This is actually terrifying. It is happening all over the place to so many good people who thought they were doing their jobs. It is almost like some dystopian drama series in which anybody who expresses the wrong opinion is disappeared.
I am simply an observer since I am retired and terminally ill so it does not affect me, but I have lost a couple of friendships and I know that with certainty friends I have to keep my opinions to myself.
There is clearly some very powerful political force at work intimidating people into silence and persuading the labile and vulnerable of the absolute truth of a particular ideology or faith. Reason makes no difference. Ridicule is taken to be “literal violence”. Obvious breaches of common sense and good practice - like “educating” rape victims to examine their prejudices before accessing a particular rape crisis centre - are just ignored, as if this were perfectly normal.
Hi James, I’m so sorry with what you have had to ordeal with both childline and your university course. Thank you for speaking out! My daughter has autism and she was pressured at school to be trans and also in online chat rooms. I also didn’t realise that the school were pushing gender ideology on children too until after she left. She is 17 now and at a 6th form college. I’m trying everything I can to support her myself as I don’t trust any professionals with my daughter. I have also heard that the Samaritans affirm too. This has to stop. Vulnerable children are being harmed. I’m so worried for these children aswell as my own daughter. Also when my daughter is 18 she will be classed as an adult. In my view she will still be extremely vulnerable as she is mentally younger than her years. There needs to be safeguarding for children AND vulnerable young adults.
Volunteering "contract"? Not "agreement"? Did Childline make any payment, however minor, to you that was not -strictly- a reimbursement? e.g. £10/wk "travel expenses"? i.e. That was not formally pre-assessed / recorded as necessary for your journeys or provided after submission of receipts (you may actually have walked/cycled). If so, a remunerated contract, therefore employment rights, (could) be argued. Moreover, you may have been a volunteer, but even if outside of employment rights, the Health and Safety Act 1974 places a duty of care on employers “to ensure, as far as reasonably practical, that persons not in their employment, who may be affected by their undertaking, are not exposed to risks to their health and safety” From what you say, on the face of it Childline appear to have been in breach of this duty in various ways with regard to you. In so far as their legal duties toward children with gender dysmorphia — well that is a whole other complex matter; but one that needs further -effective- scrutiny, deliberation and testing by UK law. Aspects and arguments being too lengthy to address in a BTL comment.
Childline must be inundated with qualified and experienced counselors to let you go. Like you I would have expected support and an attempt to keep you.
James you have been so badly treated and yet you still hold so steadfast and articulate and deeply compassionate
You are doing so much in this fight, you are one if the few grownups in the room x
This is actually terrifying. It is happening all over the place to so many good people who thought they were doing their jobs. It is almost like some dystopian drama series in which anybody who expresses the wrong opinion is disappeared.
I am simply an observer since I am retired and terminally ill so it does not affect me, but I have lost a couple of friendships and I know that with certainty friends I have to keep my opinions to myself.
There is clearly some very powerful political force at work intimidating people into silence and persuading the labile and vulnerable of the absolute truth of a particular ideology or faith. Reason makes no difference. Ridicule is taken to be “literal violence”. Obvious breaches of common sense and good practice - like “educating” rape victims to examine their prejudices before accessing a particular rape crisis centre - are just ignored, as if this were perfectly normal.
It’s madness!!!
Is it just the pharmaceutical lobby?
I am sorry James. We are living the Emperor’s New Clothes and so many organisations are blindly peddling this dreadful script.
Hi James, I’m so sorry with what you have had to ordeal with both childline and your university course. Thank you for speaking out! My daughter has autism and she was pressured at school to be trans and also in online chat rooms. I also didn’t realise that the school were pushing gender ideology on children too until after she left. She is 17 now and at a 6th form college. I’m trying everything I can to support her myself as I don’t trust any professionals with my daughter. I have also heard that the Samaritans affirm too. This has to stop. Vulnerable children are being harmed. I’m so worried for these children aswell as my own daughter. Also when my daughter is 18 she will be classed as an adult. In my view she will still be extremely vulnerable as she is mentally younger than her years. There needs to be safeguarding for children AND vulnerable young adults.
Wouldn’t you have a legal case against them now, especially with precedent set by Maya Forestarter’s win?
Volunteering "contract"? Not "agreement"? Did Childline make any payment, however minor, to you that was not -strictly- a reimbursement? e.g. £10/wk "travel expenses"? i.e. That was not formally pre-assessed / recorded as necessary for your journeys or provided after submission of receipts (you may actually have walked/cycled). If so, a remunerated contract, therefore employment rights, (could) be argued. Moreover, you may have been a volunteer, but even if outside of employment rights, the Health and Safety Act 1974 places a duty of care on employers “to ensure, as far as reasonably practical, that persons not in their employment, who may be affected by their undertaking, are not exposed to risks to their health and safety” From what you say, on the face of it Childline appear to have been in breach of this duty in various ways with regard to you. In so far as their legal duties toward children with gender dysmorphia — well that is a whole other complex matter; but one that needs further -effective- scrutiny, deliberation and testing by UK law. Aspects and arguments being too lengthy to address in a BTL comment.
Childline must be inundated with qualified and experienced counselors to let you go. Like you I would have expected support and an attempt to keep you.