CHILDREN

Links to articles about the Tavistock and other children’s gender clinics are on a separate page here.

Links to articles about the Mermaids charity are on a separate page here.

 

I recall seeing a cartoon by Kathryn Lamb, which shows a teacher standing at the front of her class and asking those who are the same sex this term as last term to put their hands up. We all get the joke these days but it wouldn’t have made any sense when my kids were little.

When my daughter was in her third year of life, she announced she was a boy. Her brother ­put her straight. He was the big boy in the family and she was the little girl. She wasn’t best pleased and argued that she could be a boy if she wanted to.

I wasn’t particularly surprised that she either wanted to be a boy or believed she was one. She had short hair and hardly ever wore dresses, which meant she looked more like the boys than the girls in her picture books and she was mistaken for a boy every single time by strangers. What’s more, she didn’t know any girls. She had one older brother – two years her senior – and there was a dearth of girls her age amongst friends and neighbours, so all her playmates were boys. She would share a bedtime bath with her brother, so she knew they had different genitalia. But at that age she didn’t understand what that difference meant or what being a girl meant.

I responded to her declaration by telling her that she was in fact a girl, that there was no reason to want to be a boy because a girl could do everything a boy could do, that I was a girl myself albeit now grown up. Soon afterwards she started pre-school playgroup, where she met other little girls and that was the end of the matter. She was never a girly girl but she never again expressed a desire to be anything other than a girl. Whether she spent her childhood as I’d spent my own, secretly hating the fact that she was a girl, I don’t know.

That was back in 1990. I wonder, in today’s climate, whether anyone would have suggested she might actually be a boy born in the wrong body and, if so, whether she would have latched onto the idea and refused to let it go. This article, which describes a girl whose behaviour – rejecting dolls, playing football, etc – sounds exactly like my daughter’s, inclines me to think she would have. It actually doesn’t bear thinking about and my heart breaks for all parents who find themselves in this situation. I admit I find it hard not to judge those who take a different approach to the one I think I would have taken.

On this page I put links to websites of adults – parents, professionals and anyone else with something relevant to say – who are concerned with the rise in the number of children who want to transition, as well as to the stories of families who are going through it and to an assortment of articles, the inclusion of which isn’t intended to imply endorsement.

RECOMMENDED:

So, you think you may be trans…:

A critical guide to the debate around trans identities for parents, teachers and others involved with caring for children and young people

Written primarily for adults with caring responsibilities but likely to be of interest to anyone concerned with the rise in the number of young people seeking to socially and or medically “transition”, this book by sociologist, Tim Davies, is a well-researched, clear and comprehensive explanation of the phenomenon of transgenderism and its effects as an ideology, with particular focus on the current generation of transitioners. The book can be ordered here.

Campaigning, Support and Advice

Recommended:

How to be a Trans-Educated Rational Parent

4th Wave Now

“4thWaveNow was started by the mother of a teenage girl who suddenly announced she was a “trans man” after a few weeks of total immersion in YouTube transition vlogs.  (The daughter has since desisted from identifying as transgender.) After much research and fruitless searching for an alternative online viewpoint, this mom began writing about her deepening skepticism of the ever-accelerating medical and media fascination with the phenomenon of “transgender children.”

4thWaveNow has now expanded to feature not only the writing of the founder of this blog, but that of other parents, formerly trans-identified people, and people with professional expertise and experience with young people questioning their gender identity.”

Here is an interview with 4thWaveNow founder & her daughter Chiara 27.02.19.

Transgender Trend

“We are a group of parents based mainly in the UK, who are concerned about the current trend to diagnose ‘gender non-conforming’ children as transgender. We reject current conservative, reactionary, religious-fundamentalist views about sexuality and we have no political affiliation. We are also concerned about legislation which places transgender rights above the right to safety for girls and young women in public bathrooms and changing rooms.”

Click here to go straight to the page to download the Schools Resource Pack produced by Transgender Trend – the one that Stonewall representatives have been trying desperately to persuade teachers to dispose of without even reading it! A campaign by trans activists against crowdfunding for the production of more copies ultimately failed:  Fundraising site re-instates campaign to send transgender resource booklet to schools Independent

Genspect International

“Our international organisation includes professionals, trans people, detransitioners, and parent groups who work together to advocate for a non-medicalised approach to gender diversity.”

Safe Schools Alliance UK

The Safe Schools Alliance is a group of concerned parents, grandparents, teachers, governors, health professionals, education professionals, and carers from more than 30 local education authority areas in the UK. We are from a wide range of backgrounds and have no religious or political affiliation.

The SSA campaign is focused on working with schools and educators to ensure that school policies meet the safeguarding needs of all students whilst taking into account the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. We endeavour to provide clarity on the law and offer unbiased, evidence-based guidance and support where conflict between protected characteristics arises.

The physical, mental and emotional well-being of children is absolutely paramount. A collaborative approach with schools is essential to ensure a safe and supportive environment for children.

Our Duty

“Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology.

Gender ideology is a set of ideas that is leading many children to think that they are transgender. Adolescents in particular are prone to seeking refuge in a gender identity that is at odds with the reality of their sex. We are an evidence-based organisation.

Primarily, we facilitate peer support for parents of children with what has been called ROGD.

We put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm.”

See also Facebook Group.

Parents of ROGD Kids

“We are a group of parents whose children have suddenly—seemingly out of the blue—decided they identify strongly with the opposite sex and are at various stages in transitioning. This is a new phenomenon that has only recently been identified. Researchers are calling it Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD), and it is epidemic among our most vulnerable youth.

Our children are young, naïve and impressionable, many of them are experiencing emotional or social difficulties. They are strongly influenced by their peers and by the media, who are promoting the transgender lifestyle as popular, desirable and the solution to all of their problems. And they are being misled by authority figures, such as teachers, doctors and counselors, who rush to “affirm” their chosen gender without ever questioning why.”

An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Jonathan Kay 19.03.20

A new report sounds the alarm on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria National Post  22.08.18

The study referred to in this article  can be read in full here: Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports Lisa Litman 16.08.18

See also: Gender dysphoria in adolescence: current perspectives

Gender Critical Support Board

“The Gender Critical Support Board is run for parents and families by parents and families who share the experience of coping with a child, teenager or young adult who believes she or he is transgender.
We are critical of the phenomenon of transgender youth growing at epidemic rates.
The forum provides support for parents and families who would like a thoughtful and cautious approach to intervention for their gender dysphoric child.”

Bayswater Support

“We are a group of parents in the UK and Ireland who have been brought together by our experiences of parenting children with gender dysphoria or who have declared a transgender identity.

Having looked for the best support for our children, we have found only the ‘affirmative’ approach to their new identity, backed up by affirmative environments in schools and elsewhere. We’ve found little scope to explore the new identity as a young person’s solution to trauma or distress, as a response to the challenges of adolescence, or to understand its role within underlying mental health or developmental contexts.

If your child has come out to you as trans and you’d like to talk with or meet other parents encountering this complex issue, get in touch – we’re here for you.”

GCQ – Gender Health Query

Gender Health Query: New LGBT organization will address the “child/teen medical transition movement” 4th Wave Now 28.07.19

Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine

We are a growing group of international professionals with expertise in a range of clinical and academic disciplines who share a deep concern over the lack of quality evidence behind the increasing use of frequently irreversible hormonal and surgical interventions as the first line of treatment for young people with gender-dysphoria.

Gender-dysphoric and questioning individuals deserve respect, compassion, and high-quality medical care. Join us in our mission to promote evidence-based care for gender dysphoric children, adolescents, and young adults that prioritizes long-term outcomes, and is free from undue political, ideological, religious or financial influences.

Partners for Ethical Care

Our mission is to raise awareness and support efforts to stop the unethical treatment of children by schools, hospitals, and mental and medical healthcare providers under the duplicitous banner of gender identity affirmation.

My kids you are teaching

We are here to support all parents around the country who are concerned about the activities happening in classrooms around the United States. We will be providing stories, solutions and tips about how to advocate for your children. Use the phrase: these are “My kids you are teaching .. not your kids I am raising” Support our channel by subscribing and hitting that bell.

Videos

Removed by YouTube: This video, which gave a voice to a very passionate and articulate mother was censored by YouTube not long after it appeared. Fortunately, it is available as a podcast and highly recommended.  I lost my daughter to this cult Kellie-Jay Keen 22.08.20

Breaking Ted with Susie Green Kellie-Jay Keen 03.07.20

Video: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: A Primer | with Lisa Littman and Sasha Ayad Benjamin Boyce 10.04.20

Interview with child psychiatrist Alexander Korte

No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body William J Malone 24.09.19

Should you hide the sex of your child? Sky News item with Benjamin Butterworth and Sonia Poulton 18.09.19

I Was A Trans Kid Who Detransitioned…Why Conversion Therapy Bans Harm Trans Children  Erin Brewer 09.07.19

Unpacking Packers: Fake Penises for Girls Under Five Years Old Erin Brewer 19.04.19

Former Transgender Activist: Transitioning Is Dangerous—Especially For Youth Hacsi Horvath

The trans train – Swedish documentary raising concerns about the rise in transitioning girls. Upsetting.

