Home Office chiefs express anger after employees are ordered to celebrate ‘Transgender Parents’ Day’
- An email was sent to employees marking November 7 as Transgender Parenting Day
- It was first celebrated in America as an alternative to Mother’s or Father’s Day.
- A Home Office employee called the email ‘extremely inappropriate’
Home Office chiefs spark anger by sending employees an email reminding them to celebrate transgender parents Day.
Shocked workers were informed that November 7 was the day ‘we celebrate all parents of transgender children’ – an event first marked as an alternative to the traditional Mother’s Day or Father’s Day in the US in 2009 it was done.
The lengthy email sent on the government department’s computer system on November 5 also included a personal account by a mother whose son had converted from male to female at the age of 22.
It was sent by Carolyn Wilde, co-deputy chairwoman of the Home Office’s Spectrum Committee, which was set up to support the department’s LGBT+ staff. She is both transgender and a parent.
She told staff: ‘While Transgender Parents Day remains today as a non-official date in the LGBTI+ calendar, the fact that it is becoming known that transgender parents and parents of trans children is Opportunity to celebrate on a personal level. The bond of the family bears the infection of one of its members.’
One Home Office worker said: ‘It was quite a trigger for me, especially because the whole spirit of the email is that we should be celebrating families going through this, at a time when so many families are grappling with issues like having kids take puberty. Blocking when we get emails telling us we should be happy about this sort of thing, that sticks in the crow’
But a Home Office employee dealing with the challenge of parenting a teen who claims to be transgender criticized the email as “highly inappropriate.”
She said: ‘It has nothing to do with the work we do and nothing to do with the work of any branch of the Home Office.
‘It’s a very subjective issue and it’s not an issue that everyone is going to engage with.
‘Also, at the moment it is an area that is very political. So these types of emails make you feel like someone is pushing a specific agenda. We’ve had a few emails of this type recently. Something was sent to us on the first “asexual day”.’
The activist said she was particularly annoyed by the ‘celebratory’ nature of the email, adding: ‘Anyone who makes sense knows these conditions exist, but within the work area at the Home Office it is more than those issues. Not the place to deal with what parents and families are struggling with.
‘It was quite triggering for me, especially because the whole spirit of the email is that we should be celebrating families going through this, at a time when so many families are grappling with issues like encouraging children to take puberty blockers. . When we get emails telling us we should be happy about this sort of thing, that just sticks in the crow.’
Backlash came as it emerged that the Home Office is one of those government departments still signed to Stonewall’s controversial diversity plan for employers.
Heads of the Home Office have sparked anger by sending an email reminding employees to celebrate Transgender Parents Day
The program has sparked widespread criticism that it promotes workplace cultures where employees who disagree with transgender ideology fear being silenced or fired.
Several high-profile public bodies have abandoned the plan, including the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the BBC. Government departments covering health, education, work and pensions and treasuries are also reviewing their links.
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘To mark this internationally recognized day, an Immigration Enforcement official outlined the support available from a number of organizations for young trans people and their families.’
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