengeful against wet-tech meatbags….
I think ‘ticks’ can be given irrespective if paid or not. I could be wrong, though.
Yes you can like/dislike comments without having an account or logging in. I found that out when I forgot my password and had to fart around getting access to the site again.
Wow, thats pius, pedestal sitting, moral highgrounding lefty paradise! Pee people off with no consequence!
Put your money where your Fat silent gob is!
Don’t forget the ‘cowardice’ element too. I’ve met Action Man figures with bigger balls! lol
Oo look, I’ve poked another one out it’s hole!
Come on you brave sods, downtick me! Come on, do it! Good grief your so moral!🤣
Just ignore them Dinger. I rarely if ever downtick anybody and I either provide a comment to those I don’t agree with or ignore.
Same here, I’d sooner give my side in the debate than idoly sit there downticking
It’s probably Marianna Spring. That’s what the license fee is for.
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What’s wrong with down-ticking? Can’t people tolerate some disagreement? I happen to agree with the above point, but just saying… And what makes you think it’s the same person (the “downticker”), or group of people? It could be anyone.
“What’s wrong with down-ticking?”
I genuinely believe that on a discussion site such as DS downticking without commenting is not just meaningless but cowardly, as Mogs has stated.
Actually a downtick without comment is basically worthless. The best that could be said of downticks is that they add a touch of colour
..the comments underneath several of these are very good..I don’t think many are falling for it….and it’s all over the world.
It’s a little sad to see the BBC, once the zenith of world broadcasting, being roundly dismissed and ridiculed…I mean they thoroughly deserve it..but sad to see another
thing from my past withering on the alter of wokism, lies and deception….
Saw yesterday that she has a number of fake online IDs almost as if she’s honey-trapping unsuspecting online users. Now who’da thunk it that the ‘trusted’ BBC would get involved in such murky things…
Was also raised that she’s an MI5 plant, like Paul Mason…
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FranceMacron putting Net Zero in reverse? Au contraire” –FranceMacron is trying to hoistitselfhimself into the position of being the European leader in all things green and useless…Macron is just one (little) man, and he can’t have more than two terms. And the French don’t want his lovely Green merde.
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The cacophony of Bull SH1T is out of control ! See Spanish Inquisition, Salem Witch trials ,Russia, , Mengele , Argentina , Fauci etc , we are static when it come to Live & Let Live ! We just can’t do it can we !
O, you are so correct!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/heavy-electric-cars-toxic-tyre-particles-petrol-vehicles/
OK we have now had a parade of articles outlining all the reasons why, with current technology, electric cars (EVs) will not replace petrol/diesel (ICE) cars as a mass transportation mechanism for the majority.
And so where does that leave us? Will TPTB back down and allow ICE cars to continue after all? it seems unlikely. The net-zero lobby and the motor industry are now geared up for an EV world. All the issues with EVs indicate to me that they are heading for being run on a lease or subscription basis by corporate and commercial users and thus will never be a form of transport for the masses. We may get some small low range EV micro cars for local journeys but otherwise for most it will be bike, public transport or walk.
Is this now inevitable or is there any chance of a better and different transport system?
Mass transport taken from the masses!
A contradiction in terms!
Meanwhile for the rich, business as usual!
Last ditch!
I’ve already promised myself, when the s hits the f, I’m going to buy the last brand new dacia duster diesel available and cherish it for the rest of my life!
“Ev not for me”
The Dacia Dusters are fine cars. We have two and mine’s a diesel. 😀
Same here, great little cheap cars! You could almost call them world savers! (Sorry, pardon my mouth, that’s evs isn’t it?)
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New paper out looking at the damage done by NPIs to society;
”The analysis synthesizes 600 publications with a focus on meta-analyses, systematic reviews, global reports and multi-country studies. This cumulative academic research shows that the collateral damage of the pandemic response was substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people in the years ahead. Many original predictions are broadly supported by the research data including: a rise in non-Covid excess mortality, mental health deterioration, child abuse and domestic violence, widening global inequality, food insecurity, lost educational opportunities, unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, social polarization, soaring debt, democratic backsliding and declining human rights. Young people, individuals and countries with lower socioeconomic status, women and those with pre-existing vulnerabilities were hit hardest.
Societal harms should challenge the dominant mental model of the pandemic response: it is likely that many Covid policies caused more harm than benefit, although further research is needed to address knowledge gaps and explore policy trade-offs, especially at a country-level. Planning and response for future global health emergencies must integrate a wider range of expertise to account for and mitigate societal harms associated with government intervention.”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4447806
“Planning and response for future global health emergencies must integrate a wider range of expertise to account for and mitigate societal harms associated with government intervention.”
