Category Archives: Children & Young People
Unisex toilets & sexual violence in schools
“If you get the toilets right, you get the teaching right.” So said Schools’ Minister David Miliband, somewhat bizarrely in 2004. Well, are schools getting it right? Not according to a 2010 report which suggested that one in four secondary … Continue reading
Posted in Children & Young People, Investigative
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Child Transition: the Myth of Informed Consent
Magical thinking. It’s everywhere. And in no place or time is it more powerful than in childhood. ‘Childhood,’ wrote Edna St Vincent Millay, “is the kingdom where nobody dies.” As a child, I was quite certain that I wasn’t going … Continue reading
Posted in Children & Young People, Investigative, Opinion Pieces
Tagged trans transgender dysphoria
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