A history of ideological capture - with thanks to Transgender Trend
- EBSWA
- Jun 15
- 2 min read
With thanks to Transgender Trend. This latest blog by Stephanie Arai-Davies is a history of an epic failure of safeguarding of children and their families by the social work profession. While paying lip service to the need to learn the lessons of the past from multi million pound child abuse inquiries and reviews of the care systems in England and Scotland, the leadership of social work in both countries at the same time were consciously allowing and encouraging the adoption of unevidenced and harmful beliefs and practices that denied sex and promoted gender identity instead.
The practices praised by CAFCAS in England and the Care Inspectorate in Scotland include puberty blockers, breast binding, cross sex hormones, and a treatment path to breast and sterilisation and genital removal as young adults. these children were told that they were "transgender" and would be happy once they had transitioned and been affirmed as the opposite sex. Parents of some children were told that refusal to agree was a child protection failure on their part. Teachers and care workers were told that it was a children's right issue and challenge was not allowed.
Despite the Cass Report that the evidence for any of this was "remarkably weak" and the Supreme Court ruling making it clear that sex means biological sex in the Equality Act and gender reassignment did not change actual biological sex, and that promises to these children that they could change their sexed bodies and live as the opposite sex were lies. However these policies live on in local authorities, in government funded social work organisations, in children's charities and more widely.
The role of dishonour includes Children and Famillies Court Advisory Service (CAFCAS) Social Work England (SWE), Care Inspectorate Scotland, British Association of Social Workers (BASW) the Children's Commissioners Office in Scotland, Children's Hearings Scotland, NSPCC, Barnardos, Action for Children, Aberlour... and many more who put ideological claims before facts and evidence.
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