Children in Need’s trans-pandering has got to stop
by Jo Bartosch, spiked:
The BBC charity has thrown exorbitant sums of money at scandal hit LGBT charities.
For a charity that’s supposed to be all about helping children, BBC Children in Need (CIN) seems to be remarkably blasé about child safeguarding. Last week, it emerged that CIN – the BBC’s charity for disadvantaged children – had been funding a trans-youth charity with connections to historic child-sex abuse.
In a scathing resignation letter seen by The Times, former CIN chair Rosie Millard accused the organisation’s management of ‘institutional failure’, after it took three months to suspend funding to the controversial trans charity, LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS).
Until 2009, LGBTYS was headed by convicted child abuser James Rennie. He was sentenced to life in jail for sexually assaulting his three-month-old godson, and for conspiring to gain access to children in order to abuse them. He and another man were revealed to be the leaders of Scotland’s biggest paedophile ring.
Incredibly, Rennie’s conviction did not deter CIN from doling out funds to LGBTYS. Nor, as Janice Turner reported earlier this year, did it prompt an investigation into the charity’s operations or culture by either the police or the Scottish Charity Regulator.
In fact, the first tranche of cash from CIN was awarded to LGBTYS just seven months after Rennie was sentenced. Then, in 2010, LGBTYS distributed ‘coming out’ guidance co-written by a Scottish drag queen called Andrew Easton. Easton was later convicted of child sex offences, which included sharing disturbing pictures of newborn babies.
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