Children's Wellbeing & Schools Bill debated in the House of Lords last night. This from @amanda_spielman is so important. Over-focusing on children's #MentalHealth is counter-productive: So pleased that @amanda_spielman is focusing on this. Via our work on gender ideology we have seen
how grifters gear up to flog crap worksheets and flimsy mantras into schools. Today, your kid's 'inner gender', tomorrow their 'mental health'...

*2025 RSHE Guidance and the teaching of gender ideology*. We'll put the relevant passages here so that people can decide for themselves. This is the dire 2019 RSHE guidance which required our schools to teach our children catastrophically harmful pseudoscience: This is the Conservative's 2024 Draft RSHE Guidance: "Schools should not teach about the ... concept of gender identity":

Major victory for Gender Critical campaigners! @TheFCA has dropped its EDI proposals which would have pushed gender ideology right out across entire financial services sector. @SEENCityNetwork 🥳🧵 Staggeringly, the FCA & PRA suggested that financial sector giants collect data based on "sex" OR "gender" - ie be able to drop sex-based data-gathering all together. Hello gender self-ID, goodbye the integrity of ALL data & research relating to women & financial services:

Too few people fully understand Stonewall’s totalitarian & transgressive agenda. Yet it was ‘out and loud’, visible & flourishing, in the public sector via the Stonewall WEI. 🧵 Very senior HR executives across the public sector therefore had a detailed understanding of the agenda. Yet they allowed it to flourish for years. We'd like the @Conservatives to commit to a review to understand how this happened.

Confirming what we all know but inexcusably (?) silent about a key enabler of distress & dysfunction amongst our vulnerable children. The role of our schools…🧵 Relationship & Sex Education Guidance introduced by the Tories in 2021 *requires* schools to teach children harmful pseudoscience made up yesterday:

Why we support GRA repeal. Example: this policy from the @BTP. This illustrates the corrosion of public life & the most elementary standards of logic & sense. How did our great institutions come to this? Answer - the corrosion induced by a lie in public life. 🧵 These nonsense definitions. And the abject corrosion - an important institution describing the binary nature of sex as a mere 'belief'. This cravenness harms our shared public life and harms us all.

1/19 Government consultations and calls for evidence: thread🧵

Whether there is a change of government or not, it is imperative that we keep responding. The evidence and feedback are crucial and any new ministers appointed to the roles in health, education, and equalities 2/19 must be reminded that we will expect to see the outcomes of this work.
Activists in the civil service must be put on notice that this work is not to be quietly buried or shredded; we expect to see the results, and the results to be acted upon, whoever forms

Part II Thread of bite-size clips from peers' speeches opposing Baroness Burt's Conversion Practices bill. The full speeches are now available on our YouTube channel (links in each post) 26/33 Lord Hannan
“Are we legislating against something that does not happen in order to send a signal? If we are, that is almost a definition of laws that have unintended consequences.”

1/33 Thread of bite-size clips from peers' speeches (part II to follow) opposing Baroness Burt's Conversion Practices bill. The full speeches are now available on our YouTube channel (links in each post) and of course you can still read the transcript: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-02-… 2/33 and watch the whole debate on the ParliamentTV website: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/ba…

"Something you may not have thought of is that there are a lot of people who can’t move on from this. And that’s the people who have transitioned their own children. So those people are going to be like the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific islands and didn’t know the 1/ war was over. They’ve got to fight forever. This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we’ll ever have experienced. A lot of people have done what is the worst thing you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably, 2/

A letter from the Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, to the Ofsted Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, requesting that Ofsted carry out a snap inspection of Rye College, in East Sussex.
#edutwitter
gov.uk/government/pub… 2/ "As you will be aware, the UK courts have ruled that gender critical beliefs – the belief that sex is biological and immutable, that people cannot change their sex and that sex is distinct from gender-identity – are classed as a philosophical belief worthy of respect

1/3 “So, since it’s a question he will be asked if he gets into Westminster, how would he define a woman? “A woman is an adult female. There are also trans people. I don’t believe women’s rights and trans rights
thetimes.co.uk/article/d25611… 2/3 are mutually exclusive, we need to talk about both. I was raised by amazing women.” He has already been accused of installing a pink and blue trans flag road crossing in Camden while a councillor. “I wasn’t actually responsible for it. But for me it was some paint on the

1/4 “The most recent cause célèbre of the left has been the gender debate. Some are bemused at the intensity with which the hard left has adopted the cause, not least since it affects a tiny proportion of the population. Yet every gender march is liberally
thetimes.co.uk/article/28bd32… 2/4 laced with Socialist Worker banners and virulently anti-Conservative sloganising. Why do they regard this as such a crucial political battle? The answer lies in the institutions it undermines, most importantly family and religion, two great enemies of state communism in the

1/5 Thanks to @thetimes being one of the few mainstream media outlets covering these issues, their readership are incredibly well informed. Just read some of the comments on this article:
thetimes.co.uk/article/3b5a2b… 2/5

1/5 "There is no symbol, word or sentence that should be beneath the legislator’s attention when it comes to the law."
To the @Conservatives who have signed this amendment, are you able to define your terms when talking about 'LGBTQ+"? 'LGB' is easy to define, but 'T' according 2/5 to Stonewall can include 'cross-dressers'; are we really legislating for cross-dressers? 'Q' can be 'queer', a word many gay men and lesbians find very offensive, or 'questioning'; questioning what exactly? As for '+', well anything goes there. In some corners of 'queer'