This statement should be needless. Why should we be concerned about “future global health emergencies?” Furthermore, the removal of “expertise” of the variety inflicted on us these last three years is surely now a prerequisite of any modifications to public health planning.
And the opening paragraph quoted above clearly indicates that Agenda 2030 is one grotesque and enormous lie. Not that I ever thought otherwise.
Is this really the state they are at within the education system in the U.S? No wonder home-schooling is so popular over there. I hope this girl appeals and the teacher gets hauled over the coals for this. ”Biological women” is now verboten it seems. An instant fail, so says the Woke cult.
https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1661111120915050496
In my interest area of wildlife and conservation the identification of male and female is vitally important in considering breeding and the continuation of the species.
With Red deer it is easy, the males are much bigger have enormous antlers and a dreadful bellow and are called bucks, the females are smaller with no antlers and are called does. It is not a terrible social insult to the sensitivities of deer to use the terms bucks and does, it is a biological fact.
This is equally true for humans who, after all. are just another mammalian species. And so with regard to consideration of human breeding and the continuation of the species if I cannot use the term biological woman for the human equivalent of a doe, what word should I use?
Using the term “biological women” is conceding as fact that “non-biological” women exist.
Never cede the language to our oppressors.
Jack Watson is a 14 year old school boy from Hull, so I’m told! I’m sceptical! That’s why I’m here. I still cannot find anything plausible about this particular savant!
I know his protection is paramount but he’s a little to learned for his years!
If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t true! Help me out here sceptic!
Sounds like Jack is the “anti Greta!”
Sorry, but I for one am not falling for it without proof!
In the review of the Weekly Sceptic show he wrote about on Monday he said he went to the event with his grandfather Roger Watson (who writes for the DS and the TCW and is a nursing professional). Does that help?
It could also be that he’s using a pseudonym for his articles, which would be entirely reasonable and give him more freedom to write about what he wants without fear of pushback from the many toxic numpties out there. I’m looking at you, looney tunes woke mob!
Maybe we are just so used to listening and arguing with morons we forget here are smart kids out there, who have good parents..who actually talk to them about stuff in an adult way? Who perhaps read the Sceptic together and discuss stuff??
I know it sounds unlikely….but there must be some..surely?? LOL!!!
I prey it’s true, I so want this kid to be real not just a ghost writer! He makes more sense than a million lefty adults put together
Morning All!
At least we can start the day with some good news….saw this last night..
BREAKING: Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi found not guilty in the Plön local court in Germany..
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/23/update-sucharit-bhakdi-found-not-guilty/
Good grief! We’ve won a battle against the thought police! Now to win the war!
Great news indeed but sad too.
Why sad? They tried to break him psychologically in order to silence him. He stood firm and prevailed. It was great to see the support for him outside the courthouse. I hope he knows he has the support and gratitude of many across the world.
“Why sad?’
Sad that such a highly respected scientist should be in court on charges which can only be described as heresy. It took our civilisation but three years to travel back in time over 600.
That is very sad.
I see, thanks.
I wonder when it will become normal to announce that we will announce the impending announcement of an announcement tomorrow.
News is full of guff like ‘in a major speech today the Prime Minister will announce…’
Just bloody report what the PM says after he’s said it. You never know the PM could change plans – it’s happened before.
“France putting Net Zero in reverse? Au contraire”
Very Au contraire!
Let’s rephrase this:-
“Macron tries to save his neck”
Australian senate votes not to investigate soaring non-COVID excess deaths
https://phillipaltman.substack.com/p/australian-senate-votes-not-to-investigate
“There’s a call from 1939, a Mr Hitler, on line 1. He says he’s going to need his time-travelling Nazis to come home.”🤦♂️
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Some thoughts about the G7..
Am I the only person who thinks that having a G7 meeting in Hiroshima is, at the very least, in exceptionally poor taste…?
I can’t believe these things happen by chance, so I think the location was chosen to show (..to China, Russia and Iran particularly)….what ultimately happens when you don’t follow America’s ‘rule based order’…..
I have been listening to some of the Japanese protester, and I have to agree with this one’s views..which is being made by many of them…
“Japanese protesters against G7 summit: “I am protesting because I absolutely cannot accept the fact that they are in Hiroshima, a place where an atomic bomb was dropped, trying to hold a meeting to start a nuclear war.”
https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1659562672931717122
Indeed….as the main thrust of the meeting was to ‘crush China, Russia, and any dissenting countries’ he has reasons to be worried.
