Enough Is Enough

I am not confused about where I stand.

I do not hate anyone. I am not afraid of difference. I understand what it is to live outside neat boxes. But I do not believe that children should be taught that sex is a feeling or that their bodies are negotiable.

Something has shifted rapidly in our schools. Language that did not exist in my childhood is now presented as unquestionable truth. Concepts that are deeply philosophical, psychological, even political, are being introduced to children as settled fact. There is no space for hesitation. No room for developmental uncertainty. No safeguarding pause.

That unsettles me.

Children deserve stability. They deserve clarity about their bodies. They deserve protection from irreversible decisions made during temporary distress. Adolescence is already a storm. Identity is fluid in youth. That does not mean the body is.

I believe biological sex is real. Male and female are not oppressive categories; they are biological realities. Sexual orientation makes sense only within that reality. But when ideology replaces biology in the classroom, we are not teaching compassion, we are teaching confusion.

And we have to also talk about the pharmaceutical layer.

We are medicating more young people than ever before. SSRIs are handed out for anxiety, depression, distress, trauma. These are powerful psychoactive drugs. They can blunt emotion. They can dampen libido. They can create a sense of numbness or detachment from one’s own body. Some young people describe feeling flat, disconnected, unreal.

If you chemically mute a developing adolescent’s emotional and sexual signals, we cannot pretend that has no impact on how they experience themselves. When a young person already struggling with anxiety or trauma is also medicated in ways that affect desire, sensation and interoception, we must at least ask whether we are complicating an already fragile developmental process.

This is not about demonising medicine. It is about asking harder questions. It is about informed consent. It is about long-term data. It is about recognising that adolescence is a neurological and hormonal construction site, not a stable platform for lifelong medical pathways.

I feel alarmed by how quickly this narrative expanded. I know because I watched it unfold. As a naïve, emerging photographer in 2012, I documented cultural spaces where these ideas were still fringe, still experimental, still niche. Back then it felt subcultural, almost academic, something debated at the margins. And then, with startling speed, it was everywhere. Corporations, media, schools, all speaking the same language, all adopting the same terminology, almost overnight. What unsettles me most is not that ideas evolve, but that dissent narrowed so quickly. To pause, to question, to ask for evidence suddenly became suspect. Nuance collapsed. Debate thinned. And anyone who hesitated was labelled regressive, harmful, even dangerous.

That is not how truth behaves.

Truth can withstand scrutiny. Truth does not require silence or fear to survive.

My concern is not about adults living as they choose. Adults have autonomy. My line is children. My line is medical intervention before full maturity. My line is teaching identity frameworks before a child even understands their own developmental arc.

Safeguarding must come before ideology.

You can call that unfashionable. You can call it old-fashioned. But I call it protective.

I will not shout at individuals. I will not dehumanise anyone. But I will say clearly, children are not experimental ground for social theory. Schools should prioritise literacy, numeracy, critical thinking, and emotional resilience, not contested identity doctrines.

Enough is enough.

Youth are waking up as seen in American figure skater Alysa Liu as she addresses backlash over removal of pronouns, pro-LGBTQ posts from social media: “I was a kid, I don’t believe in that stuff anymore.” Thank GOD people can grow out of it, and not have their parent cut off their body parts!!