Clare Page : No Secret Lessons

You have been a significant contributor, if not in charge, of the leading campaign group on this topic. And whilst no one said you were in charge of legislating, you are in charge of which kind of lawfare you undertake. You are, presumably, also in charge of your own political opinion. Consequently, I am pointing out that firstly, Sex Matters did not manage to raise this issue when it was timely to do so, its rather too late to be ‘wondering’ about it know (sardonically or otherwise). Secondly, the lawfare you are pondering is an extremely bad idea. If you lose, you strengthen trans rights, but if you win, you create a mere ‘carve out’ for teaching, leaving it even more established that the care taker or administrator on school sites can be a raging AGP. Which leads me to ask, why are you not giving your political opinion that we should be repealing all gender laws and preferably enacting a prohibition on formal cross sex impersonation in safeguarding situations?

But she did not survive the lack of boundaries she advocated, because (it is alleged) that her political enemy would not extend to her the toleration she extended to him. Will this be an allegory for Britain? I retain my position - speech should be as free as possible up to the point of harm, where the boundaries of harm should be decided by us in self government. That is how to retain liberty. And I’ll give you a perfect example of a wise restriction on speech - in the 80’s Roger Scruton made the case not to indoctrinate children in schools (ie to restrict teachers’ speech) and the Tories then put s.406/407 Education Act into law - a prohibition on Political Indoctrination. It has since not been enforced, leading to radicalisation of whole national cohorts of children - just as Mao and Hitler indulged in. Perhaps if it had been enforced, Anne Widdecombe would not have encountered a radicalised killer?

Have you any idea how weirdly authoritarian this sounds…? “people who have already had the discussion you want to revisit” Naturally, I’ll discuss whatever I want, whenever I want, thank you - and most importantly, I think that discussion belongs to *all* of us. This is a public political discussion, not a closed shop for lawyers who profit from playing with lawfare. Secondly, I have no idea what you’re talking about regarding “accusatory tone” and “might have got somewhere” - are you suggesting that my plain reasoned criticism will not be listened to? Must one use sycophancy as the only way to get to the truth? Do ‘these people’ only plan to do the right thing if you ask them with reverence? But fyi, positive overtures were rejected long ago. I am interested now in making the point that some of ‘these people’ have got these matters so wrong they shouldn’t be trusted with this topic ever again, and other voices should be listened to instead.

I was introduced to Goodheart briefly at an event, told him about my court case and that I was campaigning for transparent and impartial education. Mentioned kids are being indoctrinated in schools with neo Marxist theory, including dangerous trans and race ideology, which is facilitated by the EA2010 and supported by the EHRC. I didn’t realise he’d been an EHRC commissioner himself. He immediately said it was ridiculous to suggest members of the EHRC were Marxist… they were all just nice liberals, some of whom were a bit naive but well meaning. I said, I’d be glad to show him my research about who set up and defined the EA2010 and why (ie South African Marxists, followed by queer Marxist academics, plus Fabian lawyers), and the effect it is having on the ground in the hands of Marxist education unions, to establish my point. He replied quite huffily, ‘no thank you, good luck with your case…’ and walked off. And there we have it. One citizen, prepared to adopt an unelected position of regulatory authority, happy to take the prestige of presiding over other peoples’ ‘Equality’ and getting to influence what the dangerously undefined Equality Act means - a law, that is so rotten it even defines children as ‘transexuals’ from birth, and has been used to get them maimed - and yet he won’t even listen to a parent who has direct experience of the abuse this causes on the ground.