Charity accused of pushing children on to puberty blockers

Mum 'faced with social services' after challenging transition

- Sam Stevenson and Emily Braeger

PARENTS' CONCERN AFTER GENDER CARE REVIEW

A CHARITY with £220,000 taxpayer funding has been accused of targeting vulnerable young people and encouraging them to use puberty blockers.

Space Youth Project said it "supports young people who are or may be LGBT+" and aims to "facilitate freedom of expression".

But Chris Loder, Conservative MP for West Dorset, said an increasing number of parents have told him how exposed and vulnerable their children have been with discussions around gender identity with third parties.

Criticising the Dorset-based Space Youth Project and similar groups for having "unfettered access" to schoolchildren without parental knowledge or consent, he said: "Publicly funded activist organisations are targeting young people and children."