The charity is supposed to help vulnerable children, which is why it rightly opposes FGM. So why is it promoting the idea that it’s OK for girls as young as seven to go down a path that leads to gender reassignment surgery?
Save the Children was established in the aftermath of the First World War by Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton, two sisters from England who had been appalled by the impact of British government policy on children across Europe. The war may have been over, but the Royal Navy maintained a blockade of Germany until it signed the Treaty of Versailles. In cities like Berlin and Vienna, children were starving.
