WATCH: 'Caught up in fad' Britain's strictest headteacher says transgender children are likely 'white and privileged'

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Britain's strictest headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh has claimed that children identifying as transgender are more likely to be "white and privileged" and "caught up in fads."Speaking to GB News, the founder of Michaela Community School suggested that while genuine transgender adults exist across all races, children's gender identity issues often represent temporary "fads" influenced by social pressure and media.READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00Controversial. Can you unpack what you mean? Why are trans-identified children more likely to come

00:05from white or more privileged groups? Yes, well, I was asked by the journalist

00:09if we have any trans children at Michaela, and I said no, and he said, well, why do you think

00:13that's the case? And I think, well, the vast majority of them are ethnic minority, and I do

00:19think that will have impact. Now, obviously, I'm not talking about adults. There are trans men and

00:24women who are adults, and I imagine there are just as many in all the different races, just as

00:28there are same-sex attracted people in all the different races, and I imagine there would be

00:32no reason why there'd be more in one group than the other. But we are talking about children who

00:37are different, and the reason why with children it's different is that there's lots of children

00:43who get caught up in fads. And while, of course, there will be some genuinely trans children out

00:50there, when I'm saying trans to the journalist, I'm putting quotation marks, but of course you

00:55don't see that in the writing when it ends up in the newspaper. There are lots of children who end

01:00up caught up in fads, as we've seen some who think that they are dogs or they think that they're snow

01:06leopards. I've got a little year seven boy at the moment who thinks he's a detective and goes on the

01:11train and encounters the police and does all sorts of, you know, because he thinks he's a detective.

01:17Now, the fact is that children do these sorts of things, and they can get caught up because

01:22they're socially pressured into doing so, or the media encourages them, they're online,

01:28they see certain discussions, and they get, they get, they're vulnerable to that sort of thing.

01:33Now, then we need to ask ourselves, which children are most vulnerable to the idea of transitioning?

01:41And children who I don't think in the end will ever properly transition. Now, what I mean is

01:47actually become of the other gender. They just, in their school days, will be in that moment of

01:53transitioning. And the children who I think are most vulnerable to these are the children who don't

01:58necessarily have a claim to victimhood. So anecdotally, I just know that there are a lot

02:07more children who are transitioning, and I do it with my quotation marks again, in private schools,

02:13white children who are more privileged in our comprehensives. And this is because I would put

02:23this down to them feeling that they need something to be kind of valued in terms of a victim. And I do

02:33feel we have a society nowadays where we very much admire victimhood. People can climb that social ladder

02:42when they are the bigger victim. And so this enables those children who are feeling under pressure,

02:48because they're a bit too posh, they're a bit too white, they're a bit too male, that they then say,

02:54oh, you know, well, actually, I'm not really, let me transition. But then by the time they're 20 years

03:00old, that will no longer be the case. So that is what I meant.

03:04Catherine, there is another group that does seem to be particularly likely to be caught up in this,

03:09and that is children in care. So in the CAS review, in the CAS report, Hilary Cass pointed out that

03:16children who are adopted or brought up in care are about eight times as likely to be referred to

03:21the gender clinics at Tavistock, which is now closed. Why do you think that might be?

03:27Well, I mean, those children are crying out for support and for attention in a million different ways.

03:34So I imagine that it won't just be that they are thinking about transitioning, they will be

03:41they'll be appearing on the stats for all kinds of issues. So, you know, that's a different issue

03:48that I'm talking about the children who I think will be wanting to be seen as victims.

03:52You're talking about children who are really in genuine need of support.

03:58Do tend to be a pleasure.

03:59Yeah.

03:59You're thinking about your own, always feeling good for you again.

04:03What are you doing and what you think then are the players who are really looking for for

04:05children to be experienced in the community?

04:06Regardless of what they're gripping in their world, they will be in genuine care for you?

04:06They'll be counted by Mohamedا why they've possibly felt and, in any way they may be

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