The Scottish government published new guidance this week that allows schoolchildren of any age to “change” their “gender” without telling parents.
The document tells teachers to keep such a “change” a secret; informing parents might “harm” the child.
Result: A boy as young as four years old, the age when some kids start school in Scotland, can announce that he’s a girl. Teachers and school administrators must agree and “support” him.
“Transgender” madness, it seems, knows no end.
“At Any Age”
The 70-page report, Supporting Transgender Pupils In Schools: Guidance for Scottish Schools, regurgitates the usual “transgender” propaganda about “gender neutrality” and “transphobic bullying.”
But key passages show that the schools will align against parents and permit children, who might be either confused or mentally ill, to decide to change “gender” without telling parents.
“Transgender people may come out at any age and to varying degrees: some people want to live fully as themselves in all aspects of life,” the document says. “Others may want to come out to just a few trusted people. It is important to understand that.”
In keeping with that directive, “young people can simply choose to tell others informally that they want to use a different name. They don’t have to change their name on their official school record.”
Scottish Doc Page 20Name-change aside, it’s also “important to understand” that “transgendered” people are a fiction, mostly likely mentally ill. and need psychiatric help. That aside, the document’s “good practice” section contains these gems:
Scottish doc page 35• A transgender young person may not have told their family about their gender identity. Inadvertent disclosure could cause needless stress for the young person or could put them at risk and breach legal requirements. Therefore, it is best to not share information with parents or carers without considering and respecting the young person’s views and rights.
• A transgender young person may wish to change schools as part of their transition process. Their previous name does not need to be shared with the new school. It is not necessary for all staff in a receiving school to know that the young person is transgender.
Pro-Tranny Books
Unsurprisngly, the guidance recommends pro-“transgender” books to let kids know they can “change.”
One book is Red: A Crayon’s Story.
It “tells a story about a blue crayon that suffers an identity crisis because it was mistakenly labelled as red,” London’s Telegraph reported:
Another features a primary school-age narrator who says she has “a girl brain but a boy body” and claimed she knew that she was transgender as a toddler.
The character claims “pretending I was a boy felt like telling a lie” until an “amazing day” when she went to a doctor who diagnosed her as transgender.
That book is I Am Jazz.
Yet another book on the list is Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition.
“Katie Rain Hill realized very young that a serious mistake had been made; she was a girl who had been born in the body of a boy,” the Amazon promo says:
Suffocating under her peers’ bullying and the mounting pressure to be “normal,” Katie tried to take her life at the age of eight years old. After several other failed attempts, she finally understood that “Katie”—the girl trapped within her—was determined to live.
Gender Dysphoria
What “Katie Rain Hill” needed was a good headshrinker, not a “gender transition.”
Dr. Paul McHugh, distinguished psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, explains that “gender dysphoria” is a mental condition that can be treated. It “belongs in the family of similarly disordered assumptions about the body, such as anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder,” he wrote in 2015:
Its treatment should not be directed at the body as with surgery and hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction. The treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it. With youngsters, this is best done in family therapy.
Problem is, McHugh wrote, “transgender propaganda” is now widely accepted:
The idea that one’s sex is fluid and a matter open to choice runs unquestioned through our culture and is reflected everywhere in the media, the theater, the classroom, and in many medical clinics. It has taken on cult-like features: its own special lingo, internet chat rooms providing slick answers to new recruits, and clubs for easy access to dresses and styles supporting the sex change. It is doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it emerges.
So four-year-olds in Scotland can now declare they have a girl’s brain but a boy’s body and other such absurdities.
And the adults in the room will listen and agree.
Hat tip: Legal Insurrection