The Shocking Medicalization of Gender Dysphoria Erin Brewer 13.04.19

Doctor Exposes Transgender Propaganda Michael Laidlaw 11.04.19

PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND THE TRANS MOVEMENT: Risks & Dangers to Kids with Stephanie Davies-Arai  Stephanie is interviewed by Deborrah Cooper

Is *This* Kind of Conversion Okay? Dr. Blanchard Puts *Truth* Back into Trans Issues, ex, Dr. Zucker

Doc Amitay interviews Ray Blanchard, who says a bit about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

“Teeny Tiny” Fake Penises for “Transgender Toddlers”? – Trans Activist Saluted by Pedophiles The Deprogrammer

Articles from blogs, newspapers and journals

2024 links

Trans influencer Samantha Hudson axed by Doritos for violent comments on children The Telegraph 06.03.24

Transgender children in Wales needs more help – campaigners BBC News 02.03.24

New study: trans youth not at elevated risk of suicide Mary Harrington in UnHerd 19.02.24

Scouts to employ a diversity officer on £75,000-a-year even though organisation has faced criticism over wokery and transgender activism Mail 18.02.24

Why did three journals reject my puberty-blocker study? UnHerd 12.02.24

Controversial LGBT+ education charity that encouraged toddlers to question their gender and wanted to replace ‘Sir’ and ‘Miss’ with gender-neutral terms in schools mysteriously shuts down Mail 12.02.24

Gay teens who couldn’t come to terms with their sexuality share how they removed their breasts and genitals in false hope that becoming transgender would ‘cure’ them, as concerns mount that ‘gender-affirming care’ for children is homophobic Mail 03.02.24

New York father loses legal battle to stop his son, 8, from taking puberty blockers to change gender Mail 02.02.24

How COULD a troubled 14-year-old be taken by the state and transitioned against her parents’ will? MAUREEN CALLAHAN’s grave warning that YOUR child could be next in America’s nightmarish trans dystopia Mail 31.01.24

Four-year-old boy allowed to join school as a girl is no Grimm fairytale but a real-life nightmare The Telegraph 26.01.24

Over 300 schools including primaries, secondaries and even nurseries told to stop calling pupils ‘boys and girls’ after signing up to scheme run by controversial trans rights lobbying group Stonewall Mail 21.01.24

2023 links

This gender ideology is nothing less than a crime against a generation Julie Bindel Mail 27.12.23

‘Terf island’ took on trans ideology in schools – and won Mary Harrington in The Telegraph 27.12.23

I was sacked after 20 years as a teacher for standing up to gender ideology. The new guidance is welcome – but we must go further Mail 21.12.23

Trans guidance: schools must present gender identity as ‘contested belief’ The Times  20.12.23

This humane trans guidance is calm and pragmatic Janice Turner in The Times 19.12.23

Teaching children they can be born in the ‘wrong’ body is harmful, Kemi Badenoch warns after the government issues new trans guidance for schools Mail 19.12.23

Schools can overrule parents on child’s gender identity changes The Times 18.12.23

Primary schools given advice on children who want to change gender The Times 16.12.23

‘Transgenderism has become a youth subculture’ – spiked Jo Bartosh talks to Dr Az Hakeem Spiked 15.12.23

Schools can overrule parents on child’s gender identity changes The Times 18.12.23

School trust backs down and apologises for plans to introduce trans education programme for children as young as four after huge parent backlash Mail 08.12.23

Schools are discouraged from letting pupils change their pronouns as ministers toughen up long-overdue transgender guidance Mail 21.11.23

UK children grilled ‘every term’ about their gender by ‘activist teachers’, say parents – as 11-year-old pupils given DETENTION for ‘misgendering’ staff Kate Barker in the Mail 28.10.23

Telling children they can change sex is conversion therapy, say campaigners The Telegraph 25.10.23

Parents ‘may still face legal battle to see sex-education lessons’ Times 25.10.23

Give parents details of sex education, Gillian Keegan tells schools The Times 23.10.23

Transgender clinics for children ‘in thrall to ideology’ The Times 23.10.23

Mother wins landmark court ruling to stop child having private trans treatment The Times 22.10.23

The Observer view on gender dysphoria: criminalising therapy poses risk to children’s welfare Observer 22.10.23

‘Being trans or non-binary is a new sub-culture… but we risk raising a nation of chemically castrated children’: Doctor who spent 12 years working with vulnerable patients at the Tavistock warns over gender ideology Mail 21.10.23

Gender-confused teens need time and space Janice Turner in The Times 20.10.23

Kathleen Stock: Gender clinic staff may put children at risk The Times 20.10.23

New youth gender services further delayed BBC News 18.10.23

My vulnerable teen daughter’s school indoctrinated her to become boy behind my back – now I’m fighting to change law Julie Bindel in The Sun 22.09.23

Involve parents before pupils ‘socially transition’ at school, says NHS England The Guardian 21.09.23

Children on puberty blockers saw mental health change – new analysis – BBC News media 19.09.23

Teachers need guidance to resolve issues of gender identity in the classroom The Guardian 17.09.23

It’s wrong to lie to children Stephanie Davies-Arai in The Critic 30.08.23

The tragedy of Jazz Jennings Spiked 20.08.23

When I was 14 a 40-year-old transsexual manipulated me into changing sex Mail 13.08.23

Teens Are Turning to Gender Identity to Escape Adulthood The Epoch Times 08.08.23

Mom tells Congress she knew her child was trans when ‘he refused to wear anything pink or girly’ The Post Millennial 27.07.23

Medicalising children is nothing to celebrate – spiked Jo Bartosch Spiked 23.07.23

Teachers need help against gender ideology Janice Turner The Times 22.07.23

Transgender guidance for schools: Kemi Badenoch wants PM to legislate The Times 20.07.23

My family’s ordeal reveals the strange, dystopian world of school gender policies CapX 19.07.23

Tougher transgender guidance for schools is unlawful, Sunak told The Times 18.07.23

Teachers in England will have to tell parents if children question their gender The Guardian 17.07.23

Youth Gender Transition Is Pushed Without Evidence WSJ Opinion 13.07.23

Young V&A removes trans poster and LGBTQ+ books | News | ArtsProfessional Arts Professional 01.07.23

Dear Rishi Sunak – five teenage girls ask for single-sex toilets in schools Transgender Trend  04.07.23

LGBT+ YouTuber outrages parents by telling primary school kids they can be any gender they want Mail 29.06.23

Schoolgirls sexually assaulted in gender-neutral toilets The Telegraph 28.06.23

Parents’ fight to learn truth after teachers hid their teenage daughter’s transitioning The Sunday Times 25.06.23

Chaos at drag queen children’s event: Trans activists clash with conservative protesters Mail 25.06.2

Rye College denies that pupil identified as cat The Telegraph 23.06.23

Saying no to school transition Miriam Cates in The Critic 22.06.23

School which allowed child to identify as a cat faces Government investigation The Telegraph 20.06.23

‘I was referred to Tavistock trans clinic at age 15 – I feel like a mutilated experiment gone wrong’  Mail 20.06.23

Patel accuses school of ‘left-wing indoctrination’ in gender row The Times 20.06.23

Ban children changing pronouns at school, Tory MP Miriam Cates says The Times 19.06.23

The school children now identifying as animals The Telegraph 19.06.23

Pupil who questioned classmate ‘identifying as a cat’ called ‘despicable’ by teacher The Telegraph 18.06.23

This can be the end of the gender insanity Miriam Cates in The Telegraph 18.06.23

Woman loses fight to see daughter’s sex education content The Times 12.06.23

Foster mother ‘nearly lost children after questioning school’s gender ideology class’ The Telegraph 10.06.23

Patients don’t have the right to know if their medics are transgender, NHS warns Mail 08.06.23

School U-turns over encouraging pupils to wear ‘full-blown drag’ for Pride day The Telegraph 07.06.23

True scandal over trans children has been laid bare at last  Jenni Murray in the Mail 01.06.23

After trans butcher Andrew Miller’s abduction of young girl, Deputy First Minister Shona Robison must reconsider impact of gender self-ID on safeguarding children Susan Dalgety in The Scotsman 20.05.23

Gatekeeping the safeguarders Jo Bartosch in The Critic 18.05.23

Christian teacher who was suspended for ‘misgendering’ a trans pupil is banned from teaching Mail 23.05.23 BUT Teacher who sent 17-year-old schoolgirl explicit messages is banned from classroom for two years  Mail 22.05.23

Parents: it’s time to stand up to woke schools The Telegraph 14.05.23

Teacher sacked after refusing to use eight-year-old’s trans pronouns The Telegraph 11.05.23

Children as young as 12 CAN consent to puberty blockers, Scottish watchdog tells childcare workers: Whistleblower blasts guidance as ‘a significant failure of safeguardingMail 11.05.23

