An Edinburgh school has come under fire after pupils were told that “many” transgender people “are often killed” for being who they are.
The prominent state school, which is part of a programme run by LGBT charity Youth Scotland, is teaching young people that “transgender people” are “often abused and murdered simply for being who they are”, according to The telegraph.
One parent at the school told the paper that teachers were reinforcing “myths” from trans rights activists who claim there is a “genocide” against transgender people.
They accused the school of “misleading” students by teaching them “propaganda and misinformation” and “guiding children to believe things that are not true.”
There have been no recorded incidents of murders of transgender people in Scotland, while data compiled by Channel 4 in 2018 shows that “the murder rate of trans people is lower than the UK average”.
An Edinburgh school has told pupils that transgender people are “often killed” for being who they are (File image)
The leading state school is teaching young people that “transgender people” are “often abused and killed” because of who they are, according to The Telegraph (file image)
The Telegraph said it had seen teaching resources from the school, which has not been named to protect the identity of pupils, which claims that “transgender people have often been abused and killed simply for being who they are”.
The document also says that “assigned sex” is “based on reproductive organs” that do not match “who (transgender people) are,” the newspaper reported.
The teaching resource also states that there has been a “large increase in the number of racist incidents in England against ethnic minorities” since the Brexit referendum.
A parent of a pupil at the school told the Telegraph: ‘The statistics presented to children are a misleading mess, with no context or anything to back them up.
‘Although the focus is on trans people, there is no mention of the domestic abuse faced by many women, nor of people with disabilities, who are a very vulnerable minority.
“To me, this just seems like propaganda and misinformation, which students are being told to accept as part of a narrative that is being pushed into Scottish schools.”
The school is part of a charter programme run by LGBT Youth Scotland, which has previously encouraged headteachers to build gender-neutral toilets and mark Transgender Day of Remembrance on the calendar.
They added that there are many LGBT flags and pronouns in Scottish schools, something that “many parents and pupils are completely fed up with”.
Trans rights activists protest at a talk on gender identity held at Portobello Library on 14 March 2023 in Edinburgh
Transgender rights protesters disrupt a Let Women Speak rally on April 6, 2024 in Edinburgh
The father said the “idea that you can be born in the wrong body” is becoming normalised in Scottish schools, which he believes is “really destabilising for a lot of children”.
Fiona McAnena, campaigns director at the charity Sex Matters, said teaching pupils in this way was “disgraceful” and marked a “new low” in the way sex education was taught in Scottish schools.
She said: “It is difficult to understand how someone involved in developing educational material could be so irresponsible as to tell impressionable teenagers the falsehood that people who identify as the opposite sex are ‘often’ murdered.”
Ms McAnena added that the worksheet “ignored the many ways in which women are disproportionately victims of crime” and appeared to position other minority groups as “more in need of sympathy” than women and girls.
This comes after The Telegraph also reported in May that Scottish primary schools had designated children as “LGBT champions” and were encouraged to ask children as young as four whether they were gay, lesbian or transgender.
The paper claimed schools were setting up LGBT clubs and “gender and sexual orientation alliance groups” for their students as part of their membership in another programme run by LGBT Youth Scotland.
As part of the plan, school staff are to receive training from the charity, which provides an online guide and letter templates for children who want to change their gender at school, The Telegraph reported.
Schools that join the program are reportedly asked to designate at least two students and two staff members as “LGBT advocates.”
They are also urged to consider surveying students to ask if they are “part of the LGBT community” to find out if “bullying affects those students proportionally within the school.”
MailOnline has contacted Edinburgh City Council and LGBT Youth Scotland for comment.
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