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  A Church of England primary school has justified secretly teaching 8-year-old children that they can be born in the wrong body and encouraged the idea that 3-year-olds can declare themselves as ‘non-binary’ to their parents. Parents, Calvin and Nicola Watts, who are being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, have been forced to remove their children from St Michael’s Church of England primary school in Tenterden, Kent, after discovering that their 8-year-old child and classmates were being given extreme teaching on gender identity. Following parental complaints, however, the school, whose website states that it is ‘proud of its Christian values’ justified the teaching based on the Church of England (CofE’s) own guidance, ‘Valuing All God’s Children’. It also did not rule out showing similar content to children in the future. The family was alerted by other parents that a video of ‘It feels good to be yourself: a book about gender identity’, by Theresa Thorn, had been shown ...

At first I was giddy for the fresh start. But hormones and sex change genital surgery couldn't solve the underlying issues driving my gender dysphoria. I started my transgender journey as a 4-year-old boy when my grandmother repeatedly, over several years, cross-dressed me in a full-length purple dress she made especially for me and told me how pretty I was as a girl. This planted the seed of gender confusion and led to my transitioning at age 42 to transgender female. I lived as “Laura” for eight years, but, as I now know, transitioning doesn’t fix the underlying ailments. Studies show that most people who want to live as the opposite sex have other psychological issues , such as depression or anxiety. In my case, I was diagnosed at age 40 with gender dysphoria and at age 50 with psychological issues due to childhood trauma. Eventually, my parents found out, and my unsupervised visits to Grandma’s house ended. I thought my secret was safe, but my teenage uncle heard about...

In the fall of 2017, I was privileged to spend 10 days with Walt Heyer, a man who had  undergone sex reassignment surgery and, after eight years of living as “Laura,” experienced regret and detransitioned, reverting to being himself  – Walt – once and for all.     Walt and I were in Hong Kong to address a symposium at the University of Hong Kong concerning what is at stake regarding the twin cultural threats of transgenderism and same-sex marriage , now looming in the cosmopolitan  – but still deeply rooted-in-tradition – city state . During those 10 days, it seemed like every time Walt pulled his iPhone out of his pocket he had a new text or email from someone, somewhere in the world who had had second thoughts about “ transitioning ,” and was now desperately searching for help to undo the harm they had done to body and psyche. In our politically correct world where pointing out the harms of “transitioning” is not only frowned upon but is i...

This week, a major new report from the scholars Dr. Lawrence B. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh demonstrates how far our views on gay and transgender issues are shifting from scientific reality, as well as common sense.  The simple fact is that sexual orientation, while not necessarily chosen, is not genetically determined (for otherwise identical twins would share the same orientation which, we know, they do not). We aren’t merely “born that way.” The mystery of sexual desire has not yet been pierced by scientific knowledge. Even worse for the Left’s ideology, their research shows that we do not have any solid evidence of the mental-health benefits of hormonal or surgical gender reassignment for adults, much less for children.  But what really shocked me is that we have no evidence of the relative physical risks and benefits of these long-term powerful medical interventions. We are experimenting on our own children — and in the case of public schools now encouragin...

Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, who has studied transgendered people for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men.” All such people, he explained in an article for The Witherspoon Institute , “become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’” Dr. McHugh , who was psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years, the medical institute that had initially pioneered sex-change surgery – and later ceased the practice – stressed that the cultural meme, or idea that “one’s sex is fluid and a matter of choice” is extremely damaging, especially to young people. “I am ever trying to be the boy among the bystanders who points to what’s real,” said Dr. McHugh, who is also professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Scien...

When asked by Guardian Australia for clarification after Thursday’s remark, Giles said the context at the NTCoss was about bullying. “But the context tonight was about: do you support grooming kids in their sexuality. I do not support that and that component of the Safe Schools program will not be brought into the Northern Territory while I’m there.” “The Country Liberals will not be supporting the sexuality component of the Safe Schools program but we will support anti-bullying,” he said. Gunner told the forum a Labor government would introduce the Safe Schools program or similar, to address the high rates of suicide in the Northern Territory. He said he did not share concerns voiced elsewhere about the content of the program and its related materials. Speaking after the debate, Gunner said the Territory’s children needed certainty and looking after. “As a leader of our community we need to make sure vulnerable kids in our schools are safe from bullying. We know one of the tragic ...

“Gender dysphoria” (GD) is a condition in which a person may feel unhappy with his or her biological sex, express a desire to be the opposite sex, or even insist that he or she is of the opposite sex from what his or her genes and anatomy indicate. People who choose to adopt a “gender identity” different from their biological sex are known as “transgender.” This condition is increasingly being identified not merely in adults, but even in very young, pre-pubescent children. The American College of Pediatricians (an organization formed as an alternative to the larger and more liberal American Academy of Pediatrics), has now released an important paper on “Gender Dysphoria in Children.” It provides a significant medical and scientific counterweight to the growing ideology that demands affirmation of “transgender” identities—even in children. I encourage those interested to read the College’s press release and the full study . For those wanting a brief summary, however, here are fiv...