IICSA and safeguarding concerns
from Transgender Trend:
This post is about our correspondence with IICSA, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. When we initially contacted them in 2019 our rationale was that if the government was too scared to challenge the trans lobby, maybe the inquiry wouldn’t be. Now is a timely opportunity to publish and reflect on our correspondence with IICSA, given the current wide public discussion and prominence in the media of how a child safeguarding scandal has been allowed to continue for so long.
We do not have a good child safeguarding record in this country. In the current re-focus by the media on the scandal of the so-called ‘grooming gangs’ we have been struck by the parallels with the response to the harms of the trans movement.
Whistleblowers have been punished, and fear of accusations of ‘racism’ in the former case and ‘transphobia’ in the latter have silenced others who should speak out, resulting in a scandalous dereliction of society’s duty to safeguard children. Abuse and negligence have been allowed under the guise of respecting children’s ‘autonomy’ or ‘agency,’ or children’s ‘rights.’
Professor Alexis Jay, who led IICSA, recently highlighted similar issues of toxic debate and fear of professionals to speak up that let children down in towns like Rotherham, with the findings in the Cass Review.
Professor Jay said: