Child identifies as a wolf ... WTF?

Exactly. And once teachers are told to lie to their students, and people are threatened with arrest for saying it’s not true, and male sex fetishism is treated with the respect due to a religion — what can you expect?

Attempting to swerve this discussion away from the safeguarding issue at the heart of this no longer works. It's now well documented that there are children "identifying" in an age inappropriate way as wolves, cats etc in some UK schools.

This is a major safeguarding issue, not just because of the adult sexual fetish roots but because adults in some schools (and some parents) are abandoning their responsibility to safeguard children and instead indulging in promoting fantasy as fact to children. In pretending that children can identify as a different species. Thus creating an unsafe education environment for all children where fantasy is presented as reality. No wonder so many children are struggling with their mental health if this is how adults behave.

No sane teacher would indulge any of it. I refuse to believe there are teachers doing so. We can’t even tell them who we are voting for so why would we be able to push or encourage identity? It’s madness. We just want to bloody teach our subjects and go home and not deal with any of this crap.

Karl Pilkington’s idea for Bullshit Man has never been more needed.

No one gets to be who they want in school anyway to some extent, we all have to conform and follow rules. Surely the way to deal with this is say 'No John, this is a school for teenage humans, you can be whatever you want outside school but in her you are a human' end of discussion. I can't fathom why any teacher would encourage this..and by encourage I mean anything that involves not shutting it down and calling BS.

From a parent perspective it's worrying too. If my kid got this kind of notion I'd be furious to find the school facilitating this. It would then make me as a parent look like the enemy for not indulging it. These kids need MH help

I don’t have FB, sorry. It’s clearly a fad influenced by TikTok etc (which they shouldn’t even have but that’s another thread). That doesn’t mean there are hoards of children up and down the country putting their paws up to answer questions or eating from a bowl in the canteen or chasing balls at break time. It annoys me that people genuinely think schools are pushing “gender ideology” to students. I don’t even have time to eat my dinner during the school day never mind find the time to encourage children to identify as hamsters.

It used to be called attention seeking back in my day. Simple as that.

I'm trying to look at this from a different angle. The concept of totem animals or spirit guide animals exists in a number of cultures, which involves admiring and taking on some of the positive attributes of an animal we admire - courage, cleverness, agility, etc.
Why can't children be encouraged do that, rather than actually pretending to 'be' the animal they admire?
If they do, that is. I have no personal experience of a child 'being' a furry animal at school or anywhere other than a fancy-dress party.

The cats round here take a shit on my front lawn while looking me in the eye, then stroll off nonchalantly. They don't even bother to lick their arseholes.

And I live in a nice area!

Because a trans person is still identifying as a human? And therefore fully able to converse and interact with the human world?

"Furries" (whatever you think about them) are not the same as a child identifying as a wolf.

It's one of the ways the cult can get access to children. Get them to play believe they can be animals first. Then tell them they can be born in the wrong body.

The end game was always children. In Germany there is a proposal to make paedophilia a protected status. https://x.com/ReduxxMag/status/1838993882366747003

Most replies were sensible - not all though, worryingly.

Yes I feel like the person who brought the cat litter thing into the discussion early on knew exactly what they were doing.

@Combattingthemoaners check out "primary school leaders" fb group run by The Key; that's where there was a recent post asking for help with what to do.

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Neighbours cats that poo in my garden never bother to dig a hole or cover it up—but I get your point 😂

I’m a teacher, lots of my friends are teachers. I don’t know any school who have students arriving as animals and allowed to act as an animal throughout the school day. I find it very very hard to believe any school would allow this to happen. It would be an immediate safeguarding issue for mental health reasons.

op do you have a link to the programme because as others have said, there is a well known conspiracy theory about children using litter boxes at school and it would not be helpful for people to be confused between that and what was discussed.

It's a growing trend; I saw a serious anonymous post in a senior leaders primary teaching group recently whereby a head/ deputy head was asking how to deal with requests from children/ parents to wear their tails and ears in school due to their "identity."

There was a kid when I was at school who thought he was a car. He’d been subjected to appalling abuse since toddlerhood and that was his way of coping. It wasn’t some ‘woke’ nonsense. I’m sure something similar is the case here

it's basically the same as those people who tell us no transwoman would ever harm a woman, despite the fact some of them are locked up for doing just that. Basically there are certain groups of people it is not okay to present in a negative light even when they are behaving in a negative way, and there are certain things that can't possibly be happening because to admit they are would not make certain groups look good.

Yep. One therian in our school.

Hear, hear.

This story has nothing to do with cat litter though ...

But teachers do, they absolutely do. Listen to all the people here saying they have direct experience of it. We're not lying! This isn't some furries version of 'I know someone called L-a pronounced ladasha". It is categorically not an urban myth. This is happening in schools right now and the fact you don't believe it shows how ridiculous it is that teachers go along with it.
If I didn't have experience of this I wouldn't post on the topic. But I do. My daughter had the scratches to prove it.