In the UK, it’s not just the well-known who get punished for gender-critical views. It turns out that even disabled children are considered fair game by the powers that be.
Consequently, a disabled eight-year-old boy, whose rare condition requires round-the-clock care, was banned from a summer camp designed for families like his after his mother responded to an application form asking for her son’s pronouns by saying: “Seriously?”
In a call initiated by the charity months after this application was submitted, a clinical director tried “explaining the importance of pronouns at our camps,” but the mother insisted that people could not change sex. The family was then told in an email, sent moments after the call, that their application had been unsuccessful.
Following a backlash online, the charity has claimed the child and his mother were turned away not because of the mother’s views but because of how she expressed them on the phone. Free Speech Union official Connie Shaw said this was “classic” backtracking.
But internal papers seen by The Daily Telegraph paint a rather different picture, saying:
We will be making the family unsuccessful for this year’s camp due to the lack of alignment with our inclusive environment.
The charity’s report on the incident concluded that the mother’s “views on gender and inclusivity” did not correspond with its own.
Shaw added that “none of the internal emails” point to the mother having been aggressive when putting forward her view, which is supposedly protected under the Equality Act.
🚨"Ideology is being put above the most vulnerable children!"
A charity has banned a severely disabled 8-year-old boy and his mother from a summer getaway for disabled children due to the mother's gender critical views.
Fraser Hudghton, who is the director of the Free Speech Union Scotland, also complained that the eight-year-old was denied the chance to go on the trip “solely because his mum said what the rest of us are thinking; that it is absurd to ask a question like that of a young child.”
It is scandalous.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
