The Crisis of Consent in Scottish Schools
Dr Bruce Scott, psychoanalyst
(Scottish Review 15 Jan 2020)
“The bottom line is: the school is not a mental health clinic, and neither is it a suitable place to disseminate information on sexual behaviour or lifestyle, especially in the manner the Scottish Government intend to do.”
[…] In a series of essays Dr EM (an academic) outlines how queer theory as a university academic discipline, which challenges boundaries and transgressing boundaries (e.g., norms regarding sex, sexuality and sexual practices) has close links with the ideas of affirming child sexuality, lowering the age of sexual consent and even paedophilia. The transgender aspect of LGBT is also heavily influenced by queer theory in a number of ways; hence you have the normalisation and explosion of Drag Time Story Time (e.g. drag artists telling stories to children), child drag queens (e.g. the Amazing Desmond), referrals of children (80% increase of 4-10 year olds in Scotland), Gender Identity Clinics, the use of harmful puberty blockers/cross sex hormones, sex reassignment surgery on children, and groups like transgender charity Mermaids going into schools to train and inform teachers and pupils.
"Having become concerned with the developments in Scottish education, I contacted the Scottish Government via Freedom of Information requests. I enquired if queer theory would be used as a philosophical basis for the proposed LGBT Inclusive Education curriculum. I did not receive a satisfactory answer."
[…] One thing I have gleamed from my inquiries is that contrary to some reports, the LGBT Inclusive Education in Scotland is not mandatory; parents are within their rights to withdraw their children if they wish... But, and it is a big but, as the LGBT focus is going to be disseminated throughout all aspects of the curriculum, the only option for parents who object to this curriculum would be withdraw their child from the school completely; a fait accompli on the part of the Scottish Government. I predict they will come for those who decide to home school next.
[…] One thing I have gleamed from my inquiries is that contrary to some reports, the LGBT Inclusive Education in Scotland is not mandatory; parents are within their rights to withdraw their children if they wish... But, and it is a big but, as the LGBT focus is going to be disseminated throughout all aspects of the curriculum, the only option for parents who object to this curriculum would be withdraw their child from the school completely; a fait accompli on the part of the Scottish Government. I predict they will come for those who decide to home school next.
"I think it would do us well to meditate on the words of the cultural Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who was for the destruction of the family and the deconstruction of the norms regarding sexual behaviour and practices, for purely political ends; a so-called liberated society, but whereby the sexual liberation becomes a form of political control."
[…] More importantly, the consent of children is being dismissed as unimportant, consultation with parents is given lip service and the issue of religious faith regarding many of these issues is considered as just an obstacle to be overcome. The Scottish Government are pushing these educational reforms through in a totalitarian manner. In 2020, Scottish parents, like the Muslim parents in Birmingham, have to start waking up to what is happening to their children and their children's schools."
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