Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has briefed the press on the release of the government’s ‘Transgender Guidance’ for schools.
According to the Mail, the long overdue ‘transgender’ guidance will introduce a presumption against young people altering their names, pronouns, and uniforms within classroom settings.
The guidance for head teachers is due to be published before Christmas. It will make it clear that sports teams, changing rooms and lavatories must be single-sex. A boy who opts to identify as a girl will not be able to enter the girls’ facilities or play in a girls’ team.
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Flawed Guidance
The Government’s introduction of this guidance is a positive step forward. Nonetheless, a notable concern arises with the anticipated guidelines. Under the new restrictions, pupils would have the ability to identify as the opposite gender in extremely restricted circumstances, subject to parental consent.
The guidance looks very much like a compromise between the anti-trans (up to a point) Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch and the more pro-trans Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.
In a statement, Kemi Badenoch said: ‘ The guidance will also ensure that parents are informed if their children tell staff they want to change their gender identity because many schools are keeping them in the dark.’
The Biblical position is that parental consent on the issue of gender should not be on the table in the first place. It should be made clear that social transitioning is not the answer to children or adolescent going through puberty or experiencing emotional challenges. We are the sex we are born.
The Bible says,
Isaiah 45:9-10 Woe to him who strives with his Maker!… Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’
Dangers of changing genders
So many regrets are now emerging from teenagers who went through ‘gender-reassignment surgery, thinking a vain attempt to change their gender would solve all their problems. A girl referred to a transgender clinic said she felt like a “mutilated experiment gone wrong,” after undergoing a double mastectomy.
Meanwhile, some of these children did not live to tell the story. A 16-year-old boy who had “vaginoplasty” surgery in a vain attempt to “change his gender” died from an infection, according to Dutch researchers. Logically, this mutilation is neither necessary nor godly. It is a perversion of medicine.
Further, a heartbroken father took legal action against the national health service(NHS) to protect his child and to stop surgeons from performing sex-change surgery on his “vulnerable” autistic son.
Children should be allowed to go through normal stages of growth without medical intervention that will ruin their lives completely. Those who are well do not need a physician.
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Make the guidance clear
The Government and the entire Equalities team ought to make this guidance crystal clear. Telling schools that children cannot change sex, but can make decisions ‘on their gender identity’, whilst correctly applying the Equality Act and the Gender Recognition Act is utterly confusing.
Also, the statement added that schools must also abide by the rules of ‘Gillick competence’, which state whether a child is old enough to consent to medical treatment.
What happened to putting an end to this gender propaganda once and for all, and let children focus on education? What happened to Rishi Sunak’s statement at his party conference that a man cannot be a woman? We are still in the Politics of Absurdity.
The Bible says,
Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Common sense guidance
Executive director of the Sex Matters campaign group, Maya Forstater, said: ‘It is a relief that the long-awaited guidance is coming out and that it will rule out most aspects of social transition clearly.’
But she warned that the guidance will be confusing for schools, because it is not clear what is now meant by social transitioning. ‘It is time for common sense guidance,’ she said.
‘The Government should make clear to head teachers that every child is born male or female, and that this does not change however they feel or act and whatever clothes they wear or words they use about themselves.
‘Schools cannot meaningfully accommodate ‘social transition’ which means pretending that a boy is a girl or a girl is a boy, including by calling them ‘he’ or ‘she’ or applying different rules than to other girls or boys. It is not safe or fair on any of the children,’ she said.
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Apologies, this is a bit late but here is something I wrote to a CV supporter about the current situation.
Christmas greetings and thank you for your message of encouragement.
I have been thinking about the whole issue of why the church will not preach about the disasters going on all around us. Surely it must be obvious to these leaders and people in churches that what is happening is not normal, a satanic agenda, possibly the end times with Jesus returning soon, as in, very soon?
It led me to consider what Jesus was teaching and saying. The message of the church has got to be more than just ‘God is love’. Jesus said ‘Salt that has lost its flavour is fit for nothing’ and ‘no one hides a light’. Light in Jesus’ time was only made through fire of some kind therefore the church must be salt and fiery light.
It easy to be salt and light, just state the evils of the RSE, pro-gay, trans agenda and add mass abortion as well. This is the failing of the current church which is heading for disaster, it is not going into a time of blessing but judgment(another thing they never mention).
The lockdown was a test from God which the UK church, in general, failed. I am not even sure it has repented of the sin of lockdown, therefore the judgments of God will roll forward against the UK church, those that failed to resist the satanic lockdown.
However, for the true, remnant church, there will be a time of blessing, possibly huge blessing, as God pours out onto them in response to the outpouring of wickedness by satan. The church we go to is preaching that 2024 is ‘the year of the double’ . It is also a leap year, so we need to discern what this means for the true, remnant church. I wonder if it means God will leap forward the work of the true church; what about we will leap over the evil coming at us?
The only way around this is 2Chr 7:14, ‘If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and heal the land’.