May 11, 2023 - 10:15am
The Care Inspectorate, the body responsible for regulating and inspecting care services across Scotland, has published guidance for children and young people’s services on “the inclusion of transgender including non-binary young people”. It has provoked a strong backlash from groups concerned about the impact of gender identity theory within the caring profession.
The document, drafted with controversial group LGBT Youth Scotland and issued to bodies that look after highly vulnerable children, demands an uncritical approach to those questioning their identity. Care staff are advised not to discuss youngsters’ feelings or suggest they might be going through “a phase”. Instead, they are told to immediately adopt preferred pronouns and “be supportive”.
The care watchdog makes clear that the perceived reality of a child must always be endorsed. One paragraph in the guidance says kids aged 12 and above can be “presumed to have sufficient capacity to make decisions about medical treatment”, and advises that they can be sent to the Sandyford Gender Service in Glasgow, which provides hormones and sex change surgery.
The guidance includes cases of young people who have already been helped to transition by care staff. One example positively portrays a young woman who had her breasts removed via “chest reconstruction surgery”. In a wider context where detransitioners are describing their deep regret and trauma after opting for irreversible surgeries, many will find this alarming.
Another example involves a teenager supported through “transition” by professionals, despite family members being “unsure” about it. Similar to controversial schools’ guidance produced by the Scottish Government, the Care Inspectorate tells professionals they can keep a child or young person’s new identity secret, and even choose not to document information.
Dissent doesn’t appear to be an option. The guidance states that staff must be “proactive in developing an inclusive culture and practice” by displaying posters and celebrating Trans Awareness Week. They are advised to wear rainbow lanyards, introduce themselves with “their own pronouns”, and adopt “gender-inclusive language” that erases sex. Conscientious objection isn’t mentioned once.
Care professionals have expressed alarm. Maggie Mellon, an independent social worker and chair of the Evidence-Based Social Work Alliance, told me that her organisation will be lodging a formal complaint.
“The Care Inspectorate has failed to gather or consider evidence that did not support the views and practices it is now promoting,” she warned. “Children cannot give informed consent to treatment and processes that have lifelong consequences, including infertility and lack of sexual function. The Care Inspectorate exists to protect the vulnerable and promote the highest standards of practice, not promote harmful ideology. It must scrap this dangerous, un-evidenced guidance.”
Other experts have also hit out at the Care Inspectorate for endorsing the “affirmation model” decried in the Cass Review of England’s gender identity clinic, the Tavistock, last year. David Bell, a consultant psychiatrist who became a whistleblower at Tavistock, described the watchdog’s guidance as a “significant failure of safeguarding”.
Bell told the Telegraph there is “now considerable evidence that just affirming children is harmful”, and raised particular concerns about the impact of children in the care system who can “have a history of abuse, trauma, depression and major family issues”. He went on, “Just referring to them as trans and sending them off down a medical pathway risks causing them more harm”.
Earlier in the week Dr Antony Latham, Chair of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, also expressed concerns about trans treatments, stressing that at least 80% of young people who present with dysphoria will, in time, “become comfortable with their biological sex”. He added, “We are seeing more young people de-transitioning […] This is a medical scandal”.
With growing alarm about the impact of ideology being promoted in Scotland’s institutions, especially on vulnerable children, the silence from the country’s political class is deafening.
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SubscribeI fail to be surprised at anything coming out of Scotland right now. Disgusted -yes; surprised – no.
I fail to be surprised at anything coming out of Scotland right now. Disgusted -yes; surprised – no.
I worked with one of the very first transitioned people in the UK – now a pensioner – she was sad, anxious, and regretful. She did not feel natural, and felt that she’d been let down and mislead by the surgeon’s ambition and false promises. No doubt, the heaviness of such stories (the shame), along with the Mermaid thought police, prevent such outcomes being known.
It’s always difficult to know how many people regret what they have done, especially if they pushed hard for it. People rarely like to admit that they were wrong in their decisions, and in particular, in the case of transitioning, they do not want to be castigated by those who, just a short time ago, were their cheer-leaders. It is probably very hard, too, to accept what they have done to themselves, it is so awful that they need to keep telling themselves that it was all for the best – keep saying “I am happy” and then perhaps it will come true. If more support were available for those wishing to de-transition, then perhaps more would pop their heads above the parapit.
Detransitioners also face abuse from the activist trans crowd.
Detransitioners also face abuse from the activist trans crowd.
