“Due to the lack of alignment with our inclusive environment”

A tale of our times from the Telegraph:

A disabled child was banned from summer camp after his mother expressed gender-critical views, The Telegraph can reveal.

The eight-year-old was preparing for his first residential trip in July organised by Over the Wall (OTW) – a Derby-based charity that runs getaways for disabled children and their families.

But he and his mother, 52, were turned away after she insisted, during a heated discussion with an organiser from the camp, that people could not change sex.

The phone call took place after the boy’s mother was asked to explain why she had replied to a question on her son’s application form asking her to state the eight-year-old’s pronouns, by saying: “Seriously?”

In a statement, the charity claimed its decision was not based on the mother’s objection to the question about pronouns, but her “aggressive” conduct over the phone and the fact that a potential “conflict” might arise given there was going to be a transgender child at the camp.

But internal papers documenting the incident state that the eight-year-old was barred after the summer camp concluded that the mother’s “views on gender and inclusivity” did not “align” with its own.

A report on the incident read: “We will be making the family unsuccessful for this year’s camp due to the lack of alignment with our inclusive environment.”

God, these people…

Susan Smith, from the feminist campaign group For Women Scotland, said: “This is a clear-cut case of discrimination.”…

“As ever, it seems that ‘inclusion’ only extends to those who share a narrow world view. It is extremely troubling that a charity dealing with children with special needs are insistent that they will coerce them to deny the reality of sex, something that the children may experience as profoundly upsetting and confusing."