As many regular readers of both this site and my social media output may already know, I’m the father of a very lively, intelligent,imaginative ‘miracle boy’ who is coming up to five years old. Like many five year old boys and girls my son, who I will refer to here as ‘Laughing Boy’, likes to dress up. One day he will dress as a princess or a witch and tell stories relating to this costume which he uses as a prop and another day he will dress as Spiderman or even tell imaginative stories about wanting to be a pigeon or a cat. Sometimes he’ll don his Peppa Pig swimsuit and pretend that he’s Peppa or George Pig and that he’s at the beach. All this behaviour is thoroughly normal and part of the natural child developmental process. Children make sense of the world through play where they try out different and sometimes impossible roles and characters.

Now I know such childhood behaviour is normal and many others also think the same but my problem is that various dangerous transgender groups, such as Mermaids, are being given access, despite parental objections, to primary schools. Once inside the school setting groups like Mermaids push their twisted child abusing ideology that states that children can be transgender.

Having an imaginative child who likes to dress up made me very worried about the influence of these groups on my child. The primary school that we picked was the one school where the Headmaster promised us that lunatic groups like Mermaids would not be allowed on school premises (if you want to view articles about our search for a primary school click here, here and here). Neither my wife nor myself wanted our son’s childhood dressing up to be seen as ‘transgender behavior’ and him to fall into the clutches of groups like Mermaids and be warped, sterilised and emotionally and physically ruined by those who promote the current transgender fad in schools.

I was looking for education resources that would counter the almost inevitable pro-trans propaganda that is creeping into Britain’s primary schools and I found one brilliant example on the Transgender Trend website. The resource, a book called ‘My Body Is Me’ (ISBN 978-1-5272-5154-0 ), is a subtle book that encourages children to see that they have one body that cannot be radically changed. It doesn’t go too heavy on the scientific facts which are that it is impossible to truly change one’s gender but does show children that everybody’s body is different, that a child can pretend to be something they are not as part of play and that they should look after their body as it’s the only body that they have.

I was really really impressed by this book which is written by Rachel Rooney and illustrated by Jessica Ahlberg and even better Laughing Boy seems to like it too. He often asks for ‘the body book’ at bedtime and is fascinated by the wide variety of children depicted in the book doing a wide variety of things during play. He also enjoys the explanations about how wonderful the body is and what it does.

I would most certainly most highly recommend this book to any parent who has an early years child who has the normal issues of not yet being able to separate fantasy from reality and is subject to ‘magical thinking’. The text of the book is in rhyming form and is easily understandable by the average preschooler and early years primary school pupil. An example of the sort of text in the book is this:

“I am my body, my body is me

It’s a wonderful thing, I’m sure you’ll agree.

My body has feelings and thoughts that I own

It’s working right now

and it will when I’ve grown”

This is the sort of text that pulls in and engages an early years child and both the text and the gorgeous illustrations subtly implants in a child the fact that we are what we are and we cannot make radical changes to what we are. It doesn’t tell a child that they are ‘bad’ for dressing up or engaging in games of pretend, it just tells the child that they cannot change their body for another and that they need to look after their body as its the only one they’ve got. This book also helps to foster in the child a positive self image about their body and hopefully make them more resilient to the false blandishments of the ‘trans children’ movement.

I would most certainly recommend this book to any parent who has a young child who is becoming interested in their body or who has a significant pretend world that exists inside their heads. I would also most certainly recommend this book to any parent who is worried about the growing influence of the pro-trans ideologies in British schools who may pick up on gender non-conforming behaviour and try to have the child classified as ‘trans’.

You can order this book for the very reasonable price of £4.99 + P and P from the Transgender Trend website and I would most heartily recommend that you do so. It’s a fabulous counter to much of the gender BS that kids are being fed in schools in Britain these days.