The survey, conducted by the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, usually monitors weight, height, and fitness. Now the form, which may have been sent to schools nation-wide, is asking children who have yet to attend high school whether they feel \u201ccomfortable in their gender.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The form also asks children other rather adult questions, like whether their friends smoke cigarettes, \u201chave your friends ever been drunk when you have been with them?\u201d and \u201chas anyone ever asked you to try drugs?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It is unclear whether the new survey has been adopted across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n The children are given the option of ticking a box to confirm which gender they identify with. Children can choose boy, girl, or other.<\/p>\n Currently children have to wait until the age of 18 to begin gender reassignment therapy.<\/p>\n According to the Telegraph, Parents have been told that the NHS survey helps healthcare workers and teachers develop \u201cbetter ways to understand and support\u201d children who may be having gender identity issues.<\/p>\n It has not been confirmed whether children struggling with their gender will be approached by either the healthcare or education system based on their responses.<\/p>\n Leyland mum Lyndsey Simpson told the Telegraph she\u2019d been in \u201ca state\u201d about the questionnaire when her 10-year-old daughter brought it home last week.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want someone putting into my daughter\u2019s head that she might not be happy with her own gender,\u201d<\/em> she said. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing if they feel that way already, but if they don\u2019t, then do you want them to be unhappy for their whole lives?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe headteacher had no idea what was in it, and when I told him his jaw dropped,\u201d<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n Simpson\u2019s husband is a minister in the Diocese of Blackburn, and has raised the issue with the diocese.<\/p>\n Parents were given a week to opt-out and return the survey to schools with a signed letter, which the Simpson household promptly did.<\/p>\n Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg called the survey \u201cintrusive,\u201d<\/em> and encroaching on things that \u201care private matters in a family.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe problem with this approach is not just with the question but with the intrusive survey that invades people\u2019s privacy and assumes the state has a role in a matter that actually belongs within the family,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cThese questions are not likely to be helpful. The child is too young \u2013 if they have these sorts of issues, the parents are the right ones to discuss it with, not a state survey.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Children as young as ten are being asked whether they are confused about their gender in a new survey distributed to schools by the National Health Service (NHS). Critics have called the question \u2018intrusive.\u2019 The survey, conducted by the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, usually monitors weight, height, and fitness. Now the form, which may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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