The Only Way Out of the Child-Gender Culture War The Atlantic 04.05.23

Mermaids gives trans advice at private school headteachers’ conference The Telegraph 04.05.23

Parents of trans pupils plan to sue the government after teachers ‘kept their children’s gender switches secret’  Mail 30.04.23

Is trans the new anorexia? Lionel Shriver in UnHerd 27.04.23

Lavatory clampdown for trans pupils in new government guidance The Times 25.04.23

Trans teen died from vaginoplasty complications during landmark Dutch study used to justify child sex changes PM 24.04.23

Teachers warn new gender guidance for English schools could put children at risk The Observer 23.04.23

Head teachers urged to drop trans lesson plan The Times 19.04.23

Transgender pupils ‘can be rejected’ by single-sex schools The Times 18.04.23

A systematic review of hormone treatment for children with gender dysphoria and recommendations for research 17.04.23

Teachers ‘must tell parents about pupils’ gender changes’ The Sunday Times 16.04.23

Child gender clinic reform ‘under threat’, says Sajid Javid BBC 14.04.23

The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak The Economist 05.04.23

Is Social Gender Transition Associated with Mental Health Status in Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria? Morandini et al 04.04.23

Britons between 16 and 24 are twice as likely to identify as trans The Times 25.01.23

Girls’ schools ‘can’t refuse trans pupils’ The Times 13.01.23

How Childline was captured by trans ideology James Essess in The Spectator 08.01.23

Social media triggers children to dislike their own bodies, says study Guardian 02.01.23

Row over gender identity guidance for pupils aged 11 The Times 25.03.23

Teachers ‘walking on eggshells’ in fear of ending up in court like Enoch Burke The Times 19.03.23

Ignoring gender like Paul Murphy can give birth to another bundle of worries The Times 19.03.23

Sex education means gender dysphoria is new anorexia for girls, says mother of trans former pupil The Telegraph 18.03.23

Sex education charity that ‘breaks’ gender binaries ‘pretended to be endorsed by Ofsted’ The Telegraph 17.03.23

Editor of prestigious medical journal the BMJ warns trans children in America are being rushed into sex change surgery ‘without any psychological support’ Mail 13.03.23

Teach UK schoolchildren about harms of online misogyny, says police chief The Guardian 13.03.23

Sandyford gender services staff ‘scared due to anti-trans climate’ The National 12.03.23

Welsh sex education lessons tell children as young as seven there are 100 genders The Telegraph 12.03.23

Parents shocked by graphic sex education in school The Times 11.03.23

Government considering urgent review into ‘inappropriate’ sex education The Telegraph 04.03.23

Why trans-identifying kids are now ‘coming out’ as animals The Spectator 04.03.23

Parents’ fury over gender-neutral school reports: Teachers at East Sussex co-educational accused of ‘wokery’ and ‘virtue signalling’ after dropping ‘he’ and ‘she’ from student feedback forms and referring to 11 to 16 year olds as ‘they’ Mail 04.03.23

Revealed: The TikTok videos urging pupils to take part in school riots sweeping the country and giving advice on how to emulate rebellions against new rules on uniforms and unisex toilets Mail 28.02.23

UK school teacher sacked over pronoun row says Enoch Burke has taken the wrong course The Times 12.02.23

Schools fuel trans angst by sidelining parents Janice Turner in The Times 12.02.23

Acceptance, not surgery, solution to teen trans anxiety The Australian 10.02.23

A 14-year-old reveals what it’s really like to be a pupil today as trans hysteria grips our schools: Girls wearing breast binders in class, teachers claiming Lady Macbeth was non-binary, and ‘transphobes’ threatened with strangulation Mail 09.02.23

Headteachers will be warned not to keep parents in the dark over trans lessons Mail 06.02.23

Top minister lashes out at education bosses for ‘abandoning’ teachers who ‘want to push the stop button’ when children ‘question their gender’ as the war on woke deepens Mail 04.02.23

Babies should be nowhere near gyrating drag queens Jo Bartosch in Spiked 03.03.23

Why We Need to Talk About Shiloh – by Lisa Selin Davis Lisa Selin Davis 03.02.23

Gender critical author HELEN JOYCE accuses her son’s prestigious sixth form of risking safety by allows trans pupils to use girls’ toilets and play for female teams The Mail 03.02.23Your child isn’t trans, she’s just a tomboy The Spectator 21.01.23

Puberty blockers were given to almost all children sent for assessment by Tavistock clinic The Times 20.01.23

It’s children who will pay for this surrender to the Stonewall trans agenda Kathleen Stock in The Telegraph 16.01.23

NHS Trust taking over trans children care from Tavistock ‘being trained by Mermaids’ The Telegraph 13.01.23

How Childline was captured by trans ideology James Essess in The Spectator 08.01.23

Desperate father pleads with his pediatrician ex-wife NOT to chemically castrate their son, 9 | Daily Mail Online Mail 30.05.23

 

2022 links

Revealed: The TikTok videos urging pupils to take part in school riots sweeping the country and giving advice on how to emulate rebellions against new rules on uniforms and unisex toilets Mail 28.02.23

Number of children seeking gender identity treatment has risen by two-thirds in less than two years as it emerges 8,000 are on waiting list for NHS clinic Mail 28.12.22

In Wales, a devastating setback for parents The Glinner Update 23.12.22

Parents lose court fight against gender lessons The Times 22.12.22

When sterility is the risk, placebo is far from harmless Genspect 14.12.22

Transgender toddler is the hero of Stonewall children’s book The Telegraph 14.12.22

GPs expected to lead in new service for transgender children Pulse 01.12.22

Schools are betraying parents James Esses in Spiked 28.11.22

GPs expected to lead in new service for transgender children Pulse 01.12.22

An explosion’: what is behind the rise in girls questioning their gender identity? The Guardian 24.11.22

Ofsted chief says it is a ‘safeguarding risk’ for schools to keep parents in the dark if their child ‘doubts’ their gender: Amanda Spielman insists ‘biological sex is relevant’ and warns guidance for teachers is ‘urgent’ on trans issues Mail 22.11.22

Britain changes tack in its treatment of trans-identifying children The Economist 17.11.22

Schools face having single-sex and gender-neutral lavatories The Times 11.11.22

Most teens who start puberty suppression continue gender-affirming care, study finds NPR 26.10.22

The NHS Ends the “Gender-Affirmative Care Model” for Youth in England SEGM 24.10.22

Most children who think they’re transgender are just going through a ‘phase’, says NHS The Telegraph 23.10.22

Doctors outraged at NHS trust’s two-hour lesson on ‘gender unicorns’ Mail 22.10.22

Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use preferred pronouns or dress as opposite sex under NHS guidelines Mail 21.10.22

NHS drafts stricter oversight of trans youth care Reuters 14.10.22

Booklist promoting trans surgery for young teens sparks parental fury The Telegraph 14.10.22

Young trans people accessing treatment outside NHS may get safeguarding referral The Guardian 14.10.22

Transgender schools guidance says discussing women’s rights could be offensive Telegraph 11.10.22

Ministers seek compromise on transgender advice for schools The Times 10.10.22

The online pharmacies selling ‘DIY’ transitions to children Mail 09.10.22

Transgender schools guidance says discussing women’s rights could be offensive Telegraph 11.10.22

The online pharmacies selling ‘DIY’ transitions to children Mail 09.10.22

It is not reactionary to protect children Jo Bartosch in The Critic 05.10.22

Maths teacher sacked after refusing to use pupil’s preferred pronouns Mail 24.09.22

Parents force review of school trans guidance The Times 24.09.22

Chaplain in LGBT row sues school over sacking The Times 08.09.22

Parents lose fight against lessons in gender identity in Wales The Times 02.09.22

Exam results for non-binary pupils could be recorded separately The Telegraph 23.08.22

Pronouns, loos and uniforms: how schools became the gender wars frontline The Guardian 20.08.22

The tide is turning, but legal action and speeches cannot undo the damage doing by trans ideologues Jo Bartosch 11.08.22

Schools with only unisex lavatories are acting unlawfully, warns Suella Braverman The Telegraph 09.08.22

Suella Braverman will tell teachers they have no legal duty to let trans pupils switch their uniform Mail 08.08.22

‘I’m a boy!’: Child, 4, born a female announces transition with a blue gender reveal cannon at Vancouver Pride Parade – with his grandmother by his side Mail 08.08.22

Suella Braverman scraps diversity lessons The Times 04.08.22

Schools left to write own transgender rules ‘behind parents’ backs’ The Telegraph 02.08.22

Trans plan for young offenders raises concerns for girls’ safety The Times 01.08.22

Teachers ‘need new gender identity rules’ The Times 30.07.22

The truth about trans teaching in schools Joanna Williams in The Spectator 27.07.22

There’s no such thing as a transgender two-year-old James Esses in Spiked 25.07.22

JK Rowling backs parents told disabled daughter did not have right to female-only care The Times 15.07.22

Parents must resist Stonewall’s gospel The Spectator 16.07.22

Trans hype is gripping schools – it’s time we learnt what our children are taught Allison Pearson in The Telegraph 06.07.22

Jordan Peterson: ‘Gay kids are being convinced they’re transsexual. That’s not so good for gay people, is it?

