"New laws are urgently needed to protect our children"

Telegraph: 10th April 2024: Liz Truss writes why Government should bring in legislation to protect children from idealogues 

...As a Minister I was pleased to be able to junk the plans for gender self-ID, but during the past few years gender ideology has nonetheless gained increasing credence in our public institutions, in the NHS and – most worryingly of all – in our schools.

This is why the report from the leading paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass into how the NHS deals with children presenting with gender dysphoria is so important... Dr Cass has laid out clearly the scale of the damage being done to young people through misguided inclusion policies which, in her own words, were “built on shaky foundations” and “remarkably weak evidence”... 

... a change in the law is necessary to introduce badly needed protections... when I was successful in the Private Member’s Bill ballot, I put forward the Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill [which] addresses these issues – defining sex in law as biological sex to protect single-sex spaces; banning the prescription of puberty blockers to under-18s, both on the NHS and privately; and preventing official recognition of social transitioning...

Shamefully, when my Bill was due for debate last month, Labour MPs filibustered... so it could not even be debated. It now needs Government time and support if it is to make any progress... it should adopt my bill forthwith and get it passed into law before the election".

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