(1) BREAKING: The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and its General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, are under growing scrutiny for refusing to intervene in the case of Jennifer Melle, a senior Christian nurse suspended after declining to use biologically inaccurate pronouns for a convicted male paedophile patient.

Despite the UK Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in For Women Scotland, which reaffirmed the legal recognition of biological sex, the RCN has stalled on implementing the judgment, citing the need to “await EHRC statutory guidance”, a process already plagued by delay and resistance within government and public institutions.

Jennifer has been suspended on full pay by Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals since April for an alleged “data breach” after speaking to the media about being disciplined for indirectly referring to a male transgender paedophile as “Mr.”

She was disciplined and referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a ‘potential risk’ for not using the preferred gender identity of the paedophile.

She has said previously that in ‘her hour of need’ the RCN abandoned her and suggested that she do ‘a reflection’ to ensure the situation didn’t happen again.

Jennifer said: “I was racially abused in my workplace, and instead of protecting me, the Trust punished me. My Christian faith teaches me that sex is immutable. I should not be forced to deny that truth to keep my job.

“The Supreme Court has spoken clearly: biological sex matters in law. Yet the RCN, an organisation that claims to champion equality, chooses delay over action. Nurses like me are left vulnerable while ideology trumps reality. This is not inclusion; it is discrimination.”

See more on our website and in this🧵👇

christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease… (2) The story is breaking in today's Daily Express where Darlington nurse and President of the Darlington Nursing Union, Bethany Hutchison, said: “Jennifer’s case is not an isolated incident. Across the NHS, women are being told to ‘broaden their mindset’ and accept policies that erase biological reality.

“The Supreme Court has spoken, yet institutions drag their feet. Why is it that the NHS has repeatedly implemented unlawful Stonewall policies, but cannot follow a legal ruling from the highest court in the land? We will not stop fighting for dignity and truth in healthcare.”

Ms Hutchison wrote to Prof Ranger on July 18 asking the RCN boss to use her influence to ensure “nursing does not become a profession where suitability to work is determined by one's acquiescence to particular acceptable’ beliefs”.

Prof Ranger has described equity and inclusion as a “moral imperative”, stating: “Our health and care systems can only thrive when they reflect, respect and actively engage the diversity of the people they serve - and the people who work within them.”

In her reply Ms Hutchison was told: “We await the EHRC statutory code of practice for services, public functions, and associations and the code may provide guidance on how this relates to the provision of health and care services.”

Prof Ranger confirmed the RCN had received inquiries from members following the Supreme Court decision, suggesting Ms Melle’s case is just one example of a wider national picture where institutions are dragging their feet.

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🚨 Today at Newcastle Employment Tribunal, Rose Henderson gave evidence in the high-profile case brought by eight female nurses against County Durham & Darlington NHS Trust. The hearing has exposed serious safeguarding failures. See some of the explosive evidence that came out in this thread 🧵 2/
The nurses allege the Trust forced them to share intimate changing spaces with an “evidently sexually functional biological male,” violating their dignity and creating a hostile environment. They claim harassment, discrimination & victimisation under the Equality Act.

1/ BREAKING: Church of England says its own teaching on marriage is a ‘safeguarding risk’ as it continues to blacklist chaplain for sermon

Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, who is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre, was labelled a 'risk to children' after a sermon saying pupils didn’t have to accept LGBT ideology, and he remains blacklisted by the @churchofengland .

Despite no action from Prevent, who he was reported to as an potential 'extremist', or other secular bodies, he says he's been left “bewildered and broken” by his continued blacklisting.

The CofE has now started a new safeguarding process against Dr Randall, despite him being vindicated and no evidence provided that he has done anything wrong...

See more breaking in the Mail on Sunday, on our website and on this🧵

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Read his sermon: christianconcern.com/resource/a-sch… 2/ Bernard's 2019 sermon followed a visit to Trent College by Educate and Celebrate, a group promoting the idea of “smashing heteronormativity”, even to nursery-aged children.

For preaching Church of England doctrine in a Church of England school, in a Church of England chapel, in response he was:

❌Dismissed from his role
❌Referred to counter-terrorism
❌Denied a licence to preach
❌Labelled a safeguarding risk

Every official body — Prevent, the Teaching Regulation Agency, the DBS, and the local safeguarding officer — found no case to answer.

