{"id":179266,"date":"2018-11-19T07:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179266"},"modified":"2018-11-22T05:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:23:11","slug":"school-has-seventeen-children-changing-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179266","title":{"rendered":"School has SEVENTEEN children changing gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Teacher says vulnerable pupils are being &#8216;tricked&#8217; into believing they are the wrong sex<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Child-Choose-Gender-Doors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-133240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Child-Choose-Gender-Doors.jpg\" alt=\"Child-Choose-Gender-Doors\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sanchez Manning \u2013 Mail on Sunday Nov 18, 2018<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An astonishing 17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Most of the youngsters undergoing the transformation are autistic, according to a teacher there, who said vulnerable children with mental health problems were being \u2018tricked\u2019 into believing they are the wrong sex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The whistleblower says few of the transgender children are suffering from gender dysphoria \u2013 the medical term for someone who feels they were born in the wrong body \u2013 but are just easily influenced, latching on to the mistaken belief they are the wrong sex as a way of coping with the problems caused by autism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Earlier this year, The Mail on Sunday revealed that a third of youngsters referred to the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\"><strong>NHS<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s only gender identity clinic for children showed \u2018moderate to severe autistic traits\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It means that 150 autistic teenagers were given puberty blocker drugs which stop the body maturing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The teacher says she felt compelled to speak out to protect pupils, many of whom she believes could already be taking the powerful drugs and may go on to have life-changing surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She believes schools and some politicians have swallowed \u2018hook, line and sinker\u2019 a politically-correct \u2018fallacy\u2019 peddled by a powerful transgender lobby.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativehome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-07.44.01-300x262.png\" alt=\"Image result for David Davis\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Following the whistleblower&#8217;s comments Conservative MP David Davies said: \u2018I congratulate this teacher for coming out and telling us what I have long suspected has been going on in schools&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She has asked The Mail on Sunday to conceal her identity for fear of dismissal after almost 20 years as a teacher, But in a shocking interview, the woman, who we shall call Carol, tells how:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She was advised to keep parents and other teachers in the dark if a pupil claimed to be transgender;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Older pupils at her school who changed gender \u2018groomed\u2019 younger, mainly autistic students to do the same;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One autistic teenager is soon to have a double mastectomy;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pupils who say they were born the wrong sex mimic transgender YouTube stars Carol believes are partly to blame for convincing vulnerable children they have gender dysphoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last night, Conservative MP David Davies said: \u2018I congratulate this teacher for coming out and telling us what I have long suspected has been going on in schools. It is horrendous that children are being encouraged by other pupils to identify as transgender, particularly if they have autism<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018Parents are not told about this and there is no way of challenging these pupils who are convinced by others that they have a problem they almost certainly do not have. Tragically the end result could be irreversible surgical procedures. This is scandalous.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The teacher, who has her own child, also believes many of those who say they are the wrong sex are simply gay but would face bullying if they were to \u2018come out\u2019. By contrast, she says, transgender children at the school are idolised by other pupils.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She has also raised concerns that many teachers are now too scared to challenge students\u2019 claims they are transgender because they fear being sacked or sued for being transphobic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 17 pupils now identifying as transgender are following in the footsteps of a teenager who has now left the school and is planning a double mastectomy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That student, who was born female, told Carol she wanted to identify as non-binary-a person \u2013 with no specific gender \u2013 in January 2014, at the age of 16 and two years after being diagnosed as autistic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After consulting with her parents, the school agreed to change the student\u2019s name on the register to one that was gender neutral. Teachers also agreed to use both male and female pronouns depending what gender the student identified as on any given day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018These pronouns could change from hour to hour depending how the student was feeling,\u2019 Carol said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol put the pupil in contact with a transgender support group but now says she bitterly regrets her handling of the case. \u2018That child was diagnosed as autistic at the age of 14 and certainly was not transgender,\u2019 she said. \u2018She had other complicated mental health problems. It is a tragedy her claim was accepted so readily. Now she is going to mutilate her body.