Clare Page : No Secret Lessons

In Sept the Information Commissioner's Office delivered a Decision Notice that supported a London secondary school in keeping a Relationships and Sex Education lesson hidden from parents. I am Appealing against that decision in a First Tier Tribunal. Please support my case.🙏

@kosh_1 👍

@NoSecretLessons 'biological gender' is her grudging recognition of biological reality before folding it into a social construct. That's what allows her to argue clinicians should decide whether medicating to maintain a social fiction is for the best (in their judgement).

Wow. These women are dangerous. They have turned a clearly child-abusing situation into a spat about professional spheres of control. But it was never a question of whether doctors or politicians should decide (neither profession is reliably wise)… it is a question of whether truth or lies are employed. Calling a boy ‘she’ is to collude in the lies of an abusive cult that has clearly caused significant suffering already. And let us be clear - psychology is not a real science, and medical doctors are no better at guessing the inner workings of a child’s mind and a family’s coercion than anyone else. What Cass is referring to is dodgy sexology and nothing more. There is only one North Star here, to stop this tail-chasing circle of gender madness that these women are trying to drag everyone into, and that is to tell the truth.

@spudsmonaghan12 Well the Conversion Practices Draft Bill, I presume. But I think I understand your point now. And yes, few people realise how dangerous this is.

@NoSecretLessons What do you think I mean by 'the Nonce Act'?

But what else would we expect to happen? The EA2010 literally creates the legal status for a child to be an aspiring ‘transexual’ from birth. So you know what would really help to stop this @LoudBonnet? Declaring the EA2010 to be the dangerous queer nonsense it is and calling for repeal of the protected characteristic of ‘Gender Reassignment’, which makes it extremely difficult for right-minded safeguarders, teachers, doctors or social workers to oppose this disastrous kind of abuse.

@kosh_1 And what on Earth is ‘biological gender’????

@kosh_1 Agree. It’s an extraordinary overreach that cannot possibly have any meaningful scientific basis.

@prof_curiosity1 Your reply @Hilary_Cass?

An open letter to Baroness Cass ref the case of this child, whose situation needs to investigated by social services. This indeed is not a political matter but one of child protection. x.com/rosevenicealla… Dear Baroness Cass, I am writing in response to the case you described of the eleven year old boy socially transitioned by his parents at two and a half, now living stealth, afraid to attend school as either sex, and increasingly withdrawn and physically deconditioned as a result. I wanted to set out why I think this case illustrates something more specific than the question you posed about whether politicians or doctors should decide what happens to children like him. The case is, on its own terms, a clear demonstration of premature identity foreclosure. A child of two and a half has no capacity for the kind of abstract, exploratory self reflection that genuine identity formation requires, on any developmental account from Piaget through Marcia. What happened to this child at that age was necessarily a decision made on his behalf and then sustained around him, not a discovery he himself reached. Bronfenbrenner's ecological model describes exactly the mechanism by which that early decision then becomes self perpetuating: once a social transition is established in the home, it is carried into school, peer relationships, and eventually clinical contact, each system reinforcing what the previous one had already settled, with no point at which the original premise is revisited. By the time this child reaches adolescence, an identity adopted before he could speak in full sentences has become something he now actively conceals and fears having questioned, which is a strange and telling outcome for an identity supposedly discovered rather than constructed. The detail you raise of weakened bones from inactivity rather than from medical intervention is, I think, the most important part of the case, because it shows the harm operating through an entirely social pathway. A child too afraid of being outed to attend school is a child whose ordinary developmental environment, peer contact, physical activity, the everyday testing of self against the world that Erikson and Marcia both treat as necessary to identity formation, has been closed off by the position he has been placed in. This is not a side effect of any drug. It is the direct consequence of a foreclosed identity that has left him with nowhere safe to be a child. I would push back on framing the central question as one of medical versus political authority over decisions like puberty blockers. The decision that produced the harm you describe was not a medical one at all. It was a parental and social decision taken years before any clinical pathway became relevant, and the clinical system he now exists within is managing the consequences of that earlier decision rather than the cause of his distress. Given that he is now isolated, school avoidant, and showing physical signs of neglect of his basic developmental needs, I think it is also worth asking plainly whether this is a case that ought to have come to the attention of children's social services on ordinary safeguarding grounds, independent of any question about gender identity at all. I would suggest the more pressing question your case actually raises is what support and recourse exists for a child in his position now, given how early and how thoroughly the foreclosure already occurred, and what should change about how social transition in early childhood is approached so that fewer children arrive at eleven in a position this difficult to unwind. Yours sincerely,

@spudsmonaghan12 I think I might be misunderstanding your point…

@NoSecretLessons You've forgotten what your post was about?

@AlessandraAster @roseveniceallan As a friend reminded me, they’ll forgive you for being wrong, but they’ll never forgive you for being right!

@roseveniceallan @NoSecretLessons Maybe that is why they hated me so much for saying it wasn't. Nobody likes the bearers of bad news.

The Cass Review was the beginning of the end of the trans cult but not in the way we hoped. It helped a fringe cult become a state religion.

@bjportraits Oh yes, I understood you meant that. 👍

@NoSecretLessons I was attempting to say that castration cults have not been industrialized before, but should have been more clear. I was unaware of Aktion T4 (😮) but I agree that would be an example of an industrialized cult.

Claire is correct. People have to stop running in circles. “There is only one north star - to tell the truth,” is a perfect clarion call. There is no such thing as transitioning, all males (and females) are biological, and castration is not healthcare. This is a cult. We’ve seen them before, they’ve just never been industrialized.

@spudsmonaghan12 Talking turkey about what?

@NoSecretLessons The circumlocutions and sophistry people use to say 'We're scared of being called names by the paedophile lobby so we let them sexually abuse children's minds to get to their bodies'. Some days since the 'Nonce Act' was announced, and I only see you talking turkey about it.

@roseveniceallan @AlessandraAster You just can’t believe the mendacity of these ideologues…

@roseveniceallan @AlessandraAster Yes, understand. After all, it was carefully designed to convince Tories and other skeptics they were heading in the right direction.

@kosh_1 Yes, that statement really stood out to me too… where is Cass getting her advice from regarding how likely or not this 11 year old boy is to realise he is in fact a boy?

@NoSecretLessons "At 11 she, which I say advisedly because the chances of her reverting to her biological gender is vanishingly remote…" Cass needs treatment, so do those supposedly "looking after her". 'Social transition' failed, attributing weak bones to that, not PBs, sounds like an alibi.

@NoSecretLessons Parental abuse of children will always occur - the state and our NHS supporting it, facilitating it, protecting it in law is what is jaw dropping. The infant was lied to about his sex at two years of age! How can that not be abuse?

@FuriousBanshee And as usual, it appears banal.

Evil exists

@NoSecretLessons Cultural and moral relativism is extremism. It must be challenged and demonised at every level in society. It's peak wishful thinking.

@NoSecretLessons The boy’s now so fucked up, and terrified of the dif btw the fantasy he’s trapped in & the reality of the outside world, that he’s refusing to go to school or even hardly leave his room. No one needs a professional qualification to understand that this is devastating child abuse.

I can’t quite agree with this reading. The tactical retreat from certain over-reaching, lawless, avant garde atrocities, in order to re-group, rationalise the position and then advance the same atrocities in an official, supposedly lawful manner, was *never* good news. It was the moment that criminal grade state-backed abuse became legitimised. The retraction was part of the advance. Those of us who read carefully knew that and found it alarming at every point. If it was ever truly good news, there would have been a public inquiry, sackings and prosecutions when GIDS was shut.