The troubling legacy of Safe Schools lives on

AS the numbers for children who identify as trans continues to rise in Victoria it’s time to ask whose interests are really being put first, writes Miranda Devine.

THE extraordinary surge in the number of children seeking transgender treatment in Victoria directly correlates with the introduction of Safe Schools gender fluidity indoctrination programs.

At a cost of $5,000-a-year per child, 300 children have sought treatment this year, according to public hospital figures reported by the ABC last week.

We have gone from zero children in 2006 to six children seeking medical treatment for gender confusion in 2010, the year a Victorian Safe Schools pilot program began, under the guise of anti-bullying.

The numbers grew steadily to 40 children in 2013, and then there was a sudden spike up to 104 in 2014, the year the federal government launched Safe Schools nationally, with 170 children referred in 2015 and this year 300 so far.

There is a clear link between the rise of children who identify as trans and the introduction of the Safe Schools program. Picture: iStock.

Meanwhile, in NSW, education bureaucrats are determined to subvert the wishes of parents and Education Minister Rob Stokes who has banned Safe Schools. They have tried to sneak gender fluidity information straight from Safe Schools resources into PDHPE guides for students in Years 1 to 10. And a whistle-blower involved in a gender diversity training program funded by NSW Health claims there is pressure to rewrite it to remove any reference to “biological sex”.

Future generations will look back on this period and think we were insane.