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Over the next four years, the 17 pupils who have \u2018come out\u2019 as transgender have become powerful within the school, Carol says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They wear identical clothing and hairstyles and often adopt the names of transgender YouTube stars. She has also witnessed first-hand how older pupils have persuaded younger ones with autism that they, too, were born the wrong sex \u2013 a process she has likens to \u2018grooming\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018They are just young people with mental health problems who have found an identity and want to be part of a group of like-minded people,\u2019 she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I\u2019ve seen girls who\u2019ve changed gender groom younger ones to do the same&#8230; and in nearly every case they are autistic, says school teacher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Over an unblemished teaching career spanning two decades, Carol has devoted much of her time to the emotional and personal well-being of the pupils in her care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So when a 16-year-old student she had known for many years quietly confided that she felt trapped in the wrong body and was considering changing gender, her instinct was to take the teenager lovingly under her wing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Even though Carol knew the child had been diagnosed as autistic two years earlier, she vowed to provide the support the youngster needed to guide her through what would obviously be a difficult journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It was January 2014 and the debate over transgender rights, so supercharged today, had barely begun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The baffling array of terminology used to define various permutations of so-called \u2018gender identity\u2019 was yet to emerge and Carol admits she didn\u2019t know where to turn for help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But then, because she was in charge of pupils\u2019 pastoral care, Carol was contacted by an organisation that aimed to help transgender youngsters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The body, which Carol has asked us not to name because she fears doing so might identify her and the pupil, had recently opened a centre nearby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The student, who was born female, had insisted that she now wanted to identify as non-binary \u2013 a person with no specific gender \u2013 so Carol happily referred her to the group. But the gently spoken mother has come to bitterly regret that decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018Once she was involved with that group there was no turning back,\u2019 she says. \u2018It was decided that she was transgender and that was that, it was never challenged and I blame myself for that.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol now firmly believes that the student never suffered from gender dysphoria \u2013 the medical term for someone who feels they were born in the wrong body \u2013 but was simply autistic and should have been offered more help to cope with their emotional and social difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What makes this even more painful for Carol and is one of the reasons she has chosen to speak out today is that she has learned the girl is planning a double mastectomy as part of her gender realignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She says: \u2018That child was diagnosed as autistic at the age of 14 and certainly was not transgender \u2013 she had complicated mental health problems. It is a tragedy that now she is going to mutilate her body.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She recalls how the school did all it could to accommodate the student. After consulting with the child\u2019s parents, it agreed to change the student\u2019s name on the register to one that was gender neutral. Teachers also started to refer to them using both male and female pronouns depending what gender the student identified as on any given day. \u2018The pronouns could change from hour to hour depending how the student was feeling,\u2019 Carol said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The teen asked if she could hold an assembly to tell other pupils at the school about being transgender, but Carol blocked this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Now she understands the pupil informally \u2018educated\u2019 fellow students, which Carol suspects could have been the catalyst for a wave of \u2018copycat\u2019 cases among autistic pupils. She says the process reminds her of \u2018grooming\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Over the next four years, Carol witnessed an astonishing explosion in the number of children claiming to be transgender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In all but a very few cases, she says, the children were officially diagnosed as autistic by the local education authority. Those not formally diagnosed showed clear signs of being on the autistic spectrum, she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to Carol, nine of the 18 children she has seen identify as transgender have been diagnosed with autism while the rest had definite signs of the condition. \u2018Typically, these children are bright outsiders,\u2019 she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018I don\u2019t believe they are actually transgender. They are just young people with complex mental health issues who have found an identity and want to be part of a group of like-minded people.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to an internal report, a third of patients referred to the Tavistock Clinic, the UK\u2019s only NHS service for young people confused about their gender, have strong autistic traits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The dramatic increase in the numbers of pupils wanting to change gender coincided with a growing clamour from activists demanding more rights for transgender people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Government is now consulting on whether to allow people to change gender without medical diagnoses.