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@Victor-Meldrew I'm not paying to read that, but my takeaway is teachers need to be educated on what homosexuality is, and I hope that teacher doesn't have cats.
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Too good not to post the words.....
A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was “despicable” after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.
The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on “life education” in which they were told they can “be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.
The row, which has infuriated parents, was allegedly sparked by one of them asking a fellow pupil: “How can you identify as a cat when you’re a girl?”
Their teacher told them they were being reported to a senior leader and were no longer welcome at the school, part of the Aquinas Trust, a Church of England network of 11 schools, if they continued to express the view that only boys and girls exist.
She added that “there is actually three biological sexes because you can be born with male and female body parts or hormones” and “there are lots of genders – there is transgender, there is a gender who are people who don’t believe that they have a gender at all”.
The girls said they “don’t agree with that” and that you “can’t have” a gender because “if you have a vagina you’re a girl and if you have a penis you’re a boy – that’s it”.
The teacher interjected in a raised voice: “What do you mean you can’t have it? It’s not a law ... Cisgender is not necessarily the way to be – you are talking about the fact that cisgender is the norm, that you identify with the sexual organ you were born with, that’s basically what you’re saying, which is really despicable.”
The teacher suggested they were homophobic and confused, which the girls denied. When the pupils said their mothers would be on their side, the teacher responded: “Well that’s very sad as well then.”
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Unbelievable, isn't it?
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@Victor-Meldrew intrigued to know what that teacher's specialist subject is.
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@Bones said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
@Victor-Meldrew intrigued to know what that teacher's specialist subject is.
Have close family members who have been happily gay for decades who've told me the gay community is getting uneasy about trans women (i.e with penis) demanding they be regarded as lesbian by the gay community.
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@Victor-Meldrew Twitter has a substantial #LGBwithouttheT presence.
As to the teacher, it seems the mental illness is spreading. A good dose of unemployment should help fix it.
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There's an organisation called Stonewall behind much of this. Started off as gay rights lobby/charity but has morphed into a trans-rights-above-all, sexual rights education group. They had a "Diversity Mark" which big firms were keen to sign up to signed up and paid them to give courses to staff. They also heavily influenced government on LBGT rights
Been banned from a lot of organisations after they argued that it's transphobic and akin to racism for a lesbian not to want sex with a trans woman with a penis and compared it to apartheid (yes, really) link
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Cut the oxygen, solve the problem
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@MajorRage said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
We've just received a survey from England Netball about inclusion of Transgender in the sport.
Good initiative, be interesting to see the results.
Good luck
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@MajorRage said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
We've just received a survey from England Netball about inclusion of Transgender in the sport.
Good initiative, be interesting to see the results.
What could possibly go wrong?
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@Victor-Meldrew I wonder who finances stonewall. Or maybe it just happened
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Stonewall is mainly self-financing, IIRC. Makes its money from training companies and organizations to be certified "Diversity Champions".
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
Stonewall is mainly self-financing, IIRC. Makes its money from training companies and organizations to be certified "Diversity Champions".
Racket
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Create a non-existent market, fill the need and then build on that useless "product".
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@Catogrande said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
Create a non-existent market, fill the need and then build on that useless "product".
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???
‘Times have changed’: New York’s veteran subway announcer on coming out as trans
Bernie Wagenblast’s voice is known to millions of passengers on the AirTrain service. Now, at 66, she’s happy with a new life
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More... Daily Telegraph
"Bank of England says people of any gender identity can be pregnant
Threadneedle Street to dedicate a floor of its office to gender-neutral lavatories"
Transgender debate, in sport, in general
