Our Duty is encouraging everybody with social networking profiles, to use the shield emoji 🛡️ whenever commenting on safeguarding matters. Include it in your profile e.g. on Twitter if you believe the safeguarding of our youth is of utmost importance.
What is safeguarding?
Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and vulnerable people and protect them from harm.
Safeguarding objectives:
- protect people from abuse and maltreatment
- prevent harm to children’s and young people’s health or development
- ensure children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
- strive for all children and young people to have the best outcomes
This shield 🛡️ campaign is aimed at heightening awareness of the need to safeguard children and adolescents, and in particular to recognise that young people struggling with their sex (so-called gender identity issues) present challenges for safeguarding.
Safeguarding and the Transgender Craze
Many young people are caught up with the transgender craze, and there are many facets to this phenomenon which raise serious safeguarding concerns.
Children are ‘groomed’ to be transgender online and in so-called LGBT Support Organisations. There is an obvious sexual component to these social interactions with a very obvious risk that they can include inappropriate sexual behaviour.
If a child or young person adopts a ‘gender identity’ as result of social interactions, then harm can arise in a number of forms:
- An increase in self-harming (or “cutting”) as these behaviours are lauded in the same online spaces as gender transition.
- Mental health issues, including anxiety and depression, resulting from dwelling on the idea that they “born in the wrong body”.
- Harm to physical health which will arise if prescribed “puberty blockers”, cross-sex hormones, or if surgery to imitate the opposite sex is undertaken.
Safe and effective care for young people caught up in the transgender craze needs to include ways of managing the symptoms while avoiding the harms outlined above.
It is our view that children and young people need to be protected in particular from influences and the behaviour of others which are inappropriate for their age or stage of development including, but not limited to those which:
- Erode boundaries
- Encourage sexualised behaviour
- Encourage young people to ’embrace discomfort’
- Promote sexualised sex stereotypes
- Pressurise young people to behave in a sexual manner
- Lead to unnecessary medical interventions
If a child has a gender identity problem, and starts thinking of themselves as transgender, then this is inherently harmful behaviour and it is rooted in their understanding of sex.
Children do not need a gender identity. Children and young people are better able to reach adulthood safely and best equipped for their future if they accept their sex and do not care for sex stereotypes.
So called ‘gender transition’ is essentially performance of sex stereotypes. These stereotypes are rigid boxes which limit behaviour to sex-based roles. These boxes need dismantling so that there is no right or wrong way to be a boy or to be a girl. There needs to be no pressure to perform those roles; only then can those ‘quirky’ children who do not conform by nature be free to be themselves without changing themselves.
If you support an end to the social and medical gender transition of children and adolescents, then you can show your support by sporting the 🛡️
Please support this campaign and add the 🛡️ whenever you are championing safeguarding.
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More reading:
Safeguarding adolescents from premature, permanent medicalisation