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141828\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=141827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141828\" class=\"wp-image-141828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BBC-Transgender-program.jpg\" alt=\"bbc-transgender-program\" width=\"360\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2016 the BBC stirred controversy when it broadcast a program aimed at young teenagers about an 11-year-old transgender. See link<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It has sparked a furious debate about whether men who say they identify as women should be allowed into female-only spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol does not back this move but is sympathetic to transgender people. She said: \u2018If a child genuinely has gender dysphoria then of course they should get all the love and support they need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But I believe that autistic children who are not transgender are being exploited by the transgender lobby. They are being brainwashed into believing they are transgender.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She said what was most worrying is some of them could be taking strong \u2018puberty blocker\u2019 drugs that interrupt physical development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They do this without the knowledge of their parents and without medical supervision, even though the chemicals \u2018could give them serious health problems later in life\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The school, the location of which Carol has asked to keep secret, has 17 pupils who claim they are transgender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The majority are girls who claim to be \u2018non-binary\u2019 or \u2018identify\u2019 as boys and a small number of boys who identify as girls. She says they are often bright students who are likeable and popular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Other girls flock to them as if they are teen idols and some go on dates with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It seems, Carol says, as if being transgender is in fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol describes how some of the more outspoken transgender children police language and behaviour, often accusing teachers and fellow pupils of \u2018misgendering\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Offence is caused by the use of an incorrect pronoun or by failing to acknowledge a student\u2019s new gender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last year, this newspaper revealed how a teacher in Oxfordshire faced professional misconduct charges when he \u2018accidentally\u2019 called a transgender pupil a \u2018girl\u2019 when the student identifies as a boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol says: \u2018I was discussing the topic of menstruation during a class recently and was called out by one of the pupils who now identifies as a boy for failing to say that boys can have periods too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course they can\u2019t and it sounds like a joke but a lot of teachers are terrified of making a slip-up.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol said in the current climate she would \u2018not dare\u2019 suggest to a pupil who said they were \u2018trans\u2019 that they may be mistaken. \u2018If there was a complaint, I could be dismissed.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She says transgender pupils tend to convert in \u2018clusters\u2019 of two or three around the age of 14 and in a very uniform manner: wearing their hair in a quiff and dyeing it blue, black or blond, and starting to wear large round glasses, Dr Martens boots, donkey jackets and tight trousers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018I would guess they must all be wearing chest binders [to flatten the breasts] and I was told of one girl who was padding her underwear to make it look like she had a penis.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite there being such a large number of transgender children in the school, Carol says there is little guidance from the Department for Education or senior staff on how to handle them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Her union directed her to transgender support group Mermaids, whose online advice warns teachers not to tell parents when a pupil wants to change sex unless \u2018there is a safeguarding issue\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol said: \u2018In my view there is always a safeguarding issue \u2013 particularly when you know that child has underlying mental health problems. Surely every parent has a right to know. Advice to keep it a secret breaks the No 1 rule about child protection.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mermaids were unavailable for comment last night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol says transgender pupils at her school sometimes adopt the names of trans YouTubers who have found fame online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There have been times when a group of pupils who are identifying as boys all use the same name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some internet celebrities have been accused of influencing younger children to think they are transgender when they are not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In one video, popular star Alex Bertie tells a young person who said they were \u2018confused\u2019 and \u2018didn\u2019t feel trans enough\u2019 that they were \u2018repressing\u2019 their transgender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol believes that many of the girls who come out as transgender are, in fact, lesbian. They date other girls who are both trans and non-trans, she reveals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018From talking to these girls, the thought of being a heterosexual female is terrifying for them, but being known as a lesbian is also unpalatable, so they become transgender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I think as lesbians they would face more bullying but as transgender children they almost become popular.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The attraction, she says, is that by becoming trans these socially awkward children who have struggled to find acceptance suddenly see their popularity rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018They have girls flocking around them like handmaidens because they look like pretty little boys,\u2019 she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018They mirror teenage fantasies, resembling popstars like Justin Bieber. These trans kids actually become quite powerful in the school.