It’s always difficult to know how many people regret what they have done, especially if they pushed hard for it. People rarely like to admit that they were wrong in their decisions, and in particular, in the case of transitioning, they do not want to be castigated by those who, just a short time ago, were their cheer-leaders. It is probably very hard, too, to accept what they have done to themselves, it is so awful that they need to keep telling themselves that it was all for the best – keep saying “I am happy” and then perhaps it will come true. If more support were available for those wishing to de-transition, then perhaps more would pop their heads above the parapit.
I worked with one of the very first transitioned people in the UK – now a pensioner – she was sad, anxious, and regretful. She did not feel natural, and felt that she’d been let down and mislead by the surgeon’s ambition and false promises. No doubt, the heaviness of such stories (the shame), along with the Mermaid thought police, prevent such outcomes being known.
“The care watchdog makes clear that the perceived reality of a child must always be endorsed”
So if my stick thin 12 year old daughter tells me she is fat, I must help her starve herself to death.
By Jove I think you’ve got it!
And if she thinks herself a movie star, you should be making movies and sending her to Hollywood.
And if she thinks herself a dog (our son used to tell us his highest ambition was to become a dog), well then just buy them some biscuits and chewy toys.
If she perceives that her teachers hate her, you must endorse that belief and help her to embrace her victimhood (while complaining bitterly about the biased teachers)
And If she believes that her parents are racist, White Supremacist Nazis…well, I guess you should join the Aryan Brotherhood, and paint swastikas everywhere.
The entirely ridiculous, anti-growing-up notion that we should embrace & enable a child’s perceived reality is the exactly opposite of what a parent must do. Rather we should help our children understand, accept, and negotiate truth.
Even if it would easier to play-pretend and eat lots of ice cream.
More to the point, if she’s anorexic, you must stop feeding her and tell her she needs to lose more weight. Lionel Shriver makes this point much more forcefully in an April 27 Unherd article.
https://staging.unherd.com/2023/04/is-trans-the-new-anorexia/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=ea21fb2f0f&mc_eid=1662cb385d
By Jove I think you’ve got it!
And if she thinks herself a movie star, you should be making movies and sending her to Hollywood.
And if she thinks herself a dog (our son used to tell us his highest ambition was to become a dog), well then just buy them some biscuits and chewy toys.
If she perceives that her teachers hate her, you must endorse that belief and help her to embrace her victimhood (while complaining bitterly about the biased teachers)
And If she believes that her parents are racist, White Supremacist Nazis…well, I guess you should join the Aryan Brotherhood, and paint swastikas everywhere.
The entirely ridiculous, anti-growing-up notion that we should embrace & enable a child’s perceived reality is the exactly opposite of what a parent must do. Rather we should help our children understand, accept, and negotiate truth.
Even if it would easier to play-pretend and eat lots of ice cream.
More to the point, if she’s anorexic, you must stop feeding her and tell her she needs to lose more weight. Lionel Shriver makes this point much more forcefully in an April 27 Unherd article.
https://staging.unherd.com/2023/04/is-trans-the-new-anorexia/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=ea21fb2f0f&mc_eid=1662cb385d
“The care watchdog makes clear that the perceived reality of a child must always be endorsed”
So if my stick thin 12 year old daughter tells me she is fat, I must help her starve herself to death.
Fundamental to the oxymoronish practice of so-called ‘gender affirming care’ is the conviction that gender-transition is actually real.
It is not.
One sex cannot ever…in any way at all…become the other sex. Men cannot become women, nor women, men. Transition is and always will be impossible.
“But I feel like a woman!”, the man says. This, too, is absurd. Men cannot know how a woman feels because men are, in fact, men. They can only know how men feel…and actually they can only know how they, themselves feel. Like me saying, ‘but I feel like a zebra’. ‘How do zebras feel?’, we might ask. “Well, since I feel like one, they must feel like I do!”
If logic & proportion….if reason & reality…if science…if truth… if all these things together tell us absolutely that ‘gender transition’ is unreal, then ‘gender affirming care’ can only truly be an effort expended to help the dysphoric accept the bedrock fact that their sex is unchangeable. To provide ‘gender-affirming care’ to a man who believes himself female is to help him understand that he’s not and never will be female.
But if, instead, the ‘Care Inspectorate’ (Orwell would be proud!) insists on pushing the dysphoric to reify their delusion of being other sexed, gender has not been affirmed, it’s been destroyed.
It’s bad enough to watch adults commit sexual suicide. They are adults and free to make their own choices no matter how ludicrous those choices might be.
