The Telegraph reports that Scottish elementary schools are being asked to appoint children as “LGBT champions” and ask children as young as four if they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.

The organization behind this, LGBT Youth Scotland, received around $1.2 million in taxpayer money last year.

I trained as a teacher in Scotland in 2015 and was required to sit through a presentation by a member of this organization. As I wrote previously:

Our LGBT Youth Scotland trainer also told us that we should avoid “outing” transgender children to their parents and, if the child so wished, exclude parents from the process entirely. This approach has the full backing of the Scottish government. And an increasing number of U.S. states — such as New Jersey — have similar guidelines.

Excluding parents from serious welfare decisions is particularly concerning given LGBT Youth Scotland’s poor safeguarding history. In 2007, their chief executive was arrested — and later convicted — for being the ringleader in Scotland’s largest pedophile network and for “conspiring to get access to children.” Weirdly, though, no one thinks to mention that.

I know firsthand that LGBT Youth Scotland actively promotes child transition and advises school personnel to partake in social transition, even behind parents’ backs. These practices are directly contradicted by the recommendations of the Cass report, an independent investigation into NHS England’s treatment of gender-distressed youth. As we noted in our editorial:

Even social transition demands caution, Cass notes, as it is “not a neutral act” but an “active intervention” that makes a patient “more likely to proceed to a medical pathway.” School personnel who lack “appropriate clinical training” should refrain from socially transitioning children.

Health authorities in Scotland have followed England’s example, pausing the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs for gender-distressed minors.

They might also stop harmful ideologues from going into Scottish schools.