RESPONDENT COMMENT: “This is the safeguarding scandal of our age. I have worked solidly over the past six years to do what I can to stop it. I am exhausted. Others have been trying for much longer.”

Question 11: Are you concerned about the notion of “trans” children?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “My 13-year-old “possibly genderfluid” daughter says that someone not stating their own pronouns is considered transphobic (at school), even if they respect others. She’s currently being ostracized for wearing trousers, liking girls & and saying that doesn’t make her male.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I find it disturbing that even Social Workers who claim to be GC still talk of trans children.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “The whole notion of “trans” children is deeply concerning to me. Children do not understand the concept of gender, this is something that adults and society teaches them. In my opinion, any young child who is “trans” is being abused by their parents and needs immediate protection.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “There is no such thing as a trans child. Children should be left to be themselves whether that is gender non-conforming or not. I genuinely fear for this generation who are being forced into gender stereotypes.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “This is ground zero. The social construct of the “trans child” is used to justify the fetishes of men. Young lesbians are told they’re men cos they are sexually attracted to other women. All children are now forced to define themselves in relation to rigid sex stereotypes. Don’t conform? You’re trans. It’s a cult which needs the young as literally, new flesh to mutilate and drug.”

Question 12: Are you concerned about the number of children and young people who are either “transitioning” or talking about “transitioning”?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “They are being used as a front for adult men, who never had surgery or drugs as children, to justify their paraphilia.” 

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “This is being pushed hard at kids whether or not they buy into it as something they should spend a lot of time thinking about – it’s sucking the life out of youth culture.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I started counting the teens and kids who declare themselves trans around me. I have 5 close friend’s kids and a total of 50 kids around me. Most are lesbians who want to be boys. Every week I hear of a lesbian teen wanting to be a boy or an effeminate boy that the parents want to trans. I live in Switzerland.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “As a mother of a teenage girl in the US, I see nothing but pain and confusion in the children. I watched my daughter’s entire friend group come out as either gay, trans, non-binary, asexual or pan sexual over the course of a short time, and several of the girls, including my daughter touched on the entire spectrum before settling back on straight. The kids are confused and desperately want to be accepted by their peers, which is causing a lot of them to choose an identity that matches their friend group rather than who they are as individuals.”

Question 13: Are you concerned about children being told they are, or may be, the opposite sex if they do not conform to sex role stereotypes?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “My niece is currently in her first year of high school at a small school. There are six FTM children in her friends, two in her friend group. She has always marched to the beat of her own drum in regards to what she likes and what she wears, but recently has become obsessed with making sure she dresses “girly enough” so not to as “invalidate” these friends, who apparently see her non-conformity as an insult to their identity.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I find it so incredibly frustrating because for a while there, I thought society in general was making progress with its understanding that boys can like princesses and girls can like cars, but now gender ideology is labelling kids who like ‘non-stereotypical’ toys as trans. It’s upsetting to think how many children are being set on the path of lifetime medicalisation because they have been told by sexist parents that their toy preference means there is something wrong with them, and that they need medications and surgeries to live ‘their true authentic selves.’ I have noticed that, without exception, every single story of a ‘trans child’ relies on sexist stereotypes, always along the lines of ‘my child knew she was really a girl because she hated getting muddy and wanted to play with dolls instead of trucks’. Add in the homophobia of parents who are terrified that their doll-loving son might turn out to be gay, or their wrestling-obsessed daughter might grow up to be a lesbian, and it becomes impossible to conclude anything other than this is a deeply regressive movement.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I am very concerned about how this ideology is woven in to the school curriculum, with anything that doesn’t confirm the ideology perceived immediately as bigoted. I teach teenagers and pre-teens (outside school) and am horrified by how queer theory is so embedded into how they see themselves and the world around them.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I think this is the topic that should alarm people most. Children are being taught that it is unkind and bigoted to define and protect their boundaries, that stereotypes women successfully challenged decades ago are “facts” by which your “gender” is determined and that the only cause of social awkwardness and psychological distress in puberty is having “the wrong body” and the only solutions are to compel others to support a sex change fantasy and/or surgically and chemically alter their bodies no matter what the cost.”

Question 14: Are you concerned about children being socially “accepted” or “validated” as the opposite sex or any other “gender identity” by schools without parental knowledge?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I am a mum of two daughters and all of this terrifies me. Institutions keeping secrets from parents is wrong. I work with young people and in one of my groups there is a trans identified boy, who uses a female name in the group and my organisation have agreed to keep this info secret from his (‘her’) parents. We all, staff and young people alike, must use female pronouns for this person – no questions asked. This person clearly has significant mental health issues which may or may not be related to the dysphoria but this is never raised as a concern. Working with him causes me inner conflict.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Youth are pressured into identifying as nonbinary just to fit it. It’s okay to not to do male/female stereotypes, you don’t have to claim Trans or nonbinary to be outside of the norms.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Children do not have the experience to interpret the consequences, in the medium to long term, of transitioning, and so are incapable of providing informed consent. The fact that teachers and schools are being told to affirm a child’s supposed gender, without the knowledge of the child’s parents is a huge red flag in terms of safeguarding – it is teaching children to keep secrets with adults who are not their parents and this alone places children at risk.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Turning the discomfort of adolescence into a medical condition requiring lifelong treatment instead of helping children work through something every other person on the planet got through is child abuse, and schools keeping this secret is criminal. My child’s school introduced this concept to my daughter, nursed the idea, and kept her from discussing any of it with us. We found out after she graduated from high school and our legal rights as parents were no longer in place. Any chance to offer any other perspective was stolen. It was a cult indoctrination.”

Question 15: Are you concerned about girls sharing (or feeling afraid to challenge sharing) facilities, for example toilets, overnight accommodation, changing rooms and showering areas with boys and men?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “My daughter has had numerous UTI’s since her school introduced unisex toilets. The embarrassment felt prevented her from drinking so she would not have to be exposed to older boys who lingered in the neighbouring cubicles.” 

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I am also especially concerned about the impact of the loss of female only spaces on girls who have been sexually abused. As a woman who was sexually abused as a child, I know how important these are. I am concerned about the influences of gender identity ideology on my young teen (probably lesbian) daughter.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I’m a teacher. There are huge safeguarding implications. We have some unisex toilets and the girls won’t use them.” 

Question 16: Are you concerned about children being put on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, even with “parental consent”?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “No one is “trans” let alone children/young people. There is no clinical need, based on observable and testable conditions to identify a physical health condition to warrant amputation of health body parts whether these are breasts (still growing); uterus/ovaries or penis/testicles. The *only* reason to remove any of those body parts is where there is an actual clinical need such as disease (cancer; sepsis; gynaecological conditions) or in cases of severe injury/deformity. A “mental health” condition is not a good enough reason to chop off breasts or penis or remove sexual organs. “non-binary” is as much a nonentity as “trans”. Some claiming to be “NB” are STILL going for operations to “nullify” their sex. In all cases, young people being put on Cancer busting drugs “aka “puberty blockers”, then WRONG sex hormone therapy for their sexed body are now facing sterility and infertility. Even if the intention is to (in girls) retain sexual organs, these WILL ATROPHY due to the menopausal conditions the body is now put into. This will lead inevitably to hysterectomy and potential prolapse of vagina, bladder and other organs. We KNOW THIS HAPPENS WITH women who have had hysterectomies for very good reason. Those same women often have to fight to get their uterus removed and are told they will “change their mind” or “their husband/future husband will want children”. Yet teenagers are getting these operations without any discussion. This is a scandal. Its homophobic; its misogynistic; its Dr Mengele levels of horror. It needs to be stopped and banned for all people at least under 18, if not under 25 due to the knowledge that it is around 25 years that humans are matured body and mind. No child/teen can imagine what life will be like a year ahead let alone 20 years ahead with serious health issues from these drugs and surgeries. The body will be constantly fighting to get back to what it *should be*. Where we see destransitioners, we can see their body reverting back as much as it can, but there is always damage – girls voices destroyed (they don’t sound male but don’t sound female either); body parts removed and leaving scars, tissue and nerve damage. Loss of sensitivity. The body is a sexual entity – young people need to explore their sexuality and have that opportunity to feel the sexual feelings in a loving/trusting relationship. No sensitivity, not “switch on” of sexuality during puberty, and that window is lost. Then we have reduced stature, weaker skeletal and musculature structure resulted in stunted physical growth. It will NOT reverse. The concept of a “trans” or “non-binary” child, and that being encouraged/supported by medical professionals, law, education, society etc, is Child Abuse.”

Question 17: Are you concerned about breast binding and removal of healthy breasts?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “How is breast binding ok but breast ironing is not ok? NONE are ok and needs to be stopped to protect the children. Teaching of any gender ideology should not be taught in schools. It confuses the biology they are being taught. Have support sessions after for children who want to have chat but don’t bring it into lessons where key subjects need to be taught and the most pressing of all. Teach boys how to respect girls and not to use violence in relationships. This is the most urgent need based on the number of women being murdered each week.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I have listened to enough stories from detransitioners to know that gender ideology is dangerous for young children. As a nurse I understand the nature of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgery, and I am horrified that this should be happening to any child.”

Question 18: Are you concerned about surgery designed to “change sex” being presented as normal and glamorous to children and young people?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I am concerned about the online content and pornography that has helped to normalise these things.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I’m especially concerned about the impact on young lesbians who make up the majority of trans-identified youth. I was part of the eating disorder and self-harm craze and I notice alarmingly similar patterns. Worse, bc it’s glamourized and comes with enormous amounts of gaslighting.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Netflix is doing a great job indoctrinating young people into gender ideology, making it look normal and cool to be “trans”.”

Question 19: Are you concerned about children’s wider mental health difficulties being interpreted solely through the gender identity lens?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I don’t think children’s distress around should be pathologized by either trans activists or gender critical therapists. We need a feminist health movement critical of the way psychiatry individualizes political problems like the oppression of female people under heteropatriarchy and the normalized forced feminization of female children. Girls need feminism and resources, NOT more psychiatry or ‘parental rights.’”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I have a trans-identifying child with several mental health comorbidities. Our mental health team advised us to affirm, which we have been doing for three years. It was not therapeutic. My kid was suicidal and was hospitalized three times, including with a suicide attempt. There is still no way out as anything other than affirmation is illegal in our state.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “For me, it’s an issue of ableism and also imposition of neurotypical norms… Autistic kids often find that gender is a poor fit, no matter what it is. Also gender dysphoria is a very common syndrome associated with father-daughter rape. When that is the case, the healing of the PTSD comes from integrating the despised and dissociated identity, not furthering the investment in it.”

Question 20: Are you concerned about the possibility of homophobic parents seeking to transition children to avoid having a gay or lesbian child?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I was a victim of this, my mother would rather I was a man than a lesbian, I’ve been having to attend therapy for the gender issue alone and I believe it’s greatly related to my sexuality plus the trauma that was given by my mother I’m afraid that there’re more children, specifically young teenage women, who are being victims of this. I know a trans person, they hate themselves, and the more they transition the more their hate grows, I wish this may change for future generations and that they get proper treatment for their self-perception issues.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “As mother to gender non-conforming children I am very concerned. I would also suggest that the homophobic parents are often unconsciously homophobic. It’s not about terror that a child may be lesbian or gay but ignorance about how sometimes these children present. A child who grows to be same sax attracted will often defy stereotypes or seem more masculine/feminine that their peers of the same sex.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I answered “A great deal” on these questions because I believe we are exposing children to age-inappropriate ideas & even perversion. Children are always born “in the right body”! How dare we EVER suggest otherwise? I am especially fearful some parents ARE ALREADY using this ideology to “trans away the gay”. They already prefer this in countries like Iran. It breaks my heart to know these “trans kids” will have lifelong medical issues.”

Question 21: Are you concerned about children or young people feeling it is more acceptable to identify as “trans” or “non-binary” than gay or lesbian?

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RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I know straight kids who are being bullied for being straight. This is the reason many kids are now “identifying” as queer pansexual or non-binary. The lgbt orgs in schools have become the bullies.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I see it as child abuse. And it is very definitely more “cool” to say you are trans than admit to yourself or others that you are a lesbian. It’s a hugely homophobic, lesbophobic ideology.” 

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “My daughter came out as gay, was horrendously bullied, and then said she was a trans boy, which made her popular.”

Question 22: Would you like to say more about children and young people?

1,081 respondents commented on children and young people.   

Thematic coding was used initially to obtain a broad-brush overview of women’s concerns. The coding revealed the most common concerns of women regarding children and young people as follows:

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Women also spoke of their children rejecting them if they attempted to express their views on any aspect of gender identity ideology. Some speak of losing their children altogether.      

Women’s Comments

“More girls than boys are feeling pressured to transition and I believe this is because of the appalling effects of porn on boys and men. It is their misogyny, coupled with girls’ realization that boys and men have higher social status and power, that drives them in this direction. We need more positive role models for boys as well as girls. Parents must stop them accessing porn as far as they can. Girls should not feel pressured into taking part in porn-style sex activities.”

“The pressure on children to label themselves is immense and is pushed in school very heavily, not just in PSHE but in all aspects of the curriculum. Gender identity has been normalised as something that everybody has; there is no acknowledgement that very many people do not believe in it and that there are huge dangers.”

“Very concerned about the number of autistic girls being groomed into thinking they are opposite sex. Genderist bullies are causing these girls lives to be ruined.” 

“I worry a lot about social contagion being the reason so many kids, especially girls, are identifying as the opposite sex. I worry about the role of social media in all of this: how claiming to be trans often means that kids are showered with attention, praise, and encouragement. That kind of attention is intoxicating for children, and I worry it encourages a lot of them to think of themselves as trans when they’re really not. And then, even if they later realize they’re not, it makes it very hard to walk it back and tell everyone that they’re not trans after all. Effectively, that just isn’t really an option in this climate. I worry about girls being forced to share bathrooms and locker rooms with the boys at their schools. I can’t even imagine my horror and mortification if that had happened to me as a child/teenager. My concern for children is actually what led me to seek out GC groups to begin with. When two boys took first AND second place at the state track championships in Connecticut, I felt so angry on behalf of the girls who lost out. How could the adults in the room have sat by and let that happen? I decided I needed to personally get involved.”

“I am concerned that parents who think of themselves as progressive and ‘caring’ are choosing to lie to their children about the reality of their bodies. I am also concerned about mental health professionals who are suggesting to parents that children (even those with autism) should ‘explore’ being the opposite gender. No mental health professional should be suggesting to a parent that it is healthy to deny reality (that’s in my opinion malpractice) as acceptance of reality and limitations is a requirement for good mental health.”

“I’m worried that they’re being taught sexism which will harm everyone around them for the rest of their lives.”

“As a teacher I see more and more trans identifying students every year. I fear for their mental health because they are swept up in this social contagion. I fear that young lesbians are identifying as men because being lesbian is either “uncool” or pornified. I am deeply saddened to see so many physically healthy people being put on opposite sex hormones and having surgeries that damage healthy tissue. I am afraid to speak out at my place of work because my coworkers seem to think that “outing” a student’s transgender “status” to their parents harms the child, when in reality the parent SHOULD know what their kid is doing and how they are being treated by school employees.”

“I am concerned about the indoctrination that children are facing nowadays. It’s very clever because children and teenagers are highly impressionable. I worry that the plan is that if one entire generation is indoctrinated then they can then indoctrinate the next generation. Pornography, media advertising, television, films etc all contribute to children (and nearly always girls) being dissatisfied with or hating their bodies. Transgenderism seems such a simple answer but it simply entrenches this distress rather than eliminating it. And transgenderism is trendy and cool to many young people, much more so than being lesbian (which is either not cool or associated with porn and ‘transwomen’). By extending ever more gender identifies (the most recent fad being so-called asexuality) and talk of ‘spectrums’, transgender ideologists know full well they are appealing to children and young people who can choose these identities like they choose sweets in a sweet shop. These ‘identities’ become a substitute or a cure for whatever other mental distress or trauma they may be dealing with (which could be due to abuse in the home, domestic violence, bullying or sexual harassment at school etc). Meanwhile the trauma is never dealt with. I’m also concerned that young people who struggle socially at school are turning to social media, convinced they are finding community when actually they are merely entering an echo chamber of cult-like transgender propaganda, where you will be cast out if you dare say the wrong thing or criticise.”

“I’m concerned about our girls in particular, I’m a mother to a 13 year old girl and I cannot say anything in my own home about this topic, as she’s been brainwashed by the content she’s come across online, to the point of hating JK Rowling after having her as a role model until recently. I’ve been ostracised from younger feminist groups for refusing to take my then 9 yo daughter to an International Women’s Day demo that only focused on trans and “sex workers” rights, as I expressed that I didn’t wish any girl to have her body used as a way to earn her living.”

“A career in child protection. I see how vulnerable children are to manipulation. I see the same language & tactics that paedophiles used 40 years ago. Evidence based child development does not support gender ideology. 25 years professional experience does not support gender ideology.”

“Children and young people are easily influenced by the peers, social media, music and the film industries. They should have spaces to discuss, be encouraged in critical thinking. Once they go on medications and surgery, there is no going back. It saddens me and I feel there is money moving all these, like in breastfeeding, the formula industry. In Trans, it is the Big Pharma, Formula industries, corruption etc.”

“I’m a teacher. We have been told to “treat” a teenage boy “like a girl” (not sure how the school thinks girls should be treated) and informed that “she” is “looking forward to” having “her” genitals removed.” 

“The reason I first got into these discussions was my concern about what we are doing to dysphoric youth. The level of harm, and the lifeline consequences for so many children and young people, is enormous and so needlessly cruel.”

“Adults are supposed to protect children, instead we are installing issues onto them based on patriarchal values (e.g. sex stereotypes) and homophobia. The gender cult and idealisation of transgenderism is removing basic human rights and doing irreversible and irreparable damage. It is also being encouraged by those who stand to make money from this, such as the pharmaceutical industry and surgeons.” 

“Gender identity is a fashion, a cult -like other fashions and cults from the Children’s Crusade onwards. But this is backed by both big money and the power of the worldwide web and is enabled by demagogues and populists. I am so frightened. I think I have lost friendship with my own children.”

“The trans cult is a malign and insidious movement that governments have allowed to infiltrate every aspect of children’s and young person’s lives. It needs stopped in its tracks. Fighting this will be the hill I die on.”

“I am concerned by the long-term effects that puberty blockers and cross hormones has in their mental, reproductive and physical health and in their future sexual relationships. It’s a one-way route to take at moment you do not know how you will feel in the future because you are just developing your personality”.

“As a retired social worker whose career was based in child protection, I am very concerned that safeguarding children in these areas seems to have been discarded.”

“I have to explain to my daughter over and over that she can trust her eyes and gut. If it sounds like nonsense, it probably is.” 

“Children should be told the truth it is impossible to change sex. And that changing gender through hormones and surgery comes at the price of their health and life expectancy. Let them be gay/lesbians, let them be gender non-conforming, but children shouldn’t be transed.”

“I am very worried about this dangerous nonsense being peddled to children; safeguarding is not being followed. red flags, including for drag queen story time. Leave the kids alone.” 

“I am incredibly concerned with how the ‘discourse’ is going concerning what children can actually meaningfully consent to. I see too much that predators are using gender identity ideology as cover for espousing ideas that children can consent to sexual activity. For example, some ‘logic’ that if children can consent to altering their genitals as a minor and weighing the potential consequences on their future sexual activity, why can’t they have the maturity to consent to actual sex with an adult as a minor?”

“My primary concern is that professionals have lost sight of the long-term evidence that the vast majority of children desist if they are lovingly reminded that the body they are in is their body, and they are encouraged to come to terms with it. Also, the confusion of sexual orientation with gender identity – it is NOT harmful to remind a child that they are the sex they were born.”

“My child has ID’d as trans for 5 years that is how I got involved in these matters.”

“My main worry is that children who do not conform to stereotyped binaries are being told that there is something wrong with them, and that this could be fixed by mutilating their bodies. I worry that children feeling uncomfortable in their skin (something that could be treated with therapy and care) are being encouraged to be “fixed” by changing their bodies, when it was never their bodies that were sick.” 

“I absolutely fret for this young pubescent generation. They are having gender forced down their throats until it has become cool to be trans and to have your breasts removed. It is horribly worrying.”

“This is child abuse in plain sight.”

“I see this movement as one that encourages institutional child abuse. On the one hand as a civilisation we vehemently oppose FGM but are happy to encourage children to do exactly that under the guise of gender ideology. I see this movement as a denial of reality and I know children are being groomed to believe they should too.” 

“As a parent I find this whole movement very distressing. Gender identity ideology seeks to divide, disrespect and undermine healthy parental authority. I am shocked that young people are being encouraged to make choices that will cause damage to them psychologically, emotionally, physically and mentally”.

“I have care of my teenage step-daughter who is likely on the autistic spectrum and is certainly vulnerable and I am worried about her possible vulnerability to these ideas as a means of escape and belonging. We have a very close and supportive relationship and this subject is the one thing we can’t talk about as we are so far apart on it and it causes huge upset for her. I also have two boys, who would be described as gender non-conforming (I am a radical feminist and gender abolitionist so they are free to express themselves individually without the bounds of gender) and are frequently mistaken for girls/have interests that are considered as being for girls. They are home educated and fortunately are allowed the freedom to be the individuals that they are, whilst knowing and understanding that they are male, but it terrifies me what messages they would get as a result of their appearance and interests and what they would be told about themselves if they did go to school.”

“I think there is a focus on gay and lesbian children in this debate. But it affects hetero kids just as much – particularly hetero girls trying to deal with extreme sexualisation, and very negative female gender stereotypes.”

“At times I feel as if I have awoken in a dystopian future. Of all of my concerns around gender ideology, this, the unnecessary medicalisation of children has disturbed me most.”

“I am sure that when I was young. I would have ticked all the boxes for being trans. As it turned out there was no question that it was a matter of different sexual orientation (and I had to ‘fall in love’ to discover that). It is a tragedy that young women are faced with the irreversibility of chemical and physical changes when they wish to detransition.”

“I think what we are seeing is a scandal – amounting to institutionalised child abuse.” 

“I’m concerned on the impact on children that don’t support this, they’ll be penalised.” 

“Stop this heinous medical experiment.”

“I do not have any children of my own or any minors in my immediate family, but this is such an obviously horrible development and safeguarding issue that it still massively concerns me, even though it doesn’t target me personally.”

“Please please protect them. My own daughter, after less than 3 months of stonewall in school went on to cut me off. Mastectomy, testosterone, no counselling.”

“This is really scary and I fear for children who do not conform to stereotypes – including my youngest nephew.”

“Gender ideology seems to disregard child safeguarding and is a grooming mechanism.”

“I have a 14 year old son and I am currently at the brink of making a formal complaint to his school’s Board of Management, generally about their promotion of Irish gender ideology propagandists TENI and BelongTo and specifically about putting photos of ‘Eliot’ Page and ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner on the school walls as some kind of role models. This is a Catholic school so I assumed it would be somewhat indifferent to gender nonsense.” 