Yet the CofE continues to treat him as a risk based on what he might say in future sermons....

🧵THREAD: Christian preacher vindicated after arrest, prosecution and ‘non-crime hate incident’ threat for questioning Quran

1/ Watch the unbelievable moment police arrest Christian preacher John Steele in Rotherham town centre and say they will record it as a ‘non-crime hate incident’, for asking a question about the Quran and domestic violence.

The story reveals embedded two-tier policing in Rotherham, where over many years South Yorkshire Police have failed to act on the systematic r**e of young girls by predominantly Islamic men, but on this occasion swiftly arrested a Christian preacher for asking a question about the Quran.

christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease… 2/ John Steele, 60, was arrested after a 30-second conversation with a Muslim woman at a public awareness stall.

He asked how Quran 4:34, which mentions wife-beating, aligns with the stall’s message on domestic abuse. He compared it to what Jesus and St Paul say in Ephesians 5:25

Despite his calm tone and peaceful approach, Steele was surrounded by officers, who threatened him with a “non-crime hate incident,” and arrested under Section 50 of the Police Reform Act.

He was fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and held in custody...

(1) BREAKING: In a win for Christian freedom, a West London church has compelled a local authority to reverse a controversial Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that had effectively criminalised its Christian outreach ministry.

Supported by lawyers at the Christian Legal Centre, the Kingsborough Centre in Uxbridge, pursued a Judicial Review of the London Borough of Hillingdon’s (LBH) decision to create the first ever street preaching and evangelising censorship zone in the UK.

The Pentecostal church, known for founding London’s first food bank in 2009, discovered during a prayer meeting that most of its outreach activities had been banned without warning.

The Church, which is situated within the censorship zone, has undertaken ministry in the community since its inception, and for example, held and organised peace gatherings in the area that is now a PSPO zone following the 7/7 terror attack in London in 2005.

Contributing significantly to the community, the Church has also set up three branches of the ‘Coat of Many Colours’ nursery, plus an affordable childcare service which now serves multiple areas within Hillingdon and Hounslow.

Reading the proposals, however, the church believed they had been ‘criminalised for loving our neighbour’ without proper consultation and had no choice but to pursue legal action.

The few responses there were to the public consultation described the legislation as “extremely worrying”, “an attack on freedom of speech”, and ushering in a “police sate”.

In August 2023, the council went ahead with its plans, nonetheless, with its website stating that: ‘police and specific officers authorised by the council can enforce PSPO conditions and may issue fixed penalty notices of £100 for non-compliance.’

It added that: ‘Non-payment of an FPN may lead to court prosecution with a maximum fine of £1,000 and/or criminal conviction.’

This made it a criminal offence to preach with amplification, distribute Christian leaflets and display Bible verses on posters in Uxbridge town centre.

But now after permission was given for a Judicial Review of the 'unlawful' legislation, the council has been forced into a U-turn with £20,000 legal costs...

See more in this🧵, on our website, and breaking in the @dailytelegraph👇

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telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2… (2) Tracts and leaflets, like the one pictured, sharing the Christian faith would have been banned and criminalised under the proposed legislation.

The day after the legislation was published, a group of Christians reported that police officers approached them in the town centre as they undertook their regular outreach activities, which included street preaching.

Four posters containing biblical teaching were displayed and they were distributing leaflets to passers-by.

The police warned them that they were in breach of the PSPO and would be fined if they continued their activity.

The police even told the group to turn the signs around so that the biblical messages could not be read. Signs displayed in the zone, for example, include “Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords and King of Kings”, from the Book of Revelation.

Also facing censorship were leaflets entitled ‘How can I know God?’ and ‘What is Christianity: An Introduction to the Story of Jesus.’

(1) If you want to see why the NHS is in no position to handle the chaos that would be unleashed on its services by the assisted suicide bill, look no further than this🧵on the tragic case of 19-year-old Sudiksha Thirumalesh… (2) Sudiksha’s case was reminiscent of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Archie Battersbee, in that an NHS Hospital, had asked the Court of Protection to authorise removal of life-saving medical treatment from Sudiksha, effectively condemning her to death.

