A prominent gender campaigner has warned parents of the growing "endemic" in Scotland's schools, as new data has revealed the shocking number of institutions allowing pupils to self-identify.
Campaign group For Women Scotland has found that more than 95 per cent of secondary schools in the country are allowing children to self-identify their gender.
In the report, For Women Scotland discovered that nine in ten Scottish secondary schools taught pupils that people have a gender identity "that could be different to their biological sex".
Speaking to GB News, Director of the campaign group Susan Smith detailed the revelations in the report and warned that parents in Scotland "should be worried".
Susan Smith warned that parents 'should be worried' about the 'endemic' in Scottish schools
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In conversation with Smith, host Andrew Doyle claimed that the conclusion of the report is "very troubling" and shows that the the "teaching of gender identity, a highly contested theory, as fact" is "endemic in Scottish schools".
Smith agreed, explaining: "That's exactly right, and it doesn't really surprise us, because for a long time we have had some completely dreadful guidance in Scottish schools that's come from the Scottish Government, that we don't believe is legal.
"We also have some very, very determined government funded lobby groups who are also in schools and who are also giving schools advice, which is not legal. So it's not a surprise."
Issuing a warning for parents of Scotland's school pupils, Smith said they "should be really worried" as their children are "being put at risk".
For Women Scotland has revealed that nine in ten Scottish schools are allowing pupils to self-identify
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Smith told GB News: "Parents should be really worried because children are actually being put at risk because there are so many safeguarding failures here and there are so many legal failures here."
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When asked by Andrew if groups such as Stonewall and LGBT Youth Scotland are influencing the schools and becoming a problem, Smith admitted that they are a "very big part of the problem".
Smith revealed: "LGBT Youth Scotland get about £1million a year from the Government and local authorities and the NHS. And then they go into schools and charge the schools for them to deliver this training. They're training up teachers as well. They are an activist group.
"We do have this transgender guidance for schools, and that was actually originally written by LGBT Scotland. The Scottish Government had to review it because ministers found that it was not legal. But they've made some pretty basic changes to it."
Smith then warned: "They've even got a little disclaimer in that guidance saying that schools have to take independent legal advice. So it's they know that it's open to challenge.
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"And we believe that a school could face a pretty serious harassment charge at some point in the future. And it's the school and the local authority, not the Scottish Government, who'd be at fault. But schools don't know this. They have no idea that they are being fed this nonsense."
Following the Cass Review published in England, Smith was asked by Andrew if she believes Scotland will also review their transgender guidance and implement that in schools.
Smith responded: "In theory, yes, they should be pulling this straight away, and they're not.
"What is really, really terrifying is we found are that parents are being positioned as the enemy. Only 4 per cent of schools said that they would tell parents if a child decided they were changing their gender.
"And a lot of the excuses and rationale given for this has come from this transgender guidance for schools and from LGBT youth and so on. And it makes out that parents are potentially dangerous. So children are being taught material and parents have no oversight of it, and they should be very worried."