“This ideology has thrown traditional and proven safeguarding out of the window. Rational, sane approaches have been abandoned as orgs have become so blinded by ‘inclusivity’.”

“There should be no such child as a ‘trans’ child. A child should be allowed to be a child, with no pressure or expectation to conform to society’s artificial ‘norms’. No child should be given puberty blockers, except for a diagnosed medical condition. Any young person whose doctor thinks s/he is potentially a candidate for transitioning needs multiple psychotherapy sessions to ascertain all underlying issues that may have a bearing on why they wish to live as a member of the opposite sex. Online ‘grooming’ to persuade them that this could be the answer to all their problems, followed by preparing them to give ‘acceptable’ answers in order to be given treatment, should be made a criminal offence akin to paedophilia. Children under 16 should not be given hormonal treatment for these purposes and body-mutilating surgery should not be available to anyone under 18. Having campaigned in Africa against FGM, I find it incredible that medically trained doctors, surgeons and some psychotherapists feel it is right to enable the mutilation of healthy young people with so little regulation. Affirmative therapy is an easy way to avoid facing the expense of time-consuming, in-depth probing that is impossible for the increasing shortage of trained professionals to carry out effectively. The fact that those professionals who disagree with affirmative therapy for this ideology are being forced out of practising or having to deny their beliefs in order to do so, is nothing short of disastrous for the young people involved.”

“It should be a clear distinction between sex and gender. Neglecting biology and focusing on an ideology is detrimental. A biological woman that doesn’t conform to stereotypes is still a woman, and the same applies for men. Teaching gender ideology at schools is dangerous, as it is an ideology. Adolescence is a complicated period in life, full of changes and seeking for identity. Hormonal blockers and surgeries during this period can lead to loads of regret later in life. Addressing mental health issues and offering appropriate support is more reasonable.”

“I am a teacher. The schools are filling with children’s books which groom them. It’s appalling.”

“I fear that children are being manipulated and influenced by social media, peer group and educators. I fear that parents aren’t being fully informed I fear that affirmation is harmful and other possible co-morbidities will be ignored. There’s not enough discussion about detransitioners and the long-term effects of puberty blockers. I’m largely astounded at these things happening.”

“I am particularly concerned about the increase in girls seeking transition, the links with the number of these girls who are same sex attracted, potentially lesbians, the number of these girls who have experienced trauma.”

“Our society has become more porn soaked and violently threatening to women in the past few decades and I’m not surprised that so many girls don’t want to be women.”

“As a mother of daughters this Odeon has terrified me, that my children may not even be safe from males in the toilets at school, that my lesbian daughter will be told she’s a bigot for having the courage to ‘come out’ only to be told she must accept men in her dating choices, it’s sickening and I am so afraid for my daughters if they decide to go to university that they will be targets for misogyny.”

“As a lesbian I fear for the young lesbians growing up today. If I grew up today, I could see my gender non conformity being pathologized. If someone were to tell me I was a boy trapped in a girl’s body I probably would have believed them. This is insidious. Gender dysphoria is a thing that needs to be treated with psychological support and not medical interventions.”

“I believe this is the of the utmost urgency, identifying root causes and eliminating ROGD, esp. with regard to girls. And protecting ASD children who are more susceptible to the lure of gender identity ideology.” 

“The damage gender ideology is doing to children is extremely upsetting. I would say that it is in fact criminal.”

“My sister was an extremely gender non-conforming girl. She grew up to be a healthy and happy lesbian woman. I know that if she was a child today, she would likely be on a trans pathway. The thought of young girls who are like my sister being medicalised, subjected to surgery and rendered infertile is horrific to me. Left alone, I believe the majority would grow up to be the happy and healthy lesbian woman my sister is today.” 

“This propaganda needs to be removed from our schools.”

“I work in mental health & it’s terrifying that talking therapies may be outlawed for children & young people in the conversion therapy bill. This despite it being best practice as stated by WPATH.”

“Gender identity has been presented as a fact to young people, many of them struggling with puberty and with greater social strains than any previous generation. The shocking disregard for the natural reaction of teens to persuasive trends or social contagion in rushing to affirm trans identities is seriously concerning and a safeguarding fail in medicine.”

“Transition is the new conversion therapy. Children and young people are being experimented on, using harmful drugs and surgeries. Young girls who are at great risk of sexual violence and harassment, have no right to boundaries or spaces away from boys or even grown men. This is a men’s sexual ‘rights’ movement and big profit for Big Pharma.”

“Puberty Blockers have not ever been studied for children – and the long-term impacts are unknown. That any medical practitioner would consider these as a go-to medication for dysphoric children is appalling. Further children cannot consent to puberty blockers, they are too young to truly understand the long-term consequences. What they need is counselling that explores all potential causes of their distress, and time to mature through puberty before making such drastic decisions. I have a physician friend who actually started a Trans clinic… more recently my friend is feeling deeply disturbed by the pressure put on physicians to prescribe puberty blockers.” 

“I am very concerned about the medicalization of puberty and self-diagnosis by children and pubescent children.” 

“I know children and grandparents/parents of children now in this position and they have no good info on what the medicalisation does. I’m concerned at the lack of medical transparency.”

“This is a grand-scale medical experiment on our children. What is done to their bodies and minds is the greatest medical scandal of the century – possibly of all times.”

“A generation has already been indoctrinated. How can they recover?”

“They are the trans cult’s fave breeding ground. Unsure, unformed, CHILDREN. This is a multi-million dollar industry and the commodification of the species is nearly complete. This is a face of capitalism, that, quite frankly, needs kerb stomping.”

“So many people seem to have been captured by this abusive and harmful ideology. I wasn’t allowed to get my ears pierced until I was 16 and yet we are visiting all the harms on children who seem to be less ‘gender non-conforming’ than I was.” 

“As a health care practitioner, I cannot believe what some of my colleagues are doing. There are no other mental health issues where patients dictate their own care. The guidelines for trans care are not based on research at all. We are harming a generation of children who don’t understand and cannot possibly consent to what is being done to their bodies. The off-label use of so-called puberty blockers is criminal, in my opinion.”

“I know 2 girls who have a history of trauma and eating disorder who have gone on to transition with breast amputation and hysterectomy. I find it terrifying as it was ROGD and both think they are gay men.”

“Most young people take until they are in their mid 20s to really start knowing themselves. To allow children to make life changing decisions about medically/surgically transitioning is absurd, and tantamount to abuse.” 

“ROGD is real and we need to fight it.”

“I am concerned that children and young people no longer consider sex more important than gender. I regularly see young people on social media asking why we even need the category ‘women’ and have seen them support incredibly sexist and regressive ideas in the name of ‘progress’. I worry that kids will wake up one day as adults with mutilated bodies, infertility, and the inability to have a healthy sexual relationship because doctors and their parents and other adults put them on puberty blockers and told them that they needed plastic surgery to become their true selves. It’s sickening. And I still cry at the memory of what neopenis surgery does to a young woman’s arm (degloved).”

“I’m extremely concerned about the impact on vulnerable children and young people who are desperate to be liked and to fit in. I have ASD and ADHD (diagnosed as an adult) and can see myself in these young people.” 

“I have my own who had identity issues as is normal and I would seriously consider taking younger children out of school and institutions now.”

“Gentleness is essential, listening, supporting, but no medicalisation… this phenomenon is a wakeup call to the societies that these children live in – showing how women/girls are ‘less than’ and constantly sexualised, and that being lesbian or gay is still essentially socially unaccepted – particularly ‘feminine’ men/’masculine’ women gender ideology is sexist and homophobic.”

“It’s so sad to see the sacrifice of children for adult validation; this will result in generations who are infertile and the resulting burden of surrogacy and donor milk production on other women. The mental health impact is also worrying as more desist and detransition. And the economic weight on health systems with all the constraints of limited resources will impact all. It also facilitates child abuse and munchausen by proxy in the open.”

“Our local ‘sex cafe” recently advertise binders on their Fb page – I literally could not believe that it has become so normal to believe that you are born in the wrong body that a state funded organisation can publicly advertise body changing products with impunity – for girls obviously to pretend they can be boys.” 

“My concern stems from seeing my daughter transition – it has not made her happy. It’s a really painful situation.” 

“I think there’s a lack of understanding on the dangers of using puberty blockers and other medical treatment for gender transition. There’s also a lack of understanding of the impact of social transition on the development of children’s identity and mental health and a misunderstanding of parents’ role as guardians of their children’s wellbeing.” 

“It’s an assault on gay kids. Having a trans kid increases the parents’ social status. Its insidious.” 

“Children are being coached into adopting gender identities that can lead to loss of sexual function and sterility. All children deserve to be protected from this ideology and to go through a normal puberty before making any permanent decisions.” 

“Am really angry about how young children are being used as pawns in an ideological takeover of our language and customs.”

“I don’t support routine circumcision in boys or FGM in girls so why would I support any medical procedure that mutilates healthy children? You can’t change sex. You can change your appearance, but that’s it. You can’t give informed consent on your own behalf as your brain development is not capable and parents should not be complicit in turning their children into those dependent on a lifetime of medical interventions that harm them. There is no research that demonstrates that these procedures have a positive effect on anyone’s mental health.”

“This ideology has already reached my children’s school. It is a small school yet they are running a parents forum titled “Gender Identity Through Literacy and Language”. It is a preschool and primary school, has no high school so squarely aimed at parents of children aged 3-12 years.”

“As an ex-teacher, I am greatly concerned that some of the foundational values of safeguarding are thrown out of the window when it comes to gender issues.”

“We need to have conversations about sexism, misogyny and homophobia, not about a fictional and regressive idea about he set (sic) ideology. We need to name the fact that gender non conformity is a sign of good mental health and not poor mental health. Gender is harmful, to women and girls and is socially constructed to keep power in the hands of men. This is what we should be talking about.” 

“The affirming model of gender identity is actual conversion therapy targeting gay kids. Gender identity erases women and the LGB.”

“The physical damage is pure horror-film, but I also worry about psychological damage of raising a child to believe a lie. This isn’t some fairy-tale you can dismiss once you’re old enough; this is a lie about the children THEMSELVES. If my parents had brainwashed me into believing a fundamental untruth about who/what I was, I can’t see how I would ever have mentally recovered. Whole worldview skewed, trust betrayed… it’s the “social transition”/ psychological part that starts the whole thing off. This abuse needs to be killed at the roots.”

“I feel that the pressure on children either by misguided parents, or ‘progressive’ health professionals is tantamount to child abuse and there should be laws in place to prevent it. I also object strongly to the narrative being forced in schools and other institutions.” 

“It’s homophobic and it’s child abuse.”

“I feel that there is a lack of control on the subject on the internet, which is where young people are turning to for their help.”

“I am very concerned about the idea of a separate mind and body — a ‘gendered essence’ — being not just popularized but normalized among young people. Encouraging children to separate themselves from their body, spiritually and physically.“

“Being a former trans person, who came out at 15 and detransitioned at 27, I am very concerned about how trans-ideology affects young people today. When I was 15, trans-people weren’t as visible in media, and the threshold for medical intervention was very high. Now, trans people are shown a lot and talked about a lot and the threshold for intervention is comparatively low, and I, who KNEW I was a man and was considered a “genuine case”, have changed my mind. What does that mean for the young trans identified people of today? It worries me.”

“People need to see the push to encourage trans identity in young people and children as part of the adult trans agenda to validate their own sexual perversion/paraphilia.”

“Testimony of detransitioners and of Tavistock staff describe the dangers of ‘transing’ children. I work with teens, they see this as a fashion, the ‘in thing’, it’s very very worrying. This is not about clothes, politics, music etc,. tribes this can cause permanent bodily harm.”

“Just that this movement is so utterly inimical to healthy childhood & youth. Children ask questions, they want to understand things. But this movement demonises the asking of questions. Even aside from all the very real dangers of transitioning and sex stereotyping and dismantling of safeguards that this movement involves, its opposition to the simple asking of questions is sad and terrible.”

“Gender ideology is especially dangerous to kids on the autism spectrum, particularly girls being told they’re trans or “non binary” for not conforming to gender stereotypes. This was my experience as someone affected by ASD.”

“Slapping a sex habit/fetish label onto a minor sets them up as BAIT for lying predators.”

“We must allow children to be children, to grow and learn and experiment in safe and supportive ways. Transing kids physically is conversion therapy and body and genital mutilation. It is wrong and dangerous.” 

“Kids are under such extreme pressure these days as it is eminently clear that globalists are trying to affect their mind control over kids – meant to make parents irrelevant and turn kids into submissive victims and make no mistake, the “minor attracted” persons and paedophiles are out in the open now, under the trans umbrella, waiting for the “confused” kids.”

“This ideology has poisoned the minds of children, teens, and young adults. Pornography riddled with gender bending ideas have crept into households and taken a hold of kids and warped their minds and confused them.” 

“This is a modern-day equivalent of lobotomies. It can’t be found out quick enough. Again, the sexist stereotypes that this movement is based upon are clear as day. I don’t understand how we are here in 2021.” 

“As a woman and a lesbian, I have grave concerns around any placebo medical interventions or experimental treatments being carried out on children reporting discomfort in their own bodies.” 

“As I young girl I was uncomfortable when my breasts came in. I didn’t want them and I didn’t want the attention that came with developing. As a mother who breastfed both my children I can honestly say I never fully understood the purpose of my breasts until motherhood and what an important function they would play in my mothering.” 

“I am concerned about how material about sexuality is bundled in with gender identity in children’s instructional materials. Gender identity is not a sexual orientation.”

“As a parent of an 11 year old boy, the current political environment around gender terrifies me. It’s being presented to children as biological fact and absolute truth.”

“There’s an entire generation of butch lesbians or effeminate gay men who are effectively being erased and coerced into permanent disfiguring treatments and surgeries.” 

“I find it terrifying that children who are not allowed tattoos without parental permission, nor plastic surgery, nor Botox, are being told they can go on puberty blockers without their parents even knowing.”

“Children are fluid beings who are discovering their identities and growing up involves playing around with identities and exploration of subcultures. Many children simply grow out of things so it is clear they cannot be expected to fix an identity when they are under 18. The concept of medical intervention on healthy bodies is grotesque and damaging to children’s rights and an erosion of boundaries of childhood and what it means to be able to consent.” 

“Stop using children as medical guinea pigs.”

“The gender ideology is everywhere that young people are. They are being fed this narrative as being the truth without being given the opposing views to decide for themselves what they believe. At an age where most children are going through puberty and already at odds with the changes happening to their bodies, the notion of puberty blockers would appeal greatly to them. There needs to be much more vigilance around what they are being told including where, when and by who.”

“This is a major failure of safeguarding and must be rectified forthwith.”

“This is one of the greatest medical scandals of all time. What we are doing to gender non- conforming children is child abuse. It is also, in my opinion, abusive to suggest to a child that they may be ‘in the wrong body’. Children, and adults, should be able to play with and wear whatever they please without people telling them this means they’re the other sex. How people do not see how regressive this is very frustrating.”

“We must stop pathologizing puberty. Children should not be medicalised or surgically mutilated.”

“I abhor – and cannot comprehend the mindset behind – shoehorning young people and children into narrow, stereotypical, socially defined roles. As a society surely it would be much healthier to accept (and encourage) men/boys with feminine traits and women/girls with masculine traits.”

“This is the greatest scandal of our age. Worse than thalidomide. Worse than mesh. Worse than Andrew Wakefield. Doctors and HCPs are knowingly causing harm to children. The evidence is clear that the majority of children will not persist with these beliefs unless they transition. Schools and youth organisations have been captured. This opens the door to acceptance of porn and to so-called MAPs. It is horrendous and I sometimes cannot sleep at night for worrying about it.” 

“This impacts heavily on lesbians and ignores the fact that it is very common for teens to be confused about sexual orientation at this complex time of life. This is not a time to be making such life altering decisions.”

“I was a “non-gender conforming” child. I cannot imagine the damage that would have been done to me if I had been told that this somehow meant I was male instead of female. I’m greatly concerned about the damage being done to these children!”

“I have worked in child protection and I do not understand their silence on this child abuse.”

“It’s currently an uninformed disaster.”

“Lupron being given to very small children is deeply disturbing. Any surgery being performed on children for “gender” reasons is deeply disturbing. These are forms of abuse that are not reversible.”

“Their challenges because of the issues you have outlined are challenges never before experienced.”

“It is a mass social engineering campaign that is flying under the radar without adequate media scrutiny. Children are being indoctrinated with a dangerous belief system via public schools. It is so deeply homophobic to medically convert LGB kids to ‘trans kids’.”

“Any ideology that tells lies, medicalises children, makes children infertile is disgusting.”

“My biggest concern is how this ideology has become like a religion to adolescents. A religion that encourages young people who are non-conforming to stereotypes to change ‘sex’ and live life self-harming with medical support.” 

“A human’s brain doesn’t fully mature until early/mid 20s. They cannot comprehend the long-term problems of transition, such as loss of fertility or sexual pleasure.”

“As you see by my responses, I am furious about this and the safeguarding issues which surround it. I’m a counsellor and I am now at risk of potential ‘conversion therapy’ when exploring these issues with those I work with.” 

“Gender ideology is offensive to many but for me personally has caused untold harm in my family with my ADHD socially awkward daughter deciding she is trans and taking cross sex hormones and distancing herself from family and spending almost all her time online. She is able to do this without any family counselling and only a few (affirming) visits to a gender clinic. Nobody is considering other reasons why she may feel unhappy or isolated but promote a path to sterilisation and lack of sexual function as a ‘cure’.”

“I would like to say about the transing of young lesbians. Griffin et al (2021, link to follow) noted in their literature review that the British gender service GIDS found that 91.5% of girls referred to them were NOT primarily attracted to boys. (They phrased it as ONLY 8.5% were.) How anyone could possibly conclude something different than young lesbians and bisexual girls are being subjected to homophobic bullying and harassment flies in the face of the evidence. And here’s the link to their paper, published last year by a Cambridge University-based journal: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/sex-gender-and-gender-identity-a-reevaluation-of-the-evidence/76A3DC54F3BD91E8D631B93397698B1A”

“The trans movement is grossly homophobic and creates lifelong medical problems out of what is usually a brief phase in a person’s life. The movement is all about perpetuating gender stereotypes, not erasing them.”

“I’m horrified and terrified for the children of the world and in my immediate sphere and the ones that haven’t even been born yet. So much so, that I almost wish I didn’t have my 2 wonderful girls who I adore. The gaslighting and erasing of boundaries on such proportions is monstrous barbaric savagery. A child MUST be able to say ”THAT MAN HURT ME’ And the young girls that get blockers, hormones and mastectomies and hysterectomies in their early 20s is a travesty. The doctors are butchers, the shrinks are quacks. They should be in jail. What happened to DO NO HARM? What is the purpose of the ‘ethics committees’ and safeguarding laws if a man pretending to be a woman can go away with a group of guides and their parents don’t even know!!”

“Children are being lied to about the meaning of sex and gender, about who they are and about basic science. I also believe that society is creating a deep-rooted confusion amongst children about how they should think of themselves which will have mental health repercussions in later life. They are also being led to believe that they can change reality if they simply want to. This cannot be helpful to them in later life. I am disgusted that children are being indoctrinated with ideas about the validity of sex role stereotypes and being told that these roles, which are oppressive to women and girls, are in some way innate. This is regressive and intended, as far as I can see, to reverse the gains made by feminists in the past on our understanding of oppressive sexist stereotypes. Women in the past had been starting to dismantle these stereotypes and girls are having information about their history withheld from them. I am especially concerned for the children who are being pressurised into having changes made to their bodies which will have long lasting and life changing impacts on their lives. Children should be able to depend on adults, especially their schools and parents, to tell them the truth. It is one thing to tell children stories about fairies and Santa Claus, but children should not be lied about something as important as their relationship with reality and the truth about themselves and their bodies. Who can children trust, if not the adults around them?”

“I am so concerned about all of this but no one will talk about it because they don’t want to be called transphobic.” 

“I’m concerned a great deal about all of it – just felt I had to differentiate slightly. I think we must de-sexualise childhood – it’s extraordinary that it’s become normalised to any extent.”

“Puberty is a very confusing time where kids are trying to work out their place in society. The influence of pornography and regressing to old sex stereotypes is causing immense harm to our youth.”

“Personal experience here: a nephew who is gay and quite feminine was pressured by a trusted teacher to consider himself as trans. My nephew – then aged 16 – wanted to be referred to the Tavistock and wanted to transition. With the support of family and friends he is now happy as a male and in a gay relationship.”

“Watching all the little butch girls and tom boys get transed by their “liberal” parents in my deep blue town has been gutting. I know I would have been transed if I was growing up now. Even if my parents hadn’t been onboard, the fact that teachers are now pushing this on young gender non-conforming girls is deeply distressing.”

“I am personally affected via my teenage daughter.” 

“My own 2 children ID as trans. Our eldest (son) announced an intention to transition in 2018 and immediately went on estrogen. He had genital surgery in July. He never had GD or any kind of gender non conformity but did have severe adhd and childhood trauma bullying. Then this summer our youngest (daughter) age 10 began taking up the transgender cause, militantly policing pronoun use etc and drawing all the diff flags everywhere, then said she was a boy. THREE other girls 9-11 in her friend group also announced trans IDs. My 14 yo niece announced a trans ID as well. This is a maladaptive coping mechanism it couldn’t be more clear.” 

“Seems to be a fear-based ideology in which listening to other points of view are not permitted and to do so would result in the “death” of trans people.”

“Transing away the gay child/teenager is very real. The use of puberty blockers is a hormonal intervention on young teens whose sexuality is not yet developed and whose interpersonal relationships are in developing stage. How can anyone grow into a healthy adult without the lessons learned during puberty? I have grave concerns for the explosive jump in numbers of teen girls rejecting their breasts to the extent of requesting double mastectomies. No girl enjoys growing breasts! We need to analyze what sexism has to do with that.” 

“Gender non-conforming kids should just be allowed to be themselves, there is nothing wrong with being a tomboy or an ‘effeminate’ lad – children may now think they must be trans if they don’t follow the strict gender characteristics. All this does is reinforce outdated and damaging gender stereotypes. I’m a woman and I never played with flipping Barbie dolls as a child!” 

“It is outrageous that gender non-conforming children are being told lies that they may be the other sex, or that they can choose their sex. Also, that puberty blockers, hormones and surgery are being promoted as a glamorous lifestyle choice to children who are too young to understand the consequences.” 

“The trans extremists are gaslighting and abusing our children and young people right in front of our noses, and yet those of us who say this and talk about safeguarding and child protection are demonised, bullied and silenced.”

“There is no way that surgery on healthy children’s bodies, or drugs designed to interrupt the healthy development of physically healthy children’s bodies, should ever be permitted- particularly not as a response to psychiatric distress.”

“I was referred to the Tavistock as a teen and decided to cancel it. I am worried for how many young people are being pigeonholed instead of having their reasoning understood by the adults in their lives. My short lived trans identity was a reaction to trauma and I worry I would have been able to transition without this being explored (as I was viciously adamant I was ‘meant to be’ a boy).”

