Tuesday, 28 November 2017
If you have turned to this post I beg you to read the story which follows. It is hard for many of us to believe this could have come to pass in the United Kingdom, especially when it has been approved and embraced by a (so called) Conservative government. It just reveals how facile Theresa May is when she boasts of being a Vicar’s daughter and regular Church attender.
I thought after a run of weak Prime Ministers having a woman leader might be an improvement, especially when the last and first woman leader was such an outstanding leader who made Britain an influential power on the world stage.
Just to assure you, this really is a true story. (read on)
Girl guiding UK will allow biological males to share showers, toilets, changing rooms and overnight accommodation with its female members as a result of its transgender policy.
The age groups within the movement suggest that a 25-year-old man could share facilities with girls as young as 15.
LEADERS OF GUIDING GROUPS HAVE ALSO BEEN ADVISED NOT TO WARN PARENTS WHEN THEIR DAUGHTER WILL BE ASKED TO SHARE FACILITIES WITH BOYS OR MEN.
Women, and men who identify as women, are allowed to join Girl guiding up to the age of 25. Men who say they are women are also able to become leaders of Guide groups, known as Brown Owls.
As a result, these guidelines mean that teenage girls could be put in danger by being forced to share personal facilities and accommodation with sexually mature men.
Organisations such as the Girl Guides are reacting to the guidance of senior Government figures who want to use children in their campaign to promote acceptance of transgender lifestyles.
Prime Minister Theresa May has committed the Government to allowing people to change gender without a medical reason, REMOVING
PROTECTIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO ACT IN BAD FAITH.
MRS MAY HAS ALSO PLEDGED TO USE COMPULSORY RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION IN ENGLISH PRIMARY SCHOOLS TO ENSURE LGBT ISSUES ARE TAUGHT WELL TO CHILDREN BETWEEN FIVE AND ELEVEN YEARS OLD.
Controversially, parents of Guides as young as five would not automatically be told if their daughter was sharing facilities with a boy who thinks that they are the wrong gender
Education not indoctrination
Education Secretary and Equalities Minister Justine Greening, who is in a same sex relationship with an LGBT activist, will oversee both the demedicalisation of transgenderism and promotion of LGBT relationships, including same-sex marriage, in schools.
Neither of these policies were in the last Conservative Party manifesto.
Catholic Bishops have urged the Secretary of State to refocus and deliver on her manifesto promises in respect of the admissions cap in education.
Last night critics warned that allowing transgender Guides, particularly those in their teens, to share accommodation and personal facilities on trips posed a threat to the safety and privacy of girls.
David Davies, Conservative MP for Monmouth in South Wales, said: ‘If transgender girls who are physically male are going to be sharing facilities, it’s going to make some girls threatened and uncomfortable and the Guides shouldn’t be doing that.’
Left-wing feminist campaigner Julie Bindel added: ‘This is not a moral panic. The concern that I and many feminists have about boys invading bedrooms, tents and showers, is that disproportionately the victims of sexual violence are girls and women, and overwhelmingly, the perpetrators are boys and men. 'This signifies the end to girl-only space and the safety of girls in single-sex organisations.’
Girlguiding chiefs have told leaders who traditionally say grace before meals at camps to leave out references to God for fear of upsetting non-Christians or atheists.
Official advice on the organisation’s website also said that the singing of songs with ‘faith-based lyrics’ around the camp fire should be banned.
Set up in 1910, the charity has no official link with any religion but its values have been widely seen as broadly Christian, and many of its leaders are Christians who hold meetings in church halls.
Critics reacted with fury to the advice, with one former Guide leader saying it would have ‘devastated’ the Christian founders of the movement, Lord Baden-Powell and his wife Olave.
General Synod member Alison Ruoff said: ‘I was a Guide leader and if we had a day-long hike and we were eating, we would always have grace.
‘The idea of dropping it is an absolute nonsense, absolutely appalling.
‘The Guides are being very foolish in trying to whitewash Christianity, and they must not.’
Girlguiding, formerly the Girl Guides Association, said ‘it may be traditional’ to say or sing grace – the prayers that Christians
use to thank God for food and drink – but added: ‘Consider how this might make members who are from a different faith – or have no faith – feel.’
It suggested that leaders who wanted to say something before a community meal should ‘try to think of a statement that doesn’t make reference to any particular god or faith’.
On singing, the guidance added: ‘Some songs may have faith-based lyrics. Would it be possible to change the words to songs?’
Girlguiding’s chief executive Julie Bentley said the organisation has ‘always been open to girls of all faiths or none,’ and that the organisation had updated its guidance on saying grace and using songs as part of the changes it had made to its pledge.
Last year, girls who responded to a survey run by Girl guiding stressed how important it was to have a girl-only safe space. But under its overhauled regime, the advice to Guide leaders is that girl-only spaces should now be open to transgender members.
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