I dropped a truth grenade in Holyrood – and watched MSPs flee rather than face it

IT WAS A RELIEF to finally say publicly what I’ve believed for years. As I rose to deliver my maiden speech in the Scottish Parliament, I knew this was my moment. Parliamentary convention protects first speeches from interruption, and I intended to use it – because I also knew my words would land like a hand grenade in the chamber.

Several MSPs chose to walk out rather than listen. Presumably, they were too triggered by the truth. Had they stayed, they might have learned about the real devastation their obsession with trans ideology has inflicted on Scottish society.

During my campaign, I discovered these concerns are widely shared by the Scottish electorate – particularly among parents. These are the very people the left smears as “transphobes” and bigots simply for wanting to protect their children from a contested, unevidenced belief that humans can change sex.

This ideology has been aggressively pushed by the Scottish Government through its failing “Curriculum for Excellence” – a title more Orwellian than anything George himself could have dreamed up – and through guidance produced by the trans activist organisation LGBT Youth Scotland. This so-called “charity,” heavily funded by taxpayers, operates in schools and nurseries across the country. Its former CEO, James Rennie, is a convicted paedophile, and he is not the only one with such associations. One has to wonder why millions of pounds of public money continue to flow to an organisation that promotes puberty blockers designed to freeze children in a pre-pubescent state. I’ll leave readers to draw their own conclusions.

Let me be clear: my speech was not an attack on people who identify as trans. It was a direct challenge to an ideology that harms women, gay people, and, most of all, children.

Time limits prevented me from covering the damage done to the gay community. I wanted to highlight how lesbians are being told they are “sexual racists” if they exclude male-bodied people from their dating pools. Or how children treated at the disgraced Tavistock gender clinic were overwhelmingly same-sex attracted. Left alone, most would have resolved their feelings and gone on to lead normal lives. Instead, clinicians reportedly joked that at the rate they were going, there would be no gay kids left.

Despite the walkouts, I have received many messages of support from parents, grandparents, women, and MSPs in other parties. I hope we can work together on this issue, even where we disagree on other matters.

This madness will only end when enough of us find the courage to speak up and say: enough is enough.