When I start to question my sanity

It's been imminent, dangerous and devastating for us since 2019 and I won't be quiet. 2020 was horrific because of gender identity idewoogly hitting our home and I will be here for it's dying breath.

Sometimes I worry that I'm being like the people in the 80's that prompted section 28 into schools. People were so unhappy that lesbian and gay were becoming a known to children. I remember at the time feeling the outrage and unfairness. I remember seeing these children needing this information.

Celebrities, religious leaders, doctors, parents, and students wrote letters, signed petitions, and risked careers to speak out. They weren’t all radicals—they were people with a conscience who could see that criminalizing care, silence, or knowledge of lesbian and gay children was not the answer.

Section 28 stayed in law for 15 years, but over time, public opinion shifted. Many of those who had been afraid in the '80s—afraid of change, of disruption, of children hearing "too much"—came to see that support, not censorship, leads to stronger, more understanding communities. The law was repealed in Scotland in 2000 and in the rest of the UK by 2003.

Then things changed in 2015. Information about sex and gender started to change. By 2018 the government had introduced new sex education lessons, calling it Relationship Sexual Health and Parenting - RSHP.

RSHP is an individual subject in primary schools. They promote the #bekind model, critical race theory, and very inappropriate sex education all throughout the years. Then, by primary 5-7, they are teaching gender idewoogly as fact. They teach sex assigned at birth nonsense, that you can be whatever boy or girl you want, that little boys are girls with penis, that it's possible to be born in the wrong body.  

Telling children that sex is assigned at birth is disingenuous and confusing. Mother's already know from 10wks what sex their baby is going to be, bar chromosomal abnormalities, and it's insulting and ludicrous to tell children that people don't know, so that when their baby is born they get to decide. Like some kind of genie computer game!! They teach sex is arbitrarily assigned at birth but apparently gender identity is fixed in the womb. It makes no sense.

It's not mandatory but Stonewall has captured them all and they all want their special gender inclusivity points. Not once giving a thought to autistic, GNC or gay children. They're all trans now.

When I start to worry I may be a sec28 bigot, I remember gender ideology is homophobic, regressive and an adult agenda that doesn't belong anywhere near children. It has nothing to do with section 28 as gender ideology actively works against gay children. No one is born in the wrong body and children are not trans.

I have no issue with gay children. Transgender is an ideology that is NOT based in fact. It is pseudoscience nonsense propaganda. I remember why I am deeply concerned about the impact of this ideology in schools. It has been afforded a gilded platform and due to lobby groups such as Stonewall schools have been told they must celebrate and affirm trans ideation.

When I worry that maybe my children at the age of 10/11 really were meant to be male, I remember that the Cass Report states that social transition is not a neutral act. It locks the child in a fixed state and could possibly lead to unnecessary medical and surgical consequences. Adults should not be coercing children through the language used to make children think that they can be the opposite sex. Using compelled pronouns is not grounded in reality and it is not properly safeguarding children. I remember the American's version is now out and is also incredibly damming of gender affirming care and social transition for children. 

So when I get that worrying feeling, I remember. I’m not Section 28. I’m not trying to erase or shame children for who they are. I’m not calling for silence around real, biological realities or about what it means to grow up gay, lesbian, different, or awkward. I'm not afraid of openness. I welcome truth, I welcome honesty, and I want children to be seen and supported.

But what's happening now isn't honesty. It's confusion, coercion, and ideological capture disguised as kindness. It's branding children with identities they don’t understand, framing any resistance as hatred, and pushing vulnerable kids—especially autistic and same-sex attracted kids—down a pathway of social, medical, and often irreversible steps with no proven long-term benefit. That’s not progressive. That’s reckless.

I don’t want shame. I don’t want silence. I want schools to stop lying to children. I want them to tell the truth: that sex is real and immutable, that stereotypes are not identities, and that liking different clothes, toys, friends, or feelings does not mean a child was "born wrong." I want gay kids to grow up knowing they’re fine just as they are—no hormones, no surgeries, no false promises. I want autistic kids to be celebrated for who they are, not fast-tracked into a new social category because the world can’t handle their difference.

Section 28 was about shutting down knowledge and compassion. My concern is that gender ideology is doing exactly that—just under the cover of rainbow flags and affirming slogans. It shuts down dissent. It tells children not to trust their bodies. It makes teachers afraid to tell the truth. It teaches girls to bind their breasts and boys that womanhood is a costume. This isn’t care. It’s neglect wearing glitter.

So no, I’m not a Section 28 bigot. I’m someone who’s watched my own family be caught in the gears of this ideology. I’m someone who refuses to lie to children. I’m someone who believes truth is not hate, and boundaries are not cruelty. I will speak out—loudly, fiercely, and relentlessly—until this ideology is gone from our schools and our most vulnerable children are protected, not politicised.

If that makes me controversial in 2025, so be it. I know history will catch up. It always does. I will be here for it. I can't wait.