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She adds that one of the most worrying ways these pupils exercise their newfound power is by influencing younger children, \u2018who are nearly always autistic\u2019, to think they, too, are transgender, which reminds her of grooming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol told of how distressed children would come to her and say they are trans, explaining to her: \u2018I was feeling very lost, but [an older transgender student] found me crying in the corridor and helped me understand who I truly am.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Her concerns come amid growing alarm over the surge in the number of teenage girls wanting to change gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More than 1,000 were referred for treatment this year compared to just 40 in 2010. Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt has ordered an investigation into why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Carol says: \u2018I\u2019m now so alarmed by the force of the transgender agenda that I\u2019m not sure how muchlonger I can go on for, as I can no longer be honest with the students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018We are being dictated to by groups who don\u2019t know these kids, to make decisions that are harmful to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And we are giving children a huge amount of agency to make decisions when what they need are boundaries to make them feel safe and secure. It feels as if we are walking into a nightmare.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">In 20 years we&#8217;ll look back on the rush to change our children&#8217;s sex as one of the darkest chapters in medicine, says psychotherapist BOB WITHERS<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Let me be absolutely clear: I am in no doubt there are people who feel they are one gender while having the body of the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Living with such constant, internal conflict is horrifying for many of those affected, and it should never be ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No one should seek to suppress another person\u2019s genuinely held sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But the question we must ask ourselves today is this \u2013 how do we decide whose needs are genuine? And how, then, should we treat them?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_179268\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/The_Tavistock_Centre_s_Gender_Identity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179268\" class=\"wp-image-179268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/The_Tavistock_Centre_s_Gender_Identity.jpg\" alt=\"Since 2011, specialists at The Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in London have seen more than 1,000 under-18s. Is it a coincidence that The Tavistock Centre was actually developed alongside its twin the Tavistock Institute, which is involved in mind control and social engineering? Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/The_Tavistock_Centre_s_Gender_Identity.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/The_Tavistock_Centre_s_Gender_Identity-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-179268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since 2011, specialists at The Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in London have seen more than 1,000 under-18s. Is it a coincidence that The Tavistock Centre was actually developed alongside its twin the Tavistock Institute, which is involved in mind control and social engineering? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I have been a psychotherapist for more than 30 years and, in that time, I have worked with a small but significant number of patients who wished to change gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For everyone\u2019s sake, I believe that surgery \u2013 which is irreversible \u2013 should only ever be a last resort. We should always begin by working to help the mind fit better with the body before we start altering the body to fit the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yet in today\u2019s NHS, professionals are enabling hundreds \u2013 possibly thousands \u2013 of teenagers to have major surgery to change their gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is being done, almost unchallenged, in the name of transgender rights. But in 20 years\u2019 time, I believe we will look back on this folly as one of the darkest periods in the history of modern medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We will question why we failed to challenge their belief that they were born in the \u2018wrong\u2019 bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We will ask why we so readily ignored the clanging alarm bells that many were autistic, or had mental health problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What we are faced with today is extremely worrying. While 17 children are transitioning in one secondary school, be in no doubt \u2013 it is almost certainly being repeated in other schools. What is happening is this: we are bringing up a generation of children who have quite complex mental health issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Identifying as trans can feel like a way to explain that suffering. Rather than understanding where it might be coming from \u2013 feeling lonely or isolated, being bullied, having an autistic spectrum disorder or struggling with any number of issues from sexuality to abuse to self-harm \u2013 we are allowing them to change sex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s a lazy and damaging solution and one which NHS professionals, teachers, politicians and the law are all too eager to embrace to signal their progressive views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2015, I published a prize- winning but controversial paper examining whether therapy could replace some patients\u2019 perceived need for surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Personally, I believe that as a society we should celebrate gender variance. Some of my patients have been able to live creatively