Scout Association faces backlash over new ‘trans fun’ badge for members as young as four years old which have been slammed as ‘inappropriate’ Mail 01.07.22

Schools can resist the trans wars UnHerd 30.06.22

Trans students: the legal risks for schools TES 22.06.22

Ofsted cites lack of gender identity lessons as factor in primary school grading The Telegraph 18.06.22

Blockers and the brain Gender Clinic News 17.06.22

Give irreversible gender drugs at age 14, says transgender health group The Times 17.06.22

My puberty was chemically delayed. I was their guinea pig The Times 17.06.22

Trans surgery for children is not a ‘right’ to be fought for Douglas Murray 16.06.22

“Science Vs” Cited Seven Studies To Argue There’s No Controversy About Giving Puberty Blockers And Hormones To Trans Youth. Let’s Read Them. Jesse Singal 10.06.22

The NHS’s disturbing trans guidance for children Debbie Hayton 12.06.22

Advice turns schoolgirls into ‘pupils who menstruate’ The Times 11.06.22

Teenage girls having their breasts cut off will not solve their emotional problems, says founder of Transgender Trend Mail 05.06.22

Teachers should not pander to trans pupils, says Suella Braverman The Times 27.05.22

Parents should ‘push back’ against children identifying as non-binary: MP The Independent 23.05.22

Peer says pupil has right to debate transgender views The Times 22.05.22

Teacher reveals how schools are struggling with trans rights The Times 22.05.22

Trans row schoolgirl in the eye of a storm The Times 21.05.22

Gender referrals for children three times higher in Blackpool The Times 21.05.22

Gender-neutral uniform plan for all schools Mail 20.05.22

Teacher reveals how schools are struggling with trans rights The Times 22.05.22

Trans row schoolgirl in the eye of a storm The Times 21.05.22

Let under-15s change gender on birth certificate, say campaigners The Times 18.05.22

Trans dogma has taken over our schools Joanna Williams in Spiked 17.05.22

Girl ‘driven out of school for questioning trans ideology’ The Times 17.05.22

Swindon Council is accused of promoting ‘damaging trans ideology in schools’ Mail 14.05.22

Johns Hopkins child sex abuse center hires trans professor, 34, who was forced to resign from Virginia school for DEFENDING pedophiles Mail 11.05.22

Our primary school kids are being messed up by gender identity lessons Helen Joyce in the Express 11.05.22

Campaigners seek to scrap parental consent from NHS trans treatment The Telegraph 11.05.22

Children taught about a ‘sliding scale’ between male and female The Times 07.05.22

Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds The New York Times 04.05.22

Boys identifying as girls put into female dorms at summer camp set up by David Cameron The Telegraph 02.05.22

When WILL Britain wake up to the danger of giving puberty blockers to children? Mail 29.04.22

Doctor’s inadequate care left trans child in anguish The Times 25.04.22

GenderGP founder Dr Helen Webberley tribunal findings The National 25.04.22

More than 5,000 parents go to war with Welsh government over plans to teach children as young as THREE about ‘sexual attraction’ and gender identity Mail 24.04.22

Why we need an inquiry into gender treatment for children Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 24.04.22

Transgender designer is accused of ‘child abuse’ for selling pants that seek to ‘flatten’ the genitals of boys as young as four – as doctors warn the underwear could cause infertility Mail 24.04.22

Sajid Javid inquiry into gender treatment for children The Times 22.04.22

Nearly one in every 15 pupils at a leading secondary school identify as trans or non-binary – with majority declaring their gender change after lockdown last summer Mail 24.04.22

Girlguiding ‘tied itself in knots’ over trans rights The Sunday Times 24.04.22

Girlguiding leader sacked in trans row may rejoin The Times 21.04.22

Time for measured debate on role of GPs in helping children with gender dysphoria  Dr Angus McKellar and Dr Anthony Latham in The Scotsman 20.04.22

Gender expert: online influencers rush adolescents towards transition The Times 18.04.22

8 in 10 teachers say their secondary school has trans pupils The Times 11.04.22

Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite Jesse Singal 06.04.22

We need to talk about trans children Jo Bartosch at Spiked 29.03.22

The Observer view on gender identity services for children 19.03.22

Great Ormond Street cancels trainee doctor conference over trans ‘safety’ complaints The Telegraph 19.03.22

More children seek gender treatment after lockdowns The Times 21.03.22

Finally, some common sense about trans clinics for children! Jenni Murray in the Mail 16.03.22

The Cass Review’s interim report is out Sex Matters 12.03.22

Parents revolt after American School (in London) lessons on ‘64 genders’ The Times 12.03.22

The problem with the UK’s transgender clinic James Kirkup in The Spectator 11.03.22

Teachers ordered to avoid ‘biased’ views of BLM and Stonewall The Times 16.02.22

No, your six-year-old is not ‘transphobic’ Jo Bartosch at Spiked 15.02.22

School said boy, six, would be transphobic if he expressed confusion over classmate The Times 14.02.22

Child Custody’s Gender Gauntlet Abigail Shrier 07.02.22

Primark’s outfits tell girls to be kind and boys to be winners The Times 07.02.22

How children as young as 13 are asking strangers online to crowdfund their sex change drugs Mail 28.01.22

Suicide by Clinic-Referred Transgender Adolescents in the United Kingdom Michael Biggs 18.01.22

Group of girls’ schools says they will not accept transgender pupils and “jeopardise” their status as single-sex institutions Telegraph 01.01.22

Children are being ‘brainwashed’ by TikTok videos on ‘cool’ trans surgery viewed 26 billion times, campaigners claim Mail 25.12.21

 

2021 links

‘Men’ and ‘women’ are removed from sex education curriculum in Wales Mail 13.12.21

Plans to ban gender conversion therapy may be delayed after backlash from parents and teachers Mail 09.12.21

Parents’ backlash is set to put brakes on new gender law amid fears that families could be prosecuted for discussing own child’s sex change Mail 07.12.21

Now teachers ‘may face court’ under new gender laws if they tell children they cannot use opposite sex toilets, campaigners warn Mail 05.12.21

Teachers ‘risk prosecution’ for discussing gender with pupils The Telegraph 04.12.21

Sweden: Children suffer life-long injuries after receiving hormone blockers at hospital 03.12.21

The mental health establishment is failing trans kids Washington Post 24.11.21

NHS’s only gender service for children believes all girls who don’t like ‘pink ribbons and dollies’ must be transgender, whistleblower claims Mail 22.11.21

Girl guides probe into trans Commissioner’s ‘dominatrix-style’ picture Mail 23.11.21

Tory MP calls on ministers to launch probe on the ‘alarming’ spread of ‘extreme’ transgender ideology in schools amid fears it is ‘harming’ children Mail 20.11.21

WTF are Girlguiding thinking? The Glinner Update 22.11.21

The grim reality of gender reassignment Madeleine Kearns in The Spectator 13.11.21

Arrest the chest Joan Smith in The Critic 12.11.21

Letter To a Well Meaning Bystander Parents with inconvenient truths 11.11.21

Woke Lush have done it again Madison Smith in The Critic 09.11.21

Letter To a Well Meaning Bystander Parents with inconvenient truths 11.11.21

China opens first clinic for transgender children The Sunday Times 07.11.21

Primary school encourages boys to wear skirts The Times 04.11.21

Opinion on the use of puberty blockers in America is turning Economist 17.10.21

Nigel and Sally Rowe: parents sue over Church school’s gender-neutral rules The Times 14.10.21

Loudoun County schools accused of covering up sexual assault of girl in ‘gender neutral’ bathroom The Post Millennial  12.10.21

Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on ‘Sloppy’ Care Abigail Shrier 04.10.21

Scottish doctors approved breast removal for 51 trans teenagers The Times 21.09.21

Primary school headteacher makes toilets gender-neutral before furious parents force U-turn Mail 11.09.21

Maiming a generation Rob Jessel and Sarah Phillimore 08.09.21

‘School rushed to help our boy become a girl’ Sunday Times 22.08.21

Child Abuse is being normalised, & every major LGBTQ org is complicit Sheridan Sinclair 21.08.21

Children as young as 10 are having their sex changed on their medical records sparking fears that GPs could misdiagnose patients Mail 21.08.21

Quality in education shouldn’t be a casualty of equality in schools Gillian Bowditch in The Sunday Times 15.08.21

Was this volunteer cancelled by Childline for his views on gender? Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 03.08.21

Cancelled by Childline: Ex-barrister lost his job as a volunteer counsellor with the charity after raising fears over the way children confused about their gender are rushed into changing sex Mail 31.07.21