“I believe that children are being sexualised and gender is a social construct that is not healthy for anyone.” 

“Where to start…I’m desperately concerned (I have a niece of 20 who’s taking testosterone, and I’m sure had she not been influenced by the online trans promoters and Stonewall et al she would have settled into being a happy lesbian. I am very worried about the conflation of sex stereotyped preferences with being “born in the wrong body”. I don’t think children have the mental or emotional capacity to make these life changing decisions, and parents and teachers either simply don’t have enough information, or are unduly influenced by authorities. I think there’s a crisis looming of girls in particular who got sucked into this cult and have been sterilised and had their health and sexual potential ruined. I’m concerned about safeguarding if male bodied people are allowed into girls’ spaces. So much more…”

“No child is born in the wrong body. No child should have to adapt their body to fit a gender ideology. I am particularly concerned about primary school children being told that there are more than two genders when there are only two sexes.”

“Clearly there are Trans individuals and I support them but the issue of children and young people transitioning is very complex because of (capacity to) consent. It seems ridiculous to me that you have to be 18 to vote, 16 to consent to sex, but that a recent legal ruling has said you can be younger than this to consent to medical interventions & drug ‘treatments’ that can have serious (permanent) consequences.”

“I also think that children/ young people should not be able to dictate ‘gender rules’/ compelled speech (re: pronoun usage) to those who care for or educate them.”

“A child who has ‘trans identity’ affirmed by adults, through their whole childhood, is being set up to see no alternative to medical treatment from puberty”.

“I work for a child rights organization and see the educational, medical, mental health and legal sectors being complicit in supporting trans ideology and ruining children’s and youth’s health. Most social work and anti-violence organizations are also completely sucked into this misogynistic ideology and think they are being kind and “inclusive”. It’s horrific.”

“It is harmful to people’s mental health to focus too much on how others’ see you, and children are being indoctrinated to do just that. The objectification and pornification of everything related to women and girls is scary and alienating for girls and women, who would seek to escape it if they could, and identifying as a boy is the answer for a lot of girls.”

“I don’t know how the world can come back from this awful damage we have done to our young people. I pray that it isn’t too late, but honestly, I’m not hopeful.”

“I’m not surprised the idea of gender identity takes hold in groups of youngsters. That’s how it is. But it does seem naive for adults to take it all literally. I’m sure I would have bought into this ideology at a young age as an answer to the emotional turmoil I felt a lot of the time but didn’t have the knowledge to understand properly. For example, I felt aware of being ‘prey’ to abusive men/boys from a young age and I really don’t know how I would have dealt with having males in girl’s toilets. Girls need protection and privacy. I know that now.”

“As a mum to a young boy that is trying her best to raise an ally to feminist movement and avoid all stereotypes, I’m scared of future school he might soon enrol in and how much of a say I will have in what they are exposing him to. It has caused me great distress because I have been isolated for almost 5 years trying to provide my child what I thought was the best care I am able to give. I don’t know if I would be able to deal with my child being intentionally misguided in school, without dramatising I would most likely reach point close to breakdown if having to oppose school officials on this matter.”

“When we tell children that if they act or feel in a particular way they must be the opposite sex then we are normalising gender stereotypes.”

“I’m a teacher, and I’m also concerned about losing my job because of this gender ideology.”

“Oh, I could write forever on this issue. When my teen was 13 – and exploring her sexuality, she went to a LGBT support group for a few weeks and the staff (not the other kids) harangued her about how she was trans as she was androgynous. Eventually, she couldn’t stand it anymore and stopped going. She’s 18 now and I worry that she’ll always struggle to find lesbian friends / potential partners because so many of her peers are transitioning.” 

“Question 19 is spot on. I am a therapist and see young people who are unhappy for lots of reasons, many have autism. Transgender lies are very seductive to them. Seems so simple and some really believe they can change sex and it will solve all their problems. Non binary identity is less physically harmful but this whole thing of dozens of gender identities and that everyone must not commit the sin of misgendering causes ALL young people anxiety and makes dating even more terrifying than it used to be. No wonder so many kids say they are agender and or withdraw into their bedroom and more online poison from social media and porn sites.”

“I have no objection to children and young people exploring their identities in whatever way makes sense to them. If they want to be a transmasc demi-boy that’s fine. But where in previous decades they might have decided to be a goth, or an emo, once they grew out of it they could change their clothes and take off their make-up and move on, that’s much harder if they’ve had irreversible medical interventions.” 

“I feel like children are being forced to make decisions too early, and there are no serious public conversations about the medical and emotional impact of transition.” 

“This topic hits close to home. I’m an elementary school counsellor in an urban public school district in the Midwest. I take care of 500 students, most of whom are Latino/a or Black. One of my female coworkers goes by “Mx.” and uses “she/they” pronouns. She has the “Progress,” non-binary and trans flags hanging in her 5th grade classroom. On the first day of school this year, she read a storybook to her class about gender. She disclosed to me that one of her female students is suicidal and mentioned that she “changes pronouns and goes by a boy’s name” often. She did not indicate whether or not the parent was aware of this. All of these behaviors toward me and toward her students align with gender ideology and I consider them grooming. We have another young, “progressive” teacher in 2nd grade who is slowly introducing the same propaganda to her class. So while gender ideology hasn’t fully taken hold in my school community, the beginnings of it are there and I am very scared of where it’s going to go in the next couple of years. I’m worried that if I speak out I will lose my job. But–there may come a time soon when I have to.”

“As a lesbian it concerns me a great deal. The pressure from peers, parents, social media and society to transition rather than be a gender non-conforming child / adolescent is conversion therapy based in homophobia / lesbophobia. If the situation had been as it is now when I was a child, I’m certain that my mother would have tried to transition me rather than have a lesbian daughter.”

“Children cannot decide things for themselves they are not sexually or mentally mature enough to make life changing decisions, the brain is not fully developed until your mid 20s. No other form of dysphoria is treated with affirmation and there is no evidence affirmation as a treatment cures them.” 

“They are already learning that themselves aren’t good enough or lovable enough, all this with changing one’s gender will surely add on the feeling that they themselves need to change to be loved and / or accepted. Having children that are nonconforming to stereotypes should be a positive thing, not a thing that tells them that they have to be another gender. “

“The amount of hate from the trans-lobby towards gender-critical women is appalling.”

“Thousands of children have been physically mutilated due to this ideology. All children, particularly girls at risk. Trans ideology promotes sex with children.”

“Yesterday I watched in horror as a so-called gender therapist talked about 3-year olds as “potentially trans” due to their behaviours like wanting to have a different hair color. This is both homophobia and stereotyping at its best.”

“The secrecy involved in this ideology goes against the founding principles of safeguarding. Nothing should be kept from a child’s parents in a school or club with people that we are trusting with our children.” 

“As a mother of young children I’m terrified of them approaching their teen years and hope the climate has changed by then. The internet is a key piece in the whole picture. My heart breaks to see young girls showing off mastectomy scars.”

“It is dangerous and damaging for children & young people to be led down a path to transition. It is normal for children and young people to feel at odds with themselves and their bodies especially during puberty. To push them down a transition path is ethically wrong.”

“Younger members of my family have been captured by the dogma, so I try to be gentle with them in my approach – it’s not their fault they have been deceived. 3/5 of my grandchildren are so captured they have declared a ‘gender identity’. One has rapid onset gender dysphoria and wants to wear a binder at 13, one is a trans identifying man and one declares herself to be either ‘non-binary’ or ‘queer’, but is not certain what this means. It seems a high proportion!” 

“One of my adult children with a long history of depression has recently said they identify as non-binary and asks me not to call them my ‘son’ or ‘brother’ or any gendered pronoun. I am afraid he will go further. I am horrified by what is happening with young lesbians in particular – my daughter is in a lesbian relationship and they are both v young. The pressure to decide you are actually trans is intense. Their friendship groups are immersed in gender ideology, stating pronouns etc. Meanwhile my niece is being so bullied at school for being a feminist, and refusing to declare her pronouns, that she has developed an eating disorder.”

“I believe that munchausen by proxy may play a part in some cases.”

“There seems to be a push from the adult trans activism community to affirm children at any cost. Whether this is to justify their own transness or to break down the sexual boundaries of children (many also campaign to have the ages of consent reduced) remains to be seen.”

“It makes my blood boil that children/gender are being used as fashion accessories by their parents. But also in other instances that parents are finding out (too late) that their children are being ‘transed’ at school &/or online etc without their knowledge. Gender should not be promoted in schools.”

“Trans ideology is fundamentally homophobic and misogynist.”

“I am very concerned about the literature going into school and what children are being taught about this non-existent concept of trans. I am also deeply worried that even if they themselves don’t identify as trans, that their sexual and personal boundaries are being eroded so that they will accept men in sex-segregated spaces and practising a cross dressing fetish in front of them (because that is what trans is in adult males) and not feel they can speak out about it for fear of being labelled ‘transphobic’.” 

“I am afraid for my children. No school or college is safe, they have all been affected and by Stonewall and Mermaids. Children are being slowly educated in the transgenderist religion. There is no escape for them.” 

“I see harrowing accounts on social media of young women and girls showing the scars and wounds where healthy breast tissue had been removed. Surgery, breast binding, pharmaceutical attacks on the bodies of women and girls is being normalised, fetishised and promoted.”

“Working towards increasing an individual child’s self esteem is the most valuable life skill to give to a child. Telling a child there is something ‘wrong’ with them is a fast track to mental anguish.”

“I am a community paediatrician and sexual health specialist in the UK, I see these issues as a clinician, with troubled confused youngsters captured by gender woo woo.”

“Transing away the gay is even more damaging than praying away the gay.”

“Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and gender ideology totally undermines this.”

“I am deeply concerned about the “transing” of children who do not conform to gender stereotypes. This is a huge medical scandal. We need to go back to the root of the dysphoric feelings, because the causes can be multiple. I am also worried about the social contagion phenomenon, and the impact it has on young girls who are alarmingly deciding that they are not female anymore in order to escape other issues.” 

“This is really a horrible medical experiment in an age where we need to get more real about the consequences of lack of early attachment and about humanity falling apart and not being able to handle the climate crisis.”

“I am afraid for young people who are so young they don’t know any belief system, and I see and fear parents (themselves young) who are indoctrinating their children this way.”

“I questioned my gender from 16 to 22, when I found radical feminism. I was just a very confused young lesbian. Thank god I never medicalized.”

“If I had been a girl today I would for sure have been forced in to considering being trans, since I was both a tomboy and a lesbian. And I’m sure it would have made my life even worse than it already was. Those fantasy fake “truths” that kids are fed with today would have made me very confused and I already experienced the grown ups not to be trustworthy. I feel so sad about kids today, especially the girls who don’t have the space to be different at the same time as it is said all the time that trans is about being yourself. It is such a lie. It is the opposite. It is about having to change yourself in order to be accepted. And I’ve realized how many grown ups who are spending a lot of times on internet grooming kids to think that they are trans and teaching them how to make society allow them to leave their parents. In that way they get even more isolated from people who actually care about them. It’s like a gigantic cult isolating ppl to be able to brainwash them even more. Who will be there to take care of the damage done to these children???“

“Our LGB youth are being made to trans the gay away. Parents it seems are more comfortable having a child ” born in the wrong body” so they can excuse the real issue of their child being lesbian or homosexual. LGB youth need solid education and support to let them know hey it’s OK to be gay.”

“One of the fundamental principles of Queer Theory — that ALL human beings are sexual beings — puts children and young people at particular risk of harm.”

“I think parents are being blackmailed into validating their children’s gender identities as they’ve lost confidence in their own ability to parent and to think. The fact that so many of them have no confidence to stand up to the educational, medical and social services establishment, is a symptom of a much wider problem IMO.”

“I feel so fearful for the children and so sad about the state of parenting and community support for children.”

“Already said it because these are my primary concerns. Medical Scandal – it will be revealed and those who aided and abetted this scandal will be implicated -the LGBTQ community, planned parenthood, gender clinics across the US and the world, and schools who socially transitioned kids without parental knowledge. There will be class-action lawsuits. But really there will never be true justice. This simply needs to stop now.” 

“This is child abuse for profit.”

“We seem to have forgotten about safeguarding and the influence of social media and peers on children and young people. We are told we must believe what a child tells us but anyone who has had children, or has worked with children, know that childhood is a time of learning, experimenting and exploring things and working out who you are. As an ex-teacher I am concerned about lobby groups promoting and guiding what should be taught in schools and presenting ideology as fact.” 

“I have challenged gender stereotypes for as long as I can remember, including at secondary school when 3 of us girls refused to do Domestic Science (cooking and sewing) and insisted on doing Woodwork. (This was in the 70s.) Two years later, every 11yr old starting at that school had a term each of Woodwork, Metalwork and Domestic Science. I’ve always been really proud that it was me and my 2 friends who changed this. But it terrifies me to think that nowadays we’d have been told we were really boys and needed to transition. I feel for girls who are trying to escape sexism and sexual harassment and abuse by trying to look less female, or by going the whole way and transitioning. It shows how bad misogyny is when girls will take such drastic steps to try to escape from it.” 

“The main concern is that ‘normal’ identity confusion in teenagers is being identified as trans issues.” 

“We are in danger of giving children responsibilities they cannot possibly be ready for, for example if they want to become parents or not, some children have no idea about their sexuality and are being asked to make decisions as if they are sexually mature.”

“I believe that the damage to Children and young people by gender ideology is incalculable. It’s what worries me most about this whole societal change.”

“It is this issue – what is a child abuse scandal happening in plain sight – that has distressed me the most, and made me want to ‘do something’. I have seen first hand the impact on my own children/teens, and on the children of friends – lesbians who can’t be lesbians but must be ‘trans’ to be accepted socially by their peers. I’m perpetually stunned by the fact that the experiences and testimonies of detransitioners are so routinely ignored/dismissed.” 

“We’re failing them as a society. Conservative or “progressive,” we can’t seem to just let them exist in their natural state without trying to cut them up or convert them.”

“I feel like my children (who are not trans, thank goodness) have been indoctrinated into believing things from a weird cult of pronouns, gender fluidity and TWAW.”

“I was very gender-nonconforming as a child and believe I might have become trans-identified had I discovered transgender ideology sooner than I did. A large portion of my friends from when I was a teen, many of whom were also gnc or homosexual, identify as something other than women now, and at least three have taken medical steps. Another friend has transitioned and is now detransitioning again because it was the wrong choice. I think a lot of underlying mental health issues are being ignored in favour of declaring gender dysphoria and “treating” that by modifying the body.”

“It seems that decades of focus on safeguarding and child protection has been completely ignored. There’s no scientific basis for any gender/ identity claims.”

“ROGD seems to have appeared out of nowhere and I think social media is to blame.”

“I worry about children in schools but also students in colleges and universities (where I teach). I do not want to reinforce the ideas which might lead to drugs and surgical interventions.” 

“Childhood should be a safe space for young ones to explore and play. Nobody before 25 really knows who they are, and that’s ok. Let them be…not squash them into any sort of straight jacket…”

“Undoubtedly social media is a significant influence but so is increasing access & availability of porn to young, even prepubescent children. Combined with silencing any voices which seek to question – the situation seems grim.”

“Concerned about high number of autistic lesbians forced to transition.”

“I think the social contagion of trans in younger girls is very worrying.”

“”Trans away the gay” is the new/progressive “pray away the gay”, especially if looking at the rhetoric used by trans activists on social media and in real life.” 

“I am concerned that this is trendy child abuse. In the past, I worked with young women with anorexia. Never, ever were we supposed to agree that their self perception was ‘the truth’ to be validated at all times.”

“I am personally concerned because my niece seems to be influenced by tiktok etc. to identify as trans.”

“We are currently allowing children to be damaged by gender ideology. In years to come they will need therapy and possibly mental health support to come to terms with this dangerous experiment.” 

“I know several young people being groomed online into believing that taking puberty blockers is not harmful.”

“What we are doing to gender nonconforming children is child abuse and we should all be ashamed of ourselves.”

“Children and young people are still developing and it’s completely normal for them to try out new “identities”, styles, etc. It’s child abuse in my opinion to offer them hormones and surgery in order to make them conform to sexist, ultra-conversative gender stereotypes, while claiming it’s “progressive”. I’m shocked at how many young people who have experienced trauma (often sexual) or live in a homophobic environment “question their gender” instead of having the courage to be gender-non-conforming (thus, being themselves). They are sold the lie that their “authentic self” can be found/expressed by “transitioning”, but the truth is that denying one’s sexed reality is very inauthentic. Besides that, a significant number of “trans”/”non-binary”-identifying young people have mental health problems or even personality disorders (e.g. Borderline), which are primarily characterized by identity confusion. Instead of prematurely “diagnosing” children and teens as trans, it would be much kinder to explore any emotional, sexual, physical, verbal abuse or bullying they are experiencing at home and/or school, and whether they may be autistic or highly intelligent, since these children tend to be more “gender-non-conforming”. Why? Because being “gender-non-conforming” is being who you are and not giving in to performing sexist stereotypes of what a man or woman should behave and look like. Many young people regret being manipulated into transitioning when they would have benefitted from trauma-informed psychotherapy instead.”

“This movement is dangerous for women and children. What is done to mostly young lesbians (double mastectomies, hysterectomies, etc.) can never be undone. But also young gay men (like Jazz Jennings) will always face problems.” 

“Out of my own experience – I guess I would have been transitioning in my teen years – since it was very difficult to be Lesbian. After my coming out and being at Terms with things I felt very good with my identity and met others who had been through similar times. I am so glad I am still a woman today. It would have been the wrong thing to do – but pressure was very strong and I guess I would have done it – and that would have complicated things for me even more. My Body was not the Problem!” 

“I’m greatly concerned with young women and girls who are encouraged to ruminate on their internalised misogyny as correct and to express so.”

“Gender is a social construct, which is why so many Autism spectrum youth (especially girls) struggle with construct based identities, especially if they are same-sex attracted. It is also tempting to identify out of “being a girl” at an age when being a girl means sexual harassment.”

“I have no doubt that many of the kids/young adults seeking SRS and other transition methods are genuinely suffering in some way, I just don’t think that transition is the answer. Body dysmorphic disorder, anorexia and bulimia, and body integrity identity disorder are all treated by helping the person accept their actual body, so why is gender dysphoria different?”

“These issues concern me so much that I am considering homeschooling my children when they come of age to keep them from having to be exposed to these things.”

“I think they are under huge pressures these days and their world is highly sexualised. I am a woman who has fought sexist stereotypes all my life to be gender non-conforming. I fear that if I were a teenager now, I would be deluded into one of these nebulous trans categories instead of simply being a woman and opposing the strictures of our societal expectations.” 

“It’s a homophobic cult…”

“I most concerned, anxious and scared about trans women, trans girls & men that simply self ID as women having access to female toilets, changing areas, hospitals, prisons etc and also do not want my daughter (and myself) to be forced to use gender neutral toilets either. I feel very depressed about the whole situation and that women’s rights are being trampled on.”

“This is a well-oiled machine and a tidy business. If you were to suggest to young children that they needed to change their eye color, you would have an epidemic of kids requesting this.”

“Transing kids is often deeply homophobic, especially for girls who are incipient lesbians. But many boys who trans starting from the onset of puberty are young autogynephiles. They become unsalvageable, porn-sick, and rapey very quickly and relatively young. They are vicious and will always be a danger to girls and women.” 

“When I first came out as a lesbian, I was surrounded by a strong community of lesbians in my city. But the strange thing was that almost none of them called themselves lesbians. They were all women, and they were all homosexual. But they refused to call themselves anything of the sort. They were anything but “women” and “lesbians.” At the time, this confused me. Looking back, this disturbs me. All of them were older teenagers or young 20-somethings. Some of them had undergone complete hysterectomies, others were binding their breasts to prepare for mastectomy surgery. If this is the community that I had less than 10 years ago, I am so terrified of what up-and-coming lesbians are facing today. Are there any lesbians left?” 

“We definitely need to eradicate sex role stereotypes. I see ‘gender ID’ as reinforcing those stereotypes. This is a regressive ideology which harms girls and oppresses all females.”

“I saw in high school how fast gender identities spread through social groups and how easy it is for these kids to access hormones. Even at the time I knew some of my friends had poor judgment and didn’t think things through, and looking back it’s obvious that these kinds of body altering decisions should NOT have been so accessible to them.” 

“Youth who do not comply with queer new world are stigmatized and isolated at a time of life when belonging is paramount.”

“I am ashamed to be alive at a time when children are willingly being treated so unethically – and being gaslit on top of it, especially girls – and I can’t stop it.” 

“When I was a teen, I was groomed by a much older man who convinced me that being a tomboy meant I was actually a boy trapped in a female body and he explained transitioning to me as an escape from my depression. I only transitioned socially, thankfully, but I spent a few years binding my chest and I absolutely destroyed my breast tissue. I cracked a couple of ribs multiple times too. The only reason I didn’t get on hormones and eventually have surgeries is because I was still living at home and my dad refused to let me do that to myself. Discovering radical feminism saved my life and I don’t even want to imagine where I’d be now if I had damaged my body like that. We are seeing a huge rise in detransitioners, predominantly females who were transitioning to men, and I have a feeling it’s just going to get worse. These women face so much pain and regret over what they did. I don’t want to see more children grow up to suffer the way I and so many others have. We do not have enough studies on what long term effects puberty blockers have. It is not the schoolboard or governments job to parent children. There is a reason that some of the most homophobic countries are accepting of trans people. If the trans movement doesn’t want to reduce people to their biology, they shouldn’t be referring to women by our anatomy and dehumanizing us. There are predatory grown men who will take the opportunity to prey on women and children by pretending to be trans, whether the movement wants to acknowledge it or not.”

“To elaborate on the first question and why I’m less concerned about the notion of “trans children”, I do think there are children who are legitimately trans (that is people who have gender dysphoria starting in childhood). I do, however think that this is a very rare medical condition, so it should raise alarm bells when the numbers of cases rise like they have. I also think that even in legitimate cases, it can be very easy to misdiagnose (especially when thoroughly looking into other possibilities is discouraged or even outright forbidden) or for the child to grow out of it if the idea isn’t reinforced, so I think transition should solely be an adult decision.”

“Gender ideology is the new, “acceptable” face of homophobia; it’s the way that straight people can bully young lesbians and gay boys/young men into compulsory heterosexuality, “conversion” to being straight, and conforming with regressive sex-role stereotypes. Gender ideology is setting the rights and public acceptance of lesbians and gay men back decades.”

“Pharma and lgbtq groups are promoting child abuse.” 

“I believe that what SOGI curriculum, possibly parents and the medical/psychiatric community are doing to children rises to the level of child abuse.”

“I don’t know what to do about this. I am at a loss as to what we can do.”

“I’m a lesbian. I have experienced firsthand, how ‘lesbian’ is akin to porn for many men, and numerous women.”

“My 24 yr old grandson has bought into this ideology. His mother got him an “affirming” therapist. My grandson has had mental help issues for a long time and I fear he is not getting the actual help he needs.” 

