If he expressed confusion
I didn’t know six-year-olds could be terfs.
Officials at a primary school warned the parents of a six-year-old that he would be deemed “transphobic” if he expressed confusion when a pupil he knew as a boy was wearing a dress.
In all fairness, it would be nice if boys could wear dresses if they want to, without confusing other boys. But maybe that’s a silly thing to say – there are always going to be social rules children have to learn, and children are always going to be confused or annoyed by other children who break the social rules. There can’t be zero social rules, so there have to be some social rules, so children have to learn them.
Anyway, some boys will want to experiment with wearing skirts, and it would be nice if that could be calmly accepted without any panic about is he trans or is his little friend transphobic.
Sally and Nigel Rowe have released a letter they received from a Church of England school on the Isle of Wight after they had raised concerns that their son was confused by the behaviour of another pupil.
The letter from the school’s head teacher and the chairwoman of the governors warned that pupils would be viewed as transphobic if they demonstrated an “inability to believe a transgender person is actually a ‘real’ female or male”.
Is this part of Anglican teachings now? Do we think one of the disciples liked to wear high heels suspendies and a bra?
Children would also be regarded as transphobic if they exhibited “feelings of discomfort and inability to trust or connect with someone based on their transgender status” as well as a refusal to use an “adopted name or using gender inappropriate pronouns”, the letter stated.
So six-year-olds, who are still learning the basic rules of everything, now have to take on board that some of the rules turn out to be NO NOT THAT WAY, except when they’re not, so it’s necessary to learn both the rules and their opposites, and betray zero emotion about any of it, apart from big hugs for all the little trans and non-binary playmates.
And what does any of this have to do with any church? I think churches and mosques and temples should stay out of education, but I also think they should stay out of stupid new sex-denying cults.
This is child abuse.
It is, isn’t it.
“inability to believe”…so, thoughtcrime. (It’s a religious school. Should we be surprised?)
And then, “viewed as transphobic”. Weasel words. They aren’t in quotes in the article. I’d like to know what the letter actually said. I’d like to know what–if anything–the school is actually threatening. Expulsion? Suspension? Stand him in the corner with a dunce cap? Or is the school merely informing the parents that they will hold that opinion of the child, and maybe no one needs to care about their opinion.
The letter from the school’s head teacher and the chairwoman of the governors warned that pupils would be viewed as hippocampusphobic if they demonstrated an “inability to believe a seahorse is actually a ‘real’ horse”.
Makes just as much sense.
Iknklst: you sneer. But everyday I experience the LITERAL VIOLENCE of Dracophobia!!!
So pupils at this school are required to *believe* that one of their schoolmates is “a ‘real’ female” one day and a “‘real’ … male” the next day, or two days later, or whenever he/she feels like a change of costume. If any of them show surprise or bewilderment or refer to that pupil using the ‘wrong’ pronoun they will be singled out and punished. This is cruelty.
And – ‘female’? ‘male’? What happens further up the school system? How are schools going to teach sex education? Or any aspect of human biology?
It’s not enough to conform in form, it’s necessary to conform with conviction.
Not only does God see into your heart, RuPaul does, too. And They’s making a list.
lol
There is a stage of development when children legitimately do believe that someone wearing a dress is a girl, that someone in a white coat is a doctor, etc. Distinguishing accidental and essential is a learned skill. It’s a fundamental skill, but it’s learned nonetheless. Genderism’s negation of that distinction should be an obvious disqualifier, yet somehow people are willing and eager to go along with it. Camouflaging oneself against the rest of the herd is an unfortunately powerful instinct.