Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we ask three writers from the magazine to read their pieces out loud.

I'm Natasha Froes and here's what we have this week.

Mary Wakefield on why we must resist Stonewall's gospel.

Leo McKinstree on the worrying rise of apostrophe laws. And finally, Melanie McDonough on the lost art

of letterheads. First up, Mary Wakefield. I think by now it's becoming horribly apparent to parents

of every political persuasion that we can't sit out the culture wars.

You might call yourself progressive, loathe the Tories, but still, the ideological tide is rising, and when it laps at your own child's feet, everything changes.

It becomes impossible to ignore the fact that gender activism these days isn't about gay rights or even trans rights.

It's not about being inclusive. It's about presenting utter nonsense as plain fact.

A generation of children are being fed a distorted version of reality.

In particular, they're told there's no such thing as biological sex, that there are no born males and females, and that they must somehow, on their own, discern their inner immutable sex identity.

They're told that they can, and even should, change not just their pronouns, but their bodies, to suit this identity, and that it's really no big deal to

take drugs that make you infertile, or to have your breasts cut off, or to be castrated.

This isn't just a fringe belief touted about by wackos in schools that somehow slipped

under Ofsted's radar. This is the gospel according to Stonewall, and Stonewall runs workplace training schemes across the country

It advises hundreds of schools and universities

And provides handy, ready-made educational packs for primary school teachers

No wonder more and more children every year are referred to gender clinics

For my own awakening to all this

I have to thank a 24-year-old called

Kirin Medkov, head of trans inclusion at Stonewall. I wrote about Kirin in May and the

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