Urgh. It's like transgender bingo:
- Questioning the way things are going == being a horrible homophobe, section 28 etc etc etc (bonus point for linking to Owen Jones article)
- Why are feminists so obsessed with genitalia?
- Nobody is cutting bits of children or pumping them full of chemotherapy drugs, promise!
- 'history will judge you...'
- Transitioning is always a long, painful, difficult process (with the implication that it involves surgery, drugs and a significant change to lifestyle)
- Women are worried about men pretending to be women in order to take over their safe spaces which would never happen because see above
Plus some exciting new angles I haven't seen before, including:
- Feminists, it's YOUR attachment to gender roles that means boys can't wear dresses
- Transgender people 'are the last people who would encourage gender reassignment on a whim'
I mean, even a very cursory glance on Twitter would show how completely batshit most of these assertions are.
A fact free, evidence free, comprehension free essay which unfortunately has been published in a 'reputable' trade journal for teachers who are already being told they should break fundamental safeguarding rules when a child discloses that they think they might be trans.
Does TES have a right of reply? Letters page? I'm too close to this sector to write anything myself as it would, unfortunately, be professionally damaging.
www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/transphobes-are-driving-childrens-confusion-about-gender-not-trans