Children need an education and safeguarding grounded in reality. In reality, humans cannot change sex, and labels like 'trans' are psychologically damaging.
This is a real danger to children. Preventing the adults in their lives from safely guiding them through childhood and adolescence. We believe in reality not labels.
Don't criminalise telling the truth.
#BinTheBill#BinTheConversionPracticesBill
If you care about children having time to grow.
If you care about parents (and aunts / uncles / grandparents etc etc.) being able to talk openly and honestly with their children and young people.
If you care about teachers being able to reassure worried pupils that it's okay to be gay.
If you think it's important that therapists, doctors, and safeguarding professionals are able to ask questions to get to the real problem.
Then please, please, please sign this letter to @andyburnham and ask him to reject the bill because #ItsOK2BGay2026 @AllianceLGB
And if you have any doubts in your mind about signing, please listen to Penny's story here - for the now you need to scroll a bit https://t.co/A4N3YOGhbo
@roseveniceallan@DreyfusJames@jk_rowling@RosieDuffield1 please talk about this.
We couldn't agree more. If you care at all about safeguarding, reality or free speech please sign this important letter and do whatever else you can to stop this dangerous bill from proceeding. #BinTheBill
Children who do not conform to sexist stereotypes of how girls and boys should behave, dress or what they should enjoy need time and freedom to discover who they are. Many will grow up to be lesbian, gay or bisexual.
The Draft Conversion Practices Bill could criminalise ordinary parenting conversations and make therapists afraid to explore whether a child’s distress is connected to autism, trauma, mental health, body image or emerging same-sex attraction.
Listen to parents and others explain what is at stake:
https://t.co/DQstHWKC8H
Read and sign our Parents’ Open Letter asking @andyburnham and his Government to reject the Bill:
https://t.co/Y5z1tD5E7q
Please share it and make as much noise as you can. The alternative is allowing the criminalisation of the very people who care most about outcomes for these children and for young lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
Under the conversion practices bill "a mother refusing to consent to her daughter taking testosterone injections could face up to five years in prison."
The threat of that is enough to scare parents into submission.
#BinTheBill
https://t.co/rnzktibtGj
The only way for schools to be legally compliant is to ditch the idea of gender completely. The only lawful toilets for over 8s are single-sex or unisex, "completely mixed-gender" is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and this claims 25% of schools have these insane facilities.
Exclusive: Official guidance on single-sex spaces that comes into force today does not meet basic tests to assure ‘legal certainty’ for schools, warns NASUWT
https://t.co/hvNrzosjDH
@tes There should be zero "mixed-gender" toilets for children over 8. The only lawful facilities are single-sex or fully enclosed unisex (which means one at a time, fyi).
@tes C'mon, really?! It's been almost 60 years since the School Premises Regs mandated separate sex toilets for pupils.
How do you expect anyone to take you seriously?
"Completely mixed-gender toilets are fairly uncommon, with just one in four schools having at least one set, according to the findings."
So, 1/4 of schools are breaking the law. Wow. @SexMattersOrg
.@JamesEsses This ⬇️ even more serious than HRA Head of Comms "Trans Women are Women" mantra. This man is Head of Approvals, and, according to the HRA's own procedures was supposed to deal with post approval complaints about PATHWAYS when deputy, but it was delegated to others
Hilary Cass talks about children who have 'longstanding gender incongruence.'
What these children actually have is longstanding validation, affirmation and socialisation as the opposite sex by all trusted adults in their lives and all their friends. That's a different thing.
I’m disappointed by the High Court’s decision, but I thank @JamesEsses, @BayswaterSG and @KBtheYoungOG for raising important concerns.
I continue to oppose this immoral experiment on physically healthy children, some as young as 11.
@andyburnham Will you put a stop to it?
‘Although it often feels like we're banging our heads on a brick wall, we are confident that our efforts are helping to shift the Overton window.’
You are! 🥂💚🤍💜