Unlike in most such cases, however, Sudiksha was conscious, able to speak, and had instructed her own lawyers to argue that she should be kept alive and be allowed to go to Canada for experimental treatment, which could give her a chance of survival.

She was suffering from a rare genetic mitochondrial disease which caused chronic muscle weakness, loss of hearing, and damage to her kidneys, making her dependent on regular dialysis and other intensive care.

It did not, however, affect the functioning of her brain as her handwritten notes, written in hospital, reveal...

(1) BREAKING: Wes Streeting orders NHS England to urgently resolve Darlington nurses changing room scandal

There was an apology, provision for female changing rooms after an inspection was described as 'inadequate', and urgent action was promised.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… (2) The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has told NHS England to urgently resolve the female changing room issues at Darlington Memorial Hospital, so that nurses can return to the female changing rooms without the fear of having to undress in front of a man.

After visiting the hospital this week without warning, a senior member of NHS England has subsequently described the provision for female staff as ‘inadequate’, apologised to a Darlington nurse and promised to act ‘with speed’ by providing male, female and gender-neutral changing rooms.

“We want you to feel comfortable and safe”, the Darlington nurse was told.

Backed by the Christian Legal Centre, 8 nurses, dubbed ‘The Angels of the North’, have been locked in a high-profile legal battle with County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust after being forced to share a changing room, without warning or consultation, in front of a man who ‘identifies’ as a woman called ‘Rose’.

See more on our website 👇

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1. A thread 🧵on the extraordinary Christian Legal Centre case of the Darlington nurses…

A lot has happened over the last year. Here we put it all together for the first time... 2. In the summer of 2023, nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital began to express alarm that, without warning or consultation, a man ‘identifying’ as a woman called ‘Rose’ was using the female staff changing rooms.

The changing room does not have cubicles but staff lockers with a large open space where nurses change before and after working.

The changing room in question clicks shut and has a lock system that makes it slow to get in and out of.

One nurse, a survivor of child sexual abuse who experiences PTSD, confided to another nurse what was happening.

She said she was having panic attacks after being approached alone in the changing room and being asked repeatedly by Rose: ‘Are you getting changed yet?’

She said she was too afraid to speak out. The other nurses knew then that this had gone too far and they had to do something.

The nurses discovered that there was a County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust policy called ‘Transitioning in the Workplace’, which allows anyone who merely identifies as a woman to access the female staff changing rooms.

The policy is inspired by Stonewall and is believed to be used in different forms across the NHS…

(1) A thread on the extraordinary landmark Christian Legal Centre case of Kristie Higgs.

Follow the story of one ordinary Christian mother's unprecedented six-year journey through the UK legal system.

See what you make of all the obstacles put in her way that sought to prevent her from receiving justice and protecting Christian freedom in this country.

In October 2018, Kristie’s 8-year-old son brought home story books as part of a ‘No Outsiders in Our School’ program.

Researching online, Kristie discovered the books were very controversial and encouraged beliefs in gender fluidity and sexualised children from a young age.

She decided to visit her son’s Church of England primary school in Fairford, Gloucestershire to see what other books the school was using… (2) She was alarmed to discover books such as ‘My Princess Boy’ and ‘Red Crayon’, which promoted extreme gender identity themes to children as young as five.

Parents were invited in to the school to view the books if they wanted to, but Kristie was concerned that many parents were not aware of what their children were about to start learning.

She politely told the school she wanted her son to be withdrawn from these lessons.

She then discovered that there was a forthcoming government consultation about making ‘relationships and sex education’ compulsory in UK schools...

🧵(1) BREAKING: CHRISTIAN NURSE TAKES LEGAL ACTION AFTER BEING INVESTIGATED BY NHS FOR CALLING 6FT TRANSGENDER PAEDOPHILE 'Mr'

The convicted paedophile, ‘Mr X’, is in a high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media.

After refusing to refer to Mr X as a ‘she’ while on duty, Jennifer Melle was racially abused and physically threatened.

Instead of supporting her, however, Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust has abandoned Jennifer and treated her like the criminal.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has also said Jennifer is ‘a potential risk’ for not using Mr X’s preferred ‘gender identity.’

