Button It, Malcolm!

Christians who challenge transgender ideology are not 'aggressive'

By Andrea Williams, Christian Concern, 22 June 2023

A senior member of the Church of England has hit out at Christian Concern for allegedly "aggressive" behaviour when it comes to transgender issues. Andrea Williams says the comments were "blatantly unfair"

Rev Dr Malcolm Brown made an astonishing assertion in yesterday’s The Telegraph that Christians are seen as “aggressive” in court cases involving issues of transgenderism.

Looking at the catalogue of recent Christian Legal Centre cases which meet the description, the blatant unfairness of this criticism becomes obvious.

How can there be any doubt as to which side has been the aggressor?

Was it Kristie Higgs, who shared, on her private Facebook page, a petition against the introduction of compulsory sex education in primary schools? Or was it her employer, a secondary school, who summarily dismissed her for this ‘gross misconduct’?

Was it Joshua Sutcliffe, the maths teacher who said “well done girls” to a group of students, forgetting for a moment that one of them currently ‘identified as a boy’? Or was it the school who dismissed him for that, and the regulator who banned him from teaching?

Was it Rev. Dr Bernard Randall who gave a sermon in the school chapel preaching mutual tolerance and respect between different religious and philosophical beliefs, including LGBT ‘Pride’ and orthodox Christian belief about marriage? Or was it the Educate and Celebrate who marched into the CofE school to require all staff to chant "smash heteronormativity" to warm them up for a proper session of indoctrination?

Was it ‘Hannah,’ the anonymised primary school teacher who politely and formally raised a safeguarding concern questioning the propriety of an 8-year-old being guided through gender transition at school by Mermaids and Stonewall? Or was it Hannah’s employer, Nottinghamshire County Council, who dismissed her, reported her to a regulator, falsely accused her of a criminal offence, and is now demanding that she re-mortgages her family house to pay for their legal costs? PC.