Church of England guidance telling primary schools that children as young as five can be transgender was funded by Stonewall, it has emerged. The Telegraph has the story.
The controversial LGBT charity gave the Church a grant to fund two editions of the ‘Valuing All God’s Children’ report, including the 2019 version that remains in use nationwide.
It comes after Christian parents urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to axe the guidance, which says primary school-aged children can change their gender identity and advises schools on how to create “inclusive” environments for trans pupils.
The Rt. Rev Paul Butler, the Bishop of Durham, told the General Synod, the Church’s legislative body, last year that Stonewall was not involved in writing the report.
Gender-critical campaigners have called for the guidance to be scrapped, and said the revelation that it had been funded by Stonewall should be a “wake-up call” for the Church.
Last month, the Telegraph revealed that a Church of England primary school had allowed a four-year-old boy to join as a girl and then hid the child’s sex from other pupils, who were later described by parents as traumatised.
‘Valuing All God’s Children’ tells the 4,630 Church of England schools across the country that primary schoolers should be “at liberty to explore the possibilities of who they might be without judgement or derision”.
The Rt. Rev Jonathan Frost, the Bishop of Portsmouth, has now admitted in a written response to a question submitted to Synod that Stonewall funded the report’s second and current third editions, published in 2017 and 2019, respectively.
Gender-critical campaigners have criticised Stonewall for the training it offers organisations, which encourages them to tell employees to always state their pronouns and use gender-neutral language.
The Bishop of Portsmouth said the funding, the value of which neither the Church nor Stonewall has disclosed, was given by Stonewall after the Department of Education gave the charity a “significant grant” for “work in this area”.
“They recognised the quality of our work in ‘Valuing All God’s Children’, so were keen that we should be enabled to develop it to include the prevention of transphobic bullying through an updated version,” he said.
“Stonewall were not involved in the writing of our document but simply passed on a grant to enable us to do so, and to help with the distribution costs.”
Two Stonewall executives are thanked in the 2017 and 2019 editions: Dominic Arnall, who was Head of Projects from 2015 and 2018; and Sidonie Bertrand-Shelton, Head of Education Programmes from 2016 to 2022.
Miriam Cates, Conservative MP, said:
Activist groups should not be enabled by any education providers to push their political agendas in schools.
Taking money in return for allowing Stonewall to essentially dictate the Church of England’s policy is a complete failure by those in authority.
This guidance should be withdrawn as a matter of urgency and replaced with new rules that put the safeguarding of children first.
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Mental illness cults now mainstreamed and accepted by Libtard theologians, too ignorant to argue about Aquinas’ 5 proofs of God, but certain that a 5 year old who has a penis wants to be a girl. All funded by the Stonewall-Billionaire-Government circus of freaks, half wits and frauds. At the end will be money – drugs, counseling – and the destruction of the family, human innocence with children as wards of the state.
In this ‘thriving democracy’ do we the peasant have a vote, a say, an opinion about this? Of course not.
Not a cockup. But a concerted effort to destroy heter-normalcy, families and the Church.
It’s being pushed by the UN and the Globalists.
……..and. institutionalised through the Conservative Party.
Stonewall should be banned as a paedo network “grooming” child victims.
Just like the Paedo Information Exchange formerly promoted by none other than Harriet Harman, who is still disgracing the halls of Parliament.
It’s not as simple as that. The literal translation of paedophilia is love of children. As Stonewall ultimatively wants to talk pre-teens into having their bodies mutilated such that they cannot function sexually anymore, accusing them of loving children is certainly way off. Child-hatred bordering insanity would describe it much better.
It’s really political activism which should be banned from schools, ie, all lobbying organizations seeking societal change. There’s a proper procedure for that and that is field candidates in elections who get elected and may thus influence and participate in making general policy decisions. Organizations whose candidates don’t get elected are not supposed to try to change this through the backdoor by swamping children with political propaganda they’re not yet mature enough to understand or judge properly.
