have acquiesced. Yet teachers are not clinicians, nor are they there to diagnose children. Do they understand what they are doing? The entire narrative around trans children has been imported from America but it is breaking apart.
Breaking apart here, maybe. In America, I think, not so much. And we still don't know how the next Labour government will deal with this. Starmer is already under huge pressure from the left – notably at the moment over Gaza. Can he afford to battle them on gender stuff as well? It's clear enough that he doesn't have any firm personal beliefs here: he'll just do what he thinks will make life easier. All the more reason then to establish firm principles on protecting children from the gender cult before Labour comes to power.
Now is the time to step back and ask ourselves how we got here. The trans child is a manifestation of a recent story that the culture has told itself. This is a story of social contagion combined with the genuine distress of mostly young girls.
Children cannot be blamed for acting out but the adults who have encouraged this, while patting themselves on the back for their progressive views, still need to be challenged. Cass is but the start.
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