But to watch the State, as a 21st century Mengele, consciously & deliberately & entirely self-righteously work to enable the sexual destruction of young children is horrifically perverse. This is insanity..and it must be stopped.
A logical observation.
I’ve never seen it put better!
A logical observation.
I’ve never seen it put better!
Fundamental to the oxymoronish practice of so-called ‘gender affirming care’ is the conviction that gender-transition is actually real.
It is not.
One sex cannot ever…in any way at all…become the other sex. Men cannot become women, nor women, men. Transition is and always will be impossible.
“But I feel like a woman!”, the man says. This, too, is absurd. Men cannot know how a woman feels because men are, in fact, men. They can only know how men feel…and actually they can only know how they, themselves feel. Like me saying, ‘but I feel like a zebra’. ‘How do zebras feel?’, we might ask. “Well, since I feel like one, they must feel like I do!”
If logic & proportion….if reason & reality…if science…if truth… if all these things together tell us absolutely that ‘gender transition’ is unreal, then ‘gender affirming care’ can only truly be an effort expended to help the dysphoric accept the bedrock fact that their sex is unchangeable. To provide ‘gender-affirming care’ to a man who believes himself female is to help him understand that he’s not and never will be female.
But if, instead, the ‘Care Inspectorate’ (Orwell would be proud!) insists on pushing the dysphoric to reify their delusion of being other sexed, gender has not been affirmed, it’s been destroyed.
It’s bad enough to watch adults commit sexual suicide. They are adults and free to make their own choices no matter how ludicrous those choices might be.
But to watch the State, as a 21st century Mengele, consciously & deliberately & entirely self-righteously work to enable the sexual destruction of young children is horrifically perverse. This is insanity..and it must be stopped.
Paedophilia- its in plain sight.
Unhelpful – two hyperbolic wrongs do not make a right.
You’re wrong. Wish you weren’t. Pedophilia is most definitely imbricated w/in the contemporary transactivist movement. You just haven’t followed it down the rabbit holes, where you’d find viciously violent misogynistic p*rnography that has helped destroy the s*xuality of a generation of boys and set them up for grooming by very disturbed adult men. As a GC feminist, I’ve known this for at least a decade, but check out National Review’s new series on detransitioners to learn more.
And autogynephilia–the pedophilia from the “straight” crossdressing guys–is inherently about transgressing against unwilling females via forced exhibitionism and voyeurism under the guise of “civil rights.” They routinely focus on pubescent girls (also learned via p*rnography) and openly discuss their “eggs” (their inner 12-year-old girl), have child toys over their social media, and encourage each other and literally show each other (see Only Fans accounts) to *asturbate in female changing rooms, bathrooms, and shelters. They talk about getting off on trying on lingerie. One famous pervert has written openly about how to approach pubescent girls about offering them tampons. These men fetishize maxipads and tampons and take drugs or injure themselves to create fake periods. They’re obsessed with first periods. And they love exhibiting their big p*nises to unwilling girls at family pools and gyms.
Wake up.
I’ve had to add astericks to words that have triggered editing–a crystallizing reality, when you think about, wherein the reality of how women and children are abused is all around us, but we can’t talk about it in online fora, even in the most clinical of terms, without being flagged.
Overlapping does not mean equates to. Most of what you cite is a perversion, fetish, kink, often misogynistic, harmful, sometimes not – but not essentially paedophilic – although clearly there will be overlap. Much straight pornography, literature, fashion, advertising also overlaps in this way (not defending it). I just think it weakens the critique to equate the two.
Encouraging children to engage in life-altering surgery that can forever affect their chances at a healthy sex life is as bad as p**dophilia if not worse.
I believe the ultimate aim of all this is to debase masculinity and make the West similar to Thailand with its open attitude toward ladyboys and prostitution.
Encouraging children to engage in life-altering surgery that can forever affect their chances at a healthy sex life is as bad as p**dophilia if not worse.
I believe the ultimate aim of all this is to debase masculinity and make the West similar to Thailand with its open attitude toward ladyboys and prostitution.
Absolutely spot on.
I’m totally lost can this really be true?
Unfortunately, just as ‘no-one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the people’, there is seemingly no bottom to perversity. I think leculdesac has made a couple of mistakes though – Generalising – attributing to all/most Trans the worst qualities of the most perverse (Trans does not equal paedophile; that is in itself a vile claim of the sort that greatly weakens the case against Trans activist overreaching); and secondly, following the perverse down their rabbit holes – some SOCA investigators have to do this – even with training and support it may wreak havoc on their psyches.