“I feel lucky that I didn’t grow up during this climate. In contrast, the 1950’s and 60’s, though extremely difficult for women, was less threatening to girls’ bodies and futures than today.”

“I’m so happy I’m in my early 20s and the trans stuff didn’t totally kick in until I was an older teenager. With my body image issues, sexuality crisis, and being a tomboy, I would have been such an easy target for TRAs.”

“I taught biology and other subjects to secondary and FE level for nearly 50 years. I retired from my last job in an adolescent psychiatric unit as the requirement to acknowledge deeply distressed girls as boys due to NHS capture was a step too far. Teenage girls are so very much unhappier than when I started teaching in 1968.” 

“I’m tired of seeing young women identifying as nb, trans men, or whatever made up gender.”

“As a teacher I am also concerned that I risk my job if I do not present the anti-science aspects of gender ideology in biology and sex education lessons.”

“Gender ideology does seem like bigotry and patriarchal ideals repackaged. I fear that in several years many of those children will experience medical problems and regrets.” 

“I’m incredibly concerned about any medical steps to transition children, as we now know just taking puberty blockers is irreversible and has dangerous long term consequences.“

“Some of my answers are not easy because the truth is we know little about the number of transitioning kids (or detransitioners). This is part of the problem, we should know this not because we need to keep track of some types of people but because those people are using heavy medication.” 

“Children and young people are being manipulated by the trans lobby. They are by nature still learning about the world and their place in it. It is dangerous to their future mental and physical health to be “trans” in these ways.”

“The children I see pursuing transition come from a troubled family background, to a one. They are being sold the idea through social media and pandering school programs that all their distress will be sorted out if only their pronouns are respected and they can change their bodies in dramatic, painful ways. They use violent language to posture confidence, when instead they need to be given help so that they may survive their unstable family situations or trauma histories with confidence. This focus on gender and transition also puts one’s trauma or mental diagnoses forward as a primary identity for children, and that is so self-defeating for a young person trying to build a life and a sense of self. I have seen this personally in the life of my troubled niece, but also in children that attend school with my daughter.”

“When I was a teenager, I suffered from very poor mental health (as many do). I was also coming to terms with my sexuality and hated feeling seen by boys/men. It really pains me to see young girls suddenly wanting to transition, because I have no doubt I might also have seen this as a kind of “magic bullet” to solve my emotional pain had I been born ten years later…“

“This is a travesty and there will be generations of young people who are being irreversibly damaged through the continual push of trans issues and trans culture. There needs to be an immediate public investigation (backed by the government and NHS) into the safeguarding of young people on this subject.” 

“It is highly disturbing to see that children and teens doing normal developmental exploration of ways to live in the material world are being pushed into acceptance of sex role stereotypes that continue to under-gird and foster oppressive social, legal and cultural structures and systems. And told that their acceptance of theses sex roles require medical interventions that will have lifelong effects”.

“Why are schools not teaching about challenging gender stereotypes and gendered roles?? This need to label everything has put massive pressure of children and young people, especially vulnerable ones!” 

“This affects me a great deal because I’m a very gender stereotype non-conforming woman. About 8 or 9 years ago I slowly started thinking I might be trans male because I was exposed to lots of genderist content on tumblr and that imposed the idea of “if you’re gnc you might be trans” into me – all the validation stuff, talk about dysphoria etc only made it worse, my dysphoria grew bigger, I started binding my chest and referring to myself with a different name and took years to realize that this is a trauma-response to sexism, sexual assault and feeling unwell in a female body while living in a patriarchal society that treats you as object to gawk at.”

“This T and its derivatives belong in the registry of mental health issues. Now psychiatrists and therapists are washing their hands, making the public be responsible for others’ delusions.”

“It is shockingly medically negligent to allow the transition of children, whether it be social or physical. It is scandalous that there is no accepted evidence base for these ‘treatments’ and no reason to believe that they are even effective in the long term at alleviating gender dysphoria. Transitioning also imposes (often irreversible) harms on young people as well. It’s a medical malpractice suit brewing on a scale we can’t even comprehend at the moment!”

“We would be better to concentrate on not stereotyping girls’/boys’ behaviour and activities from birth. Ban pink for girls, what’s wrong with yellow, brown, orange?”

“They’re sterilising autistic and proto-gay kids! This is awful!””” 

“Get stonewall out of our schools.”

“I am astounded at how it is now more acceptable to insist a girl who plays with boys toys for example, is actually a boy, rather than validate her and support her in expressing herself as she is. The same goes for boys who may prefer clothes / toys / activities that might generally be considered “for girls” Why are we not doing more to break down stereotypes around gender instead of supporting this regressive ideology?”

“I’m extremely concerned about the “education” in schools and media outlets for children (e.g. BBC education services) all promoting gender ideology to young and impressionable children. I feel like it’s irresponsible and dangerous.”

“They are the collateral damage of this whole movement, I am extremely concerned about some of the very predatory behaviours that I observe in relation to children and all the attempts to mainstream and normalise them. I am concerned about child safety and will not be silenced into what would appear to be many attempts to eradicate it.”

“Yes, I am very worried about the sanitisation of language around these issues. i.e. puberty blockers being actually repurposed end stage prostate cancer drugs. If parents knew this, they may perhaps think twice. Also yes a predatory man/boy will ignore the sign on the toilet door anyways but why on earth would we make it easier for them. Right now if a man or boy is seen in a girl/woman’s space, they can be questioned. WHY would we want to remove that?! No one is talking about it. I can’t stand it. I also do not like the sanitisation around the removal of healthy breasts. If we called it what it is – a double mastectomy, then people might see how crazy it is to do that on breasts which are not cancerous. It makes me so furious. I hate all of this so much. Not to mention how silly it is to think that boys and girls can wear/play with any toys/clothes, why on earth are we regressing now and saying a tomboy is now a transboy. So so so stupid.”

“We desperately need info about coming out lesbian gay or bi. Today kids think if they are same sex attracted they need to transition. We need resources for coming out for young people. They are being groomed into life long medical dependency.”

“Let children be children they have no need to hear about 57 varieties of gender soup which they are not even able to assimilate into their existing knowledge as they are immature and have not worked out their personal identity yet, let them grow up unmedicated and then decide.”

“The lack of discussion and debate around the use of “puberty blockers ” is a huge concern. There is definitely censorship in medicine on this subject in New Zealand.”

“It is hugely frustrating that this is not a simple answer of us as a society protecting children as we do from other ideological movements. (We do not affirm children in their belief that they are fat when they have an eating disorder and we protect them from Pro-Ana and Thinspiration imagery). Schools have a responsibility here and many are failing. The Dept of Education needs to take further action to separate the QT+ from the LGB and remove gender identity from the curriculum.” 

“I’m so angry that the tra are trying to position a watchful waiting therapeutic approach to younger children experiencing dysphoria as conversion therapy. It sickens me that pushing young children towards a life time path of medication and surgery, via the totally inappropriate and unsafe use of puberty blockers is seen as acceptable when that is conversion therapy.”

“I am concerned that the course and timescale of normal child and adolescent development are being brushed aside in the rush to transition children who are not capable of giving informed consent to the process.”

“It is gay conversion therapy.”

“I bought pstyle “stand to pee” camping devices for the high school age daughters of a friend. They use them to pee at school (in the stalls) in mixed sex bathrooms without exposing their genitals to curious boys. This should not be necessary. Before I bought these, the girls were not drinking all day, so that they could avoid the bathroom at school.”

“I am also highly concerned at the prospect that some sex offenders might encourage their own children or other children to take puberty blockers in order for them to remain sexually desirable to the offender for longer. Or possibly encourage the use of puberty blockers so that they can have a sexual partner who is over the age of consent but has an underdeveloped body and mind, and thereby not breaking the law whilst indulging their paraphilia.” 

“It was knowing trans identifying young people that tipped me from indifferent to wtf. The more I read, the more I became alarmed. This is a medical scandal in the making and a lot of people are going to be feeling very uncomfortable in a few years.” 

“As a teacher in high school, I have firsthand experience of the ‘creation’ of so-called trans identifying young people following in the wake of a strong LGBTQ club presence in the school seeking chartership. These were all girls identifying as boys, most with other mental health issues, some severe or autism. Staff were also being told not to tell parents at parents’ night or on reports about their daughter’s transition even though the whole school community knew and this for one of the 12-year-olds and a fifteen-year-old.”

“I fear that we are ‘transing the gay away’ in a world and culture where it is more ‘acceptable’ to be trans/non binary than it is to be gay or lesbian (lesbian particularly). The concept of ‘affirming’ children who ‘feel’ like the other sex is a massive safeguarding issue as well as child abuse and deeply homophobic. We are exposing children and young people to adult concepts when they are still children and are experimenting. We are medicalising children when they are not even old enough to have sex – and there is little or no research being publicly shared into the longer term implications of puberty blockers, mental health effects of ‘transitioning’ and detransitioning, as well as support for young people who may want to just explore their sexuality. Many young people who are simply gay or lesbian are being ‘affirmed’ as the opposite sex so they can perpetuate heterosexual relationships rather than be proud of being gay or lesbian. There are so few lesbian role models – this is not being seen as an option for them sadly.”

“I get the idea that those who would rather have a ‘trans’ child than a gay child are more likely to be religious fundamentalists and that this would be more of an issue in the US than here in the UK.”

“This ideology is child abusing. I can’t believe this is happening.” 

“Gender ideology should not be anywhere near children. Adults will do what they want. Not much we can do about it. As long as males can’t self id as women and be treated as women legally they can present however they want. As long as I don’t have pretend a man is a woman I have no problem. But kids need to be left out of this. The more they are exposed to this the more they will get confused. They should be protected from gender ideology.”

“My own daughter (15) has recently told me she’s non-binary. She wears very tight sports bras, 24 hours a day, to flatten her breasts. She refuses to stop doing this. I am extremely concerned for her welfare, both physically and mentally. She has always been attracted to being involved with minority groups. She likes to be ‘alternative’. But I am so worried about where she might go with this. She and I have had massive arguments about gender ideology. I am a feminist, in her eyes I’m a terf. I have had to create a new Twitter account in order to hide my feminist opinions from her. I don’t want to do this, I want to talk to her about it. But she has even threatened to burn certain books if I was to buy them (JKRowling). This feels like she has become an extremist, and it is very scary. I feel like her generation has been brainwashed by the likes of Stonewall and anyone who disagrees is labelled transphobic. We need to debate this!”

“Children are not mentally or emotionally mature enough to make life changing decisions like gender reassignment. Schools are not the place to be dealing with this issue. parents should always be kept completely up to date with every aspect of school policies and be able to play an active part in policy decisions affecting their children.”

“My niece is caught up in this and we have lost contact with her despite never challenging her on her gender beliefs.”

“The grooming of our children by this ideology is utterly disgraceful.” 

“I am deeply worried and extremely concerned about children being influenced into making profound changes to their bodies and identities based upon an ideology that is based on outdated ideas about gender stereotypes.” 

“I am so upset that this is in our schools. How can we protect our children’s minds. It’s a losing battle.”

“I am very much concerned at the upsurge in girls identifying out of womanhood. The majority of women recognise this rejection. Puberty is difficult for girls, the way boys and men view women and girls as mere objects to be sexualised is horrifying. The effect of easily available porn is undeniable. There are also comorbidities to be considered with many girls being lesbian, autistic or having mental health issues. These issues should always be explored prior to the trans pathway being taken.” 

“Gender Identity Ideology is confusing children.”

“There is no right way to be a girl or a boy. It’s just that some adults who prefer that there is and children are paying the price, not now, but soon.”

“I have noticed a change in primary aged children through my work over the last 15 years. I have heard them openly discuss their sexuality and their gender confusion within their peer groups. Girls especially want to be kind within the boundaries of LBGTQIA ideology. There is “Be Kind” notices all over the school. Staff wearing rainbow lanyards and unisex toilets for the past four years. This ideology takes away a girl’s freedom of expression and gives a falsehood of biology. More and more girls are mutilating their bodies because they are being gaslit and groomed into believing they can actually change sex.”

“I have a family member who is currently transitioning to ‘become’ a boy when I believe she is actually a ‘tomboy’ lesbian. So these issues feel very close to home.” 

“I think that all adults need to have regard to safeguarding & take those responsibilities seriously.” 

“I feel the trans movement is a way of conversion therapy. It’s anti gay. Children are confused about a lot of issues. It takes time to process thoughts as we mature. No consideration is given to the fact they might be gay or just questioning how they feel about their body and relationships. Children should not be given the option of suppressing puberty which is an important part of human development.” 

“This ideology is indoctrinating our youth and people are downplaying the consequences.”

“Very worried about lack of safeguarding of children, safety for women and increase in homophobia and misogyny.”

“I believe the widespread availability of pornography is having a deleterious impact on young people, especially in terms of how women are presented and what is increasingly expected of us sexually.”

“It is particularly difficult raising a gnc daughter in this environment. Trying to keep her grounded in reality while not alienating her with “terf” language & ideas, trying to keep her open to discussing what she sees online.” 

“Basic safeguarding is being lost. Children are not being given accurate language to talk about their own bodies and the bodies of adults around them. A mass grooming project is at work in which children are being told to use inaccurate words when referring to sex. Any movement which preaches to children to “trust what the strange man tells you about his identity” before trusting your own instincts is a PREDATORY MOVEMENT. The “gender identity” theory is teaching kids body dissociation, dismemberment, and is doing untold physical and mental harm. Kids should be given accurate language to talk about their bodies and taught to embrace their fully embodied humanity.” 

“All the glitter nonsense needs to get off social media and mainstream media. Parents need to strictly monitor their children’s internet use for as long as the parent is paying for it. All medical interventions should be banned until 25yrs+ and even then, I would want to see solid evidence of long term benefit before I would agree with these interventions, and certainly before not objecting to them being paid for out of my taxes. Any therapy approaches for gender confused children/teens should actively aim to assist them to reconcile with their biological sex.”

“It’s the triumph of ideology over science. It’s terrifying.”

“Very, very concerned about all of this. Parents have rights. The state cannot step in for parents like they did around the Canadian residential schools, when indigenous families forced to board their children at schools, some of which are now being found to harbour mass graves of children’s bodies. Children are impressionable and cannot make these decisions about their body. Also, is it any wonder girls don’t want to be women with the rampant pornification of society and rape culture all around us? Very troubling, very stressful.”

“I feel this movement is grooming young girls and boys, and that they are being subject to an increasingly sexualized ideology. It is dangerous and is eroding boundaries.” 

“Children want to please adults. Allowing gender ideology to permeate schools is a dangerous path, children who are confused about sex generally grow out of it. If they are told it is ‘stunning & brave’ by ideologically driven teachers they will try to please the teacher.”

“I am a teacher so have witnessed students who think they are trans. They all have serious mental health issues that are treated as secondary compared to their “gender identity”. It is very concerning.”

“I am a secondary teacher. I see this cult at work every day.” 

“Terrified for my 6 young grandchildren all at state schools who may be subjected to this indoctrination.”

“I am concerned that, in an age when your sex should not define who you are or what you do, we have gone backwards and seem to be accepting that certain feelings or interests define your gender. In reality, if a man wants to paint his nails / sew / be a nurse, then he can do things, as a man. Ditto if a woman wants to be an engineer / climb trees / play rugby. She can be a woman who does those things. I am perplexed and frustrated that we seem to be telling children that instead, someone who was born male, can develop certain interests or feelings that mean he’s actually female. It is the very opposite of all we’ve fought for in equal opportunities for many decades.”

“I grew up in the 70’s where it was normal for girls to be gender non-conforming. We climbed trees, played with lego as well as playing with dolls. This is normal behaviour. Nowadays these are seen as markers of being the opposite sex. I have friends whose granddaughters are now identifying as boys, there is no discussion on why they may feel like this, despite obvious markers of mental health problems. I am very concerned that positive affirmation means no support to understand the mental processes children use to manage stress, from parents’ divorce to sexual abuse. I am also concerned that gender identity is the new fashion, as can be seen within friendship groups. When I was young feminism explained why I hated my pubescent body, nowadays it seems there is nothing wrong with patriarchal society and it is all the problem of the individual not being happy in their newly sexualised body. Children being taught in school they can change their sex is seriously dodgy. They are being groomed for a lifetime of dependency on untested drugs and surgery.”

“’A great deal’ doesn’t begin to express my concern. These practices are child abuse in my opinion.”

“When I was growing up as a tomboy, I was encouraged by my family to be however I wanted to be. No one told me I was actually a boy. I want children to be and to play with whatever they want to without being subjected to identity crisis and lifelong medication.”

“I’m concerned because in my country, like in so many other Western countries, the number of young people seeking gender transition has grown exponentially. I’m worried that young people will go through these irreversible treatments and come to regret it later. I think it is extremely regressive to think that not conforming to sex stereotypes makes one not a woman or not a man.”

“I have a 13-year-old lesbian daughter. The idea of gender etc. is present. Friends of hers talk of wanting mastectomies. At 13. I want her to grow to love and accept her body and her sexuality. I hate the specter of gender eyc. that is has even put the idea into her head that she has to have one”. 

“So much damage is being done to this generation, esp girls with asd. It’s cruel. It’s worse than PIE and many paedophiles will be involved and delighted at the erosion of boundaries.”

“I am very sad, they lost their Feelings as a lesbian.”

“I think this is the worst of gender ideology and I fear TRA’s have won the new generation.” 

“As a parent I am horrified.”

“I am concerned for four granddaughters.”

“This is the very worst thing humans ever ever done to children.”

“I have had a lot to do with difficult, disabled and traumatized kids- they seem to be the primary targets of gender ideologues – good parents have the right to know what is going on with their kids- many kids confused about gender grow up simply to be gay or lesbian – by leading these kids down the gender path the state itself become complicit in conversion therapy of possible young gay and lesbians. Also since many gender non conforming kids are simply kids with disabilities and the end game of transgenderism is medical transition resulting in sterilization – the question of eugenics has to be asked.”

“This is a medical and caregiving scandal that will be classified with eugenics, lobotomy, electro shock therapy. The medical doctors should lose their license and be charged for putting children and adults with psychological disorders into harms’ way by conducted experiments on them. This is malpractice at the very least. Women keep asking proof for what good all these “treatments” achieve. There can be no reason for conducting medical operations and hormonal treatments on healthy bodies.” 

“This is evil agenda targeting kids for profit and to unhinge the security of family in society. Parents have been told via Canadian court that their children now belong to the state. There is no greater threat than the proud nation I grew up in suddenly deciding to teach my child lies and take her from me if I don’t allow obvious harms to happen.”

“Gender ideology is spreading ignorantly among young people because of social media, fandoms etc. They really don’t know this is an ideology, they don’t question anything and if someone questions, they try to silence them and mock them. It’s awful.”

“The notion of being ‘born in the wrong body’ is damaging to children and akin to the old stories about changelings and gypsies swapping children. It also suggests the religious idea of ‘dualism’; that humans have ‘souls’ which are not part of their bodies. Thanks to trans ideology, children are being pushed into exactly the old-fashioned stereotypes we worked so hard to change. My own granddaughter was persuaded by her class-mates that she must be a boy because she was good at science and preferred collecting insect specimens rather than go shopping with the girls. As a result, she started breast-binding. Happily, her parents and I intervened and she is now a healthy, happy teenager who now understands that girls can be just as good at science as boys.” 

“I am deeply concerned that gender ideology gives children the ability to consent to issues beyond their maturity level, and to life-long body alterations and hormones that they may regret.”

“It was tough enough for me in the 60s trying to express my sexuality in a healthy way. My heart goes out to teenagers today and I want to do all I can to protect them from pernicious transgenderism.”

“Schools have been promoting gender ideology ideas to children for years. It has done a lot of damage in making them believe that you can change ‘gender’ and ‘trans’ is a real thing.”

“They need our protection. They are not able to make these permanent, life-changing decisions. People who encourage the mutilation of children must be stopped. Everyone knows that children go through developmental stages, including many when they question their identity. This must not be used to create a generation of sterile victims.”

“Children should not be taught gender identities as they are totally confusing and it is easy to see how they could be groomed under the guise of being educated. They must be allowed to grow up and think about their sexuality and gender when they become young adults.”

“Puberty can be stressful but counselling and time is better than harmful drugs and surgery.” 

“I think that down the road the “transitioning” of children and young people will be seen as what it is: abuse.”

“This ideology is devastating to teens. They are taught at school that this is the only progressive way to think. Three of the girls from my daughter’s small preschool class had double mastectomies and massive doses of testosterone before the end of high school. Most of my daughter’s peer group is wearing chest binders and identifying as “not a girl”. Normal teenage awkwardness and uncertainty is medicalized, and healthy growth and resiliency thwarted. It is terrifying as a parent to realize that the schools, doctors, therapists and courts all support this ideology.” 

“Children and young people are being taken advantage of by the trans lobbyists by their own vulnerability and lack of maturity. More facts are coming out about the negative and irreversible side effects of puberty blockers and cross/ hormones and surgery. It is destroying a whole generation of young people filled by social media and being rewarded for coming out. It is threatening to erase the LGB.”

“Children & young people are changeable & malleable. Low self-esteem, mental health problems, problems with sexual identity, peer group pressure, social media pressure, parental pressure, parental expectation or homophobia, parental mental health problems or desire for fame, and the child’s desire for a parent’s approval – all can influence a vulnerable child into parroting/following glamorous choices that appear to solve the dilemmas of working out their own identity (in an ‘acceptable’ way).”

“No question that ‘trans’ is the new self-image disorder for teen girls. As with eating disorder, they want to alter their body and identity to avoid being raped.” 

“Young people like to challenge norms and push boundaries, and teenage girls find it difficult to accept their new second class citizen/support human/sex object status, and some try to escape that – this generation’s escape is trans/non-binary. Adults – women, because men aren’t doing it – need to be better supports and guides and create a better narrative / culture / future possibilities for our young women so that they are resistant to harmful ideologies and trends put out by men.” 

“These measures to propagandise children and young people are re-instating sex-based stereotypes. They undermine attempts to help people to become accepting of their sexed bodies, and to be positive about the diverse ways of being male or female i.e. being positive about gender non-conformity without medicalising it.”

“I feel people submitting children to drugs and surgery should be struck off the medical register.” 

“I believe this sudden surge of trans identified children is part social contagion without children knowing the long term implications of taking medication or at worst surgery, that these are not reversible without damage. Children seem to think that this is cool, edgy and groundbreaking idealism without the understanding that the push behind all this is mostly a for profit scheme from powerful American lobbying corporations. No child should be made vulnerable at school but that applies to female children too not just trans. I should expect every adult regardless of whether they have children or not, to be concerned at this blatant attempt to push an ideology onto younger and younger children, the blatant attempt to sexualise children younger and younger and the dismantling of woman’s rights which actively affects young girls.”

“It is the job of parents and other responsible adults to look after children and keep them safe. For parents, teachers, doctors, therapists to allow or even encourage children to ruin their health and their lives with drugs and surgery is scandalous.”

