Teacher wins fight over ‘transphobic’ comments

Just noticed on that fb page is a petition against "a woman's place" event.

I think my management style themselves on the Stasi actually.

It's outrageous that you are in fear of losing your jobs. That means no free speech. Do we live in Stalinist Russia? In East Germany in the 1970s?

I work for the mentioned organisation. Obviously using a name change. This is outrageous. But then if you want to see how they treat their employees search my other posts.

But those of us peak trans, can't say anything for fear of our jobs.

People hear that palpitations nonsense then assume that the Marie thug on 'hunger strike' is a delicate flower damsel-in-distress who is locked up in a tower unable to straighten their rippling tresses. And was probably arrested wrongly for jaywalking (so easy to do if you're checking your nails!). The dear lamb.

Thank you, Beyond

I commented on the article.

Despite being a diehard leftie, I have taken out a subscription to the Times. I emailed to tell them that I am subscribing directly in response to their stance on trans issues.

It beggars belief that this case warranted any action at all and didn't simply get the complainants dismissed for being ridiculous.

Hooray for Mr Wilkes!

And "transplaining"?

Natural... twitter.com/roynut/status/957475980557381632

Exactly herfemaleness

Oh...he is taken care of on Twitter. Good. I dont twitter

How can we get letters of support to this bloke? I dont suppose he is well RadFem connected

NannyOggsKnickers you're so right about safeguarding. Decades of research, knowledge and painstaking creation of educational resources are all being thrown in the bin. The consequences will be wide-ranging and serious.

Do you have a link? I don't do/understand twitter!

I just saw, Roy has tweeted Jennifer James. I love that he sought her out :)

Who are these people who can't cope with disagreement? You don't see Muslims and Christians rolling around the streets in agony, tears rolling down their cheeks screaming ''these atheists are invalidating my existence with their unbelief''.

Thanks for sharing OP - I hadn't heard of this particular case. I have shared with DH and this is the first time ever he thinks there might be a point in me worrying about the GRA or transactivism.

Things I thought I'd never say...today, I will be getting The Sunday Times.

I lost patience with The Guardian a while back, but yesterdays trans prisoner twaddle was the death blow.

For once the comments below are almost all in support, and recognising this craziness. I had to scroll quite a long way down before finding one in disagreement. I don't know if they moderate out negative comments but it seems a lot of people are being peak transed.

There is a real issue here around safeguarding and the sex neutral language encouraged by TAs.

The current thinking in safe guarding and sex education is to encourage young children to use the anatomically correct terms for their primary and secondary sex organs. This is a measure designed to protect them from grooming by peodophiles as there is evidence to prove that they have a preference for babyish or metaphorical language for these parts.

It also helps children to take ownership of their bodies and understand what is private and what isn’t.

So making this language fuzz and arguing that sex is a spectrum rather than gender as a spectrum directly contradicts current practice and could have potentially harmful effects on young children.

From what I understand transplaining is people telling trans people all about trans. Having an opinion about it, in other words.

You're not allowed to explain to a Trans person anything about trans.

Because, talking about the dangers of transing children, prison statistics, or AGP is forbidden. So they pretend that it's 'transplaining'. Keep your nose out!

Ignoring the massive elephant in the room which is how they can 'womansplain' what woman means. That, obviously, is completely fine.

They can tell you exactly what it means to be a woman because it's a feeling deep inside. And you must listen, and change your viewpoint of it means to be a woman. Despite, you know, actually being one.

But talking about statistics, evidence connected to transgenderism? Nooo.

So excited and just found him on twitter

boys and girls should be able to wear whatever they want without anyone jumping to the conclusion that they are transgender

How on earth this can have been considered to be anything other than a common sense statement, I do not know.

Surely it just means "it's ok not to conform to narrow, stereotyped gender norms".

I also was at the palpatations bit.

I get being upset at reading something that cuts a bit close for you, but to have that level of reaction to it is unhealthy and they should probably seek help for their mental health.