- More than 80 pressure groups and public figures have united to campaign
Children must no longer be taught that they can be born in the wrong body, a coalition of politicians, activists and household names are demanding today.
More than eighty pressure groups and public figures have come together in a major campaign to call for an end to the spread of gender ideology in society.
They say the NHS and private doctors should never prescribe drugs to prevent young people from going through puberty, and that schools should never allow pupils to go through a ‘social transition’ by changing their name, pronoun and uniform change.
Their Declaration for Biological Reality also seeks to strengthen women’s rights by protecting single-sex spaces such as restrooms and hospital wards, and banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.
And in defense of freedom of speech, they say no one should be reprimanded for saying people cannot change gender, while public bodies such as the NHS and the police should stop displaying ‘ideological symbols’ such as the rainbow flag .
Gender identity ideology is now so entrenched that it poses a significant risk to countless children and teenagers (File Photo)
Nine-year-old Jessica was born as a boy, but has been going to primary school as a girl since 2014
Prominent signatories include MPs Mark Jenkinson, Nick Fletcher and Neale Hanvey, fellow Baroness Fox of Buckley, Olympic athletes Sharron Davies and Mara Yamauchi, plus comedy writer Graham Linehan and pioneering director Katherine Birbalsingh.
Statement coordinator James Esses writes in the Mail: ‘All signatories are united by their desire to uphold biological reality in society. This isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong.’
The rallying cry comes amid bitter disputes in courts, parliament, the public sector and on social media over the belief that self-identified gender identity is more important than biological sex.
The statement begins: ‘In recent years there has been a demonstrable attack on biological reality in Britain.
This has distorted public policy and public debate in favor of an ideology that has no scientific basis and which poses protection risks for some of the most vulnerable groups.”
Ministers have tried to fight back with plans to rewrite the Equality Act to make it clear that the term sex is based on biology rather than gender identity.
Last week, the Labour-led Welsh government was accused of trying to introduce gender self-identification through the back door.
And Scotland’s Court of Session has ruled that a transgender woman who obtains a gender recognition certificate is a woman under equality law, a decision campaigners say means biological males can be considered lesbians.