Gender clinic doctor Helen Webberly’s care ‘failed’ The Times 28.07.21

Finns Turn against Puberty Blockers for Gender Dysphoria National Review 25.07.21

Transing kids: Medical Help or Medical Harm? Redline 11.07.21

Teachers are powerless to resist trans activism in schools Stephanie Davis-Arai in The Telegraph 07.07.21

How to be a Trans-Educated Rational Parent Pitt’s Newsletter 28.06.21

Stonewall’s worrying school guidance Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 20.06.21

Scottish schools to ditch their ‘binary’ head boys and girls The Sunday Times 20.06.21

St Paul’s Girls’ School ditches ‘binary’ head girl The Times 19.06.21

Top private school faces parents’ fury after ‘encouraging’ pupils to change sex The Sunday Times 06.06.21

Hi Doc, I’d like to order some chemo please Lynn Meagher 01.06.21

Nightmares: A Child Torn Apart by Ideology Anastasia C. Scott 18.05.21

Schools are giving biological girls as young as 13 boys’ names and using them on official documents without telling their parents Mail 16.05.21

Doubts are growing about therapy for gender-dysphoric children The Economist 15.05.21

Banning gay conversion therapy is a minefield Janice Turner in The Times 15.05.21

Why are we celebrating a four-year-old transitioning? Debbie Hayton 11.05.21

Nonsuch High School sixth-formers told girls, 11, how to bind breasts  The Sunday Times 09.05.21

Fee-paying boarding school reports its chaplain to anti-terror unit Prevent for telling pupils in a sermon that they’re allowed to disagree with LGBT teaching Mail 08.05.21

Trudeau government funds online ‘Gegi’ project for K-12 youth to explore trans identity The Post Millennial 06.05.21

Mental health professionals warn that laws banning conversion therapy could prevent them from treating children who want to be transgender Telegraph 05.05.21

Sweden’s Karolinska Ends the Use of Puberty Blockers for <16: New policy statement from the Karolinska Hospital SEGM 05.05.21

How to Free Your Child From the Cult of Gender Identity: Interview with Maria Keffler Women Are Human 22.04.21

The Lost Children of the Gender Cult Sheridan Sinclair 16.04.21

Trans charities are using children as political pawns Josephine Bartosch in The Telegraph 14.04.21

Believe Moms: There’s Something Else Going on With Trans Teens New Discourses 07.04.21

When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering Quillette 02.04.21

Evidence for puberty blockers use very low, says NICE BBC 01.04.21

When Transgenderism Discards My Daughter, I Will Still Be Here For Her Lynn Meagher 19.03.21

“Do you think you’re trans? Better stop talking to your hateful parents” The Transgender Medical Scandal 12.03.21

How children can order life-altering transgender drugs from their bedroom The Telegraph 26.02.21

Heartbroken Dad Of Trans Teen Breaks Gag To Beg For End Of ‘State-Sponsored Child Abuse’ Federalist 21.02.21

Little is known about the effects of puberty blockers The Economist 20.02.21

The Generation lost to Online Predators and Wrong Sex Hormones The Transgender Medical Scandal 13.02.21

Puberty blockers ‘stunt bone growth of children’ The Times 03.02.21

First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children Marcus and Susan Evans in Quillette 02.02.21

Gender clinic bosses at controversial NHS facility are removed after regulators highlighted a string of failures including managing patient safety risk Mail 31.01.20

Parents condemn BBC’s educational film describing 100 gender identities The Times 29.01.21

Teenager, 18, told she can have gender-swap drugs after one hour-long Zoom meeting Mail 17.01.21

Autistic girls seeking answers ‘are seizing on sex change’ The Sunday Times 10.01.21

Girl seeks judicial review of Crown Prosecution Service transgender ‘bias’ The Times 08.01.21

The book Silicon Valley tried to kill: ABIGAIL SHRIER’S investigation into the exploding numbers of girls wanting to change sex has caused an outcry in America – but her story must be heard Mail 02.01.21

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2020 links

Evidence for puberty blockers use very low, says NICE BBC 01.04.21

Arkansas and South Dakota pass bans targeting transgender minors Guardian 30.03.21

Puberty blockers and parental consent Legal Feminist 27.12.20

The BBC should be ashamed of its reporting on trans teenagers James Kirkup in The Spectator 23.12.20

The damning verdict on puberty blocker treatment for trans children Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 15.12.20

Australia: My child is transitioning gender, but I feel the system makes it too easy Sydney Herald 12.12.20

The Swedish U-Turn on Gender Transitioning for Children 12.11.20

The BBC, impartiality and children Transgender Trend 08.11.20

‘Safety failure’ by chemist selling hormones for trans children The Times 29.10.20

Campaigners accuse BBC of peddling a ‘damaging’ transgender ideology to primary school pupils in row over controversial children’s cartoon Mail 24.10.20

Newly Discovered Letter Shows Endocrine Society Urged Experimenting On Trans Children Jane Robbins 21.10.20

‘My 12yo daughter’s friends and teachers pushed her into wanting to be a boy… thank God lockdown allowed her to escape’ RT.com 05.10.20

Can life-changing decisions be left to children? Janice Turner in The Times 10.10.20

It’s time to ban puberty blockers for children  Julie Bindel in The Spectator 09.10.20

The Two World-Views of Puberty Blockers Quackometer 08.10.20

Chemist sells hormones for trans children online The Times 06.10.20

What are the new rules for teaching identity in schools? Telegraph 29.09.20

Teachers are told not to push tomboys to change their gender just because of the way they like to dress or play  Mail 27.09.20

Government issues gender identity guidance for teachers in England Guardian 25.09.20

Let’s kick ‘gender identity’ out of school The Spectator 25.09.20

Let’s kick ‘gender identity’ out of school The Spectator 25.09.20

Government issues gender identity guidance for teachers in England Guardian 25.09.20

BC father may face jail for not acknowledging child’s gender transition The Post Millennial 08.09.20

Please stop what you’re doing and read this: The Psychotherapist’s Story The Daily Glinner 05.09.20

There’s no bigotry in trying to protect children Janice Turner in The Times 12.09.20

Canada bullies dutiful parent Our Duty 02.09.20

The cultural juggernaut of transgender ideology: not kids’ stuff The Spectator 20.08.20

Trans parent: Debbie Hayton shares her journey Hood 17.08.20

What explains the rising number of children with gender issues? James Kirkup in The Spectator 14.08.20

The lobbyists influencing gender health care for children Transgender Trend 11.08.20

Nearly 80 Irish children sent to UK for gender identity assessment in past 3 years Irish Mirror 16.08.20

An increasing portrayal of transgender characters on TV is ‘fuelling rise’ in the number of young people seeking medical help to change sex, says a leading expert Mail 09.08.20

Psychotherapists avoid questioning children who want to be transgender as they fear conversion therapy accusations Sunday Telegraph 02.08.20

Should Dexter, 9, REALLY be on the transgender fast track? Child who was born a girl has been waiting three years for an autism diagnosis. Yet it took just months for UK’s leading gender clinic to agree to set him on road to transitioning Mail 14.07.20

A mum’s story about single sex spaces in school Maya Forstater 04.07.20

How ‘peer contagion’ may play into the rise of teen girls transitioning New York Times 27.06.20

Spotlight to shine on gender clinics  The Australian 24.06.20

BBC Newsnight: Gay, Lesbian Kids Pushed Into Transition Gender Heresies 19.06.20

Why do we pay Stonewall to strike fear into our children? Caroline Ffiske 26.05.20

16-year-old boy shares his story about being forced to be trans by mother Sausage Roll 20.05.20

A rare victory for common sense in the trans debate Jo Bartosch 23.04.20

Parents force council to suspend transgender advice The Times 25.04.20

Girl launches changing room privacy case The Times 23.04.20

Transgender law will change to protect under-18s, Truss signals The Times 22.04.20

Gender-affirming model still based on 2014 faulty Dutch study  Daniela Danna 19.04.20

‘Our 13-year-old was brainwashed into thinking she’s transgender’: Parents accuse school of secretly allowing girl to attend ‘radicalising’ mentoring sessions that convinced her that she was really a boy Mail 14.03.20

Are unscientific ideas about gender causing irreparable harm to children’s lives? The Scotsman 11.03.20

Why do so many teenage girls want to change gender? Prospect Magazine 03.03.20

BBC criticised over breast-binding of trans patient Sunday Times 01.03.20

JOHN HUMPHRYS: We should fear the mob when even doctors can’t speak freely about their fears over treatment for children wanting to change gender Mail 29.02.20

Giving puberty blocker to ‘trans’ children is a leap into the unknown by Janice Turner in The Times 21.02.20

Heartbroken Dad Of Trans Teen Breaks Gag To Beg For End Of ‘State-Sponsored Child Abuse’ The Federalist 21.02.20

Disputed trans guide gets NHS nod The Times 15.02.20

Review ordered into rules on child gender transition The Times 10.02.20

The making of trans children Spiked Online 07.02.20

Trans row father is willing to go to jail The Sunday Times 02.02.20

March of the thought police: Father launches landmark fight for free speech after Orwellian nightmare Mail  01.02.20

What to do about puberty blockers Economist  31.01.20

The struggle for GPs to get the right care for patients with gender dysphoria (pdf) BMJ 22.01.20 and a response from Helen Webberley 

Former transgender patient will tell court that sex change clinic is putting children on ‘torturous’ path Telegraph 22.01.20

Transgender children: limits on consent to permanent interventions Heather Brunskell-Evans

Capacity-based decision-making for transgender adolescents Timothy F Murphy

The Pediatric Endocrine Society’s Statement on Puberty Blockers Isn’t Just Deceptive. It’s Dangerous Michael K Laidlaw 13.01.20

Test case on child gender treatment The Times 06.01.20

High court to decide if children can consent to gender reassignment Guardian 05.01.20

Transender Trend: Stonewall turns its attention to children with SEND and autism – our full report on Stonewall schools guidance since 2015

“In March, Stonewall published a new schools guide ‘An Introduction to Supporting LGBT young people’, replacing the guide of the same name published in 2015 which is no longer available from the website. The new guide goes further than any previous Stonewall schools guidance in several significant ways, the most serious and potentially harmful aspect of which is the whole section dedicated to children with SEND, including autism.