Take a look at Wings Over Scotland. There’s some well documented case studies of individuals close to the Scottish Government who are quite open about most of what leculdesac refers to.
Unfortunately, just as ‘no-one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the people’, there is seemingly no bottom to perversity. I think leculdesac has made a couple of mistakes though – Generalising – attributing to all/most Trans the worst qualities of the most perverse (Trans does not equal paedophile; that is in itself a vile claim of the sort that greatly weakens the case against Trans activist overreaching); and secondly, following the perverse down their rabbit holes – some SOCA investigators have to do this – even with training and support it may wreak havoc on their psyches.
Take a look at Wings Over Scotland. There’s some well documented case studies of individuals close to the Scottish Government who are quite open about most of what leculdesac refers to.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this point. Sickeningly, you’re absolutely right about this.
Overlapping does not mean equates to. Most of what you cite is a perversion, fetish, kink, often misogynistic, harmful, sometimes not – but not essentially paedophilic – although clearly there will be overlap. Much straight pornography, literature, fashion, advertising also overlaps in this way (not defending it). I just think it weakens the critique to equate the two.
Absolutely spot on.
I’m totally lost can this really be true?
Thanks for taking the time to explain this point. Sickeningly, you’re absolutely right about this.
You’re wrong. Wish you weren’t. Pedophilia is most definitely imbricated w/in the contemporary transactivist movement. You just haven’t followed it down the rabbit holes, where you’d find viciously violent misogynistic p*rnography that has helped destroy the s*xuality of a generation of boys and set them up for grooming by very disturbed adult men. As a GC feminist, I’ve known this for at least a decade, but check out National Review’s new series on detransitioners to learn more.
And autogynephilia–the pedophilia from the “straight” crossdressing guys–is inherently about transgressing against unwilling females via forced exhibitionism and voyeurism under the guise of “civil rights.” They routinely focus on pubescent girls (also learned via p*rnography) and openly discuss their “eggs” (their inner 12-year-old girl), have child toys over their social media, and encourage each other and literally show each other (see Only Fans accounts) to *asturbate in female changing rooms, bathrooms, and shelters. They talk about getting off on trying on lingerie. One famous pervert has written openly about how to approach pubescent girls about offering them tampons. These men fetishize maxipads and tampons and take drugs or injure themselves to create fake periods. They’re obsessed with first periods. And they love exhibiting their big p*nises to unwilling girls at family pools and gyms.
Wake up.
I’ve had to add astericks to words that have triggered editing–a crystallizing reality, when you think about, wherein the reality of how women and children are abused is all around us, but we can’t talk about it in online fora, even in the most clinical of terms, without being flagged.
Reposting this because I used “bad words” in my first post–I’ve replaced w/ stars. But you’re right–and this isn’t hyperbolic. Pedophilia is most definitely imbricated w/in the contemporary transactivist movement. You just haven’t followed it down the rabbit holes, where you’d find viciously violent misogynistic p*rnography that has helped destroy the s*xuality of a generation of boys and set them up for grooming by very disturbed adult men. As a GC feminist, I’ve known this for at least a decade, but check out National Review’s new series on detransitioners to learn more.
And autogynephilia–the pedophilia from the “straight” crossdressing guys–is inherently about transgressing against unwilling females via forced exhibitionism and voyeurism under the guise of “civil rights.” They routinely focus on pubescent girls (also learned via p*rnography) and openly discuss their “eggs” (their inner 12-year-old girl), have child toys over their social media, and encourage each other and literally show each other (see Only Fans accounts) to *asturbate in female changing rooms, bathrooms, and shelters. They talk about getting off on trying on lingerie. One famous pervert has written openly about how to approach pubescent girls about offering them tampons. These men fetishize maxipads and tampons and take drugs or injure themselves to create fake periods. They’re obsessed with first periods. And they love exhibiting their big p*nises to unwilling girls at family pools and gyms.
Wake up.
I’ve had to add astericks to words that have triggered editing–a crystallizing reality, when you think about, wherein the reality of how women and children are abused is all around us, but we can’t talk about it in online fora, even in the most clinical of terms, without being flagged.
How do you know all this?
If you know the right people on twitter they will share links to and screenshots of these men openly admitting all of this. One thing I’d add is that the fetishization of tampons extends to them taking used ones out of sanitary bins and doing all sorts of things with them. Most people, especially of the “be kind” crew, aren’t aware about the depths of perversion in the trans movement.