A interesting article in the FT and not behind a paywall….
https://www.ft.com/content/c8cf024d-87b7-4e18-8fa2-1b8a3f3fbba1
The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world American hegemony and the group’s economic dominance are now history
I’d also point out that Putin, XI, and Modi have high internal support in their own countries whereas the G7…..?
The New York Times..
This Year’s G7 Summit Doubles as a Club for Unloved LeadersThe relatively weak approval ratings for President Biden and his Group of 7 partners highlight the fragility of free societies facing deep political divides.
No G7 leader could muster the support of a majority. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, elected just last fall, fared best with a 49 percent approval rating, according to Morning Consult, followed by Mr. Biden with 42 percent, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada with 39 percent, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany with 34 percent, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain with 33 percent and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan with 31 percent. President Emmanuel Macron of France trailed the pack with a dismal 25 percent.
oh yes, the Japanese protestors and the rest have every reason to be worried….it would appear that like the LGBTQ you are not allowed to be neutral or independent..you either bow and submit..or you are on the ‘other side’…..?
Very well put – they seem to be part of a travelling circus always jetting off to one media conference or another – why don’t these people stay at home and deal with their domestic issues? Instead they all appear at these choreographed photo shoots – I particularly object to the curled flags that are everywhere and without which no leader can be seen to proclaim…
..they are the leaders of a tiny minority of the world’s population..I appreciate they are currently the richer half (slightly)…but as the FT article points out, even that is in serious decline in comparison to the emerging economies of China, India and countries like the Philippines….The recent Arab League Summit, I think, was also a wake up call that things are really changing…
It seems really obvious to everyone, except them, that they need to acknowledge the changes in the world that are coming..we need cool heads and diplomacy..instead we have neo-con hubristic nutters….and second-class politicians….
I notice no one’s mentioned the ‘fall of Bakhmut’ to the ‘convicts armed only with shovels’ either..no doubt that’s why the F16’s to Ukraine has raised its head again..game changer number one thousand and two??
And of course flying hither and thither is sticking two fingers up to the “disaster” that is carbon emissions – they are only for thee and me.
“Am I the only person who thinks that having a G7 meeting in Hiroshima is, at the very least, in exceptionally poor taste…?
Come now ebg, you particularly must surely be aware that the Agenda 2030 and the Reset programs are littered with these not so subtle nods to history? My comment re the Leicester lockdown a couple of days ago is another of these nudge, nudge, wink, wink motifs that the Davos Deviants like to decorate their games with. They do enjoy a laugh at our expense.
“Row over Blur singer Damon Albarn’s ‘intrusive’ eco-friendly heat pumps outside his Devon farmhouse as frontman installs a second box near public footpath ‘before being granted planning permission’”
Another thoughtless lefty millionaire twat!
“Ooh, look at me ticking all the boxes, I don’t need planning permission, that’s for the plebs! C#@/:t
The most interesting point about this is not so much the noise or disruption to others or breach of planning application, but the fact that he’s had to add another heat pump to his home – first one not keeping you warm enough then, Damon???
😆😆😆 perfect!
Indeed and those were my thoughts also.
“AUSTRALIAN SENATE VOTES NOT TO INVESTIGATE EXCESS DEATHS ! “
The dirty Ba$@£ds!
Democracy in action!
“Another Day, Another Priceless Artefact Wrecked by Climate Fanatics”
“Three climate zealots in a fountain”
“There is no justification for euthanising the vulnerable”
I saw that 1970s film, it’s called “Soylent green”
Remember -Tuesday is Soylent Green day…
“Met Police insist cops who handcuffed furious motorist for pushing two Just Stop Oil eco-zealots to the ground ‘responded in a proportionate manner’ and say they will ‘review evidence’ and ‘take further police action if necessary’”
Let’s not arrest the twats that are actually breaking the law (unlawfully blocking a public highway) let’s blame the guy that tries to uphold the law!(which is more than the so called police try to do!)
Mislav Kolakusic….MEP.. is a star!!…..
https://wide-awake-media.com/croatian-mep-safer-to-sign-agreement-with-columbian-drug-cartel-than-who/
Croatian MEP, Mislav Kolakušić, to the EU Parliament:
“It would be healthier and safer for humanity to sign an agreement with the Colombian drug cartel [than to sign an agreement with the World Health Organisation].”
“[The WHO] should be declared a terrorist organisation.”
Oh that’s class.