We have reviewed all ten Stonewall schools guides from 2015 to the present.”

Click here to read the rest of this article and see the full report.

See also: Stonewall’s worrying school guidance Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 20.06.21

2019 links

Rachel Rooney’s children’s book, My Body is Me, labelled ‘anti‑trans extremism’ The Times 16.12.19

A quarter of youngsters being treated at transgender clinics may just be autistic, new research claims Mail 15.12.19

NHS psychologists are over-diagnosing gender dysphoria in children as young as THREE ‘because staff are scared of being branded transphobic’ Mail 12.12.19

One of Britain’s youngest transgender children has begun transitioning at 12 – after realising she was in ‘wrong body’ aged just THREE Mail 10.12.19

Irish children sent to London clinic caught in gender storm Irish Independent 09.12.19

Physical Interventions on the Bodies of Children to “Affirm” their “Gender Identity” Violate Sound Medical Ethics and Should be Prohibited Ryan Anderson 08.12.19

Sister, 21, of tormented teenager, 18, who hanged himself in his mother’s clothes hits out at people claiming to be transgender to be ‘TRENDY’ Mail 05.12.19

Schools told all lessons for five-year-olds should include gay and trans themes The Sunday Times 01.12.19

Transgender Children: ‘The concept of being born in the wrong body is troubling’ Interview with Stella O’Malley Irish Independent 01.12.19

A boy in a dress is just a boy in a dress Debbie Hayton 22.11.19

School Allows Transgenders into Girls’ Locker Rooms. Trans Student Celebrates, Girl Fights Tears. Louder with Crowder 20.11.19

Letters to the Editor: Trans clinic is failing vulnerable children The Sunday Times 17.11.19

UoE to host speaker who said gender-fluidity in children is ‘made up nonsense’ The Edinburgh Tab 13.11.19

Coca-Cola runs commercial showing mothers helping transgender kids bind breasts, dress in drag dsrn.com 12.11.19

Seven-year-old at the centre of a transgender custody battle between his parents opts to go to school as a boy after his father told a judge he does not want him to transition into a girl or wear dresses Mail 08.11.19

Children as young as five treated at gender identity clinics – including dozens of Birmingham kids Birmingham Live 08.11.19

Hull mum teaches her four-year-old son that ‘men have periods too’ Hull Live 06.11.19

Parents battle ‘state‑sponsored sterilisation’ of trans children The Sunday Times 27.10.19

Parent of transgender child: ‘I thought the NHS would sort it out’ The Sunday Times 27.10.19

Texas judge rules father CAN fight to stop his transgender son, 7, transiting to a girl after he argued the child’s mother made him grow up wearing dresses and constantly told him ‘monsters eat little boys’ Mail 25.10.19

Even parents shouldn’t be able to OK chemical ‘transitions’ for little kids New York Post 24.10.19

Questions remain over puberty-blockers, as review clears study BBC 14.10.19

Britain’s first children’s gender identity clinic hired lawyers to ‘silence’ book publishers who warned the rocketing number of youngsters seeking to change sex is ‘becoming a scandal’ Mail on Sunday 13.10.19

Transgender rules for English schools face a backlash from women The Economist 03.10.19

‘A Doll For Everyone’: Meet Mattel’s Gender-Neutral Doll Time 25.09.19

Doctors back inquiry on kids’ trans care The Australian 25.09.19

‘A Doll For Everyone’: Meet Mattel’s Gender-Neutral Doll Time 25.09.19

Cult of gender identity is harming children Janice Turner in The Times 22.09.19

‘My girl became the youngest trans toddler… at just three years of age’  Mirror 21.09.19

When the Ideologues Come for the Kids NY Mag 20.09.19

Gender dysphoria in children: puberty blockers study draws further criticism (pdf) BMJ 20.09.19

Gender dysphoria in children: puberty blockers study draws further criticism (pdf) BMJ 20.09.19

When the Ideologues Come for the Kids NY Mag 20.09.19

Video: Should you hide the sex of your child? Sky News item with Benjamin Butterworth and Sonia Poulton 18.09.19

Girls must bow to trans rights in new rules for schools The Sunday Times 14.09.19

Parents outraged as London primary school makes its toilets unisex – ‘Not fair on kids’ Express 12.09.19

BBC films teach children of ‘100 genders, or more’ The Sunday Times 09.09.19

How the trans debate entered the classroom Spectator Life 04.09.19

BBC films teach children of ‘100 genders, or more’ The Sunday Times 09.09.19

The medicalization of gender non conforming children, and the vulnerability of lesbian youth. Charlie Evans 08.09.19

Girls schools could admit trans boys under proposals being considered by equalities watchdog Telegraph 31.08.19

Health chiefs to review service that gives transgender children as young as 10 puberty-blocking drugs Mail 26.08.19

Children as young as three could be helped to change gender on the basis of just a Skype call under NHS review Mail 25.08.19

Another unfortunate experiment? New Zealand’s transgender health policy and its impact on children Redline 20.10.19

Teenagers who identify as transgender taking powerful ‘puberty blocker’ drugs ‘may suffer from weaker bones in the future’ Mail 18.08.19

School parents join forces to fight ‘trans propaganda’ The Sunday Times 04.08.19

“We Really Really Tried.” A 2017 Letter from GIDS Clinicians Ignored by The Guardian Transgender Trend 29.07.19

Puberty blocking drugs: ‘For the past four years I’ve been stuck as a child’ The Times 26.07.19

Politicised trans groups put children at risk, says expert Guardian 27.07.19

Use of puberty blockers on transgender children to be investigated The Times 26.07.19

Transgender treatment: Puberty blockers study under investigation BBC News 22.07.19

NHS psychologist claims poor and abused children are wrongly being labelled transgender and prescribed sex-change treatments without appropriate testing by clinicians who ‘fear being labelled transphobic’ Mail 21.07.19

Children ‘misled’ at gender clinic The Times 20.07.19

It’s time to listen to the NHS gender clinic whistleblowers James Kirkup 19.07.19

Parents are encouraging children as young as three to change gender without consulting specialists, experts warn Mail 18.07.19

An open letter to Dr Polly Carmichael from a former GIDS clinician Kirsty Entwhistle 18.07.19

The book that dares to take on transgender myths told to children: Experts reveal psychologists are scared to question transgender ideology, GPs are afraid of being branded transphobic and teens are being wrongly diagnosed Mail 13.07.19

Penny Mordaunt: It’s vital to look into surge in gender-change girls The Sunday Times 07.07.19

Dear Parent of “Transgender” Child…. The Lonely Transsexual 03.07.19

UK gender clinic reports highest record of girls, young kids seeking to transition Christian Post 02.07.19

Mum’s fury after transgender suicide teen sold hormones from illegal online clinic Cambridgeshire Live 29.06.19

Surge in girls switching gender The Sunday Times 29.06.19

Changing Enid Blyton’s tomboy to be non-binary is a backward step for girls today Julie Bindel 26.06.19

Teenager, 17, suspended from school for insisting there are ‘only two genders’ reveals he spoke out in protest at ‘dangerous views being forced on pupils’ Mail 23.05.19

A damaged child: Why the NSPCC must act Rainbow Radicals 15.06.19

Gendered Intelligence Training Session for Teachers at ‘Kiss My Genders’ TransgenderTrend 14.06.19

Munroe Bergdorf, the NSPCC and the failure of the media James Kirkup 14.06.19

Munroe Bergdorf: NSPCC cuts ties with transgender activist BBC 09.06.19

‘Desmond Is Amazing’ Needs Saving Madeleine Kearns 11.06.19

Scientists blast ‘inaccurate’ GCSE paper which replaced the word ‘sex’ with ‘gender’ as they accuse examiners of bowing to political correctness Mail 02.05.19

