Two 14 year-old girls have written an open letter to the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan ahead of the forthcoming Department for Education draft transgender schools guidance. The girls have to remain anonymous for reasons that will become clear by reading their letter. The letter was first published on the website of the excellent Transgender Trend, whose motto is “No child is born in the wrong body”. You can donate here.
Dear Gillian Keegan
With the release of the Department for Education’s transgender guidance quickly approaching, we – two 14 year-old girls in separate secondary schools – want to contribute our thoughts to the discussion. There is a lack of student voices on this issue and it’s vital to have some perspective of what it’s like in a school environment where dissenting voices are stifled, extreme ideologies are presented as fact and girls are injured by boys in mixed-sex sport.
Schools are meant to be politically neutral; differences in thoughts and opinions should be encouraged and fostered, not shouted down and censored. There is a growing atmosphere of fear around this topic and many students, including us, are frightened to speak out openly due to the threat of ostracisation and bullying from students who adopt the authoritarian dogma of gender ideology. In our schools, opposition to this extreme theory is met with vitriol and restrictions on speech – in one of our schools, a student was discouraged from covering the topic of sport from a critical lens by a teacher and the discussion was branded too “triggering”, whilst a different student who was talking about the topic from a positive view was allowed.
It is vital that teachers present political topics in a neutral manner that allows differing viewpoints to be accepted. When controversial political ideologies are presented as absolute fact by teachers, whom students are meant to trust, this eliminates all chance of discussion, all chance of a nuanced debate. The concept of a ‘gender identity’ is a contested theory and it is not appropriate to present this ideology as absolute fact in classrooms. We urge the Education Secretary to construct an atmosphere of tolerance and respect by ensuring political neutrality is upheld in classrooms. By this, we ask for ‘gender identity’ not to be presented as unopposed fact. Teachers are required to be politically neutral in schools, so why is there a double standard when it comes to the transgender issue?
We’ve both – along with 72% of students from other schools across the U.K., according to Policy Exchange – had lessons on gender ideology in schools and every time it was presented as the complete truth. In schools across the country, kids like us are being told that girls can have penises, that humans can change sex, that there are seventy-two ‘genders’, that ‘gender identity’ is innate and unchangeable, despite NHS guidance stating that children who identity as ‘transgender’ may be going through a phase. This must stop, and if students are to be taught about ‘gender identity’, it must be presented in a neutral manner that specifies that this is a belief system, not fact.
As well as this, teachers must remain neutral when discussing this topic in lessons. We’ve also both experienced times when biased teachers attempt to implicate gender ideology in innocuous topics, for instance claiming that Zeus, the Greek god, was “non-binary”, or that Lady Macbeth was “gender-fluid”. Teachers also shouldn’t be asking students their pronouns, especially on the basis of non-conformity, or their sexuality or sexual preference, both of which raise major safeguarding concerns.
Some schools, including previously one of ours, feature ‘Pride flags’ in the corridors, with labels such as ‘genderqueer’, ‘non-binary’, ‘demiboy’, ‘polysexual’, among others, and include books in the library on inappropriate topics, such as Beyond Magenta, which includes a six year-old child engaging in sexual activity and fails to condemn this or mention the fact that this was unlawful due to the child being significantly underage. If schools are going to provide books promoting gender ideology they should also be required to feature books offering a different point of view, such as Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier, or Trans by Helen Joyce.
We also urge the DfE guidance to specify that students must not be punished for holding gender-critical views and that bullying and harassment on the basis of gender-critical beliefs shouldn’t be allowed. There is immense pressure among students our age to conform to the popularly-held views that trans women’ are women, and any opposition to this belief is considered ‘transphobic’ and unacceptable. There have been many cases of students being bullied and ostracised for disagreeing with gender ideology, where gender-critical pupils are punished by teachers, excluded by students and abandoned by friends.
