UK Camp Rejects Disabled Boy Over Mother’s Gender Stance
3rd September 2025
In the UK, it’s not just the well-known who get punished for gender-critical views. It turns out that even disabled children are considered fair game by the powers that be.
Consequently, a disabled eight-year-old boy, whose rare condition requires round-the-clock care, was banned from a summer camp designed for families like his after his mother responded to an application form asking for her son’s pronouns by saying: “Seriously?”
In a call initiated by the charity months after this application was submitted, a clinical director tried “explaining the importance of pronouns at our camps,” but the mother insisted that people could not change sex. The family was then told in an email, sent moments after the call, that their application had been unsuccessful.
Following a backlash online, the charity has claimed the child and his mother were turned away not because of the mother’s views but because of how she expressed them on the phone. Free Speech Union official Connie Shaw said this was “classic” backtracking.