Chest Binding Helps Smooth the Way for Transgender Teens, but There May Be Risks NY Times 31.05.19

Scientists fail Edexcel exam board for confusing sex and gender in its GCSE exam The Times 02.06.19

Also :  Scientists blast ‘inaccurate’ GCSE paper which replaced the word ‘sex’ with ‘gender’ as they accuse examiners of bowing to political correctness Mail 02.05.19

Scouts earn U-turn badge after scrapping trans policy The Times 26.05.19

Vicar resigns after being ‘silenced’ over a Church of England school’s plan to keep an eight-year-old pupil’s sex change a secret from parents Mail 26.05.19

Young children, reality, sex and gender Katie Alcock 29.05.19

Parents who Socially Transitioned Two Young Children Win Court Battle Transgender Trend 14.05.19

Suspended GPs Helen and Mike Webberley move sex change clinic to Spain The Sunday Times 19.05.19

The tangled case of the brothers who became girls aged seven and three, Sunday Times 12.05.19

Judge backs parents who allowed their four-year-old son to live as a girl and sent him to school in a girl’s uniform – despite social workers accusing them of ‘actively encouraging’ their child’s transgender identity Mail 10.05.19

Parents sue Woodburn schools after teacher educates son about being transgender Statesman 08.05.19

TED Talker Promotes Laws To Let Doctors Mutilate Minors Without Parent Consent Jane Robbins 30.04.19

No Outsiders : Queering the Primary Classroom Transgender Trend 23.04.19

Gender Incongruence in children, adolescents and adults (Screenshot) British Journal of GP Practice, April 2019

Johanna Olson-Kennedy and the US Gender Affirmative Approach Transgender Trend 17.04.19

Transgender booklet suspended in Warwickshire schools CoventryLive 11.04.19

Parents with gender dysphoric kids are fighting back The Post Millenial 11.04.19

 

Investigation for The Times by Lucy Bannerman

A ringing endorsement from the convict.

Calls to end transgender ‘experiment on children’  The Times 08.04.19

 

Doubts over evidence for using drugs on the young Prof Carl Heneghan The Times 08.04.19

It is now ‘transphobic’ to report doctors’ fears about trans’ children’s health James Kirkup 08.04.19

Parents in revolt as councils issue schools with transgender toolkits The Sunday Times 07.04.19

“As a self-proclaimed “leftie liberal”, Tracy Shaw, 44, a mother of three, had not taken much notice of the

The ‘Trans’ Child as Experimental Guinea Pig Madeleine Kearns 04.04.19

‘Doctor’ Advises Threatening Suicide To Get Transgender Treatments For Kids The Federalist 01.04.19

Grandmother fighting to save 10-y-o grandson from puberty blockers, gender-transition speaks out Christian Post 15.03.19

Girl, 15, who identifies as a boy is taken from her family and put into care after telling teachers her parents ‘didn’t want her changing sex’ Mail 16.03.19

4thWaveNow exposes disturbing posts leaked from private group for parents of “transgender children” GenderTrending 13.02.19

NHS transgender clinic accused of covering up negative impacts of puberty blockers on children by Oxford professor Telegraph 07.03.19

NHS child gender reassignment ‘too quick’ BBC 25.02.

Gay and trans lessons for primary schools The Sunday Times 24.02.19

Training guide ‘pushed GPs to endorse gender swaps’ The Sunday Times 03.02.19

Doctors Speak Out Against Medical Profession’s Utter Lack Of Caution For Trans Kids The Federalist 31.01.19

Ten things you’re not supposed to know about the transgender industry Hacsi Horvath 21.01.19

How the only NHS transgender clinic for children ‘buried’ the fact that 372 of 1,069 patients were autistic  Mail 18.02.19

Jo or Joe? Surge in trans children changing names Sunday Times 13.01.19

When Your Daughter Defies Biology reblog from Wall Street Journal 14.01.19

NHS staff being advised to ignore parents’ wishes if children self-declare as different gender, guidance shows Telegraph 11.01.19

Mothers in shock as daughters come home from college with mustaches, breasts removed The College Fix 10.01.19

 

Older links

The Theatre of the Body: A detransitioned epidemiologist examines suicidality, affirmation, and transgender identity 4thWaveNow 19.12.18

Teaching children boys have periods too is not education, it’s ‘mythinformation’  Telegraph 18.12.18

Eight-year-old pupils to be told ‘boys can have periods too’ under new sex education lessons guidelines Mail 16.12.18

Councils’ ‘gender neutral’ school toilets ignore Children & Young People’s Commissioner Scotland’s call for a Human Rights approach Susan Sinclair 16.12.18

Why Puberty Blockers Are A Clear Danger To Children’s Health The Federalist 14.12.18

The New Homophobic Bridge To Nowhere: Child Transition Sue Donym 05.12.18

Transgender services GP fined £12,000 over registration failure BBC 03.12.18

Trans activists send out free breast binders to 13-year-olds in unmarked packages… so their parents don’t find out Mail 01.12.18

Mom Dresses Six-Year-Old Son As Girl, Threatens Dad With Losing His Son For Disagreeing Walt Heyer 26.11.18

Why Is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens?   Psychology Today 28.11.18

See also: Teen Transgender Identity: A Response to Critics Psychology Today 29.11.18

Gender GP clinic faces questions after giving sex-change hormones to 12-year-old The Sunday Times 25.11.18

Activists challenge ‘transgender ideology’ sweeping Scottish schools The Sunday Times 25.11.18

Trans groups under fire for huge rise in child referrals The Sunday Times 25.11.18

The rush to diagnose trans children serves no-one Debbie Hayton 23.11.18

There is no such thing as a ‘trans kid’ Brendan O’Neill 22.11.18

In 20 years we’ll look back on the rush to change our children’s sex as one of the darkest chapters in medicine Bob Withers, Mail 18.11.18

School has SEVENTEEN children changing gender as teacher says vulnerable pupils are being ‘tricked’ into believing they are the wrong sex Mail 18.11.18

Gender identity clinic accused of fast-tracking young adults Observer 3.11.18

Anger as gender neutral toilets introduced at primary school without parents knowing
Warrington Guardian 02.11.18

Scottish councils face court action from Christian Institute on policy over transgender pupils The Times 28.10.18

The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling the Transgender Movement in Children  Debora Soh 23.10.18

Scotland: Opinion poll reveals backlash over trans rights Sunday Times 14.10.18

Suicide by trans-identified children in England and Wales Prof Michael Higgins 09.10.18

Don’t tell the parents: the official guidance to teachers of ‘trans children’ Madeleine Kearns, Spectator 06.10.18

Trans rights have gone wrong James Kirkup 04.10.18

Transgender specialist Dr Helen Webberley ran online clinic BBC News 05.10.18

Tax-Funded Researcher Studying Trans Children Is Married To Trans Woman; Both Profit From Child Mutilation The Federalist 27.09.18

Why Are Pediatrician Groups Conforming to Transgender Orthodoxy? National Review 18.09.18

Government probe into why so many girls want to be boys: Investigation ordered after number of ‘transitioning referrals’ increases by four thousand per cent  Mail 16.09.18

Half Of All Transgender Female Teens Have Attempted Suicide The Federalist 13.09.18

NSPCC in Mumsnet row after defending Girl Guides transgender policy Telegraph 03.09.18

Why are so many teenage girls appearing in gender clinics?  The Economist 01.09.18

Transgender kids shouldn’t be bullied, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be opposed Washington Examiner 23.08.18

Trans teenagers have become an experiment Janice Turner Times 18.8.18

The BBC and transgender children Liverpool ReSisters 16.08.18

Primary one children will be told ‘your gender is what you decide’ The Scotsman 07.08.18

When Children Say They’re Trans Jesse Singal, The Atlantic July/August 2018

Why Trans Kids Need Gatekeepers  Libby DownUnder 31.7.18

The impact on children of accepting ‘transgender’ ideology Herald 22.7.18

Trans Activism’s Dangerous Myth of Parental Rejection Lisa Marchiano 20.07.18

The ​Myth of the “Desistance Myth” Julian Vigo 02.07.18

Trans activist ‘bullies’ stop donations for schoolchildren The Times 3.6.18

Schools pulled into row over helping transgender children The Guardian 15.05.18

Detransitioned man blasts “transworld” 4th Wave Now 05.05.18

NHS sex change drugs are putting hundreds of children at risk each year warns top doctor who says medication could lead them infertile or cause sexual dysfunction  Mail 22.04.18

Is it a Myth that the Vast Majority of Gender Dysphoric Children Desist? Paul Dirks 18.04.18

Gender Dysphoria and Children: An Endocrinologist’s Evaluation of I am Jazz Michael K. Laidlaw 05.04.18

How many transgender kids grow up to stay trans?  Jesse Singal 28.03.18

Official Guidance Lets Kids Down Jo Bartosch 24.02.18

Teacher accused of ‘misgendering’ child was told by police that she committed a hate crime Telegraph 23.02.18