The story is the latest in a series of cases where NHS policy supports trans ideology over biological reality. It also follows the publication of the Sullivan report this week which revealed that the police are allowing criminals to ‘self-identify’ their gender on official records.

In this case, policy has led, in the name of inclusivity, to the NHS siding with a paedophile convicted of serious offences, while pretending to be the opposite sex, over members of staff with Christian and gender-critical beliefs.

Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, the case Jennifer has now launched against the Trust on the grounds of harassment, discrimination and human rights’ breaches, is believed to be unprecedented.

In response to her claims, NHS lawyers have said that Christian beliefs Mis holds, that we are born male and female, are ‘not worthy of respect in a democratic society.’

Watch Jennifer discuss what happened and see more on our website:
christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease… (2) On the night of May 22, 2024, Jennifer began her shift at the hospital, where a Pride Progress Flag—symbolising support for transgender rights and gender identity affirmation—flew from the rooftop.

Miss Melle, who came to the UK from Uganda as a child, and has worked her way up to become a senior nurse, had been told along with her colleagues that Mr X had been brought in for treatment from a Category C men’s prison and was a sex offender.

He entered the hospital chained to two guards and was clearly masculine in appearance, standing over six feet tall and of large build.

At 10pm, a junior colleague approached Miss Melle in a distressed state saying that Mr X wanted to self-discharge. He was shouting and upsetting other elderly and vulnerable patients on the ward.

The doctor had been called for guidance on the discharge but had not yet responded. As the senior nurse on the ward, Jennifer followed her colleague to take charge of the situation and to provide support.

Looking at the patient’s medical records, she saw that the patient was recorded as male, not female or transgender. On the name board next to the bed, it simply gave the feminine name.

With her colleague finally getting through to the doctor on the phone, Jennifer requested to speak to him. She said to the doctor that: ‘Mr X would like to self-discharge.’

Overhearing the call, enraged Mr X screamed: “Do not call me Mr! I am a woman!”

Still on the phone to the doctor, Jennifer called back to Mr X that she was speaking to the doctor and was working out what medication could be given before he was discharged.

Finishing the call, she approached the patient’s room...

1. A thread 🧵on the extraordinary Christian Legal Centre case of Rev. Dr Bernard Randall and the latest developments in his story.

In 2019, Dr Randall, an ordained Church of England (CofE) minister, was working without any issues at Trent College in Derbyshire. The college had a CofE chapel and a CofE ethos and Dr Randall was employed to pastor, teach and uphold Christian beliefs in the school.

Everything changed, however, when the college invited extreme LGBT group, Educate and Celebrate, to implement their ‘gold standard’ inclusive curriculum to even nursery aged children… 2. At a staff training day, Educate and Celebrate’s Elly Barnes introduced the work of the partly government funded charity to school staff.

She encouraged staff to stand up and chant ‘smash heteronormativity’ – the belief that male and female relationships are the norm.

During this training, which Dr Randall attended, Ms Barnes lied to staff that ‘gender identity’ was protected under the Equality Act and that her organisation was recognised by Ofsted, which it wasn’t.

Before going defunct, Educate and Celebrate were given access to thousands of schools across the country teaching ‘Queer Theory’, the gender unicorn and telling educators to remove the terms ‘boys and girls’ from the school environment.

Find out more on Educate and Celebrate christianconcern.com/comment/educat…

1. VICTORY FOR FREEDOM
KRISTIE HIGGS WINS AS COURT OF APPEAL RULES DISMISSAL FOR FREE SPEECH IS ILLEGAL

In a seminal judgment for Christian freedom and free speech, the Court of Appeal has reversed a ruling which defended the dismissal of Kristie Higgs from Farmor’s School in Gloucestershire for raising concern on Facebook about extreme sex education and transgender ideology being taught in her son's Church of England primary school. 

The groundbreaking decision, handed down this morning by Lord Justice Underhill, Lord Justice Bean and Lady Justice Falk, re-examines and re-shapes England’s law on religious discrimination. (see legal analysis in notes to editors.)

The dramatic six-year legal battle has been supported by the Christian Legal Centre from the beginning. Mrs Higgs, 48, was represented in court by barrister, Mr Richard O'Dair. 

