Child identifies as a wolf ... WTF?

Well I’d like to identify as 5’10” size 6 supermodel with the IQ of Einstein and the bank balance of Richard Branson but the mirror ( and common sense) tells me otherwise. Why don’t the child’s parents tell her/him to keep the wolf for the weekends then they can shit in the woods and catch their own food. One wet weekend will stop the nonsense.

Hmmm a wolf on school grounds? I would imagine that it would be shot . That would probably solve the problem quickly enough.

I do wish transphobes would get a life

Wasn't there a fella in prison who identifies as a baby?

Quick Google, yep.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/trans-murderer-prison-identify-baby-26669658

Mine does, she’s a bugger for it!

And The Telegraph and a bunch of other places. Who knows if this particular case is true. I do know there are people out there who do identify as animals though.

I don't know why people find mental illness so hard to believe.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/19/schoolboy-uk-allowed-identify-as-a-wolf/

I used to wish I was a cat when I was a little girl. I wanted people to think I was cute and mew at them, but I was too shy to do it. Probably in todays world I would have transformed into one

Here's the story. It's a week old, and it was covered by (are you sitting down?) the Mail, the Express, and GB News, so I'm surprised there wasn't a thread about it until now.

Apparently the school and local authority are in Scotland, but neither have been actually named. I'm sure that's definitely not because the whole story is culture-war bollocks.

Couldn’t agree more. I’m in my 60’s as as I was growing these were all phases, you grew out of them. No one made a fuss or believed you. The trouble these days is that they are believed. I worked in a girls school and an old colleague tells me that they now have a pupil who identifies as a boy and she is permitted to wear trousers. None of the other pupils are. Utter fucking madness. If she identifies as a boy she should fuck off to a boys school. Girls need safe spaces and entertaining this phase is potty imo.

It had to come to this. If anyone can identify as anything, then someone eventually will and children are particularly susceptible to this. I remember the story of two children who believed they were pokemon and jumped out of window.

We recently went to a soft play and there were children (around age 12/13) dressed as and acting as animals and videoing each other.

I'm ok with children playing - dressing up as doctors, fireman, superheroes and animals but not actually believing that they are this thing.

Like others have said - we've told these children they can be what they want and they firmly believe it's the case. You want to be a different sex? Ok. You want to be a wolf? Why not.

It's TERRIFYING that despite the 'love yourself for who you are' posts we also have this idea that if you don't love who you are you can just be someone else. It's insane.

When a grown man goes to these lengths, you can't really blame the kids, can you?

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/japanese-man-who-transformed-into-a-dog-now-wants-to-become-a-panda-or-fox-5747916

As it happens, I think I've pretty much completed parenting. Our daughter's 30, and doing really rather well in life.

Thanks for asking, though.

I’d agree most don’t but there are absolutely some who do I think they call themselves something else though.

i don’t know why it’s so hard to believe. My brother has schizophrenia and he believes some mind blowingly insane things quite sincerely and will often get upset if we very kindly do not agree those things are true. This kind of thing isn’t real much different at the end of the day. People and brains are weird.

1) there is no compelling evidence anyone identifies as an animal to the same extent as a trans person identifies as the opposite gender

When a child (this thread is about children) tell me that they have a gender identity, I treat it as seriously as them telling me that they are a cat. Both kids probably equally believe in those statements in that moment.

Furries don't really think they're cats any more than goths wouldn't seek medical help in an emergency on account of them being already undead.

We should absolutely turn the internet off and on again, it's cringe, but that applies just as much to the people who fall for the Daily Mail clickbait as it does to teenagers who have spent too long on Reddit.

Sorry you're having to deal with this, what an awful time to be a teacher.

And apart from that, the argument isn’t that they’re cats, just that they think they are and if they’re delusional enough to think that they’re probably delusional enough to think they can be a cat who walks on two legs and poos on a regular toilet etc.

of course many of them will just plain be pretending and then the issue is why is a angle person pander to them.

Men don't identify as women in any meaningful way either. It's usually all about the clothes and the makeup, never the mental load women tend to take on in the household, the gender pay gap, dealing with women's specific health issues or hormone cycles, the different expectations of women socially, emotionally, as a caregiver, etc. It's totally superficial

As a teacher I can assure you we don’t want to pander to this shite. But with pressure from parents, council, unions etc we have no choice.

When I lived in Sweden, I had an aquaintance who self-identified as a cat. There was a TV show made about her so I presume it's fairly rare. She successfully used legislation for transexual humans to protect her rights as a transpecies cat. That was about 7 years ago now, so it's hardly surprising it has happened somewhere else too. I think the logic she used was, if you can self-identify your sex, why not your skin colour, age and species.

But the same could be said for men who identify as women couldn’t it? They don’t do everything women do because they can’t because they aren’t the same at all. Doesn’t stop them. Doesn’t mean they haven’t deluded themselves into thinking they are that thing does it?

If someone genuinely believed they were a cat, and wanted to live "as a cat":

1. they'd be on 4 legs all the time
2. they'd be an obligate carnivore and only eat meat
3. they'd spend 22 hours a day asleep
4. they'd be up trees etc
5. they wouldn't be able to use their thumbs so no phone, TV, cloths (cos buttons and zips).

They would be pretty obvious in society. They aren't there. I think it wouldn't take long for a bipedal ape pretending to be a cat to get injured, sick or bored of the lifestyle.

This is what I mean. There is a difference between "logically it's the same" and "in reality people identify as cats". In reality people don't identify as cats in any meaningful way and it's about as relevant as them believing in God. Meh.

I don't believe men can become women. However we all know this is a disorder some men have. We see trans women out and about. We read articles about them. We know they exist.

We see people present as the opposite sex. What lies behind this is probably very varied. There is no clear evidence of a specific disorder.

Trans able-ism is something that's visible and documented by the way. Just for your reference.

I belive clay based litter is good at putting out fires but I have no proof of this .