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Every parent should read: transactivisms dangerous myth of parental rejection

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Wanderabout · 21/07/2018 09:14

Every parent should read this:

quillette.com/2018/07/20/trans-activisms-dangerous-myth-of-parental-rejection/

"[another] problem with the belief that parental rejection is the norm is that it makes for bad policy. How can a society function efficiently if it cannot depend on parental good faith toward offspring as a bedrock assumption? This does not mean, of course, that there aren’t truly awful parents who reject and abuse. But they are the exception rather than the rule. To establish guidelines and policies based on these exceptions dangerously arrogates too much authority to the state and institutions for children’s well-being and undermines the role of the parent. This leads to policies that range from the dangerous to the absurd.

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R0wantrees · 21/07/2018 11:30

This is the guidance in Scotland.

Apparently I have no right to know if any of my daughters decide to present as male at school .

25th June
Schools 'forget' girls in rush to adopt pro-trans guidance campaigners claim as Christian group threatens legal action

(extract)
"THE rights of Scottish schoolgirls are being undermined by rules allowing pupils to adopt a different gender and share changing rooms, it has been claimed, as it emerged schools are unprepared for the controversial overhaul.

A series of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests have revealed that councils have widely backed guidelines produced by organisations campaigning for the rights of transgender people but have not considered how the new approach will affect children – particularly girls.

The new guidelines tell teachers that if a transgender pupil wishes to share a changing room with "other young people who share their gender identity," they should be allowed to do so.

"There is no reason for parents or carers of the other pupils to be informed," it adds.

The guidelines say young people should be able to compete in the sports events for the gender they identify with, and says if other pupils are uncomfortable using changing rooms or toilets with transgender pupils, they should use other facilities or wait until the transgender pupil is done.

However none of the councils involved, nor the children’s commissioner, nor Education Scotland have carried out an equality impact assessment to ensure the rights and wellbeing of other pupils are unaffected. This means the impact on other students has not been taken into account." (continues)

www.heraldscotland.com/news/16311379.schools-forget-girls-in-rush-to-adopt-pro-trans-guidance-campaigners-claim-as-christian-group-threatens-legal-action/

Tinycitrus · 21/07/2018 11:19

This is the guidance in Scotland.

Apparently I have no right to know if any of my daughters decide to present as male at school.

The school will support it. I will have no right to know or to change this. This also relates to primary school aged children.

And if I question it then the recommendation is that social
Services should get involved.

There are huge safeguarding concerns with this guidance - and yet it has been issued with what looks like zero scrutiny.

UpstartCrow · 21/07/2018 11:05

Male rights activism and the incel movement teaches men - among other things - that they are naturally dominant and women secretly want to be submissive, but are hampered by feminism.

TheChampagneGalop · 21/07/2018 10:59

Which is the movement that is working to separate men and women, Upstart?

UpstartCrow · 21/07/2018 10:44

Here you go HotRocker

quillette.com/2018/07/20/trans-activisms-dangerous-myth-of-parental-rejection/

HotRocker · 21/07/2018 10:41

Please can somebody make the link clicky? On my phone and for complicated reasons I can’t c&p.

UpstartCrow · 21/07/2018 10:38

We are seeing 2 social movements, one works to separate men and women, the other to separate children from parents.

I don't think this is a coincidence.

enoughisenough12 · 21/07/2018 10:35

Repeating what I've said on another thread:
These groups advocate for teachers and others to keep confidentiality from parents and even to enable a child to transition without parental knowledge.
Those who set out to disenfranchise any child from their parents and family are dangerous . We have intensive and well established protocols for deciding that parents are a risk to children and to remove parental responsibility. They are lengthy processes with investigations and considerable legislative oversight. Yet trans groups set themselves above the law. They proffer guidelines that ignore safeguarding principles as well as dismissing the needs of children to be protected by their parents.
These repeated displays of breathtaking ignorance and arrogance are incredibly serious.

LangCleg · 21/07/2018 10:04

This is an excellent article and highlights the safeguarding holes created by parental alienation - a central theme in extremist transactivism. All practioners, especially those in schools, should sit up and take note.