Sunday Reads

There is no doubt in my mind these quack treatments trying to get people to "change sex" will eventually be outlawed for everybody, and not just for children. Libertarian "arguments" about the "right" to do whatever one wants with his or her body do not wash when the medical field is involved. They don't wash when these mentally disturbed people really need to be saved from themselves.  These "referral clinics" are complete and total garbage, almost like indoctrination centers.

It is a scandal.

At Dorothy Stringer School in Brighton, the wind of gender change is blowing hard. Hailed by Tatler magazine as the coolest state secondary in town, with a “liberal vibe” to fit its progressive catchment area, Dorothy Stringer is at the forefront of something very cool indeed.

According to the school’s “equality information report” this spring, no fewer than 40 pupils — children aged between 11 and 16 — “do not identify as [the] gender presented at birth”. A further 36 are gender-fluid, not identifying with their birth gender “all the time”.

The head teacher, Richard Bradford, said the figures, the highest yet revealed in any school in the country, were from a survey of his students by the local council. The number of “openly trans children” who had “approached us with their families to say that they are transgender [was] much lower”, he said.

Even allowing for a certain number of teenagers messing around with the survey-takers, something important is happening, both in Brighton and in Britain. Over the past five years, the number of children referred to the NHS’s specialist service for those seeking to change their gender has risen by 700%.

Reporters need to quit conflating "gender" with sex.
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