A lot of us are too afraid to speak out due to fear of the consequences and this must change so that different opinions are allowed to be heard, even on divisive topics such as this one. We’ve been asked our pronouns countless times and it’s so exhausting to have to constantly play along and pretend to agree with this belief system out of fear, despite the fact we view it as regressive and harmful. In some schools, students are punished for referring to friends or classmates with biologically correct pronouns – this is insanely harmful, and it’s convincing students to ignore the evidence of our own eyes and ears, to place a single person’s feelings over objective reality, to indulge in an ideology we fundamentally disagree with.
We should not be coerced into using biologically incorrect pronouns for classmates and we must not be punished for refusing to do so. However, at this current time, according to Policy Exchange almost 70% of schools force other students to participate in a gender-distressed child’s ‘transition’ – this has to change and we are not going to stand for this destruction of our freedom of speech and belief.
We’ve also heard that the guidance will allow a “relaxed” approach to non-contact sport. We believe this is naïve and dangerously negligent. One of us has experienced mixed-sex sport at our school and after being deliberately targeted by the boys, she was hit in the face and breasts, breaking her glasses. Afterwards, all the girls in the changing room were complaining how unfair it was they’d been forced to participate against boys despite an obvious physical advantage. And this was meant to be a non-contact sport.
Accidents happen, and when they do it’s always a lot worse when it’s a boy hurting a girl due to the differences in strength, muscle mass etc. As well as this, we see no reason for a boy to be allowed to compete in girls’ sports, especially due to the physical differences, since members of the opposite sex are likely to be stronger, faster and have an obvious athletic advantage, even at a young age, and also due to the fact that having to participate with males can and will make many girls feel uncomfortable and afraid, particularly when at a vulnerable age when we’re going through puberty.
Thanks to the insight gained from Policy Exchange’s Asleep at the Wheel report, we now know that this is a much more widespread problem than we originally expected. For instance, one in five schools had absolutely no single-sex changing facilities, which places young schoolgirls at significant risk from being forced to undress in front of males for PE – an obvious and blatant safeguarding risk. We deserve privacy whilst in vulnerable positions, for instance while getting changed, and our rights are destroyed when you bring boys into the equation. For that reason, we are hopeful that all schools are required to have single-sex changing areas, and that boys are not allowed to enter female-only changing spaces even if they ‘identify as girls’.
The same goes for toilets – despite schools being legally required to have single-sex toilets, at least 28% are not maintaining this standard. It can be extremely uncomfortable for girls to have to use the same toilets as boys, especially when dealing with menstruation, and single-sex spaces are proven to be safer than their mixed-sex counterparts. Thankfully, it appears that boys will not be allowed to use female-only toilets, which will hopefully put an end to occurrences like hearing a male voice in what is supposed to be a female-only space, as one of us has experienced.
Mixed-sex toilets tend to be less clean, less private and less safe than single-sex facilities, therefore we think it’s unreasonable for schools to have both mixed-sex and single-sex toilets, when single-sex facilities alone are more convenient, safer and more dignified. If a boy does not feel comfortable using the male-only toilets, despite being male, he could potentially use the disabled toilets instead, but mixed-sex toilets help absolutely no-one and put all girls at a disadvantage.
Lastly, safeguarding should be valued above all. Frequently, teachers deceitfully hide a child’s ‘gender transition’ from his or her parents, which has happened and is still happening at our schools, as we’ve seen in our own experience. Honesty is fundamental in the relationship between parents and teachers and to conceal something as significant as ‘social transitioning’ from parents is an astonishing betrayal of trust. Schools must be required to be open and honest about whether or not a child ‘identifies as trans’, especially when the child is in a vulnerable position.
In some schools, students’ recorded sex is changed in the register due to the student’s or parent’s requests. This is misleading to both other students and teachers; important information such as sex should not be falsified. Honesty and integrity are key components in schools and to cloud the waters under the guise of ‘inclusivity’ does not make it better.
