Whistleblower ignored then sacked

Former teacher Kevin Lister is interviewed by Richard House

Transgenderism madness in the education system

Richard House (RH): Your recent excellent interview on UK Column News (tinyurl.​com/arvynstx) will have touched many. Tell us about your professional history.

Kevin Lister (KL): My first degree is in engineering, and I then worked in ship design, control-systems design, the oil and gas, and rail industries, and also gained masters degrees in business administration and mathematics.

As an engineer, I empathised with James Lovelock's ideas on how the planet's biological systems regulate the environment, keeping it habitable, so I moved into education as a maths teacher, aiming to equip young people with the skills to understand complex dilemmas. But our education system is transitioning towards training for specific yet precarious jobs. In the intellectual vacuum, it is easier to indoctrinate students to conform to ideological beliefs than help them to become critical thinkers.

When I started seeing students presenting as the opposite sex and supported by their school, I knew something very wrong was happening.

I immediately raised safeguarding concerns.

RH: How did you raise concerns, and what was the response?

KL: I raised two formal safeguarding concerns, one to do with my student and the other to do with grooming concerns about a trans activist member of staff. Both were ignored. I raised my concerns with the Assistant Vice Principal. She did nothing. I raised my concerns at a staff training session on mental health; I was accused of being 'transphobic'. I explained in my subsequent investigation meeting that my safeguarding concerns had not been addressed; this was ignored.