“It’s nothing short of child abuse to tell children they’re anything less than born perfect.”

“Chestbinding is something I did to minimise the shape of my breasts because I was subject to so much sexual abuse at school. I was grabbed, poked, oggled… horrible. That was 1980. I hated being a girl because of the abuse and restrictions placed on me for fear of my being raped if I was out at night. But surgery??? Men and boys’ violence needed to be addressed … not my body.”

“My main concern is the legitimating of gender stereotypes and their use as justification for transitioning. Gender nonconformity should be celebrated within sex not used as a sign that anyone is “in the wrong body”.”

“I am very disturbed that those who should be protecting children are not, for the sake of looking progressive and on the say so of lobby groups like Stonewall and Mermaids.”

“”Transing” children is child abuse. It is homosexual eugenics.” 

“Both my kids got infected with this nonsense at secondary school.”

“They are being lied to, the implication being ‘have some injections and a little body reshaping (like you’re sewing a rag doll) and voila all of your worries disappear and you are magically a boy/girl. This is cruel and inhuman.”

“It is cruel and unfair to manipulate children into moving forward with sex change.”

“Children should be taught they are not born in the wrong body but can be as feminine or masculine or neither without having to change their body with medical interventions.”

“I have serious concerns about the safeguarding of children and young people. Some adults are using the ‘trans issue’ as an opportunity to gain access to children and young people, and the adults that should be in charge aren’t asking enough questions – e.g. Drag Story Hour; Girl Guiding; and LGBT youth groups run by fetishising trans identified men.”

“I was a troubled teen after a chaotic childhood, and have had a lifelong battle with mental illness. I am concerned that so many children are being affirmed when the correct response would be to investigate ANY issues that may be underpinning trans identity. I have concerns that very young children who do not fully understand the significance of sex or gender are allowed to change their names and begin a pathway which not only reinforces their subjective desire to be seen as the opposite sex but which too often results in medical intervention without the intellectual capacity to recognise the ramifications.”

“Totally inappropriate to discuss sexuality with children, drag not appropriate in libraries or children’s story times.”

“See my previous section. I am so grateful for the bravery of Keira Bell taking those bastards – Tavistock Clinic – to court. The initial court decision forced many across the globe to pause and think about whether a 4-year old has the capacity to make decision on taking puberty blockers to stunt their growth, make themselves infertile and reduce their capacity to enjoy intimate sexual relationships. The whole gender ideology is steeped in sexualising children. Why? Sex and relationships are being taught by men who I feel at best are dubious and worse paedophiles. Their presence reinforces the stereotypes of homosexuals being predators, when that is not the case. In fact the ideology wipes out gays, lesbians and bisexuals because same sex or both sex attractions do not exist in the trans world. Where are the gay men on this? Why are so many of them silent? So the transiban have come for women. We up against it on all fronts – in schools, in health, in the workplace, on social media. Young lesbians are being groomed and raped by men who call themselves trans. The men on the left are encouraging and supporting all this abuse and violence against women. Only a handful of fathers are speaking out against the impact of this ideology on their children. They are coming for us women to break us so that they can access our children and groom them into this false idea of ‘trans’. I don’t believe in this concept. We are born male or female. With tiny exceptions there are intersex people. That’s it. The rest is bullshit that the academics and their cohorts have been brewing in universities for many years. Their poisonous and dangerous ideology has not spilled out into the mainstream and it’s our children who are not being safeguarded. What are the 384 local authority safeguarding boards doing about this? Are they all Stonewall champions so they’ve thrown the protection of children under the bus? Even the police are not interested in the safeguarding of children. What we are left with are the fetishes and pornographic demands of men who want unfettered access to women and children’s bodies to do whatever they like. And all our public institutions that have been put in place to protect and safeguard children are deaf, dumb and blind. Even the NSPCC have drank the trans koolaid so they are no longer about the protection of children. It makes me sick to my stomach that the pedos and sexual predators are being given full reign to access and abuse our children. We’ve got to hold the line – if we don’t want to see an even greater epidemic of children with severe mental health issues, which is what will be coming down the pipeline.” 

“I worry about young people having to keep their views secret due to fear of being labelled transphobic.” 

“Sometimes I can’t sleep at night about what’s happening to children because I’m so angry and afraid for the future. I have always been a liberal and accepting person and suddenly I could be labelled transphobic for believing gender is not a feeling. I feel so much anger when I hear brave women in prominent positions receiving death threats for stating the views I share. I can’t believe that I would be bullied for stating a truth: trans women aren’t women – they are men. How can a man who has a penis be a woman just because he feels like a woman? Because he wears a dress? A male rapist can be referred to as she in court? The brainwashing of children is darkly dystopian – the more I find out the more distressed I become. Sadly, my imagination is truth: Iranian gay and lesbian young people being forced to trans? When will that happen here? What I most despise is the official advice pages for young people that normalise the most extreme thing you can do to your body and what is worse, no one is discussing the massive profit being made by very dark individuals from the sale of hormone drugs that these poor children will need for the rest of their lives. Those encouraging this must have a deep hatred of mothers, families and see children as experimental fodder.” 

“It breaks my heart to think that children’s emotional and physical well-being is compromised by this ideology! I can’t understand how these regressive sex stereotypes are now dictating the need for a life-long relationship with medication, surgery and mental health resources. This is a tragic turn of events for children”. 

“There are huge safeguarding risks in this no debate new world. Not all parents have their children’s best interests at heart. Children need to try out identities, it was called child development. Doctors are feeling pressured into allowing medical transitioning. Something is very wrong when all debate is shut down.” 

“It’s not unusual for children and young people to feel at odds with their bodies (especially around puberty) or their relationships to friends/popular groups etc but it seems that some adults are jumping to one answer (trans) when the distress, alienation, discomfort felt by children/YP requires adults to be curious, caring, responsible, informed, considerate and keep a range of possible answers open. The pernicious effects of social media (selfies, celebrities, in-groups, chasing likes) and gender stereotypes both are exacerbating a limited and limiting conformity of ‘what is a girl’ or ‘what is a boy’.” 

“I would have ticked all the boxes had I been a child today. What is going on now is little more than homophobic conversion therapy. The evidence is all there even the CEO of Mermaids has as good as admitted it in her TedTalk.”

“I have a daughter in her late 20s and a daughter in her late teens, the difference in language used about sex / gender is massive.” 

“Parents fear their child will kill themselves if not affirmed as trans because they have been lied to by trans lobbyists.”

“I work in a school, there are two girls who are now identifying as boys, they are both vulnerable children.” 

“We need to have honest conversations with children and acknowledge that growing up is difficult and confusing, but this does not mean that medicalisation is the answer.” 

“I’m very worried for children and young adults being pressured by society, parents and peers to be classed as being in the wrong body and not accepted as being gay, lesbian and bisexuals. A lot of this gender ideology feels like conversion therapy to get rid of same sex attraction or bisexuality.”

“You cannot trans the gay away. I have many cherished lesbian friends and my middle son is gay. They are perfect just as they are.”

“Even if people are not explicitly homophobic they can feel more comfortable if their child is trans not gay/lesbian.” 

“I am desperately concerned about the pressure on children to make life changing decisions when they lack the life experience needed to understand the implications.”

“I feel the focus on ‘wrong body syndrome’ and gender identity has opened up discussions about sophisticated elements of sex in a way that is not age appropriate.”

“I work with teens. I have done for 30 years. This is the most worrying & damaging trend I’ve ever seen.”

“There is still a narrative of puberty blockers being “reversible” when they’ve been shown to link to several irreversible and lifelong medical problems e.g. osteoporosis, loss of sexual function. Plus little is said about impact of stopping brain development at a crucial time and potential harm on cognitive function in lifespan.”

“I’m pleased my children are adults now and weren’t vulnerable teenagers just now, but I have friends with daughters who use he/him pronouns and I know they are worried.”

“As a lesbian this is one of the things that concern me the most. I feel we are encouraging children to choose life-long medical interventions instead of supporting children to live in their healthy bodies. I know that as a very gender non-conforming child who was desperate not to be seen as ‘a weak girl’ (I saw my mom physically, mentally and emotionally abused by my dad and grew up in a very rigid sexist and homophobic culture) I would have either done anything to opt out of this fate or would have been encouraged to because that was how I presented. In terms of PB’s we can see them as a gateway drug to hormones that doesn’t just pause normal development but stops and interferes with it in ways we are still learning about. I think its horrific that we are basically experimenting on children instead of providing them with effective and timely mental health services”. 

“I only wore dungarees and cowboy boots when I was age 5. Thank god that was 1964 and I grew up in the well rounded high achieving professional woman that I became. Wife, mother. Today someone would try to medicalise me.” 

“My child has been brought up to be gender critical but is starting to bow to peer pressure. His best friend is on a trans pathway, she is 12.”

“It is our duty as adults to protect young people, and that makes up a part of why I want change on the gender ideology issue, and the way it’s creeping into healthcare and legislation via the back door.”

“I support the idea of gender fluidity as a ‘normal’ part of childhood without any need for transitioning or fixed identities. Our bodies are always perfect as they are.”

“This is the most horrifying aspect of gender ideology. Children are being used to legitimise and justify adult choices. I don’t just mean trans-identifying adults (nearly all male). Also S**** *****: she did a terrible thing to her gay son and now other children are paying for that because she can only insist ever more strongly. The fact that it also reinforces sex stereotypes is a problem but not as devastating as the harm to those children. As for the clinicians involved: I am constantly baffled as to what they think the medical condition is, that needs such radical and permanent intervention. It just doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny at all.” 

“This is conversion therapy wrapped up in a multicoloured flag. Once the idea of children being able to consent is floated and agreed with, it can only be downhill from there.”

“I am young. Much easier to be non binary than lesbian in my social spaces. Lesbian=terf now.” 

“Neurodivergency (autism in particular but also ADHD) is hugely over represented in girls going through Tavistock treatment, but this does not appear to be worth researching and understanding. I fear for girls like I was, who may grow up with physical and mental health problems caused by transition/puberty blocking, because their nonconformity was ascribed to/”corrected by” a “male brain”, instead of the reality – that girlhood is traumatic under patriarchy, particularly when neurodivergent.” 

“One of my grandsons, from 2 till about 6, was really into pink, beads and dressing up in fairy dresses. We let him do this but at no point did ‘trans’ ever enter our heads. He is now a healthy 16 yr old Male. God knows what would have happened to him today!”

“I am concerned when I hear about clusters of young women saying they are really male – this shouldn’t be taken at face value. Something is clearly going on but it needs investigating, not just being accepted as fact.”

“As a recently retired social worker I have seen a huge increase of cases where children as young as 4 are labelled as trans. In some cases, transitioning at nursery. We are afraid to challenge for fear of being called transphobic. It’s a huge concern and managers turn to stonewall and mermaids for advice which in my view is biased. In court cases when a psychological assessment is needed for so called trans kids, trans psychologists are appointed. This is because everyone (including other psychologists) are tiptoeing around the trans issue. My concern is that trans psychologists may have bias. Young lesbians are exposed to pressure from trans women to push aside same sex attraction and include male bodied trans identified males as partners.” 

“I foster vulnerable children and am aware of the effects of trans propaganda on them.”

“It is frightening that the government, psychological clinicians, medical doctors, surgeons, care workers and educational providers are making decisions on the health, well-being, safeguarding and care of children based on ideological beliefs with clearly harmful physical, social and psychological impacts on children in the short and long term while disregarding evidence, safeguarding & “do no harm” principles. Children who are told by trusted adults in positions of authority and responsibility that belief, behaviours, feelings or interests (etc) determine their sex (and the sex of others) are being mistreated – the mistreatment and the direct and indirect consequences are a form of systemic child abuse. Children are highly susceptible to social pressures, with increased pressure from increased online activity. Those with specific vulnerabilities are at increased risk of seeking what they are told will relieve their distress and give them comfort, safety or a sense of connection. Adults in trusted positions of responsibility have a special duty to safeguard all children from harm and risk harm of any form.”

“I am concerned that children and young people are being led down a no-return path of self-harm enabled by medical institutions and big pharma, through brain washing and misleading sexist paradigms. Also, children and young people are left unprotected to their own devices against predators who benefit from this grooming.”

“This is a safeguarding issue for young people. I have worked with children for over 20 years. There is a lot of confusion about adolescence and identity and this ‘trans’ offer seems to be an attractive solution to identity problems that teens need to wrestle with. In reality however it isn’t a solution as those identity issues still need to be worked through.”

“I’m concerned this is all just sexism + homophobia on steroids. As the mother of gender non conforming children, I worry they will be targeted.”

“There has long been a male fantasy of enforced sissying. Now it is enforced transing, and the internet is full of straight men, often posing as transwomen, trying to persuade young people into being trans. It’s deeply unhealthy.”

“When I was 18, I hated being female and wanted to cut off my breasts. I’d had years of male sexual violence and harassment and I felt that my female body attracted men’s unwanted attentions. I met feminists by chance, who convinced me that my body was not the problem, men were. They saved my life and gave me a safe harbour in life – feminism. I dread to think what would have happened if I had been 18 years old today. I know if too many girls and boys going down the trans route today when they simply need positive support to get through puberty.”

“It is exhausting treading a tightrope with young people one is close to. One wants to keep the relationship close and open and at the same time, keep the lines of communication open. One wants to talk about these issues in order to instigate critical thinking but one must initiate these conversations so carefully so as not to alienate these young people who, it seems, have been indoctrinated by instagram, youtube and now, school and uni. It is mentally and physically exhausting and when you factor in the constant worry about other unrelated mental health issues in the young person, which are conflated with gender issues, it is genuinely difficult to function sometimes.”

“Both daughters have got kids in their class who are transitioning. No one in the class can speak about the impacts of gender on the other students particularly the girls. Teachers enforce the ideology. Girls have no choice but to submit in school or they’re ostracised. They dare not speak honestly even to friends.” 

“Children should be taught that what you wear and what you do does not define your sex.”

“My daughter is reporting from school that girls as young as 8 are expressing extremely adult views and posing leading questions to others in school along complex gender ideological lines.”

“I feel that the minds and bodies of children are being used and abused to give substance to the belief that sex is a social construct.”

“Social media is fuelling a generation of unwell children. It changes their mindset, turns them into virtue signallers and bullies and forces them to take nonsensical changes to their bodies.”

“Mother of an 18 yr old ROGD daughter – the impact is VERY personal.”

“I (gender-nonconforming lesbian) was transitioned as a child myself, in a time when I was extremely vulnerable mental health wise. I am extremely fortunate that I didn’t make any irreversible physical changes but I came pretty close.”

“I have two children. My oldest came home once very scared about the notion he was told by someone at school that a boy or girl could be the opposite sex. He seemed afraid this might happen to him at any point and he didn’t want that. My youngest has a friend that people say “identify as a girl” because he likes to play dolls with the girls and wear dresses… those are the same people who will agree that there are no “girl toys/stuff”. It makes no sense.

“I am terrified we are losing a generation of lesbian, gay and non conforming children to a social contagion. It is eroding the boundaries between adult and child and creating thousands of permanent “children”. Paedophiles will use this to their advantage.” 

“It feels as if children are being groomed into an ideology that promotes and glorifies self harm and body dysmorphia, without them fully understanding the implications for their future health and well being.”

“Puberty blockers are the next big medical scandal.”

“The impact of this ideology cannot be overstated. It’s ruining the mental and physical health of a generation. It is ruining friendships and families, not to mention the normalization of a lifetime of medical intervention. This is seen as perfectly acceptable in families who previously would shun vaccines, deli meats and Doritos and unacceptable products for their children. Furthermore, I’m told that young children are being taught in school at very young ages that they can change genders. Insanity. It’s criminal and one day the lawsuits will prove it. “

“It seems to me that young children are being failed by health professionals. We would not agree that an anorexic adolescent was too thin so why do we agree with the delusion that they are “in the wrong body”? The NHS has form with this, from treating CBT as the gold standard for initial treatment of people presenting with mental health issues, to pushing GET for those suffering with Chronic Fatigue/ME long after it has been discredited for treatment of severe cases, to lagging behind on recommending the most effective dietary changes for Type 2 diabetics.” 

“Irreparable damage to children at a young age will render people infertile and orgasmless!”

“My daughter repeats the mantras and is worried about being perceived as transphobic if she goes against what has become mainstream. There seems to be little debate.”

“This is eugenics in a glam pack to me. The result is anyway. Knowing I had issues but became a contributing adult. These children are hindered from having kids, living long and healthy lives free from medicaments and in much cases with soul scars.” 

“The pressure on young women in particular to trans and/or not identify as lesbian is horrific. Many of my friends who came out in the 70/80’s onwards recognise we would have felt the need to trans instead, simply because it would have been so much easier.”

“I see this as a form of conversion therapy against young lesbians and gay men, and other gender non-conforming children, who haven’t been allowed to reach the age at which they start to experience and understand the nature of their sexuality.”

“This issue makes me so angry and worries me sick – that governments not only endorse the profiteering from exploiting vulnerable children but actively promote it through gender affirmation legislation in the face of all evidence that the vast majority of children will find their dysphoria dissipates post-puberty is utterly criminal. We need properly funded mental health support for these children, and a political system where all donations are declared in real time, so the gender industry cannot continue to manipulate our elected representatives. I’m also distressed by a complicit media that has thus far been totally negligent in their failure to report on this child abuse. I’m driven to campaign against this damaging medicalisation of a social trend because I have one unrelenting question: How will we undo the damage done to these poor kids? Campaigning is also incredibly costly emotionally – I’m angry that there is so little safeguarding of children that it is even necessary.” 

“I am a counsellor, I feel as though my hands are tied.”

“Transing children is child abuse, and parents should be prosecuted for putting their children through it.”

“The lack of viewing these issues as part of a wider safeguarding assessment or consideration is concerning. It feels like these discussions sit outside of safeguarding.”

£Teenage girls who identify as ‘trans’ are frequently groomed and encouraged to share nudes with older trans identified males.” 

“All of this goes against the very basics of Safeguarding training.” 

“Although I don’t have children of my own I am greatly concerned about the confusion being caused due to fashionable notions of gender identity in children. I have met with parents and children directly affected by this and I consider this movement to be causing considerable harm. It is both homophobic and misogynistic. Any treatment of mental health difficulties in anyone should be based in reality. Leading children to believe they can change sex is a lie, and will, I believe, cause further mental health problems for the individual in future.”

“It is very hard to fight the indoctrination happening to our children and young people. We need more voices challenging this ideology.”

“My 14 year old told me she was Trans, I was gobsmacked. No signs whatsoever. We talked, well, I talked but I think she listened and has accepted that she isn’t. Not sure what made her realise, but I did talk about acceptance at school and the promotion of the LGBTQ+ rainbow. She’s not interested in boys, or anyone, but she’s 14, that’s ok!!!!”

“I am stunned at how many people I know personally whose children are trans, gender queer, or etc, when previously there were none. All girls funnily enough.”

“This is especially painful to see for those of us who are lesbians and do not conform to sex based stereotypes. We know it could have easily been us.”

“Peer pressure is overwhelming during preteen and teen years. You can clearly see how schools go from zero transkids to half a dozen or more within a month. As soon as one kid does it and others see how adults bend over backwards for them, others follow. The massive amount of pressure to “examine your gender” online certainly doesn’t help, and that mindset is beginning to be taught in schools.”

“I think the impact on children is the worst aspect of gender ideology.”

“I worry about these issues all the time. I think about my own children, children of relatives, friends and the youth I work with.”

“This is a religion.”

“My sister has struggled with her identity, it is completely normal to struggle with your identity, affirming gender will make them confused in the future.”

“I used to counsel young people. I could not do it now as I cannot accept gender ideology and the affirmative model as the only way to work with youngsters confused about their gender.”

“I’m concerned the pshe lessons personal/ social health education in schools is giving false information about sex and gender and that this indoctrination starts at age 10 pre puberty. Schools then are promoting sexual stereotypes rather than challenging them.”

“I have two boys and I am crossing my fingers that they have escaped this nonsense. But it is rife in schools and I am very worried about the effect it has on teens who are going through a very vulnerable time regarding identity, sexuality, body issues, peer pressure etc.”

“CAMHS services should not be publicising gender ideology openly in their waiting rooms. Using Genderbread posters etc.”

“Confusing young children about the realities of biology is detrimental to their education. Introducing drag performance/telling children men should be welcomed into their intimate spaces removes safeguarding principles and blurs their own senses of right from wrong, and may form the basis of grooming.” 

“It’s extremely distressing to see the impact of VAWG, rape culture and objectification is leading to so many girls being indoctrinated to reject their female bodies rather than being supported to fight gender stereotypes and patriarchal norms that underlie it.”

“Trans activists’ ideology is homophobic & misogynistic to the core – young lesbians especially are being bullied & ostracised for not considering males as potential sexual partners. Pushing long term drugs & surgeries as the ONLY option to young, impressionable, children is creating a massive health problem for the future, it is nothing short of child abuse.”

“This ideology reinforces sexist stereotypes and children are being seen through that lens. This is very scary for children who do not conform to sexist stereotypes. I am scared for my girls. I am also scared that they will be forced to share their spaces with males which isn’t safe.”

“I think parents and people who care for children should intervene on a level to develop dialogue with authoritative bodies to cease this practice as a type of child abuse.”

“Young people & worried parents are vulnerable to easy answers from people in authority. I am very concerned well meaning people are contributing to social contagion of radicalisation of healthy bodies of young people with complex problems manifesting superficially as gender issues but rooted in much deeper other issues (trauma, not fitting in, isolation, bullying) transition very unlikely to help those kids & likely to just create another new issue of transition regret to pile on top of existing issues.”

“I’m also very concerned about the safety and wellbeing of young lesbians when men are presenting themselves as ‘lesbian’ on dating sites. Also the idea being promoted that transitioning is safe and cool, at an age when children cannot appreciate the long-term risks and effects.”

“I am also concerned about ‘woke’ culture, being a white person who identifies as their biological sex and whose sexual preference is the opposite sex, places young people in the position of ‘privilege’ which means they are responsible for atoning for the sins of their ancestors, this a heavy load and one that is easily lightened by identifying as an oppressed group such as transgender.”

“No child or young person can possibly understand all the implications of treatment. They’re part of an experiment and then abandoned if they detransition.” 

“As a 58 year old lesbian who was non conforming as a child I am terrified and disgusted that girls like me are not being allowed to discover their sexuality naturally and instead are being told their body is wrong!!!”

“Historically most children desisted if watchful waiting was permitted, and numbers were few. Most who desisted were homosexual and not transgender, yet children are being affirmed rather than looking at possible comorbidities impacting on their gender confusion.” 

“Trans ideology is often promoted by youngsters who have not yet reached adulthood and have never thought about what their breasts are for or how their ideas on parenting might change with maturity. The children I am aware of who experience ‘gender dysphoria’ have a history of other troubles. They need better mental health care.”

“Again, my daughter was trans for 4 years and luckily escaped this cult before going on cross-sex hormones or getting surgery. Now she talks about how harmful binders are. She wore one for 2 years!” 

