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What is SUE’s motivation for producing this pamphlet, as part of a series looking at failures in Scottish education?

In the Forward to the pamphlet, Penny Lewis argues that Scottish education is being used as a tool of indoctrination.

There is no subject area in which the process of indoctrination in Scottish schools is more clearly expressed than on the question of gender. Many teachers and pupils do not accept transgender ideology. They do not subscribe to the idea that a child can be ‘born in the wrong body’ or that men can choose to use women’s toilets if they ‘identify’ as a woman.

Nevertheless, Scottish government policy insists that teachers and pupils participate in ‘transgender fiction’. This can be through teachers ‘socially transitioning’ a child or adolescent who claims to be the opposite gender (sex) or no gender – following government guidance on supporting ‘transgender’ pupils and unquestioningly using their preferred name and pronouns; or through the presentation of a transgender identity as reality: referring to ‘trans children’ in Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) Education; and the celebration of adult transgender (transsexual) role models and icons in LGBT Inclusive Education.

Transgender activists know that most adults and parents do not buy the notion that you can change into a ‘trans’ individual through the administration of hormones (puberty blockers and cross sex hormones) and by having mastectomies or being castrated – in order to pass as the opposite sex. So activists direct their gender ideology towards children (particularly vulnerable children, with mental health conditions, autism and social problems, for example) and towards adolescents, who are susceptible to social contagions (like anorexia or self-harming – and now the social craze of gender transitioning).

The Scottish government are culpable for facilitating social transitioning, which almost invariably leads to minors seeking medical gender transitioning; for opening up schools to the direct influence of LGBT Youth Scotland; and for saturating the curriculum with gender ideology through LGBT Inclusive Education. It has framed its guidance on supporting ‘trans’ pupils, LGBT Inclusive Education and RSHP Education in terms of ‘children’s rights’ – a cover for following an activist adult agenda.

Lewis points out that the embedding of transgender ideology in the curriculum and the promotion of social transitioning in schools (often without parents’ knowledge) has had a ‘disastrous impact’ on the relationships between parents and schools. SUE’s ambitions for the pamphlet are to make parents more aware of the dangers facing their children and to strengthen the resolve of parents and concerned education staff to challenge government-led transgender indoctrination.

Chapters

1. Invoking ‘children’s rights’ & eroding parental authority

2. When peddling a lie causes harm to all and undermines our education system

3. Revised government guidance: time for educational professionals to start exercising judgement

4. Pernicious puberty blocker trial: social contagion is at the root of a medical scandal

5. Time for Inclusive Education (TIE): implementing LGBT Inclusive Education & insulating it from criticism and parental concern

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