Another trans-youth charity bites the dust

If you want to know how our institutions became so infested with gender-identity ideology, a good place to start is by looking at LGBT charities. Whenever an insane new story emerges about a classroom of kids being taught there are a billion genders or that they can identify as cats, there is almost always an LGBT-youth charity somewhere in the background. Educate and Celebrate was one such example, until it mysteriously announced its closure earlier this year without giving any explanation.

Educate and Celebrate was founded by music teacher Elly Barnes in 2010. Driven by her cheery personality, the organisation became a huge nationwide success, garnering accolades and awards. Barnes, who remained chief executive, was given an honorary doctorate and even an MBE in 2016. The wonks at the Department for Education and the Government Equalities Office awarded the charity around £214,000 of taxpayers’ money in 2015. A year later, in 2016, Ofsted hailed it as ‘innovative and visionary’.

In the first years of Educate and Celebrate, Barnes focussed on preventing homophobic bullying in secondary schools – certainly a noble cause. But things soon took a turn for the weird. In 2016, Educate and Celebrate published guidance for schools explaining the need to ‘queer the education system’. It also advised teachers on using ‘neopronouns’ for pupils.

It wasn’t long before Educate and Celebrate turned its attention to younger, more impressionable minds. In a video in 2019, Barnes announced that she wanted to ‘smash heteronormativity’ and ‘encourage intersectional ways of thinking’ among primary-age children.

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