Parents Just Lost Custody of Teenage Daughter Who Wants to ‘Transition’ to a Boy: What You Need to Know Ryan T. Anderson 19.02.18

Teacher Roy Wilkes wins fight over ‘transphobic’ comments The Times 28.01.18

Schools rushing ‘on whisper’ to label pupils as transgender Sian Griffiths, The Times 21.01.18

How trans kids and their parents are deciding when to start medical transition Vice News 16.01.18

How many transgender kids grow up to stay trans? Dr James Cantor 30.12.17

Transgender fetish is a truly shameful modern invention Stuart Waiton 27.11.17

Meet Alex Bertie, the transgender poster boy Janice Turner The Times 11.11.17

Professor Robert Winston joins the transgender debate and shares his concerns for young children Transgender Trend 02.11.17

Transing children & the myth of an unbiased medical establishment Louise Pennington 24.10.17

We need to investigate the causes of this sudden transgender explosion Norman Tebbit 23.10.17

Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria Lisa Marchiano 06.10.17

NHS pressured our kids to change sex Daily Mail 3.10.17

Treatments for gender identity issues among Scottish children are soaring  Sunday Herald 02.10.17

Buying time or arresting development? The dilemma of administering hormone blockers in trans children and adolescents Guido Giovanarti, Porto Biomedical Journal Volume 2, Issue 5, September–October 2017

What about the children who said they were transgender – and then changed their minds? Jo Bartosch 14.09.17

What happened when a primary school went gender-neutral Telegraph 15.08.17

Common Threads And Narratives of Transgender Children And What This Means For Our Lesbian And Gay Populations Miranda Yardley 09.08.17

How 800 children as young as 10 have been given sex change drugs Mail on Sunday 30.07.17

Nearly 2,000 children referred for help with gender identity The Times 29.7.17 (paywall)

UK doctor prescribing cross-sex hormones to children as young as 12 The Guardian 11.07.16

Number of children being referred to gender identity clinics quadrupled in five years The Telegraph 08.07.17

Schools accused of ‘sowing confusion’ in children’s minds by over-promoting transgender issues Telegraph 23.06.17

Desistance: The missing piece in the conversation about ‘transgender kids’ Jesse Singal 06.02.17

Drug used to halt puberty in children may cause lasting health problems Stat News site 02.02.17

The Conservative Gendered Stereotyping of Children, Radical Feminism and transgenderism Louise Pennington 28.05.17

How Conversion Therapy Bans Will Trap Transgender Children Marcus Gregory 11.05.17

Why I’m raising my kids to know their sex, not their gender J.J. Barnes 08.05.17

Popularity of tomboys is encouraging girls to swap gender, says NHS psychologist Telegraph 08.05.17

Minority of children with gender issues diagnosed with gender dysphoria Brisbane Courier-Mail 08.04.17

Time For Parents To Resist Transgender Activism Emily Zinos 01.02.17

14-year-old girl surgically mutilated for “gender” in California Stop Transing Kids blog 05.04.16

Do trans kids stay trans when they grow up? Dr James Cantor 11.01.2016

When Transgender Kids Transition, Medical Risks are Both Known and Unknown Frontline 30.06.15

Eugenics and the practice of transgendering children Sheila Jeffreys 07.11.11

Personal stories

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10 painful things I learned when my daughter transitioned Monica Rose 04.05.20

Video: Trans: Lesley’s Story 03.02.20

Video: Trans: Sarah’s Story Douglas Murray talks about an American parent’s experience of being led down the trans path by her demanding daughter 25.02.20

A physician is worried about gender transition in pediatrics Julian Mason 07.10.19

7-year-old stands up for transgender rights Chicago Parent 01.10.19

My daughter thinks she’s transgender. Her public school undermined my efforts to help her USA Today 12.08.19

Living in trans bubble increased my social anxiety Thomasin Pick 03.08.18

5-year-old with gender dysphoria ‘upset she won’t be able to grow baby in belly’ Mirror 31.03.19

I Have Gender Dysphoria. But your Trans-Identified Child May Not Todd Whitworth 07.03.19

A Letter To Young Trans People Leanne Mills 16.01.19

Britain’s first two-generation transgender family open up about abuse Mail 13.01.19

One parent’s story: the school was already calling her ‘him’ The Sunday Times 25.11.18

A mum’s voyage through Transtopia: A tale of love and desistance by Lily Maynard  17.12.16

A parent’s story – Charlotte GIDS

Baptised in Fire: A relieved desister’s story 4thWaveNow

Born in the right body: interview with Brie Jontry, the mother of a teenage desister 4thWaveNow

Call the Police! Mom questions transgender treatment model, gets banned from support group 4thWaveNow

‘Children just need to be loved,’ parents say after transgender son’s suicide Alabama News Site

‘Do You Want a Happy Little Girl or a Dead Little Boy?’: My Choice as a Mother  DeShanna Neal

Family where mum is daddy, dad is mummy and son, 4, is being raised as gender neutral Daily Mirror

FTMTF LadyAntiTheist (see screenshot right)

From Blue to Pink – When the Trans Virus strikes home Feudal Times blog

Grandmother and Grandson Victims of Gender Ideology (Video interview)

He gave birth. He breastfed. Now, he wants his son to see him as a man CNN

Hitting Peak Trans and Becoming a Minority of One Gender Critical Dad

I Had 4 Boys — Until One of Them Told Me She Was Really a Girl Good Housekeeping

I was an eight-year-old drag queen Chad Felix Greene

Kai was born a girl but knew he was a boy by age of 3 The Sun

Mother lets transgender son, 6, live as a girl Metro UK

My daughter is not transgender. She’s a tomboy Lisa Selin Davis

Ohio Judge Holds Transgender Teen’s Identity ‘Hostage’ Daily Beast

Raising a non-binary child: ‘As long as one of the side-effects wasn’t death, it was the right way’ The Guardian

These fathers are fighting for their trans kids too Outsmart magazine

Transgender girl, 10, launches campaign to spread awareness of equal rights two years after she began her transition The Mirror

Transgender teen told his mum he was going to have a sex change aged six The Mirror

12-year-old describes growing up transgender New Hampshire News Site

We Still Have a Son and Daughter — Just Not the Way We Expected Good Housekeeping

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There are many more personal stories at 4thWaveNow.

What on earth is happening to the Girl Guides?

‘I will not put my girls in that organisation’: How a trans crisis engulfed Girlguiding The Telegraph 06.08.22

Girlguiding ‘tied itself in knots’ over trans rights The Sunday Times 24.04.22

Girlguiding leader sacked in trans row may rejoin The Times 21.04.22

Girl guides probe into trans Commissioner’s ‘dominatrix-style’ picture Mail 23.11.21

WTF are Girlguiding thinking? The Glinner Update 22.11.21

Girl Guides leader to sue bosses who expelled her for objecting to policy which admits children born as boys Telegraph 04.08.19

Twitter thread by @MsHelenWatts: “Yesterday, @Girlguiding emailed all its leaders advising them of the new trans policy…” 12.11.18

Girl Guide leader says was SPIED on then SACKED for daring to say her young women shouldn’t share tents or showers with potentially predatory men Mail 30.09.18

The saga of Girlguiding UK and the Equality Act exemptions Legal Feminist 27.09.18

Ban for Girl Guides who identify as boys Times 27.09.18

Girl Guide leaders expelled for questioning trans policy Times 23.09.18

Video: Helen Watts speaking at WPUK meeting in Liverpool 25th September 2018

Articles about ITV Drama ‘Butterfly’

About an early adolescent boy who wants to ‘transition’ to being a girl Tasmanian Times 03.02.19

Too young to decide? Questions dividing real-life Butterfly families Observer 03.11.18

Trans drama Butterfly is rejection and sexism dressed up as social justice TV Sarah Ditum 27.10.18

Butterfly: A Mermaid’s Tale Transgender Trend 14.10.18

Butterfly – a view from the cocoon Lily Maynard 14.10.18

Parents’ fury at Anna Friel’s ‘one-sided’ transgender drama Butterfly that ‘encourages children to swap gender’ Mail 14.10.18

Butterfly: Teen transgender drama ‘inflates suicide risk’ Sunday Times 14.10.18

TV Documentary: Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?

A fascinating and, in my opinion, well-balanced BBC documentary giving both sides of the argument. It was pulled from the viewing schedule at very short notice by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It can currently be viewed here.

Related pieces:

Dr. Zucker Defied Trans Orthodoxy. Now He’s Vindicated National Review 25.10.18

How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired Jesse Singal

“Intellectual no-platforming”: Ken Zucker pushes back on the latest attempt to discredit desistance-persistence research 4th Wave Now 30.04.15

Transgender Kids: why doctors are right to be cautious about childhood transition Sarah Ditum New Statesman

Statistics faulty on how many trans- kids grow up to stay trans?  Dr James Cantor

CBC’s decision against airing Transgender Kids doc should leave everyone unsettled Dr Debra Soh

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