If you know the right people on twitter they will share links to and screenshots of these men openly admitting all of this. One thing I’d add is that the fetishization of tampons extends to them taking used ones out of sanitary bins and doing all sorts of things with them. Most people, especially of the “be kind” crew, aren’t aware about the depths of perversion in the trans movement.
How do you know all this?
I’d rather call it childism.
Unhelpful – two hyperbolic wrongs do not make a right.
Reposting this because I used “bad words” in my first post–I’ve replaced w/ stars. But you’re right–and this isn’t hyperbolic. Pedophilia is most definitely imbricated w/in the contemporary transactivist movement. You just haven’t followed it down the rabbit holes, where you’d find viciously violent misogynistic p*rnography that has helped destroy the s*xuality of a generation of boys and set them up for grooming by very disturbed adult men. As a GC feminist, I’ve known this for at least a decade, but check out National Review’s new series on detransitioners to learn more.
And autogynephilia–the pedophilia from the “straight” crossdressing guys–is inherently about transgressing against unwilling females via forced exhibitionism and voyeurism under the guise of “civil rights.” They routinely focus on pubescent girls (also learned via p*rnography) and openly discuss their “eggs” (their inner 12-year-old girl), have child toys over their social media, and encourage each other and literally show each other (see Only Fans accounts) to *asturbate in female changing rooms, bathrooms, and shelters. They talk about getting off on trying on lingerie. One famous pervert has written openly about how to approach pubescent girls about offering them tampons. These men fetishize maxipads and tampons and take drugs or injure themselves to create fake periods. They’re obsessed with first periods. And they love exhibiting their big p*nises to unwilling girls at family pools and gyms.
Wake up.
I’ve had to add astericks to words that have triggered editing–a crystallizing reality, when you think about, wherein the reality of how women and children are abused is all around us, but we can’t talk about it in online fora, even in the most clinical of terms, without being flagged.
I’d rather call it childism.
Paedophilia- its in plain sight.
The care inspectorate should be renamed “the don’t care inspectorate” and the word “inclusive” needs to renamed “exclusive of everything stonewall and chums dislike”. And when all these jolly caring people have destroyed childhood, and then the future perhaps they’ll all be happy in their trans bubble.
The care inspectorate should be renamed “the don’t care inspectorate” and the word “inclusive” needs to renamed “exclusive of everything stonewall and chums dislike”. And when all these jolly caring people have destroyed childhood, and then the future perhaps they’ll all be happy in their trans bubble.
I am so irritated by the continued use of the term “sex-change” when this is impossible, even by authors apparently on the side of reality. Sex is biological and unchangeable in mammals and birds. Gender-affirming makes more sense when describing the mutilation of healthy bodies in the pursuit of a delusion.
You are absolutely right, Alison. Even Jan Morris (formerly James) acknowledges that describing the procedures that he/she went through as a ‘sex change’ is simply a convenient ‘shorthand’, and says that no-one has ever changed from being ‘a true man’ to being ‘a true woman’. It is shocking, and mystifying, that a dangerous delusion has been accepted and promoted by powerful people and organisations.
You are absolutely right, Alison. Even Jan Morris (formerly James) acknowledges that describing the procedures that he/she went through as a ‘sex change’ is simply a convenient ‘shorthand’, and says that no-one has ever changed from being ‘a true man’ to being ‘a true woman’. It is shocking, and mystifying, that a dangerous delusion has been accepted and promoted by powerful people and organisations.
I am so irritated by the continued use of the term “sex-change” when this is impossible, even by authors apparently on the side of reality. Sex is biological and unchangeable in mammals and birds. Gender-affirming makes more sense when describing the mutilation of healthy bodies in the pursuit of a delusion.
What these disgusting perverts are doing to vulnerable children, often autistic or with other mental health issues, is beyond the pale. And do not get me started on the homophobia of convincing young lesbians or gay boys that they are really the opposite gender! We live in a very sick world.
What these disgusting perverts are doing to vulnerable children, often autistic or with other mental health issues, is beyond the pale. And do not get me started on the homophobia of convincing young lesbians or gay boys that they are really the opposite gender! We live in a very sick world.
Sadly in 10-15 years there will be a reckoning with unprecedented levels of suicide among the “affirmed”. What governments are protecting or even pushing is truly evil. May hell rain on their heads.
Sadly in 10-15 years there will be a reckoning with unprecedented levels of suicide among the “affirmed”. What governments are protecting or even pushing is truly evil. May hell rain on their heads.
There is no such thing as ‘sex change surgery’. UnHerd writers should stop using this term.