with the mismatch between their mind and body. Where that isn\u2019t possible \u2013 and where a patient is obviously suffering \u2013 we should always do something about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yet the debate on this issue has been silenced by transgender activists who label as \u2018transphobic\u2019 anyone who dares to challenge their dogma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This blind adherence to ideology has real, dangerous consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In my field, for example, many psychotherapists are now afraid to properly question a patient who identifies as trans: afraid to explore their past, ask questions of their sexuality, or look into their mental health. They won\u2019t go there, for fear of being struck off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One major problem in today\u2019s blinkered reality is that, if you don\u2019t \u2018affirm\u2019 a patient\u2019s claim to be transgender, you can run the risk of being accused of practising \u2018conversion therapy\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Conversion therapy is the practice of trying to convince a homosexual person that they are really straight. It\u2019s abhorrent, and is rightly banned. Now, powerful bodies including the NHS and major counselling organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding \u2013 an agreement on how to practise \u2013 which extends the definition of conversion therapy to cover patients who might be transgender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And this well-meaning memorandum is being used by trans activists to stop therapists, psychologists and others from asking rigorous questions about whether or not a patient does, in fact, have genuine \u2018gender dysphoria\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A therapist might have good cause to believe that the trans-identifying teenage boy in front of them hates his body because he was abused as a child and feels vulnerable. But they can\u2019t explore that possibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They might spot a pattern of several schoolgirls saying they are trans, after witnessing a peer transformed from social non-entity to social butterfly after identifying as a trans-boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The attraction of popularity should not be overlooked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yet none of these possibilities can now be safely raised by psychotherapists, psychiatrists or teachers. Recently, 650 trans activists signed a letter published in Therapy Today, the house magazine of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, calling on anyone not practising \u2018affirmation therapy\u2019 to be booted out. If the Government presses ahead with plans to allow people to \u2018self- identify\u2019 as whatever gender they like, without external validation, I fear that would strengthen the hand of those arguing for trans-affirmative therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But in my view, to avoid asking such probing questions of patients who claim to be trans \u2013 especially teenagers \u2013 is a cowardly dereliction of our duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We abdicate our responsibility if we simply become their Yes men, just passing them on to the next stage of the sex-change process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The danger is that, once on the medical pathway which leads to a sex change, it\u2019s very hard to get off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Youngsters referred to the Gender Identity Development Service run by The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London undergo just six sessions to assess whether or not they are trans. Several members of staff have told me they are quietly appalled that, too often, no psychotherapy is offered before they start medical treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They are then given \u2018puberty blocker\u2019 drugs which halt physical developments \u2013 powerful medicines not even licensed for transgender treatment which we know can weaken the bones, perhaps for life. There is little long-term data on their safety yet the NHS routinely hands them out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Then most will receive cross-sex hormones, which carry their own risks. Giving testosterone to females, for instance, can raise the risk of ovarian cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Exactly how many make the full surgical transition to the \u2018opposite\u2019 sex is unclear. Whether it brings lasting happiness is even less so. Short-term studies, usually conducted soon after surgery, suggest patients are immediately happier. But the few long-term studies that exist paint a different picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One, which followed men who had transitioned to be women for 15 to 20 years after surgery, showed they had a 20-times higher risk of suicide than others matched for age, social class and mental health problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On YouTube, some transsexuals are now posting videos warning young people not to go ahead with reassignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The backlash has begun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It surely can\u2019t be long before more difficult questions will be asked by a new generation. They will ask why nobody stopped them, told them treatment could destroy their sex life \u2013 or warned them that it would make them infertile and might not make them happy after all. They might also have lawyers asking the same questions, eyeing millions of pounds in compensation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We need some honesty now, free from political correctness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Otherwise, we are heading towards catastrophe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6401593\/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher warns that vulnerable pupils are being \u2018brainwashed\u2019 into believing they are transgender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind_control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179270,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179266\/revisions\/179270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}