So we call upon the Education Secretary to value the dignity and safety of girls in secondary schools like us and to value the freedom of speech of all students. We request schools become politically neutral in encouraging a diverse range of opinions and thoughts and not to stifle students’ rights by presenting a highly contentious ideology as fact.
Yours sincerely
Two secondary school girls, aged 14
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What pandemic is this of which they speak?
Not sure…. But there were excess deaths during the timeframe of Spring 2020.
The excess deaths in 2020 (there were a fair number according to a UK actuary I’m acquainted with) occurred during lockdown… Make of that what you will.
My reading of what happened is that there was a bad flu season. All cause mortality at 2008 levels. Probably made worse by lockdowns and related nonsense. Nothing exceptional.
This is from an actuary. He was very specific about the timeframe that the excess deaths occurred in. Doesn’t contradict what you say about all cause mortality, adds nuance & extra detail.
Indeed; thanks. Sadly we will never know the full truth of what happened as the evidence was deliberately muddied.
The Government deliberately put in place measures that were bound to result in excess deaths: it scared/shamed people out of attending A & E, told people with covid to bugger off and only come back if they thought they were about to die, after which it put them on ventilators to ensure they did, and it euthanased thousands with Midozalam.
This issue is being ignored until politicians can figure out a way to avoid being blamed by it, and pin the blame on others.
Following the science doesn’t work any more; nor does get vaccinated.
Indeed. What has changed that could reasonably be blamed (assuming you think the “excess” large enough to warrant an explanation beyond normal fluctuation in mortality)? Three things spring to mind: 1) The “vaccines” are killing people 2) Lockdown after effects are killing people 3) Covid is killing people. Government would certainly be to blame for the first two, and admitting (3) is the case would make them and the “vaccines” look useless.
All 3 things are true, I also see that Kevin McKernan is reporting that his analysis of Pfizer mRNA material is showing that it contains DNA with the Simian Virus 40 sequence within it, SV40 being a known cause of accelerated cancers of all sorts.
There are people involved in this execrable business who should be locked up and left to rot.
Indeed these things are not mutually exclusive.
It’s the SV40 promoter sequence that’s being used, rather than the carcinogenic SV40 virus. The promoter is a region of the (DNA) plasmid that the RNA polymerase can latch onto to start generating mRNA.
Right, I did read that, but be aware that there is some concern that the promoter sequence can end up transferring to the host cells and that there is no reason for any DNA to be in the mRNA concoction.
Locked up? That’s far too expensive there’s only one solution.
‘Experts’. Flock off. They know nothing. No one blaming the only major new variable – the stabbinations. 150 K dead post the major stab programs and as this article says 67 K dead (likely undercounted) from April 22 to April 23….yet no one will look at pharma poisons. LDs: 30 K dead durng and after due to no access etc ? Midazolam: 30 K murdered during March to May 2020 ? Stabs 150 K dead? So we have 200 K dead from policies vs 20K dead from Rona and only from Rona (not from fake tests, handwaving). And the deaths will continue – cancers etc. + infertility….
Experts have puzzled over the cause of the post-pandemic rise, which has been largely attributed to heart problems or diabetes.
What could it be?
Well, some things are just a mystery. Like is the universe infinite, or is their an afterlife, things like that.
For the newbies, this is sarcasm.
News just in: the fully jabbed and triple boosted elephant in the room has just died suddenly.
Nothing to do with the injectable biotoxins then? The ones that the entire population, including children were cajoled, coerced, manipulated, terrified, gaslighted and forced on pain of job termination to have by lying self serving charlatans like Matt Hancock and his colleagues in government and other government advisors.
This supports my oft stated view that what is occurring is a premeditated depopulation agenda.