The ruling confirms that the Equality Act protects traditional Christian beliefs on social issues, such as opposition to the ideas of transgenderism and ‘gender-fluidity’ and opposition to same-sex marriage.

The authoritative judgment re-shapes the law on freedom of religion in the workplace. For the first time in employment law, the judgment has effectively established a legal presumption that any dismissal for an expression or manifestation of Christian faith is illegal.

It explained that the burden is on the employer to prove in the Employment Tribunal that any such dismissal can be objectively justified (not just that they believed it was justified) and was prescribed by law, proportionate and otherwise necessary in a democratic society to address a pressing social need.

The Court of Appeal has also ruled that such a dismissal would only be lawful if it was objectively justified as prescribed by law and necessary in a democratic society.

Mrs Higgs' employer had argued during the case that its justification for sacking Mrs Higgs was not to do with her Christian beliefs but because of the language she used in the posts.

This argument, however, was rejected by the judges, who said in their ruling that Kristie's: "dismissal was unquestionably a disproportionate response", and that "even if the language of the re-posts passes the threshold of objectionability, it is not grossly offensive."

They added that: "There was no evidence that the reputation of the School had thus far been damaged: its concern was about potential damage in the future (see, again, the final paragraph of the passage in the dismissal letter quoted at para. 22 above). As it also accepted, there was no possibility that, even if readers of the posts associated the Claimant with the School, they would believe that they represented its own views.

"Any reputational damage would only take the form of the fear expressed by the complainant, namely that the Claimant might express at work the homophobic and transphobic attitudes arguably implicit in the language used. I accept that if that belief became widespread it could harm the School’s reputation in the community, as the panel clearly thought. But the risk of widespread circulation was speculative at best. The posts were made on her personal Facebook account, in her maiden name and with no reference to the School. By the time of the hearing, several weeks after the posts were made, only one person was known to have recognised who she was.”

Furthermore they have ruled that: "Even if readers of the posts might fear that the Claimant would let her views influence her work, neither the panel nor the ET believed that she would do so. There was no reason to doubt her assertion that her concern was specifically about the content of sex education in primary schools; that she “wouldn’t bring this into school”; and that she would never treat gay or trans pupils differently (see para. 16 above). There had indeed been no complaints about any aspect of her work for over six years.”

"Taking those reasons together,", the judges said, "I do not believe that dismissal was even arguably a proportionate sanction for the Claimant’s conduct. It was no doubt unwise of her to re-post material expressed in (to use the ET’s words) florid and provocative language with which she did not agree, and in circumstances where people were liable to realise her connection with the School. But I cannot accept that that can justify her dismissal, and still less so where she was a long-serving employee against whose actual work there was no complaint of any kind.”

The Court therefore overruled the earlier decision of Employment Appeal Tribunal to remit the case for a re-trial, and concluded: “we should ourselves hold that the Claimant’s dismissal constituted unlawful discrimination on the ground of religion and belief”.

christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease… 2. In 2019, pastoral administrator Mrs Higgs was sacked for gross misconduct by Farmor’s Secondary School in Gloucestershire, and had her Christian beliefs compared to Neo-Nazism, for two Facebook posts.

The posts were made under her maiden name on a private account to her friends, which had no mention of her employer.

The posts were made in response to extreme gender identity books being introduced under the radar to her son’s Church of England primary school, which was not the school where she was employed. 

The first post shared a petition against compulsory sex education. The second post shared an article about the dangers of extreme transgender ideology in children’s books being introduced into UK and US schools.

An anonymous complaint was made about the posts to the headteacher which led to Mrs Higgs facing a six-hour interrogation, being investigated, and eventually sacked for allegedly bringing the school into disrepute.

Mrs Higgs launched legal action claiming she had been harassed, directly discriminated against, and had her rights breached under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).

The legal battle that followed has been plagued by delay and controversy with repeated recusals and evidence of transgender, Stonewall and extreme sex education activists sitting as lay magistrates on the presiding panels.

🧵1. Political Islam is already in Britain.

Did you know that the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is under the full political control of an exclusively Bangladeshi-Islamic male-only political party, called Aspire?

