Was delighted to have a conversation with Mary Howden, Director of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) and retired social worker to speak about the damaging erosion of boundaries we are seeing in education, social care, culture and healthcare settings. Mary has decades of experience working with vulnerable individuals. Her first job doing personal care for seniors led her to reflect on how important it is to deliver needed services in a sensitive way to people who are the most exposed literally and symbolically.
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One of the main themes that comes up in our conversation is the changing environments of professional settings wherein ideology is prioritised over the practice of care. We can see this in the Queen Elizabeth University Foyer lobby below.
This change shows staff identities being prioritised over patient health. That it is promoting ‘wrong body’ ideology- another irony. (I found the juxtaposition of ‘No Cuts to NHS Jobs’ particularly stupid, as the bottom of the description poster notes that this installation was paid for by the NHS…). Yet this is endemic in our institutions now. Just today this was posted online.
We also spoke about the sexualisation of culture which is now mirrored in schools in our RSHP (Relationships Sexual Health and Parenthood Education). Mary relayed how this model of education is making children more vulnerable. She knows of what she speaks, having worked with adults who had suffered horrific sexual abuse, rape, and trauma as children and developed therapeutic programs to help address this. That innocence of our children is not seen as something to preserve is already having devastating consequences.
This brought us to speak of things like drag and the desensitisation our children are being groomed into as their instincts, very dangerously are being eroded. And of course how this systemic lie - that sex is not real - being propagated. Other topical issues related to this included the horror that is LGBT Youth Scotland, the Care Inspectorate implementing self-id in children’s homes, Disclosure Scotland’s complicity in covering up potential criminal activity through self id and more.
We ended speaking of the brave individuals that have been doing exceptional work to meet these horrors and the growing groundswell of groups fighting these trends, for our children.
I hope you enjoy the conversation! Thanks so much to Mary for taking the time out to speak to me.
If you’d like to be part of the resistance and reclaim childhood for our children these are good places to start:
Mary Howden on X: https://x.com/MaryHowden
Women’s Rights Network (WRN) on X: https://x.com/WomensRightsNet
WRN “Why are Protections for Children Being Removed”
WRN: “On Drag and the Loss of Safeguarding”
WRN: “Safeguarding, Intimate Personal Care and Why it Matters”
Other good links:
Parents Watch Education: https://x.com/EduGlasgow
UFT Scotland: https://x.com/UFTScotland
Scotpag: https://x.com/ScotPAG
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