Sodom was destroyed for less than this.
To quote Billy Graham, if God doesn’t judge the CoE He owes Sodom an apology.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rochdale-by-election-a-town-ignored-and-now-inflamed/
A view of today’s Rochdale by-election from the Reform side.
Let’s be honest, is there a name on the ballot paper worthy of anybody’s vote? And for those unaware what applies in Rochdale is even worse in next-door Oldham. We are still waiting for a proper investigation in to our own CSE horrors but that fountain of decency, honesty, righteousness and democracy currently heading the Greater Manchester caliphate – Andy Burnham – refuses to allow it.
I predict a lousy turnout and suspect the muzzy block postal vote will seal the result. The honkies have thrown in the towel.
Labour isn’t even fielding a candidate! ?
That’s got to be a first?
Sort of not fielding candidate. The Ali bloke is/was theirs but was suspended from the party for suggesting that the Israeli security forces knew in advance about the Hamas attack and allowed it to happen.
Well Galloway bent over for Islam years ago ( and I think someone should check his hard drive! ) so this comes as no surprise from the traitor. His campaign leaflet;
”Imagine – the people of Rochdale coming together to topple the hated Labour leader. We have the power to do that. It’s in your hands, brothers and sisters…” blah blah. God, he is rank!
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1763286884086587702
And Galloway has been voted in with a majority of over 6,000…turnout was 39%.
I can’t believe that idiot is going to have a seat in the HoC to spout his horrible propaganda nonsense.
The local Independent candidate (Tully) appeared worthy of a vote.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/islam-not-islamism-is-running-britain/
The always readable Frank Haviland with his take on the week.
“Downing St has already visibly surrendered to Islam; Parliament under Lindsay Hoyle has surrendered; and MPs themselves are also now surrendering their posts over death threats. In terms of Sadiq Khan therefore, he is either (to use Braverman’s pithy phrase) in hock to extremists, duped by them, or merely negligent; choose your poison.”
Here’s some astonishing news from Argentina’s new President Milei, showing the world how it’s done:
Argentina: Milei Bans Government from Using Woke ‘Inclusive’ Language (breitbart.com)
“Argentina announced on Tuesday that President Javier Milei ordered a ban on the use of leftist “inclusive” language across all public administration offices and documents.
Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni added that “everything related to the gender-based perspective” will also be banned throughout the national public administration.”
“In December, shortly after Milei began his presidential term, Defense Minister Luis Petri announced that the use of “inclusive” language was banned across Argentina’s military. The measure was officially formalized on Monday in a ministry decree that makes “the use of the Spanish language mandatory, in accordance with the rules of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the regulations and manuals in force in the Armed Forces.”
Why can’t we do that here?
As the saying goes, when you stop believing in god you start believing in anything…
It has nothing to do with the feelings or welfare of anyone obviously. It represents a failure on a deep level. The Western mythos has at its core the quest for ever greater transcendence. If this is not contained it becomes blind entirely Luciferic. Eventually it resolves itself into the defence of absurdity. And whilst the mythos isn’t truly honoured the nation becomes weaker, the soldiers more demoralised, the general population becoming slack and apathetic. You need to understand that this is a result of warfare.
I am minded of the Gospel of Thomas where it is stated: “if you bring forth what is in you what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is in you then what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” The maladies of the young of our time can easily be understood with an open mind when it is recognised just how much is stifled for them. Not just in material terms such as buying a house but the sense of beauty and the sharing of a moment and a jovial tempo to life has been robbed from them. They know the loss and yet are unable to share it.
The CoE’s softly nicely universal approach is an easy target for leftism. It requires strong leadership to: listen to its congregation; reject leftism; and face the full force of the leftist online mob, like JK Rowling has done, to her genuine peril.
Unfortunately strong leadership is something it doesn’t have, and it could mean that, after 500 years, the CoE is no more.