Replacing Labour as the party in power in 2022, Aspire shocked the political establishment by winning the local elections with no mainstream support, sectarian campaigning, and a leader, Lutfur Rahman, previously banned from office due to electoral fraud and practicing undue spiritual influence.

What is revealed about Britain's most Islamic area in this thread demonstrates how the Government must urgently review the teaching of “British values” in schools, and ensure the inclusion of the common foundations of Christianity, and shared British culture, history and habits.

Read the full piece with @DanielDieppe in @TheCriticMag today.

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Find out more on election fraud Tower Hamlets Mayor, Luftur Rahman.
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2. The case of the Aspire Party, which only operates in Tower Hamlets, has become increasingly common in multicultural Britain under the increasing influence of Islam.

Whilst Muslims make up 6.5 per cent of the total UK population, they account for 40 per cent of the Tower Hamlets population — making it the most Islamic and most Bangladeshi local authority in Britain.

Although still unusual, the election of several independent “Pro-Gaza” MPs, the disruption of Parliament and political meetings has alerted political commentators of the increasingly isolated political views of British Muslims from the mainstream.

Tower Hamlets, in a sense, is the first British manifestation of such opinion.

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1. England and Crystal Palace footballer, Marc Guehi, is not alone in being criticised, pressurised and punished for loving Jesus and expressing Christian beliefs in public. What he is facing is not a new theme for us and gets to the heart of many of the biggest legal cases the Christian Legal Centre supports. This thread gives you just some of their stories... 2. Felix Ngole was expelled from his university social work course after posting comments on his Facebook page in support of Biblical teaching. Despite a big win in the Court of Appeal, and now qualifying as a social worker, he continues to be punished for his beliefs. christianconcern.com/cccases/felix-…

GB News' @calvinrobinson speaks to our Head of Education, Steve Beegoo, about the "anti-Christian" and "sinister" teaching on gender identity that has been exposed at a CofE primary school in Norfolk: christianconcern.com/news/cofe-prim… Sadly, as Steve tells Calvin, what has been exposed in Norfolk "is just another example of what's happening up and down the country...".

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"Of over five hundred sexual abuse cases between under-18s in Britain, fifty per cent featured behaviours learned from porn."

@Con_Tomlinson, presenter of the Lotus Eaters podcast, reveals the devastating consequences of porn on children: thecritic.co.uk/the-price-of-p… In 2020, we held a conference championing sexual purity - you can listen to all the sessions on our website: christianconcern.com/resource/champ…

The Bishop of Manchester, The Rt Rev. Dr David Walker, has seemingly revealed his belief that abortion is 'healthcare'.

@BishManchester said yesterday: "My concerns regarding Clause 9 had nothing to do with the moral merits or otherwise of abortion; they lie in my passion to see upheld the rights of citizens of this land, both to receive healthcare and to protest."

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BREAKING: A Christian mother whose four-year-old son was required to take part in a school’s LGBT pride parade against her will is to have her legal case heard in court this week.

christianconcern.com/news/mother-to… Izzy Montague made national headlines after being aggressively told by the headteacher of Heaver’s Farm Primary School in Croydon, South London, that her son could not opt-out of the Pride event, despite the families’ Christian beliefs.

BREAKING: Christian parents, Calvin and Nicola Watts, have been forced to remove their children from a @churchofengland primary school after discovering that their 8-year-old child and classmates were being given extreme teaching on gender identity.

christianconcern.com/news/parents-f… The family were alerted by other parents that a video of ‘It feels good to be yourself: a book about gender identity’, by Theresa Thorn, had been shown in class without their knowledge or consent.

"We all therefore have a responsibility under God to protect our children, especially church leaders."

Yesterday, we delivered a petition, backed by 15,000 people, urging Justin Welby to drop the Church of England's trans-affirming guidance.

christianconcern.com/news/15000-cal… The petition hand-in coincided with the House of Bishops gathering from Monday 12 December to discuss its Living in Love and Faith project.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said for the first time that he will keep his views on same-sex marriage in church a secret as long as he is in post, according to The Times.

thetimes.co.uk/article/archbi… It comes as Bishops are meeting TODAY, and over the next couple of days, to discuss whether to formally bless same-sex relationships.