“We have two vulnerable Sen (Special educational needs) children who have been impacted by their schools teaching gender ideology both unbalanced politically and even as science. One of our children was heavily influenced by pastor at school who focussed on gender ideology offering solutions to her difficulties rather than exploration and support for her social communication difficulties.” 

“I’m heartbroken that young people are not allowed any freedom to just be themselves and explore without constant labelling and, worse, medicalising.” 

“My concern stretches to older age groups than just children. I feel that young adults can be equally ill equipped to stand up to the prevailing dogma, as we see by detransitioners’ stories.”

“This is affecting my daughter who has decided to identify as trans.”

“Safeguarding has been eliminated in many schools. Kids have a right to single sex facilities, already harm is happening to some of them. It is a hard time to be a child.”

“I am an old lesbian and horrified by the disappearing of lesbians and young lesbians in particular.” 

“I know of multiple young people caught up including family members. They all have other issues which are being ignored, particularly autism.” 

“My 7 Yr old has come in from school declaring she is bi sexual because she plays with both boys and girls. I should not need to fix the mis information she’s been given in schools. She is 7 she is not a sexual being yet and if she was this is an early sign of abuse. Sexualising children will cover up abuse.”

“I think that children are being manipulated by people with their own agendas.”

“I consider the men’s rights movement (aka gender identity) child abuse and feel it should be called out as such and punished.”

“I have two daughters who have autism. The disproportionate amount of girls who have autistic spectrum conditions who are being referred to gender clinics is very scary because not only are my daughters much more vulnerable to being influenced to accept being uncomfortable with their sexed bodies sensations, but they are also way less capable at understanding consequences of their choices. The ‘theory of mind’ part of asc (autism spectrum condition) makes it much more difficult for them to understand other people’s perspectives and experiences, and therefore much less able to apply lessons learned from them to their own lives and choices, so have a significant developmental lag behind peers when it comes to understanding the consequences of their decisions. In addition to this because of their disabilities they are at much greater risk of being confused and silenced when trying to articulate valid fears about boys or men in safe spaces like toilets and changing rooms if they are gas lit into accepting that some boys or men are now girls and women just because they say they feel like they are or because they put on a dress today. Safeguarding relies on the importance of naming material reality. Obscuring the biological fact that boys and men are male and are not female steals my daughters right to voice valid concerns and to have appropriate boundaries. Nothing should ever trump safeguarding.”

“My own children are adults, so this issue was not something I had to consider as a parent. However I am greatly concerned for any potential grandchildren I might have. The very idea that they could be persuaded to believe they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is chilling. I’m disgusted by the glamourised notion of ‘trans kids’, a recent example being the young actress Emma Corrin appearing on Instagram wearing what appears to be a breast binder in a fashion photo shoot. The amount of compliments she received was very worrying, as this was presented as a fun thing to do. In fact, this is a harmful action which can damage developing breast tissue. The huge rise in young girls being referred to the Tavistock clinic is alarming enough, without celebrities endorsing gender ideology as a positive means of expression.”

“I worry about young people making life decisions without the proper support that will impact them forever. I worry that gender is being seen a set thing that we have to fit in. It’s very limiting.” 

“Girls are fleeing porn culture, strangling and predatory boys and declaring themselves trans and non-binary in order to escape the pressures to have sex with males who don’t respect them.”

“A friend of mine has an autistic teenage niece who identifies as a boy and is fundraising for “top-surgery”, my friend shared the crowd-funder on social media and I was devastated for her.”

“It seems that too many parents are both imposing ridiculous socio-sexual stereotypes on children at a very young age, then not explaining the process of puberty and why it’s important for healthy development into adulthood.”

“As a girl I preferred toy cars and trucks to dolls and was interested in science – like lots of other girls! It’s normal, and it didn’t occur to my parents, or to me, that I was anything other normally female. I think the ‘Barbiefication’ of girls has a lot to answer for. Surely gender stereotypes need to be broken down, not reinforced. It’s also normal for children to question who they are and try out different identities. They shouldn’t be medicated and subjected to surgery that leaves them stuck in a ‘phase’.”

“I work in schools and was appalled to be told that I must not talk about this with children or parents. Children are so easily convinced by something new which will bring them special status. It feels like we are all being groomed.”

“I’m a retired teacher, thank god I didn’t have to bow to all this in my day, I’d have been out of a job. I see transing children as child abuse.”

“I am most concerned about the behavior of the adults who are advising these children or their parents (e.g. doctors, schools) jumping on this bandwagon and encouraging confused kids towards such extreme and risky changes. Hormones and surgery effects on health are only just beginning to be understood, particularly in young people.” 

“The rapid timeline with which children are being transitioned and very young children are being transitioned due to muhchausen by proxy.”

“The peer pressure and social media pressure is immense for children.”

“Where I have answered ‘a great deal’ I am beyond a great deal… totally agonised by it!” 

“Some children become uncomfortable with their sexed bodies, especially if they are gender non-conforming or pre-gay. Instead of encouraging children to disassociate from their bodies and giving them the idea that sex can be changed through medical procedures, we should help children accept their natural bodies and explore whatever is causing the discomfort. “Trans” and “gender identity” are not immutable qualities, so we need to have a vigorous pushback against the use of this terminology and use words that better express reality. Changing one’s sex is a fantasy. Even adults who pursue medicalization are only using drugs and surgeries to appear more like the opposite sex, but they are still themselves.” 

“I’m extremely concerned that children victims of sexual abuse, who will quite commonly suffer from feelings of rejection or hatred of their bodies and genitals, will instead of being identified and protected, be told they are trans and suffer more bodily abuse through the affirmative medical model of treatment of trans children.”

“I am in fear for them now. It is psychological torture to suggest to any child they may be ‘born in the wrong body’, then help them to gain puberty blockers and the horrific surgery which maims their healthy bodies forever. This has become a cult too, a ‘fashion’, the ‘new punk’ way to get back at parents/grandparents/society. These children/teenagers are way too young to ever understand the implications of what is being done to them…especially kids with autism, who are in even greater danger than neurotypical kids. These Mengele Medics and those indoctrinating children, should be in prison, so awful has it become now!” 

“We are failing children so badly and teaching them things that are blatantly untrue. We are moving backwards by promoting the idea that certain behaviours or preferences are intrinsically male or female. It is dangerous for autistic children and extremely dangerous for LGB children and young people. Synthetic hormones have a massive impact across health and wellbeing. Surgery and binding makes me weep.” 

“I am a secondary school teacher and worry about my gay students being radicalised by the trans ideology.”

“I am terrified that young people who naturally rebel against roles assigned to sex are also fitting into the stiff, conservative sex norms. In my opinion, it is because of wanting to join the group. Social contagion is real and has a tremendous impact on self-perception.”

“My husband is a senior psychiatric nurse. I was a senior teacher. We both know younger people in both these fields who are experiencing stress and, in some cases, professional disadvantage, because they are afraid to express their views on this issue.”

“In future years this will be seen as lobotomy is now seen. For 30 years lobotomy was seen as a good physical solution to a mental health issue. This is the same model and will also be seen as similarly brutal. We need more psychotherapy for people confused about their sexed bodies.”

“I work with vulnerable adults and children and have noticed more and more girls in the care system are saying they want to be boys – I am really worried about them!”

“I live in a town that would be described as ‘very liberal’ and the number of ‘trans’ children is shocking. It’s a behaviour that is positively encouraged by schools – and I believe schools are now a huge part of the problem. I have a friend whose autistic son was given ‘counselling’ by a TRA therapist without her permission.”

“I have two children: a ten year-old girl, and an eight year-old boy. When my daughter was born, I thought that the most difficult part of raising her would be helping her navigate her teenage years with a healthy body image, avoiding the obsessive diet-culture that existed for my generation. When gender ideology came along to tell her that her feelings (wanting safety and dignity when going to the toilet) count as less than a boy’s feelings (to identify as a girl), that any discomfort she may feel going through puberty may be because she’s in the wrong body and should block her puberty, take testosterone, cut off healthy breasts and sterilise herself…I am horrified. Horrified that her rights as a girl are less than those of a boy. Horrified that medical practitioners, schools and governmental bodies, even the BBC are pushing this monumentally harmful LIE that people can change sex and that this lie has resulted in proven harm to girls who de-transition after realising that the very real problems they had were ignored and an inappropriate life-changing medical ‘solutions’ pushed instead. I am terrified as to what sort of world my daughter will inherit: will we have managed to win back her rights and redraw the boundaries needed for women and girls to participate in society? Can I get her through her teen years without succumbing to peer pressure to label herself ‘trans’ or ‘non-binary’ just because she doesn’t see herself in the pornified version of womanhood pushed by society. Why can’t girls just be girls? Where are all the adults in the room?”

“My daughter is autistic. She was pushed to transition. We are so lucky she refused herself, we had no way to be part of the process. It was difficult after she refused, they would not treat her for any other possible reasons for discomfort with her body. We moved and waited and finally saw someone who made the autism diagnosis. It’s not easy, she is still unhappy with bodily discomforts like periods, but she has a reason for how she feels and some help now. She was lucky. We were lucky.”

“I think it is normal for girls to want to be boys in our unequal society. I did myself. I think children cannot possibly give informed consent to possible sterilisation and possible future problems finding and responding to sexual partners. They have no idea what changes come with sexual maturity.”

“Anxious, confused young people are having their future lives ruined by people who have a duty to protect them – parents, teachers, clinicians.”

“The whole world changes after puberty, kids need to be kids – then set about confusing themselves with life- but after puberty”.

“Children and young people go through many changes and need support, love and encouragement, not bs statements about being born ‘in the wrong body’ (which is not possible).”

“Safeguarding for children has been completely dropped. As a society we are permitting the use and abuse of children to sustain some adults’ fantasies and/or fetishes.” 

“It also concerns me that children are being exposed to sexualised material at a much earlier age via the eagerness of schools to embrace LGBTQ issues in sex education programmes. In their rush to be accepting, they overlook age appropriateness.”

“Trans ideology information in schools should be limited. Promoting it in PSHE lessons is not acceptable.” 

“Young people are desperate to fit in or find their “tribe” and are therefore very susceptible to social contagion & groupthink without understanding the long term consequences.” 

“The damage being done to our children is horrific. It must be stopped. Gender is just stereotypes on hormones (literally). Most kids grow out of this confusion given time. We MUST get them that time instead of removing healthy body parts and medicalizing/sterilizing them for life. How could you do that to a child? It’s child abuse!”

“I am a teacher and I wouldn’t know how to respond “correctly” if any of my students ever expressed such a sentiment. I would try and dissuade them but be very afraid of the repercussions by parents and the school administration.”

“It’s so worrying how much disinformation/out dated information is out there, the effects of puberty blockers should be shouted loud and clear, it seems that many of the medical profession aren’t aware of the damage these drugs can do and that their effects are not reversible.”

“Gender ideology isn’t progressive. Children are being forced into regressive stereotypical boxes and, worse, are encouraged to make it permanent through the use of surgeries and long-term medications with side effects.”

“They need to get off the internet in general.”

“I work in the South and one headteacher is so homophobic the police were involved and they involved Ofsted. She would delight in transing the gay away.” 

“Children cannot have a tattoo, drink, vote etc, but they can consent to the removal of body parts?!”

“It feels like a lot of the need to rush to allow GNC children to transition is based in homophobia and negatively reinforces already existing stereotypes that “boys are this way, girls are that” with little to no Nuance.”

“I am extremely concerned that the affirmation model hides negative stories or side effects from vulnerable children. That, is not informed consent. If I give you a headache tablet and tell you “yes it will take away your headache” but neglect to mention that it will have some serious detrimental effect – I’m not getting your informed consent, I’m essentially lying to you. This is incredibly dangerous and we will see a generation of kids pushed, pressured or forced down this route, whose lives are forever damaged by medicalisation.” 

“Is the generation that’s now learning gender lies in school going to be able to recover? How can they ever trust themselves if they’re taught to believe that the evidence of their own eyes is bigotry?”

“I see the gender movement having an extremely negative influence on young people & believe they are transing the gay away.”

“I believe gender ideology reinforces gender stereotypes rather than breaks down any “binaries.” I believe that the idea that parents should believe the child no matter how they identify, to the point of medicalizing that child, goes against what we know of child development and brain development in young people. In addition, because of what we know about brain development in young people, I do not think we can say that they fully comprehend the impact of the procedures they undergo under “trans medical care.””

“I’m also concerned that terms like “tomboy” are now seen as transphobic. It was a fairly neutral label for gender-non-conforming girls and I’m sad to see it replaced with “you don’t like girl things, you must be trans!””

“Children and young people are constantly developing physically, emotionally and mentally. They are a vulnerable group who are at risk of being wrongly labelled as trans b/c of non conformity to traditional gender stereotypical roles and subsequently given misleading information and puberty blocking medication which is dangerous and irreversible.” 

“There are great reasons for concern re. the spreading of programs that “normalize” children’s confusion about sexuality and turn the situations into promotions of sex change.”

“Things have got out of hand. Vulnerable teenagers have been groomed and are grooming each other on social media in the rush to identify with trans ideology. My first experience of this was when a young relative of mine told me that men could menstruate. I’m particularly worried about the lies that are being foisted on these young minds and the developmental effects that this may cause. I’ve seen photographs of young girls who have had double mastectomies, it’s horrifying that something as catastrophic and irreversible can be done to young bodies when they are not mentally capable of understanding the ramifications of what they have done or the changes in perspective they may go through as they get older.”

“I am deeply concerned about SOGI legislation and its indoctrination in schools. My friends who have kids have no choice but to pull them out of school. This is a clear indication that there is something deeply wrong.”

“Young children should not be made to question their “assigned at birth” sex. Schools should never get between parents and their kids.”

“I’m a mother of young girls and having been sexually assaulted as a child, all of these things concern me a great deal.” 

“I would have probably been transed as a child because I was a tom boy and my Mom hated it. It could have been me.”

“More needs done to stop it, social media is playing a key role in it. Grown adults glamourising trans ideology on tiktok is terrifying and easily accessible.”

“Iran already transitions gay children. Almost half of children who initially present as trans turn out to be Gay or Lesbian. Breast binding is damaging to growing breast tissue. Sex reassignment surgery is experimental and implications long term are not understood. Puberty blockers and cross sex hormones are not tested on children and implications on future sexual function are at best not understood and at worst demonstrably negative. This is experimental cosmetic elective destructive medical intervention. Psychological support is required.” 

“My son was a very gender non conforming boy. He was made to feel ‘wrong’ – bullies said are you gay? are you a boy or a girl? why aren’t you trans? – because being heterosexual, feminine boy was unacceptable. He was lucky that we repeatedly reassured him that there was no right and wrong way to be a boy – unlike Susie Green’s child who sounds like a very similar young person. He’s now a very happy and popular 17 year old who can easily spot performative virtue signalling by his woke classmates and he doesn’t buy it for a second. They’re the same people who didn’t stick up for him when he was being bullied.” 

“Gender ideology is extremely dangerous to children & adults who should know better seem to be accepting everything children say to them about their so called gender identity. We should treat children with compassion & understanding but know that they are children & do not have capacity to take life changing decisions. Children are being used as shields for AGP men. It is an appalling breach of safeguarding & ethics.” 

“The term lesbian is used as abuse whilst children who buy into gender ideology bully others into compliance.”

“I identified as non-binary as a teenager, was binding my chest, and experiencing distress because I was afraid of physically developing into a woman, and the social changes that came along with maturing (i.e., being assumed to be a pervert once other girls found out I was a girl who only liked girls, more male attention). Had I never discovered trans ideology, I would have skipped this painful period of my adolescence, and been a happy, mentally stable lesbian much sooner.”

“Coming after developing children like this is sheer insanity. Puberty is not a disease nor a medical condition.”

“I cannot believe we are back to a point where stereotypes are determining your “gender”. A world where little kids are told the lie it is possible to change your sex. I especially cannot believe it is the “left” who are now in favor of harming our children.” 

“Children need to be loved and accepted for who they are. That’s a parent/ society’s job. However, children do not know everything, not even about themselves and how they might change and contexts might change. Puberty blockers, drugs and surgery have irreversible consequences. Parents, teachers and others responsible for children quite rationally deplore those consequences. So they have a responsibility to challenge assumptions and thinking about trans identities as they do about other choices young people face. At 14 I wanted to be straight and a nun. Thank goodness those things were without long term consequences.” 

“I am the parent of a trans autistic child and had to watch the whole show. I’m still watching it.”

“I’m positive I would’ve been told I was some flavor of trans back when I was an ugly, fat, gender non-conforming young girl. It’s extremely frightening to think how my body might’ve been experimented on had I been born in this era.”

“I have 3 sons, all still school age. I have a niece and nephew and 2 of my best friends both have 2 daughters each with their own vulnerabilities. I am deeply, deeply troubled by what is happening to the children nowadays and petrified particularly for these children that I know and love. I have regular talks to my kids and am trying to inform my sister and my friends about what is happening so they can start having the conversations with their kids in order to get them to think critically about this ideological indoctrination they are receiving. The thought that so many children are now growing up who will have to carry that medical burden for life, many I’m sure who will regret their decisions, many who will never know what it is to have an orgasm or a fulfilling sexual relationship, a child of their own and to breast feed – all the things that have made my life worth living. It causes me deep grief.”

“I think LGBT is a tribe which the geeks and nerds find at secondary school that gets the other tribes off their backs. Instead of being traditional targets for bullying they get safety and to feel special in ways they wouldn’t have before. I think girls going through puberty and anxious about over sexualisation of girls’ bodies opt for physical anonymity in male clothing and also an opportunity to express themselves in quirky LGBT and anime outfits. My own daughter went from bi to pan to non binary and all her friends who are socially awkward, query ASD, have decided they have different names / pronouns / identities. Are experimenting with binders etc. Am just hoping they grow out of it but know that as they spend time in college and then uni they will in fact be exposed to even more gender ideology which concerns me a great deal.”

“I’m horrified about why and by whom and for what purpose?” 

“It’s tragic. We don’t know how long it’ll be until we understand the true cost, but the well-being of these kids is clearly not a priority at present.”

“I am a specialist mental health professional. I’m acutely aware that children’s concerns can have complex psychological roots. In such cases, physical alteration alone, through premature medical interventions, would be highly inappropriate and harmful. In fact this is also true in adults, as I know from my own professional experience.”

“Affirmation by parents, schools, the medical profession etc together with pro-trans representation on numerous online platforms leaves children and young people in no doubt they are trans. It is a dangerous ideology.”

“Affirmation model directed towards ‘gender’ questioning children is a dangerous pathway that leads to puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and belief that surgery that removes female/male sex markers turns one into the opposite sex.”  

“They are children & not able to make adult decisions. If a child were to go on a visit from school, that child would need parental consent. So why are children given permission to make life changing decisions. Puberty blockers prevent children going through puberty. If puberty is not allowed then the children will never reach sexual maturity. Children may be at the mercy of homophobic parents, who think they can trans the gay away. There is the possibility of, munchausen by proxy. Also, it is not the right of teachers etc to indicate that children are trans. It is a complicated conclusion which should be reached with sensitivity & reality.”

“The effect in children is one of my biggest concerns about the trans movement. We are permanently altering the bodies of kids and potentially sterilizing them before they can understand the full implications of what is being done to them.”

“I am appalled at children being made infertile, losing sexual function and being disfigured in the name of transgender ideology.” 

“Yes it is absolutely tragic when a young girl can state on social media that she is a boy and then explains that as a girl she is bullied but as trans she’s a hero.”

“I am just glad I had my lesbian daughter 35 years ago instead of 15 years ago but I am extremely worried for my granddaughters.”

“It’s impossible not to see transitioning gnc children as a form of permanent gay conversion therapy being instrumentalized by homophobic parents & internalized homophobia being instilled & perpetuated by the so-called “LGBTQ+” organizations that were once dedicated to eliminating homophobia. Clearly, the adolescent demographic making up a significant portion of juvenile transitioners is susceptible to peer group contagion & the influence of social media.”

“Children and young people cannot know the implications of elective medication and surgery. Normal development is difficult – it’s a tragedy that normal (difficult, frightening) puberty is being used to manipulate young people into medical pathways. Some people take 30-40 years to begin to know who they are – encouraging irreversible amputations at 18 or younger is criminal.”

“My daughter came out as lesbian, we talked about trans it had not exploded like now. I said absolutely not was she mutilating her body. Can’t drive, can’t get a tattoo, can’t drink not old enough to remove your breasts. She is now mid-20’s and so thankful she is not going through her coming out now. She is well aware she would have been sucked into the trans cult like doctrine and thankful she didn’t alter her body she would have regretted it the rest of her life.” 

“The mental well being of children is paramount, they should not be coerced into changing sex to fit in to a notion someone invented in America.”

“As a teenager my homophobic parents sent me to conversion therapy. I am sure gender non-conforming kids today are transed”.

“Very concerned how children are being targeted online.” 

“I’ve seen this issue at work and now with the children of my friends. It’s no longer a tiny minority.”

“I think it’s clear from the huge increase in teenage girls (as opposed to any other demographic) wishing to transition, crowdfunding for mutilating double mastectomies or calling themselves non- binary that we have a harmful, social contagion that is resulting from negative stereotyping of women and a dangerous ideology.”

“It is our job to safeguard them. And those who try are called bigots.”

“Very concerned that it is being uncritically pushed in schools.”

“It seems to be a fashion endorsed by the more right-on parents and staff at schools. I know too many kids who are starting on this path. It seems epidemic amongst girls. Schools, for all their talk of equality, are still not safe spaces to simply be gay or lesbian.”

“As a clinical psychologist I am especially worried about the seeming lack of psychological assessment for children’s mental health overall when gender identity issues are presented. I’m worried about the ongoing psychological functioning and lack of exploratory therapy for young people and especially that very little research has been done with young people and their families on number of girls, same sex attracted and / or neurodiverse adolescents coming through GI clinics.”

“The cruelty and idiocy of leading children and young people they can change their sex is mind blowing to me. Lifelong medical problems, lack of sexual function and infertility is a terrible price to pay for believing something that the majority will grow out of. It is barbaric and the impact on young lesbian girls is a particular tragedy.”

“”Lesbian” is being erased!”

“I work in a school and have seen so many teachers pushing this nonsense and I’m not 100% convinced that kids even really understand what they are doing.”

“Guidance by Scottish government to schools is shocking. Reference in their materials to “assigned male/female at birth” as if it’s some random allocation is awful. This guidance is likely to lead to more confused young children thinking they were born in the wrong body.” 

“We are losing an entire generation of children and young people to the idea that trans is normal and should be embraced and validated without question. The health impact of puberty blockers and hormones is causing devastating and life altering changes to children and young people around the world. A catastrophe in waiting…”

“I have two daughters. I have fallen out with the older one over this issue – she recited the TWAW mantra and meant it. We eventually had a conversation and cleared the air but it worries me. She has now gone to university and she and her friends seem to think the TRA movement, despite being obviously very unhappy, is somehow ‘cool’. My younger daughter is showing symptoms of depression at the moment and I’m looking for a therapist for her. I’m having to be extra vigilant to identify any signs of gender ideology in the therapists I’m approaching. I could really do without that. She just needs someone to talk to but I feel the need to guard against that possible influence especially as she says she is lesbian.” 

