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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Talk TV discussing the ‘jab’. Better late than never!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgLZDNd-EA
For that £2.4 million, they could hire 130 Royal Navy ratings.
No! They could paint HMS Queen Elizabeth in rainbow colours.
Yes, and rename it the HMS Woke.
This is why you’ll never catch me coming on here and regularly bleating on about how all the ills of the world and the woes of society are to be blamed on and placed at the door of the opposite sex. That would indeed come across as a tad irrational, obsessive and a teensy bit hostile, don’t you think? Because last time I looked the power-mad globalists, the corrupt politicians and health authority figures ( e.g, Scamdemic years, anyone? ), the bent scientists, the ‘rent-a-mob’ Useful Idiots ( from all camps ) that regularly cause havoc on our streets, the staff in the gender clinics, the bureaucrats who organize the NHS as well as the front-line workers, the teaching staff and education authorities and indeed, the communists, are ( and always have been ), *all* available in both genders. Anybody who can engage functioning eyes and brain can see what’s happening, as this article makes abundantly clear;
”It is important to understand that censorship does not occur in a vacuum. It is a symptom of a worsening disease. It is an early indicator of the political repression to come. Like a canary in a coal mine, the criminalization of speech forewarns that State-sponsored terror and murder are not far away. First, certain words and thoughts are banned. Next, certain people are rounded up and imprisoned. Finally, certain “enemies of the State” are executed quite publicly. The imposition of fear supersedes the rule of law. Terrorism undergirds social order. Oppression replaces popular support.
What is happening in the West today is a concentrated push for global communism. We could bicker about precise definitions — whether we are under attack from Marxists, socialists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, or other “revolutionaries” — but the end goal is clear. A small group of global “elites” seek to use ideological and economic leverage to centralize political power and direct all human activity. They seek the abolition of private property. They seek absolute control over individual lives and local communities. They are rebuilding twentieth-century totalitarianism with the privacy-destroying surveillance technologies of the twenty-first century.
Most Western nations are working together to promote a public vision that achieves their private totalitarian goals. Governments do not care about “hate speech”; they are dedicated to seizing control of the press, punishing dissent, censoring political opposition, and regulating public debate. Governments do not care about “climate change”; they are dedicated to seizing control over all economic activity by first establishing a monopoly on available energy. Governments do not care about “systemic racism,” “social justice,” or “income inequality”; they are dedicated to maximizing social divisions and distorting the meaning of fundamental rights, so that they may undermine long-cherished personal liberties. Governments do not care about “gun violence”; they are dedicated to disarming their populations and making it impossible for them to fight back against tyranny.
Governments do not care about minimizing vicious and costly wars; they are dedicated to distracting their citizens with false threats to their personal security. Governments do not care about maintaining the integrity and value of their monetary currencies; they are dedicated to printing and spending money that inflates household costs, taxes middle class savings, maximizes Wall Street profits, and increases welfare dependency. Governments do not need to create central bank digital currencies to stave off economic disaster; they are dedicated to creating economic disasters, so that they can justify a future communist system that runs on privacy-destroying CBDCs.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/marxist_globalists_will_resort_to_terror_and_violence.html
Thanks for posting Mogs. The article pretty much summarises all the same points I have been making since joining DS and I don’t mean that in a big-headed way. And I know there are plenty here who share the same views.
Well one of the reasons I mention the NHS and front-line medical staff above, aside from the obvious example of how appalling they were during the Scamdemic years ( and this obv goes for all countries that partook of the abuse of human rights and that of bodily autonomy of their citizens ) is with regards to the whole trans thing, but this in particular caught my attention. It’s all just coming from the same ideology though. No matter the narrative or the ’cause’, all are designed to harm. The Scamdemic years and the roll-out of the death jab rammed home to me how medical ethics no longer exist but this just takes the cake. Bear in mind, doctors lost their license for speaking out about the death jabs but enabling somebody’s severe mental issues surrounding body image is just fine. It’s all about supporting or opposing the narrative;
”I have long predicted that normalizing transgender surgeries would be followed eventually by doctors intentionally disabling patients with Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). These patients obsess that their “true selves” are quadriplegic, or amputees, or blind, and they yearn to be made that way. It is a real and anguishing condition. Some are now even calling the affliction “transable” (get it?).
Well, here it comes. A doctor in Quebec “treated” a BIID patient by amputating two of his healthy fingers. Otherwise, the patient was threatening to mutilate himself.
Is anyone surprised, given the current cultural trends? After all, what is the material difference morally and in principle between surgically altering transgendered patients’ genitals and amputating healthy limbs or snipping the fully functioning spinal cords of BIID patients?
I fear the worst. We are creating a world in which the subjective primarily matters. Radical individualism is now our societal avatar, with powerful forces — transhumanists, the medical establishment, bioethicists, the LGBT lobby — all urging that self-identity become the be all and end all of life, even when that means doctors disfiguring healthy bodies.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-comes-after-transgender-doctor-amputates-mans-healthy-fingers/
“A concentrated push for global communism”. ——-If you had to round up all of the Equality Diversity Race Gender and Climate Politics to one single sentence then that sentence is probably good enough to cover what is happening. ——-In my particular area of interest which is the Troubling Science and Politics of Energy and Climate I have been aware of this for a very long time. I have come to realise that the issue is mostly NOT the issue.———— I can see over the 20 years I have been looking into energy and climate that the issue is not about the climate. Climate is simply the excuse for the politics.—-GREEN = RED
Ministers have clearly lost control of diversity spending and the respect civil servants and other people who should be doing what ministers tell them to.
It seems like the only way they can get back control would be to introduce a law that severely limits, or better still completely bans, spending on DEI roles. If people knew they could be sacked or even prosecuted for creating too many of these pointless jobs they might actually start to take notice as at the minute they’re clearly just ignoring the wishes of ministers and any written instructions they’re given.
Excellent idea, especially the complete bans.
I would refer you to Mogwai’s excellent post for an explanation of what is occurring.
Much obliged, hux.
Yes, you’re nothing if not consistent. 
Varmint also talks about this a lot. Both you and he are more well-read than me on this topic, however. If I’m to read a book it has to be of the thriller/horror type. 
How about an Equality Diversity and Climate thriller starring Brad Pit and Tom Cruise, with George Clooney in the role of Nelson Mandela for all the colour-blind casting fans? —-It could be called something like “From Here To Absurdity”
All state institutions have been taken over by radical leftist scum. Politicians no longer have control of officials.
The size and scope of the state needs to be radically reduced with real accountability to the citizenry for the discharging of the limited number of essential state services.
The senior naval officers responsible for this wokery need the Admiral Byng treatment.
Reading an article about Admiral Byng’s life just now, and how he was sent into battle with an appallingly ill-equipped fleet with skeleton crews instead of the hundreds more he needed, reminded me of the state of the Royal Navy today. He did his best in a bad situation, and did not deserve execution. Maybe someone else wanted his job, and set him up to fail.
That was the absolutely normal state of affairs for the Royal Navy at that time.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who wonders when, you know, a government minister will actually do something rather than express mild criticism of the madness they’ve allowed to multiply.
How hard can it be to sack someone?
I watch Premier League and Champions League football.———-Why is it not necessary to enforce “diversity” on all of those football teams? It is probably fairly obvious. The football teams want to win football games. They don’t care about the racial makeup of their teams. They sign the best players they can find for the money. ——–Ok they do some posturing about race by taking the knee etc. but they would never just play footballers in their team because they were black or Asian or whatever. So do Armies and Navies want to win wars and sort out conflicts by hiring the best people for their jobs or do they want to tick Politically Correct boxes?