By Chantelle Billson
A queer children鈥檚 education company has dismissed a post by a gender-critical campaigner that stated LGBTQ+ organisations aimed at children should be 鈥渄efunded鈥
A post criticising 鈥淧ride organisations aimed at kids,鈥 shared on X by gender-critical campaigner Venice Allan 鈥 who has over 27,000 followers on the platform 鈥 received more than 100,000 views and thousands of interactions.
In the post, the photo shows a banner for Pop鈥檔鈥橭lly, a children鈥檚 education company, and two people holding a sign that reads: 鈥淚 support LGBT+ education.鈥
Venice captioned the image: 鈥淓very Pride org aimed at kids needs to be defunded and investigated, there is no appropriate age to teach children about men鈥檚 sexual rights and the transgender body mutilation cult.鈥
Every Pride org aimed at kids needs to be defunded and investigated, there is no appropriate age to teach children about men鈥檚 sexual rights and the transgender body mutilation cult. pic.twitter.com/b3GtQmvy4U鈥 Venice Allan (@roseveniceallan) July 1, 2025
In response, a spokesperson for Pop鈥檔鈥橭lly told PinkNews: 鈥淲e are incredibly proud of the work we do at Pop鈥檔鈥橭lly which supports schools, teachers, parents and carers in teaching about diversity and inclusion.
鈥淭eaching children about diversity has been shown time and time again to improve mental health for all children, both LGBT+ and not, as well as reduce bullying and discrimination. Our work is supported by many thousands of teachers, educators, parents and carers, designed and delivered by education experts, in line with all current legislation and informed by research.鈥
According to Debating Matters, Allan was part of the women鈥檚 collective that in 2020 started regular meet ups at Speakers鈥 Corner in London, which went on to become the gender-critical group Let Women Speak. In April last year, she posted a tweet that read: 鈥淲hy were there no 鈥榯rans kids鈥 in the nineties?鈥
Academics have disputed the claim that trans identity is a 鈥渘ew phenomenon,鈥 as some right-wing commentators suggest. Jules Gill-Peterson, a professor of gender, sexuality, and women鈥檚 studies at the University of Pittsburgh, previously told The Guardian that her research uncovered evidence of children and young people accessing transition-related medication as far back as the 1930s.
CEO and founder of Pop鈥檔鈥橭lly, Olly Pike, previously told PinkNews about his decision to donate hundreds of books to Tory constituencies after top Conservatives pedalled anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment at the party conference.
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