Schools must stop promoting ‘damaging’ books by LGBT activists to kids

Parents and campaigners are urging schools to stop using books that promote ‘sex changes’ and gender ideology to kids.

The Mail on Sunday reported that hundreds of primary schools are still promoting controversial books provided by the pro-LGBT No Outsiders organisation as resources for compulsory Relationships Education lessons.

A recent report by Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN) in Publishing identified 60 books featuring trans and non-binary characters targeted at young children.

Concerned parents

A mother from London explained that she contacted her daughter’s Church of England primary school when she discovered that it was using No Outsiders resources, which included books where characters change their ‘gender identity’.

She explained: “I raised my concerns with the school immediately, as did other parents, but they simply didn’t seem to understand why we were worried”.

“My only option was to withdraw my child from No Outsiders sessions. Other parents did the same. The following year, we heard the children had had an assembly about pronouns. Shortly afterwards, two children ‘came out’ as non-binary.”

Problematic books

The SEEN in Publishing report, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, highlighted several of the controversial books.

The ABC Of Gender Identity, for children as young as five, “teaches ‘A is for Agender, B is for Bigender and C is for Cisgender’. K is for ‘Kynigender – Someone who is unable to pinpoint their gender due to stress of the questioning process’.”

Princess Pete, which was published earlier this year, is described as an “LGBTQIA+ positive picture book of self-expression and gender freedom, perfect for Pride” for kids as young as three, where the titular character is referred to as “they”.

In Ollie In Between, a book for ten year olds, a “nonbinary middle-schooler must choose between pretending to be the girl everyone expects them to be and forging their own path
forward”.

‘Dismal betrayal’

Transgender Trend, a gender-critical organisation which contributed to ‘Through the Looking Glass’, said: “Lobbyists have taken over children’s publishing to serve a trans activist agenda. Books now play an active role in the social conditioning of the youngest children.”

Author Anne Fine OBE, who endorsed the report, called the highlighted books a “dismal betrayal of young readers” and an “unthinking capitulation to a biologically unfounded ideology whose false and troubling messages have damaged so many families.”

The report concluded: “Children’s publishing must turn its focus back to regaining parents’ and young readers’ trust: publishing excellent fiction books that are absent of didacticism and political activism; publishing non-fiction containing verifiable and scientifically correct facts.”