We know about the spike protein and LNPs but the discovery of DNA contamination in 100% of the vials checked by Kevin McKernon and his team is another aspect of concern. It also just proves how the manufacturing process of this toxic sludge is not being checked and regulated. Kevin’s articles are very technical and go way over my head so this is a nice, accessible to all explainer about what plasmids are and the hazards to health they pose. There is just no possible way that the manufacturers don’t know it’s in there. I don’t subscribe to cock-up theory at this stage;
”This DNA contamination poses multiple risks to human health relating to the integration of foreign genes into the human genome, with potential for inflammatory processes, development of cancer and transmission of the genes to offspring leading to inter-generational harms.
It must be asked if this DNA contamination is intentional on the part of the pharmaceutical companies, who appear to be disregarding all basic principles of safe manufacture at the risk to public health on a mass scale. Pfizer’s recent acquisition of Seagen, a cancer drug developer, could suggest prior knowledge.
Plans by WHO and their various corporate partners for an additional 500 vaccines, almost exclusively using this unregulated, dangerous mRNA platform, must be efficiently and permanently cancelled. The ‘exceptional return on investment‘ corrupting public health requires a firm and permanent removal of corporate influence from research and policy. A return to rigorous and ethical science is needed urgently.”
https://nzdsos.com/2023/05/19/dna-contamination-mrna-vaccines/
This is just so puzzling. What could possibly be causing the massive increase in heart related issues and deaths? Hmmmm I just can’t figure it out. *Cough* mRNA gene therapy *Cough*
I will say it loud and clear…this is the biggest medical scandal of all time. It is democide. A deliberate culling of the population. Despicable.
The biggest medical scandal of recent times, with the previous title-holder being that mid-European nation who allowed evil medical practices under the guise of public health. It was around 90 years ago and the world was so aghast when it came out, this led to the Nuremberg declaration.
To paraphrase AB while just barely avoiding Godwin’s Law
It sure is that. And to the doubters who are in denial that this is deliberate culling of the population I’ll say this; if it isn’t then why aren’t TPTB doing anything about it? But nope, on with the show. Well into year 3 of the plan now and with more mRNA jabs to look forward to..
There will be no Nuremberg 2 trials. The key reason is that traditionally such trials can be held only by the victors, who currently are Lockdowners. I suspect some of them are praying for a new pretext to declare a pandemic. Perhaps a few are reaching for a shredder which can outsmart ePuzzler yet not leave a carbon footprint! In the meantime there will doubtless be various whitewash reports, or even a couple of scapegoats.
Is Sadiq Khan COVID ‘vaccine’ injured?
He apparently suffered a suspected mild heart attack during COP 26
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-heart-attack-cop26-glasgow-book-release-breathe-b1082730.html
The dates were 31st October 2021 to 12th November 2021.
On the 29th October 2021 he was reported to have received a COVID ‘vaccine’.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-covid-booster-vaccine-jab-mayor-b963226.html
It looks as though he was injected at least a couple more times since then. Very brave.
I would use a different word, I can’t see Khan being brave at all.
Yes, sorry I was mocking him because of this: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ePtdseRzM
I guess to be brave you need to knowingly put yourself in danger.
So he had a Covid booster and Flu vaccine on 29th October 2021 and then had a heart attack while giving a speech on 10th November 2021.
Thanks for pinning down the date of his suspected heart attack. He probably sought treatment at this place: –
https://rumble.com/v24thiy-the-kaufman-institute-for-coincidence.html
Hey, the Elephant in the room is caused by the mRNA jabs you wilfully blind idiots –
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
And if our friendly phantom down ticker wants to refute this, game on.
But you’d better know a thing or two about the immune system and genetic engineering sunshine.
No..there can’t be any excess deaths…BBC says it’s misinformation and they’ve just launched BBC Verify so everyone reporting this is wrong….. (honest!)
Gosh, let me think what might be causing or at the very least adding to the excess mortality we’re seeing in Australia, NZ, Canada, America and the EU countries ….. as well as the UK.
Since they all have different health systems and experience of Covid, surely there must be another common factor which needs to be investigated.
That’s a toughie ….. what could it possibly be?
I know it’s a difficult one. HELLO I’M HERE!!!!!