“I’m particularly worried about public school teaching children in my province that likes and dislikes, hobbies, and preferences are part of one’s subjective gender identity. Lesson plans for kindergarten students include stating pronouns when introducing oneself, as well as placing oneself along a spectrum from girl to boy.”

“If I was a young gay teenager now I KNOW that without doubt I would be transitioning. I am a proud gay woman now, happy with who I am.”

“Children should be supported to accept themselves as the sex that they were born regardless of their not fitting into tradition repressive and regressive stereotypes. There will be huge medical issues and thousands of ruined lives otherwise.”

“I’m a 23 yr old lesbian and I am extremely concerned about the impact of gender ideology on my generation. I know very few other women who identify as lesbians, most preferring queer or non-binary identities. I regularly see girls changing their pronouns to she/they as a defence to harassment or social pressure. I see increasingly glamorised and falsified narratives about transition all over my social media. I have also seen girls and young women subjected to intense online harassment (threats, doxxing, etc.) and isolation for mildly questioning gender ideology. I know many girls my age are scared to speak their mind for fear of being treated the way we’ve seen others be treated.”

“My niece is not yet 6. She said to me at the weekend “I don’t know if I’m a girl or a boy “I said “you are a girl” she then said: “but I’ve got a deep voice.” My heart was in my mouth. Who is teaching her she could be a boy? She’s a lovely girl, an identical twin. I fear for her. I really do.” 

“I feel adults have let children down. Collectively we have left the room. We should be saying no and that there is no such thing as non binary.” 

“I teach at primary level and I am concerned that, once a child is accepted as trans by the school, it demands that the whole school community of teachers, parents and pupils be complicit in a lie and in the consolidation of a misdevelopment of gender identity.” 

“As the mother of a young lesbian, I am saddened that she has already experienced the refusal of young men, and the university she attends, to allow her and her fellow lesbians to organize open lesbian only events. They have to organize privately if they want to have their own space. I never expected, in 2021, to find that lesbians were being shoved back into the closet. Not sure about numbers, but I’m also very saddened that young lesbians are being removed from her already small dating pool. It goes without saying that I am also saddened for any young lesbian who feels pushed by others into feeling that being a woman loving woman is somehow not good enough.”

“This truly terrifies me. Added worry being a mother myself.”

“There are a tiny tiny number of people who have “sex dysphoria” about their sexed body and expression, most of whom are adults. No child is “trans”. Everything else for children is dress, toys, role-playing, not fully understanding the binary nature of human biology.” 

“I was assaulted at school by a boy. I told no one and feel this would have been more prevalent if boys had access to girl’s toilets.”

“I am concerned that so many children’s organisations appear to have been captured by this. Of those who haven’t, many are afraid to speak out. I used to work in the children’s sector and was ostracised for speaking out. I left shortly after and took early retirement.” 

“Children need support and time. No irreversible treatments can be justified. They can present as they wish. Fanfare and affirmation interfere with experimenting.”

“I find it so depressing that there will be so many more Keira Bells. Genuine trans kids [sic] need help, of course. But giving puberty blockers and/or surgery to gay or confused kids is frightening.” 

“I have a ROGD child. 13 when said I’m trans. Couldn’t explain what it meant, couldn’t explain the reasons why. Went to school and was affirmed completely behind my back. No safeguarding, no exploration, no questioning. Same with CAMHS. This makes the road back much harder! Puts parents in an awful position of being left behind and cast aside.” 

“I’m a teacher. Safeguarding is being eroded. Parents need to be involved in decisions about kids.”

“People seem to forget how influenced children and young people are by things, people, and ideas around them.” 

“I speak to detransitioners regularly. They have had various types of “treatment” – double mastectomies, ovaries removed, testicles removed, taken cross-sex hormones. All have regretted all of the medical steps they took. None feel they were fully informed or assessed before their mental health problems were medicalised. Some have had their physical health severely damaged. All have had to find even more mental health support because they were not cared for properly in the first place. All healthcare should be evidence based not ideologically based. Frankly, it’s a massive medical scandal. The people in charge should be prosecuted.”

“Gender identity beliefs along with creating medicalised children gives kids the impression that to be either male or female one must adhere to stereotypes thus boxing those children within the stereotypes and not allowing them to fully investigate all the opportunities available to them due to some behaviour or likes being linked to the opposite sex.”

“It is outrageous that children are being brainwashed into believing that they are “in the wrong body” just because they may not conform to completely outdated and regressive gender stereotypes.” 

“You can’t legally get married, drive a car, defend your country in war, have a beer, or have sex with an adult, but you can consent to brain/body/development altering drugs and surgery to try to ‘cure’ or alleviate a mental health issue? Those two things can’t exist together.”

“No. It’s all horrific. And, as a private tutor, I am seeing it adding to mental health issues to ALL young people: those who are identifying as trans AND those who aren’t but are conscious that the topic is a minefield.”

“This is my #1 concern about gender ideology, even though I’m not a parent. I have friends with kids who don’t fully conform to gender expectations and I’m terrified they’ll be influenced by it and come to harm.”

“My lesbian daughter is currently considering whether she is trans. Teenage years as a girl are awful. If I had had the option to be a boy instead, I would have. But humans actually cannot change sex. They can mutilate healthy bodies and call themselves anything they want, but it isn’t real and there ARE long term impacts on health, fertility, choices and life expectancy. I believe that as parents, we are duty bound to protect children from harm, whilst supporting them. Getting appropriate therapy, researching true risk and reward. Living in the real world of limitations on magical thinking and real consequences. If, after knowing everything there is to know, my child chooses to transition, I will support her, adult decision, but as a child, this should not be an option. They cannot get a tattoo, certain piercings, drive a car drink in a pub, vote. But according to this ideology you can decide life altering, permanent damage to your life as a child. It’s insanity and parents backing it should be looked at. Many of these children are normal frightened teenagers Many like my daughter, are scared because being gay is hard in this society. 80% of teens, who have no treatment change their minds if left to it. Watchful waiting is the safest bet. With psychiatric and family support. My concern is that the school are using positive affirmation. I have no input in what is happening to my gay child. The state have taken this out of my hands. What will become of my totally healthy autistic daughter? Who knows? It’s no longer up to me, the state decides and they believe in harming teenagers struggling with autism or mental difficulties. I could cry for these poor children. Many people I know have detransitioned. Decisions you make as a teen are rarely the same decisions you make in your twenties. We all do mad things as teenagers. Would you want your life ruined by those decisions? Most people don’t decide they actually want children until they are 30. Yet you are prescribing drugs which sterilise children. Heartbreaking child abuse sanctioned by the state. God help my children.” 

“As a lesbian I am very angry at seeing the pressure on young lesbians and gay men to identify as trans. Being a lesbian is now not cool or even acceptable in many circles. We have gone backwards,”

“I am angry and deeply upset that the ideology has been invited into schools, that parents have been isolated and excluded from knowing what difficulties their children are having, that the language and behaviour of indoctrination is taking place under our noses and has been normalised. I am deeply disturbed that pubertal changes and development are seen as detrimental to the normal construction and reconstruction of a child’s identity, and the constant pandering to a child’s emotional state trumps a parent’s acknowledged duty to impart healthy information and tools to acquire the resilience and fortitude to grow into happy, healthy, adults who are tolerant, empathetic and productive in society. I fear in particular for children in Scotland, the misogyny and the creep of state intervention in families and family relationships.”

“There is no doubt that we are witnessing a social contagion. That schools are enabling it is shocking, and the government is not being strong enough. At the very least they could demand that schools report the numbers of trans identified children, their ages etc., so that evidenced backed steps could be taken and defended.”

“This is a child abuse scandal. No child can understand what they are ‘consenting’ to. The medicalization of perfectly normal feelings about gender in childhood are a disgrace. Has society forgotten everything it once knew about child development. These children are being physically and mentally abused in plain sight. It is horrifying.” 

“The infiltration of gender ideology in the NHS, education and the BBC coupled with a scandalous lack of therapeutic mental health care in the UK has created a perfect storm. Stonewall, Mermaids etc., should have no influence in public institutions; their faith based belief system and political lobbying should exclude them. Much of what they are pushing is barely veiled sexism and homophobia.” 

“I think the issue of children being steered towards a life of daily drugs and serial surgeries is possibly the most pressing negative consequence of gender ideology. I think the promotion of this ideology is confusing at best and devastating at worst to many children. I cannot comprehend how children could be deemed mature enough to consent to such life-changing, largely experimental treatment. This, more than any other consequence of gender ideology, is what keeps me awake at night.”

“I work in Education in Scotland and am horrified by the recent “guidance” issued to schools and supported by SA Somerville (Scottish politician).”

“As the mother of a 15-year old, who may well be gay, this is all terrifying.”

“Children have a lot of pressure to deal with in this modern world, I believe we are going to see a great many angry and confused young adults in 15-20 years. It’s not unnatural for children to be confused about themselves and their place in the world as they grow up, kindness, support and communication is essential for confused children, medications and surgeries are permanent and should be the last resort once a child is sure of their feelings towards themselves and their understanding of the life they have ahead.”

“Attitudes to ‘trans’ are causing ordinary people, and parents, to see children as objects rather than people thereby causing emotional harm and potential psychological problems in later life.”

“I am especially concerned at the impact on girls – both those who don’t conform to gender stereotypes who may be gay, but ALL girls who are more and more excluded- in everything from sports to YHA (Youth Hostel Association) dorms- because they do not consent to sharing mixed sex spaces. This has affected my daughter at University now too- she can’t play any sports or go swimming as so many male students use the female changing rooms. She is missing lectures to go to her student house to use the loo and change sanitary stuff because male students are also allowed to self ID into the female loos too. And what is very scary and sad is that none of the girls dare speak up, even though it is negatively affecting so many of them as another female student has had a terrible time for doing so (at Bristol Univ) My son, also at (a different) University, has been told he must be trans or ‘non binary’ as he is gentle and kind, likes cooking and brightly coloured clothes, and came out as gay years ago- this ideology is homophobic as well as misogynistic. It excludes females from taking part in society by removing all single sex spaces girls need for privacy, dignity and safety, and being abusive to those who speak up, so they don’t.” 

“The promotion of the idea of trans is inherently homophobic, with a shaming of young people struggling with their identity as gay.” 

“I’m terrified for my children as they are both GC and going out into a world where it’s unacceptable. I’m lucky I can be open about my views, but my children maybe not so much. Also worried for my son who is high school age getting labelled just for not believing in gender.” 

“This is a child safeguarding issue and an industry with little regulation and which is not evidence based has been allowed to grow around it. Beyond awful.”

“I am even more concerned that Trans Women are being propelled into a status and have protections that are far above that which real women who are born women have. I will never believe that TWAW- total nonsense and a lie. Also safeguarding children and women (not just vulnerable) – Trans women are given a clean slate in law – cannot check or use records that previously existed. Also – Question to ask those that are forcing this ideology as follows : I was educated through the UK education system – Biology was taught that sex is male and female – can I now prosecute those who entrenched this information into me (if it is now not true, which I don’t believe but am being forced to accept in work, home, TV everywhere). Can I sue under common law, the education system? Legal profession and any governing bodies that I have interacted with over my lifetime so far. (for brainwashing me according to the new ideology – who have removed sex altogether).” 

“My friend’s daughter announced she was Trans two years ago after a talk about gender at school. Her parents supported her request to be identified as a boy and did their best to call her by her preferred new name and pronouns. She was put on the waiting list for the Tavistock. I keep referring to her as ‘she’ because this summer, she tried to kill herself. She was having severe doubts about whether she really was trans or not and felt she was travelling on a juggernaut she couldn’t get off. Instead of going to her school’s sixth form this September she transferred at the last minute to a sixth form college under her birth name and as a young woman. She’s having to start over again because she’s ashamed to tell her network of friends in real life and online that she isn’t trans. She’s a lesbian who got swept up in an ideology that seemed to answer all the questions she’d been wrestling with but came close to destroying her life. She’s incredibly thankful the waiting list for the Tavistock is so long as she has no doubt that her adamancy that she was trans would have had her put on the pathway of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones with little hope of finding her way out.”

“I am horrified by the normalisation of the concept of wrong body, by affirmation in our schools. Both a state secondary school and a private school attended by my children have affirmation policies.”

“I am extremely concerned about the increasing sterilisation of autistic girls.” 

“As a parent I am terrified that my son will be exposed to this kind of indoctrination at school. We are lesbian parents and feel very strongly that this is highly dangerous and will be so horribly damaging to kids who are obviously gay but have parents who would rather medicate them than acknowledge them.”

“I’m concerned about the physical & emotional impact of transition, that there will be a generation of sick, disabled, miserable people who painfully regret their childhood decisions.”

“Safeguarding should be paramount. Various people often suggest they speak to children in private. This should be stopped and those advocating it investigated.”

“I understand why young lesbians would want to ‘identify’ out of womanhood, but we need them to know its ok to be lesbian, not make them damage their bodies.”

“I think it’s tragic how quickly schools/parents etc… want to affirm a young person’s belief with little to no questioning. The huge increase in children identifying as trans should be investigated amongst the social contagion element.”

“Gender ideologues are grooming the state, teachers, parents and enlisting them all in the grooming of children. Their goal is complete capitulation to gender ideology within a generation.” 

“Like a lot of people my age I know of a lot of young people experiencing this. The affirmation model looks like collusion by schools and adults grooming the Child/teenager to go to them rather than be guided by the parent. The child is being sold medical transition as a cure all. Stonewall is reinforcing this allusion and creating a generation of lifelong patients.”

“Very serious safeguarding risks for children.”

“All children and young people question their identity.  This is a normal part of personal and social development and is highly influenced by societal and cultural norms.  Furthermore, children and young people are much impacted by the views of parents/adults around them, and many can be ‘moulded’ to take such views on.  This had been evidenced by the ‘grooming’ of girls by men into behaviours that are harmful to themselves.  Children and young people should be protected until they are fully grown up, both physically and mentally, before making drastic changes that can impact on them for the rest of their lives.  This should be a safeguarding issue.”

“I have read a lot about the topic, and studied the growing body of research that attests to the dangerous and experimental nature of ‘transing’ children, and the fact-free basis for the ‘wrong body’ belief. I have passed that information on to politicians – assuming that they would respond appropriately and at least press pause. On the contrary, they simply double-down, refusing to listen to any alternative voice, regardless of how expert or experienced. Their capture and their determination to impose their belief system on the rest of us, regardless of the impact on children’s health, wellbeing, and future happiness, is actually terrifying.”

“As a lesbian who was gnc as a child it alarms me that if I was born now that I would’ve become charmed by the allure of becoming a boy. It is shocking that things seemed to have moved backwards for us :(.” 

“I am concerned that the increase in polarisation of gendered toys, clothing, activities (‘girly pampering days’) etc., has led to a stronger pressure on children to conform to gender constructs, and assume that gender is paramount.”

“It’s the tragedy and scandal of the age in the Western world. Appalling that children are being mutilated and rendered infertile, with little or no opportunities for a healthy sex life. The possibility that so-called ‘puberty blockers’ might affect the brain development of children is awful.” 

“I think the notion of allowing a child to ‘change their gender’ is dangerous. We are reducing personalities and gender to outdated and offensive stereotypes.” 

“I think a lot about how children might be trying on different “gender identities” the same way they’d try on other subcultures in years past (emo, scene, etc.), and getting medicalized for it. At least with the old subcultures, you could wash off your eyeliner, buy some non-black t-shirts and be done with it.” 

“The impact of gender identity ideology on children is the most disturbing thing. Being encouraged to think about sex as changeable or being in the wrong body is appalling, how does this impact not only children but global majority people or disabled people being told one can be born in the wrong body.”

“In college I have witnessed at least 5 friends who formerly identified as lesbians decide they are actually trans or not binary, and are pursuing double mastectomies and in some cases hormones. This is one thing when it’s college students, but it is entirely another seeing this same trend among YOUNG middle and highschool girls. I work at a middle school and I have seen the impact gender identify ideology has on the youngsters who don’t quite “”fit”” stereotypical models of femininity and feel there is something wrong with them. I have watched countless videos of detransitioned women expressing their mindsets before transitioning, and all their stories echo similar trends: they were uncomfortable in their female bodies, they experienced internalized misogyny or internalized homophobia not being able to accept they liked women as a woman, and/or they found the trans label online and viewed it as an escape from the shackles of their reality. Teaching young girls they need to change their body, name, or identity in order to be happy is an insidious lie.”

“We don’t allow children to drink alcohol or use botox even with parental consent. It’s illogical we would let them stop normal human development and then start mutilating their bodies before they are 18. It has become a fad in schools replacing the Goths and Emo’s. You get lots of attention from the school and peers for being trans. If upset with your parents instead of sorting it you can threaten to kill yourself unless they agree to your demands. No child developmentally is cognitively mature enough to make this decision.”

“This has become state sanctioned child abuse. 87% of gender non conforming children desist if left alone. Put them on puberty blockers and they stay forever pre pubescent with life-long health problems. Who benefits – paedophiles.” 

“I know three children who are transitioning, two teenage girls on autistic spectrum and one boy living in a macho culture who is non conforming. This is regressive and terrifies me for their future.” 

“I am very concerned about the ease with which safeguarding has been derailed. Children and young people clearly matter as little as women.”

“I work with young people- they get a huge amount of encouragement online to see themselves “in the wrong body”. There is clearly social contagion.”

“Particularly concerned about the Laws against so-called conversion therapy being rolled out across the world, seemingly to prevent therapists or medics adopting a wait-and-see stance with kids wanting to transition.” 

“They need to be given non-sexist, pro loving relationship PHSE.”

“The background of an exposure to high levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals linked to a number of childhood health issues – cancers, reproductive, developmental disorders, possible extreme allergies. To add to that as a knee-jerk reaction to an ideology is madness.”

“Social media algorithms and echo chambers have a lot to answer for.”

“I am trying to monitor the information provided by my children’s school but have found this difficult. I have contacted them about my concerns.”

“Gender nonconformity is normal. A medical response to a personal characteristic is criminal.”

“It is very difficult for young people to back away from gender identity once involved, their whole identity, support network, name, NHS records, everything is there shoring up the rightness of transness and it’s very hard for fragile and vulnerable young people to stop identifying as trans when there is a whole scaffolding to keep them there.”

“This is an atrocity. It is extreme criminal child abuse and unforgiveable abdication of adults’ duty to protect children from harm.” 

“I think watchful waiting & proper counselling to discover what is behind a child’s body dysmorphia is a better (the right) approach.”

“They are being strategically targeted by media, policy, etc., due to the influence of big pharma. Children represent a 50+ year trajectory of continuous profit for pharmaceutical companies. Bag ’em early, get the money.”

“I am now 68 and when I was in primary school, we did not have to wear uniforms and girls could wear trousers and very short hair was actually fashionable. It seems to me that all of us girls in our year would now be regarded as candidates for transition i.e. it depends so much on current fashion.”

“The idea that gender nonconforming children are no longer allowed to exist, and instead have to be medicated and sterilized is abhorrent. Teaching acceptance of themselves should be the norm, not medical intervention.“

“Children don’t have the experience or knowledge to resist the normalisation of surgery. I am also concerned about cosmetic surgery and pressure on girls to conform to celebrity looks. Why is short hair now a sign a girl is a boy rather than just a hairstyle? Stereotypes pink etc., is worse than when I was girl in 1970s.”

“If I’d been born several years younger I almost definitely would have identified as trans or non binary at some point. I am a happy healthy adult butch lesbian, and I absolutely am a woman. It’s sad and scary to see younger lesbians losing themselves.” 

“Trans ideology is eugenics. Children are being mutilated and sterilised (yes, as children due to puberty blockers). This is Frankenscience only supported by sick modern day Mengeles.”

“I think we underestimate the pressure children and teens are under. Teens are bombarded with ‘abnormal norms’ via social media, and social contagion exists. Younger children, we really need to examine more closely what is being pushed onto the schools. We are the adults, it is our JOB to protect children and adolescents.”

“As a teacher and headteacher of 26 years, I am very aware of the pressures that teenagers face – particularly girls. The significant rise in girls wanting to become the opposite sex is alarming. This is going to result in great mental health problems in the future – a whole generation is being affected by this gender social contagion”.

“I’m also worried about parents being forced to trans their child for not conforming where organisations such as social services subscribe to the ideology.”

“In the 80s I was an abused autistic gender non conforming child who was like most of the girls who id as trans. I desperately didn’t want to be a girl (due to the csa I was suffering from and the rigid gender stereotypes) thankfully I was sent to some very kind and caring psychiatric professionals who instead of validating and affirming this looked into the underlying causes and helped be to not only survive the abuse I suffered but come to see that there’s nothing wrong with me not wanting to do stereotypical girl things but that the stereotypes were harmful and regressive, this is called watchful waiting and 98% of children who go down this therapeutic pathway come out happy well rounded adult who are OK in their sexed body like I did. If instead I had been given affirmation therapy and offered puberty blockers and x sex hormones and surgeries I would have done it I would never of had my children and I have no doubt that the untreated mental health issues I had along with the mutilation of my body would have caused me to kill myself. And yet this is the path we are putting vulnerable girls down. I would also like to point you towards the ted talk video by Suzie Green the head of Mermaids who describes how she transed her gay son because her husband is homophobic.”

“So many adults are confused about the meaning and implications of sex and gender – this is not something children can have a good enough understanding of to make life long decisions about.”

“As a doctor, feminist and mother I am horrified at the irreversible damage being inflicted on children.” 

“No one is born in the wrong body. There are only children who may be suffering from body dissociation/gender incongruence. This presentation should be fully explored not immediately validated. In many cases it could well be a symptom of other issues such as abuse. In some cases the eco-morbidities will present such as autism or an eating disorder or the child may simply be same sex attracted. Watchful waiting with counselling should be the main form of treatment not instant validation and set on the pathway to a life of drugs and/or surgery.” 

“I am terrified for my granddaughters & all children. This is regressive. It is dangerous. How can people think this is okay.” 

“I am concerned because children are brainwashed into this propaganda that they must really be the opposite sex if they don’t fit into gender stereotypes rather than being told its ok for say girls to play football or boys to play with dolls.”

“This trend is absolutely Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy for parents to get approval from others. Just WHO is telling young girls to hate their bodies so much that they want to cut off healthy breasts, when they’re not even fully developed women?? And if a kid is detrans, the Gender Woowoo crowd hates them and shuns them. It’s a cult.” 

“This is like a new religion but more damaging. As a teacher it is shocking to see. The whole movement is homophobic and affects girls who are not overly sexualised to believe they are not girls. Also transmen are not respected at all as men, which is sexist.” 

“We should not lie to them, saying that they can change sex, that they are born wrong, is scarring children.”