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Seconded 👌
..In keeping with the French theme….Quelle surprise….! LOL!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/23/ceo-of-worlds-biggest-carbon-credit-provider-says-he-is-resigning
The head of the world’s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month.
It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions of worthless offsets that are used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint Guardian investigation earlier this year.
In a statement on Monday, Verra’s CEO, David Antonioli, said he would leave his role after 15 years leading the organisation that dominates the $2bn voluntary carbon market, which has certified more than 1bn credits through its verified carbon standard (VCS)….
(not behind a paywall….)
David Antionoli’s decision is a bit of a pfizzer.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/22/al-jazeera-2-million-climate-deaths-in-other-countries-50-years/
2,000,000 ÷ 50 = 40,000 ÷ 196 = 204.
So 204 deaths per year across 196 countries allegedly caused by changes to the climate brought on by human activity.
I see.
“Mine’s a large one.”
😁 😁 😁 I did the same stats HP – how they filter this number out of the general background noise of deaths from poverty, malnutrition, preventable diseases, etc is impressive, to say the least.
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Strangly enough, the climate that kills the most people is the cold! Go figure, and they say the world is warming!
Drop some ice in mine, cheers
Dinger, if we ever get to meet up fir a drink the first one is on me.👍
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12116533/Met-say-cops-handcuffed-driver-pushing-Just-Stop-Oil-eco-zealots-responded-proportionately.html
The immediate line manager of these two hooligans should be sacked immediately and the actual thugs be given final warnings. Sorted.
Some news via Prof Norman Fenton….
“This is an important development. As we keep saying, the MHRA are not fit for purpose.”
“ICO sanctions MHRA for delay in reporting how they responded to AZ A/E signalling it must now respond”
https://twitter.com/ChrisEd16512812/status/1660700093526229030/photo/2
The trailer to ‘The Great Awakening’….which premiers in about two weeks…
https://rumble.com/v2of57c-the-great-awakening-trailer.html
It comes from Del Bigtree and Highwire, and has a global release …on June 3rd…
https://thehighwire.com/thegreatawakening/
Looks interesting…
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/an-utterly-obscene-level-of-borrowing/
A good rant against the outlandish levels of taxation which we are being subjected to. Oddly, no mention is made of the billions we are being made to pay for unrelables and yet much is made of the debts we are leaving for our children.
Ranting got slightly in front of clear thinking.
We all know that the agenda is far bigger than just health, war or 15 minute ghettoes & that a lot of what is promoted in the MSM is but smoke & mirrors to distract from the real agenda. Yesterday Jacob Nordangard was the guest presenter at our MD4CE meeting. He’s read all the boring publications put out by the cabal, has identified who is behind all of this & explains the bigger picture.
This is what we need to be aware of as if we keep fighting little but important battles on health, it won’t matter if the plan is implemented as we’ll be enslaved anyway.
More bigger picture articles needed ATL so that the wider public can be warned. When the public has worked out just how their lives will be impacted by these policies, there has been opposition. The more of us pushing back, the less successful they will be in the implementation of their plans.
https://rumble.com/v2c4cyx-stunning-short-history-of-why-the-world-has-gone-mad.html
https://scandinavianfreedom.events/videos/02_DrJacobNordangard.mp4
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vaccine-doubles-the-risk-of-going-blind/
So on top of turbo cancers, myocarditis, pericarditis and diabetes we can now add blindness.
As I and others have stated numerous times, these so-called “vaccines” were clearly brewed to maim and kill. What will be the next life altering disease?
Aristotle: “give me the boy until he’s seven and I’ll show you the they/them/she he/ gay/bi/trans/black/white woman/man”
He’d be very confused by today’s bullyshitiae!
“Joshua Sutcliffe interview: I was told ‘call her a him’. I couldn’t go along with it”
What goes around comes around!
You will be vindicated someday 👏
Marianna´s “Verify” (snigger) series is going to be called “Marianna in Wonderland”!
No doubt she´ll be ´fact-checking´ the Cheshire cat . . .
Way back I sent an FoI request to MHRA to ask them whether they considered the new jabs to be
NO was the reply to both.
I then sent them documents from the FDA which noted the jabs WERE experimental, and documents from the FDA and Moderna which were clear that they were Gene Therapy.
I noted that either they, or the FDA and the manufacturer were lying.
Response there was none. Big Pharma and Gates666 took the MHRA over.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/24/wefs-2023-summer-davos-in-china/
Another 1000 private jets zooming off to China for another chin wag on how to save the planet, enslave the masses and enrich themselves. Let’s not forget that China are the baddies though.