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 ideology hitting our home and I will be here for its dying breath.

Sometimes I worry that I'm becoming like the people in the ‘80's whose behavior prompted Section 28 in the schools. (For non-UK readers, Section 28 refers to a section of the Local Government Act 1988, which banned local authorities and schools from "promoting homosexuality"). People were so unhappy then that ideas about gays and lesbians were being introduced to their children. I recall, at the time, feeling the outrage.

Celebrities, religious leaders, doctors, parents, and students wrote letters, signed petitions, and risked careers to speak out against Section 28. They weren’t all radicals—they were people with a conscience who could see that criminalizing care, silence, or knowledge of lesbian and gay was not the answer.

Section 28 remained the 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 The law was repealed in Scotland in 2000 and in the rest of the UK by 2003.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 throughout all school years. Then, by primary 5-7, they are teaching gender ideology as fact. They teach “sex assigned at birth” nonsense. They teach that that it's possible to be born in the wrong body and that sex can be changed.

Telling children that sex is assigned at birth is disingenuous and confusing. A baby’s sex can be confirmed at ten weeks in most cases. It's insulting and ludicrous to tell children that people don't know this, or that the doctor “assigns” a sex. It makes no sense.

Gender ideology has captured them all and they all want their special gender inclusivity points. They don’t give a damn about autistic, gender non-conforming or gay children. They're all trans now.

When I start to worry I may be turning into a Section 28 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 anti-gay sentiment. In fact, gender ideology actively works against children who might grow up to be gay. No one is born in the wrong body and children are not trans.

Transgender is an ideology that is NOT based in fact or science. It is pseudoscience nonsense propaganda that has been afforded a gilded platform due to lobbying efforts by groups such as Stonewall. Schools have been told they must celebrate and affirm trans ideation.

When I worry that social transition is not a neutral act, found in the Cass Report. It locks the child in a fixed state and could possibly lead to unnecessary medicalization and surgery to remove healthy body parts. Adults should not be coercing children through the language that tells them that can actually be turned into 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 worried feeling, I remember. I’m not a Section 28 bigot. 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. That’s a medical scandal.

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.