“This ideology was presented to reception children (ages 4 and 5) without the parent’s knowledge. The children were told they could keep secrets from their parents and shown pictures of happy people post-double-mastectomy as positive role models.” 

“I am stunned that we as a society have somehow convinced so many of our children that they have been born in the wrong body. I find it the most cruel movement of my lifetime. How our Government and Medical Professionals are supporting this through suppression of free speech and enablement makes NO sense to me. It is terrifying for normal adults to have to witness this. The vast majority of these children will NOT be helped by going down a medicalised pathway. It is cruel beyond belief to suggest otherwise.” 

“As a parent of teenagers, I have seen first hand the woeful lack of knowledge/awareness in schools. I am in correspondence with my children’s school on the topic.“

“I am concerned that this is a huge safeguarding issue and no one will listen to my concerns. As a teacher safeguarding should be my top priority but no-one is listening.” 

“I’m very concerned on how this is going to impact my daughter. I know if I had grown up during this time I’d likely be labelled as trans because I have “masculine” interests and I was a huge tomboy. My daughter is very similar to me in that regard.” 

“I have two granddaughters. I am terrified that this misogynist ideology will affect their lives in the future. I am dismayed that schools have become unsafe places where children are gaslighted with misinformation about sex. I think the capture of the medical community by this terrible ideology is frightening and ‘transing’ children is criminal.” 

“I was gender non-conforming as a child, and I’m glad I didn’t grow up with this horror, as I may have been forced to transition or hurt myself in some way.”

“This is probably one of the aspects of gender ideology that affects my mental health the most and makes me feel the most despair.” 

“How has it come to this? Trans ideology and practice is conversion therapy for Lesbian and Gay kids; it is also like genocide.”

“What is going on now is Mengele-level child abuse and is totally unconscionable. We are truly living in some kind of bizarro world. Does it stem from a push by global elites to normalize pedophilia, or a push by global elites to decimate the population? It doesn’t really matter which. It is completely abnormal and unnatural.”

“It’s crazy that adults including organisations such as the NHS and schools, where some basic understanding of biology is essential, is allowing this utter nonsense to occur! There needs to be serious charges brought against these people!”

“I read the Mermaids criteria for what makes a child a candidate for being trans and it matched the feelings of many gay people at a young age, that is very frightening. The fabricated suicide statistics are especially dangerous, and nothing is ever said about the fact that there is data to suggest that puberty blockers increase suicidal thoughts and that post transition is a vulnerable time for people, it is left to the layperson to assume that just ‘being trans’ or having affirmation denied means the child will automatically harm themselves. Young people seem to need so much external validation at the moment, like they don’t have the resilience to know not everyone agrees with them and get on anyway, lobby groups who push the agenda that everyone needs affirming as whatever they desire to be seen as, otherwise the people who disagree are a bad people who hate them really do nothing to improve the happiness or personalities of these young people. It’s all a worry.”

“I definitely would have been a “trans kid” if I were born just a few years younger. That scares me so much. I am not having kids if this doesn’t clear up soon.”

“I have been looking for a residential placement for my daughter as part of her Duke of Edinburgh award. Virtually all the providers describe shared residential accommodation as ‘single gender’. It has taken me months to find a placement where I was reassured that she would be in a single-sex, female-only room.”

“Safeguarding appears to be totally ignored in favour of an almost cultish belief in affirmation. Children with autism, homosexual children, and children with traumatic backgrounds are all heavily overrepresented in the group presenting as trans, and there appears to be a dreadful rush to affirm. What happened to affirming that it is fine to be non gender conforming? That it is fine to be gay? That other psychological problems should be addressed, rather than ignored in the rush to affirm. I am a paediatrician. This treatment of children terrifies me. But speaking up is career threatening.”

“Children should be told the truth, that it is not possible for a man or woman to become the other, any more than we can change our height, eye colour, hair colour. We can disguise the truth, but not change it.“

“I can see it’s a trend among young ppl. However, it’s not a trend for the pharmaceuticals and medical clinics who prey on them. I think I would be more alarmed if I had children or nephews or nieces of teen years.” 

“This whole thing is a giant dumpster fire, the worst thing to happen to children in my lifetime.”

“Children have been monetised by the trans lobby/medical profession.”

“It is impossible for a child to understand what is the process and medicalisation path involved. Every teenager feels negativity towards Puberty and uncomfortable with their changing body, and sexualised images in the media. This should be addressed; rather than encouraging children to believe they can opt out of their sex.”

“The way that the education system has been used to groom children into accepting gender ideology as scientific fact is a grim disgrace.” 

“Social contagion seems to be very real in schools near me. I am very concerned about it.” 

“I have a lot that I would like to discuss. Due to current laws where I live and my profession’s gender affirming position, I cannot freely discuss this without both legal and professional negative impacts to myself, and by extension, my family.”

“I am a retired deputy headteacher who encouraged children to question gender stereotypes – now they are being encouraged and children are being lied to and encouraged to have life changing drugs and surgery to trans away the gay. Girls especially need real support when they go through puberty and lives are being ruined. This is heartbreaking.”

“I’m appalled and frightened at the disintegration of safe guarding measures.”

“I believe this is a new social teen movement – like Punk etc. The difference being, being a Punk never meant surgically altering your body. How can pre-pubescent children have any notion that they’re damaging their future sexual function on puberty blockers? There’s a huge epidemic of tragedy and broken lives on the horizon.” 

“I don’t believe there is evidence to support transitioning for young people. It just isn’t there. “First do no harm ” means “show your workings” and there isn’t any at all from the Tavistock.” 

“Children are being indoctrinated in schools, to believe something that is not true. There are no ‘wrong bodies’. People cannot change sex. They can change how they present but that’s a different thing entirely.” 

“For me, learning that some young natal males were having their inadequate amounts of penile/scrotal tissue supplemented with sections of colon in order to construct a ‘neovagina’ at any/all cost, (in effect, putting them at risk of a ‘vagina’ developing colon cancer) encapsulated the dangerous point at which the whole self-serving trans circus has arrived.” 

“I am disgusted that governments and health agencies have forced affirmation on deeply distressed kids showing impacts of CSA and mental health disorders. This is a commercial decision to support powerful autogynephiles and the industries they serve most; Pharma and cosmetic surgery, as well as the rainbow policing & compliance industry.”

“These are my concerns about children and young people being captured by transactivism and Stonewall ideology. Safeguarding at schools. Young gay, lesbian and bisexual people are being lied to, being told that there are more than two sexes and that it’s possible to change sex. The medicalisation of children for life. The mutilation of their bodies.” 

“People don’t identify as gay or lesbian, they just are.”

“I have already taken this up with my school and local authority. This concern is what led me down this wormhole in the first place.”

“I’m very concerned at how much gender identity ideology has got into our schools & educational institutions – it is now so deeply ingrained, people are afraid to challenge it for fear of being called bigots or transphobic.”

“Concerned about increasing rates (almost as social contagion) particularly in autistic girls. Plus long term damage from drugs/surgery. Plus legal repercussions on teachers.”

“Children change their minds all the time. They should be left to grow up with no interference, medically at least, until their brain is fully developed (25) in most, if not all cases. This isn’t something that can be fixed if the child changes their mind, when medicines or surgery are involved.”

“Most of us struggle with the changes of puberty and autistic children struggle particularly. There is so much pressure on girls to look a particular way that these years are made even harder. Boys are exposed to pornography and assumptions are made about sex acts and sexuality. It’s so hard for young people and this utter nonsense about gender adds to their difficulties.” 

“My primary aged children are being told if they don’t conform to regressive gender stereotypes, they might want to consider if they are in the wrong body. This not ok!!!”

“There are no trans kids. Children should be encouraged to explore who they are and who they want to be. Freely. Without silly labels. Young people should be able to explore their sexuality at the right time. Freely. Safely. Therapy is vital for young people who experience dysphoria and/or other mental health issues. Puberty blockers and hormones should not be given to under 18s. Surgery is for adults, if they really feel this is appropriate for them. However it shouldn’t be available without other support. The number of young women with ROGD is extremely concerning to me, as a lesbian. I know how hard it is growing up L and I absolutely fear for young girls and women who are pushed or encouraged or feel pressure to go down the trans route.”

“Children and young people are being exploited by this ideology when they have no life experience to understand the consequences for them.”

“The safeguarding issues are huge. The authorities who should be protecting children have lost their minds. Lawsuits will concentrate minds.”

“Gender ideology brainwashing in schools is harmful. Teachers are employed to teach not to promote an unsafe religion/cult to children who have no means of escape or means to critically think about the issues involved.”

“It makes it harder to BE a Butch Lesbian with childhoods of being tomboys, even they tried to correct and feminize us, and shame us. But we are seriously going backwards by pressuring tomboy girls and effeminate boys because they color (sic) outside gender/ sex stereotyped lines, by forcing them into the conversion therapy of puberty blockers, then cross sex hormones and surgeries before they are even 18! When many would desist, accept their bodies, come out Lesbian, as we did, or gay male for the nonconforming boys. Sex role stereotypes are then NEVER questioned, dismantled or eliminated, which was the whole purpose of the Feminist Movement. Males are still in control, and the Psyche and Med industry make big bucks off the whole affair, damaging these young people’s bodies in the process. Many will eventually detransition…”

“As a non-religious family, my husband and I were able to exempt our daughter from any religious observation events at her school. Religious education was absolutely fine as it’s not the same as observation. Gender Identity is a pseudoscientific ideology (not even a religion) and it’s being taught to school children as being fact. This is indoctrination. This is not okay. If it absolutely must be part of the curriculum, then it is imperative that parents be allowed to opt their children out. Alternatively, it should cease to be presented as fact.”

“I have a GNC daughter who is perfectly happy to be GNC girl. I worry that if she could be vulnerable to this ideology as she grows up.” 

“My 15yo daughter’s best friend started to dress in a masculine manner and cut all her curly hair off into a close crop hairstyle during the 1st lockdown. She is now binding her breasts. She is asthmatic and is struggling to keep it under control. It breaks my heart.” 

“I am horrified that children are being told they are not ok as they are, and they must subject themselves to stereotypes, surgery, (expensive) drugs, in order to be validated as being ok. I’m angry at the adults that subject children to this fantasy. Their health in all areas will suffer because of this charade of what is ‘normal’. We will have very broken generations, with twisted ideas of normal, and a focus on individualism”.

“Children and young people should be able to experiment safely without being forced onto rigid pathways before they are ready.”

“I have a baby grand-daughter and I am worried about what she will be taught about ‘gender’ at school.”

“I have a child and would be very worried about him growing up in today’s environment if he were gay – he’d be told he’s female, which is impossible. And homophobic.” 

“This is a particularly abhorrent aspect of this ideological movement. The damage done to many of these children and young people will be irreversible, e.g. healthy organs removed. Psychological issues relating to gender dysphoria should always be addressed first. Children should NEVER be pushed towards thinking they are trans.” 

“As a gender non conforming child myself who was sexually abused, feel that if I was a child today I would have been encouraged to transition. In addition the girls toilets were a safe space that I could escape to from the boys who assaulted me. I am concerned that now that safe space for girls no longer exists.”

“Not sure why we have gone from accepting your body to changing your body to suit how you feel.” 

“I am concerned that this pernicious ideology is being fed to children at school, when they are an impressionable age. And for the younger children, it is being ‘normalised’.”

“The school curriculum should separate biology, consent & boundaries and equalities as three separate areas, not seek to invalidate biology and consent to enable trans ideology.” 

“The psychological torture and physical butchery of children and youth is the most agonizing part of the transcult takeover.”

“Children’s brains are going through intense development during adolescence. They should be allowed to develop to be the adult they are going to be.” 

“I believe there is no such thing as a trans child, only a normal child whose parents want them to be different.”

“In my opinion the whole gender ideology is completely the opposite of developing an independent personality.”

“My heart is breaking for a generation of children who are being told lies. I am wondering how many generations it will affect, wondering how things will look in 10, 20, 30 years. Very worried, very concerned, very upset.”

“I think it is criminal the way children are being allowed to go through experimental treatment which will affect their long-term health. I don’t believe a child has the mental capacity to understand what they are doing by taking puberty blockers and/or hormones and/or other irreversible treatment that will affect them for the rest of their lives. How can a child know what it is to be a sexually mature man or woman. Puberty is an awkward time for many adolescents as it is a period of great changes in the body. These changes are often uncomfortable and unfamiliar. Adolescents’ brains are not mature. Also, they do not have a long-term view of life and are far more experimental and affected by fashions that come and go. I believe they are being manipulated by a combination of lobbyists and proselytisers for this, including of media and medical interests. Children in our society should be protected and safe guarded from harm.”

“I definitely find any mention of trans kids incredibly disturbing. I think because puberty is traumatic as it is, I probably would’ve opted to identify as a boy if it meant escaping breasts. I was 14 then, I’m 28 now and definitely have no issues with being female. I also can’t imagine dealing with that trauma and having to get changed in front of a boy/man who thinks they’re a woman. I hate female stereotypes in general, they’re harmful. Enforcing these stereotypes in favour for gender identity ideology could mean that someone could argue I was more male than female based on my personality or are more of a man than a trans woman. Which is fucking ridiculous. I do also believe people use trans to stop their children being gay, I think there’s a child called K** S****** whose mother stated she prayed for a miracle as she just couldn’t have a gay son. Apparently being trans was that miracle. The video is available on YouTube.”

“I feel children see more pro trans agenda and activism online on social media than having a constructive discussion regards the negative impact of gender identity and transitioning. I’m also concerned that puberty blockers ruin children fully feeling what they are, whether that be same sex attracted or bi and ruin the chance to ever have their own children and have sexual satisfaction later in life. I also worry about the mental health effects on them later in life as many trans regret and reverse or live never truly feeling they are within their true body so have an in between sense of self.”

“I’m autistic – I was diagnosed at age 42. I spend a great deal of my teens/20s thinking I was ‘more male than female’ because I didn’t fit in with other women/stereotypes. I am horrified by the thought that autistic young people could be following a similar path but moving to medicalised transition where what may be more needed is access to informed counselling about living well when autistic.”

“We are undergoing a western failure of safeguarding, we’re seeing the destruction of parental-child bonds at the hands of often abusive older men who are somehow invested in the medicalisation and sterilisation often of young girls with co-morbidities. It is a tragedy with the backing of our once respected institutions.”

“Before my own mental breakdown I was a special needs teacher with a Masters in a field of behavioural psychology. I had a great deal of experience working with children who had ASD. I am aware of the high percentage of children with ASD that are claiming to be transgender and I am horrified that they are being affirmed and that issues with their bodies (there are lot of sensory and body issues with many people with ASD) that may account for the disconnect. I am horrified by the lack of safeguarding in place around children that feel they have gender dysphoria.” 

“The current situation is a scandal in the making. Children are being targeted at vulnerable stages in their development. I feel real heartache just thinking about it.”

“I can’t believe ppl would give their children drugs that has been deemed unsafe for sex offenders. Anyone letting their kids go through surgeries to appease a teenage tantrum should be made to speak to ppl who have detransitioned. Having been a teenager who is now a lot older. I am nothing like that person and have no interest in the things that seemed so important. Kids need to live before making such drastic decisions”.

“I was a gender non-conforming girl in every way – hated all things “feminine” and anything associated with girls and women. Wanted only “boys” toys and loved sports of all kinds (at a time when girls weren’t encouraged in that). Wanted to wear “boys” clothes and spend my time doing “boy” things with boys. I had crushes on girls and women and knew to keep those to myself no matter what. I was fascinated with boy’s bodies in that I wanted to be what they were. I would have leapt at the chance to be a boy if anyone had told me it was possible. I would have taken any drug, undergone any procedure if I was told I could grow up to be a male athlete on my favorite team, or a male combat soldier like I saw in WWII movies, or be a cowboy or all the other heroes we were shown. I hated being a girl even before puberty; at puberty I was inconsolable. I’m the perfect example of now decades later what some girls are believing and hoping because adults are telling kids lies. I became a very GNC adult woman who made peace with my body and options in young adulthood. We cannot allow the lies that harm so many girls desperate for something that isn’t possible.”

“There is no other mental health issue that we ‘affirm’ and pander to!”

“I’m appalled that young people are being sold gender identity as fact, without giving them space to discuss other possibilities. I have no issue with people having their own belief systems, as long as they are taught that they are belief systems. Experimenting in childhood and adolescence is a normal part of development, we all did it (& have the embarrassing photos to prove it). Mostly these things involved temporary changes, a piercing, hair dye, clothes, make up – all perfectly normal with no long term damage. The trans lie leads children to believing they can change sex, they want labels, they want to be in boxes. They want to suppress their puberty (well yes, I did too, but that wasn’t an option when I was young and rightly so) they want to bind their chests, they want to opt out of womanhood. Instead of examining these issues, they’re affirmed on a pathway that is usually a one way street. Permanent changes that can never ever be reversed, based on a lie because despite all the horrific cosmetic procedures, you can never change sex. As a Social Worker I am disturbed by the pushing of boundaries in terms of safeguarding. We’ve sleep walked into a disaster. Frontline safeguarding is the social contracts around single sex spaces. There’s a long history as to why we have them and why most people respect them. That has now been bastardised by ‘gender’. I worry significantly about what this teaches our young people, especially girls. By teaching them from a young age that they shouldn’t be uncomfortable going to the toilet/getting changed with the opposite sex present, we are teaching them not to trust themselves, and their instincts – the very thing that they should be trusting. Again, this chips away at front line safeguarding, the listening to ourselves, our instincts and our knowledge when something is ‘off’. I’d love for us to live in a world where this instinct wasn’t needed, but, well, men…”

“I believe children are being groomed, and or persuaded that to be ‘trans’ is cool. You see it on jammiedodger’s you tube, loads of kids all talking about waiting for breast binders etc., etc. Detransitioners talk about being groomed over the Internet.”

“Non-binary status is also a big concern. A Californian surgery clinic is now offering surgery of non-binaries!” 

“My own daughter (19) is still working out her sexuality. A few years ago she told us she thought she was bi, which we totally supported. She later went on to tell us that she was a lesbian. Again totally supported by my husband and myself and her grandparents. Her best friend until very recently was a trans identifying boy. Who we welcomed into our home and made efforts to use preferred pronouns for. A few months ago our daughter told us that she was a trans man and wanted to change her name, pronouns and seek hormone therapy and surgery. We did not, and do not support this which caused great stress in our family. Recently my daughter and her friend had a falling out, and she no longer sees him. Since then she once again seems more settled on being a lesbian and there’s been no more talk of hormones and surgery. What might have happened if we’d affirmed her belief that she should be a man and helped her on the road to the medical interventions she wanted at the time? Everyday we live in fear of the influence of gender ideology on young gay and lesbian teens.”

“Social media is poisoning their minds and should be heavily regulated or done away with at this point. Bad actors are weaponizing tech against us for profit.” 

“If a young girl expressed she wished to be sterilized as she has no desire to have children when she is older she would be told to wait till she is an adult. So, why don’t medical professionals not adopt the same principle when it comes to transitioning?”

“It’s all about safeguarding. Save the children and young people from this cult.”

“We need to get gender identity out of schools. They are sterilising children! This is setting a whole generation up for lifetime medicalisation and mental health issues.”

“This indoctrination through school, SM, TV etc is abuse. It must be stopped.”

“All adults, in my view, have a duty of care towards children and young people, who are vulnerable – and ought to be ‘protected’ – until they are about 25.”

“Losing parental rights is wrong. We use to say not to trust anyone who encourages you to keep secrets from your parents, now the opposite is encouraged by adults, teachers and institutions who should know better.” 

“I am convinced that it is morally wrong to encourage children to make a decision to undertake irreversible surgery or accept puberty blockers without accurate information, safe space, sufficient time and non-partisan support to fully explore who they are, how they feel and how they see their future.”

“Greatly worried about future mental and physical health fall out with de-transitioners.” 

“I’m a retired psychotherapist, volunteering as a school counsellor in very small rural secondary school. While this issue hasn’t come up directly, the use of the terms ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’ as terms of abuse is now epidemic, and I know too many stories of the appalling impact of these ideas.”

“About number 20. I’m not as concerned because I have found that families against their children having same-sex attraction are also against the idea of being transgender and wouldn’t transition their child. If parents are indeed transing children for this reason, that’s alarming.” 

“I know two ‘trans’ children. One where the parents are the catalyst and the other where mental ill health was present before gender dysphoria but all health professionals are ignoring and affirming identity. Both situations are terrifying and I fear for the children.”

“We have to leave children free and found (sic) themselves without any medical or surgery interventions that will harm them. Also, 85% of people with gender dysphoria overcome it after puberty.”

“My then 15 year old was affirmed in their “trans” identity at school with no input from us as parents. Now as a 21 year old, and after 1 zoom appt with our local GIDS, they will be starting testosterone treatment.” 

“Girls’ rights are not being considered by organisations which should be safeguarding them.”

“It’s child abuse. Every child is unhappy with their body at some point. To do surgery and drugs because of it is violence to the child.”

“Gender ideology seems inherently homophobic and it baffles me that policy makers are promoting and using it.”

“It scares me to think a generation has been indoctrinated with this ideology.”

“This is one of the most painful areas of this Ideology. I will be seen as the enemy as I am a hetero female of a certain age. My words will never be heard, my advice ignored, my help seen as ‘conversion’. I feel powerless to help – imagine how being a parent now must feel. I have listened to a number of detransitioners and I can hardly bear to imagine what all children (not just ‘trans’) must be feeling at this moment.”

“It makes me fear for my daughters.”

“I cannot believe how casually people are accepting telling children as young as 4 they may be in the wrong body. That we are telling impressionable children that if they feel like they don’t fit or feel uncomfortable in their own skin they are trans, that they must have surgery and PBs, that there are groups of people who hate them for existing and want them dead and if they don’t have surgery they will kill themselves – who thinks that is an acceptable way to communicate with children, that do not consider a self fulfilling prophecy that will likely be a disaster for their mental health I am so relieved my children are not school age any more.”

“There is no such thing as “trans.’ If you accept such a notion then you have to accept children and babies can be trans. There are just some who never cure their dysphoria.”

“Girls need safe space in toilets and changing rooms away from boys and men.”

“Adults in the education sector are not permitted to challenge young people who believe for whatever reason that they are the opposite sex to that which they were born. Without this challenge to those beliefs, a young person could find themselves on a path from which there is no return. We have to go along with the delusions and this cannot be right.”

“Affirming children as Trans is scandalous. Listening only to the voices of Trans advocates is a dereliction of care.”

“I’m very concerned about children with mental health problems or disabilities being misdiagnosed with trans/gender-related conditions/issues and this failing to be effectively treated and left with physical and mental trauma for the rest of their lives from hormone and surgical “treatments.””

“It’s terrifying that distressed young people are being effectively ‘funnelled’ into transition, when they often have existing comorbidities that need addressing first.” 

“I find myself most concerned about this aspect because children do not have the knowledge to make a decision; I would rather we spent our energy campaigning for all of us to be able to live the lives we want/are drawn to and that these choices are not dependent on our biological sex.”