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Good to see Mail exposing Transgender Trend dishonesty

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ArmchairAnnie · 22/09/2018 12:53

We never wanted our stickers to be used in schools says group which recommended plastering them all over your pencil case.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6193573/Parents-group-apologises-anti-transgender-stickers.html

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FermatsTheorem · 22/09/2018 13:59

Hmm, I wonder how schools are going to cover human reproduction in biology classes these days. Or contraception in PHSE.

It's all a bit of a mystery. Some people have penises and some have vaginas and there's no pattern to it, and sometimes lesbian couples don't have to worry about contraception, and sometimes they do... and it's all a bit puzzling really. And then sometimes babies happen. Though we're not quite sure how. Because sea horses and clown fish. Or something like that. And some babies have large dangly bits and some have very small bits (and noticeable vulvas but let's pretend we don't notice this when coercively assigning whatever it is we assign) and it really is just a difference in size, even though in once case that's where the urine comes out of and in the other case it doesn't and maybe the ones with the longer dangly bits and the ones with the shorter dangly bits might turn out to have different roles in the production of/having of babies when they're old enough but really we're not sure.

But at all costs keep children safe from the dangerously transphobic claim that "women don't have penises." Because that would lead to the end of civilisation as we know it.

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HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 13:58

Come back OP. Don't make mischief and spoil all the fun by running off.

I guess you might be busy, as I am, with my DCs, who are thankfully gender critical.

OnlyObjectivity · 22/09/2018 13:50

Apologising for this, was the stupidest stupidest stupidest thing Transgender Trend ever did. It's completely undone so much of their good work, and soiled their reputation.

It won't make any faux "aggrieved" parties warm to them and has done nothing but damage.

They should have remained unrepentant. I only hope that other campaign groups learn from this.

Bowlofbabelfish · 22/09/2018 13:45

Stickers on pencil cases = really not the end of the world.

Placing gender questioning children outside the safeguarding frameworks = a very big deal indeed

whats your opinion on safeguarding OP? Important or not?

averylongtimeago · 22/09/2018 13:45

Stickers! What a good idea, where can I get some?

placemats · 22/09/2018 13:44

I work in a secondary/sixth form college school and can honestly say I've lost count of the times I've seen anatomically correct depictions of a penis on the desks.

Mrskeats · 22/09/2018 13:43

Stripping your arm to create a non working parody of a penis=fine and dandy
Stickers.= oohhh the danger

Ereshkigal · 22/09/2018 13:42

Don't transactivists ever get tired of always overreacting about everything?

Whatever would they do with their time otherwise?

littlbrowndog · 22/09/2018 13:42

Oh thanks for bringing to attention op

Stickers look good

Have to get me some

HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 13:40

Resource dammit!

OvaHere · 22/09/2018 13:40

I never realised until recently just how many people are scared of stickers. Are stickers the new Trypophobia?

HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 13:40

Come on OP/Helen? Don't be shy. Which respyrce packs do your DCs' schools use?

As a fellow parent stakeholder I'm curious to know.

MeetTheNewAccountSameAsTheOld · 22/09/2018 13:40

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Good to see Mail exposing Transgender Trend dishonesty
UpstartCrow · 22/09/2018 13:39

So what actually happened was someone tweeted 'put them on your pencil case' and Transgender Trend tweeted 'good idea'.
Then someone decided that oppresses children.

Great, so do we agree that pushing trans ideology in schools confuses, oppresses and harms children who are not transgender?

Elephantinacravat · 22/09/2018 13:38

Are the note-books identifying as pencil cases?

Grin

Don't you know that words have no actual meaning anymore, so of course a ream of lined paper bound together with cardboard front and back could be referred to as a 'pencil case'.

HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 13:38

Is that you Helen? (Waves)

Helen from Mermaids' Twitter timeline is fixated on TG Trend. I mean to the pount of obsessive.

Elephantinacravat · 22/09/2018 13:36

I can't say I see much wrong with the stickers to be honest. They tell the truth and speak reality, which is refreshing in the current climate.

In any case, I have huge respect for Transgender Trend for admitting they may have made a mistake and retracting. Its a hell of a lot better than the either the mealy mouthed bollocks or radio silence we have had from other groups in other situations.

Transgender Trend is an excellent group and I would much rather their materials in schools than fucking Mermaids or similar. I do not want my children being taught that if they like things that are outside of the normal stereotypical expectations of their sex, that there could be something wrong with them and it may need correcting. Fuck. That. Noise.

OlennasWimple · 22/09/2018 13:35

Ova Grin

HandsOffMyRights · 22/09/2018 13:35

Thanl you. They replied to the Tweet abt sixth formers by mistake rather than actively recommending.

If only those defending Bradley and Challenor - those committing actual crimes - were noble or honest.

But thanks for posting on feminism OP where you knew we'd disagree.

Which packs do your children's schools use?

glenthebattleostrich · 22/09/2018 13:34

Hmm, less of a mistake than recommending sterilising children with experimental drugs though really isn't it.

sanluca · 22/09/2018 13:33

You are basing your gloat on one tweet in response to someone else saying the stickers could be put on notebooks by kids doing a levels, so older ones, nearly adults.

Don't transactivists ever get tired of always overreacting about everything?

OvaHere · 22/09/2018 13:32

Are the note-books identifying as pencil cases? Grin

jeaux90 · 22/09/2018 13:31

What's wrong with a level students putting these stickers on their pencil cases?

BettyDuMonde · 22/09/2018 13:31

That was more agreement than recommendation, so I commend TT for apologising and retracting (because minimisation in apologies is annoying - see BrushBox and Yandy for this weeks examples) even though it wasn’t them who said it.

gendercritter · 22/09/2018 13:31

People are allowed to make a mistake. It's a pretty minor one in the grand scheme of things.