As amazing and impressive as children can be, all right thinking people recognise that they are not the same as adults. Childhood development is a slow process. It takes time for our brains to properly mature.

There is a reason why your average three-year-old girl will struggle to hop on one foot, draw a picture of herself, tie her shoelaces, catch a bounced ball, speak in sentences of more than five words or remember her last name. There is a reason why children do not generally commence primary school until the age of five.

Equally, because of the long process required for full cognitive development, a child’s capacity to understand the implications of certain decisions is significantly limited. This is why, as a society, we have minimum age limits for various activities – to prevent our children from coming to undue harm.

There is a reason why a 10-year-old cannot open a bank account. There is a reason why a 12-year-old cannot sign up to Facebook. There is a reason why a 15-year-old cannot consent to having sex. There is a reason why a 17-year-old cannot buy a scratch card or drink alcohol in a pub. This is called child safeguarding.

However, in the name of gender ideology, which has managed to infiltrate all areas of our society, we have seemingly thrown everything we know about both child development and child safeguarding out of the window.

This week, it emerged that 382 children aged six and below were referred to the now defunct Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock clinic in London over the past decade. Even more shocking: over 70 of those children were aged just three or four.

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