Tomorrows Mail on Sunday Front Page

You couldn't make it up could you? Even if we accept a minority would be considered to have gender dysphoria by the traditional accepted meaning, this explosion in recent years has quite sinister patterns that can not be ignored any longer.

As someone who came out as transgender during high school - I find this terrible and shocking.

How a teacher is able to share this sort of information is a huge safe guarding issue. I’m sure the school will know if it is about them - and shall have serious consequences on the teacher involved.

Gender identity and the meaning of transgender has blown up over the last few years. Young people and old people are now able to express themselves as they know who they are and they can understand it. It’s normal for young people to explore their identities, it’s normal for young people to not feel 100% comfortable within their bodies, and it’s totally normal for an individual to be transgender - and for a teacher to slam them for this is seriously worrying.

Mental health issues within young trans individuals are at an all time high due to discrimination and non - acceptance from those around them. So maybe instead of calling young people “attention seekers” “horrendous” or “dreadful” go and speak to them, visit your local lgbt+ centre and understand what it’s like.

We are not a debate, we are not a phase and we will never be shut down by negative media comments, negative people or negative energy.

• A trans person who wants to make the lives of trans people easier, and less political.

The Daily Mail - I mean I am surprised yet not in any way surprised. I would love to know the reality of this situation as I suspect it has been misconstrued at best

It's been there in plain sight but no one wanted to talk about it for fear of being labelled transphobic.

Compare with the child abuse scandal in Rotherham. Despite many red flags and reports it was allowed to continue because of a fear of racism.

It's not hard to see when something is fundamentally amiss.

What seems to be hard now is pointing it out without the suggestion that your motivation is safeguarding, pure and simple.

Horrendous

No, no mention on Sky apart from at the beginning when the read out the headline.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401593/amp/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html?__twitter_impression=true

Full text here. It's astonishingly textbook - exactly how women have been predicting for years.

Just watched the Papers on BBC News Channel. They had it right there and ignored in favour of the Lib Dem peer suspension. What cowardice.

MoS is not the same paper as DM in any case.

This does not surprise me. My niece is as a middle size secondary and has 3 in her year group who identify as trans. One who changes his gender on a weekly basis, and according to her is “doing it to get attention”. She couldn’t repent how many trans pupils were in the whole school.

Thanks to the DM for highlighting this epidemic.

Press preview on Sky at 11.20 pm perhaps?

Badger I credit people with the ability to see past any bias and work out the truth of a story. You can find information from both far right and far left and still be part of the middle.

In other words I think the argument of refusing to listen because of the source is just showing their lack of critical thinking.

Well done that teacher.

How very brave.

I really hope they aren't outed.

A friend of mine has a son with special needs who was very affected by a ‘transgender day’ his school had. Letting lobby groups in who have no qualifications to work with children, and who discuss the existence of a ‘gender identity’, is major red flag safeguarding failure.

As an aside, I’m getting a bit sick of seeing posters saying they won’t open Mail links, or asking for a “more credible” source. Whilst I appreciate the thought behind it, part of a healthy democracy is a free press. You can’t just have one or two publishers toeing the party line and being all PC and lefty. We need to have a range of publications with a range of editorial stances, and we need to teach kids to think critically and assess the source. It’s only
MN where it’s seen as unacceptable to be even slightly right of centre, or admit to voting Tory! Lots of people read the Mail, like it or not. They’ve had some good pieces on this issue and shouldn’t be written off. The Times, particularly Janice Turner, have been exceptional.

Newsnight (I think) do a front page round up. Doors anyone know if they covered this?

I wonder how big the school is? Knowing what numbers are like at my local secondary, I’m not as shocked as I should be

Good on the Mail. I used to subscribe to the view that they were a hate-filled rag but thank god they’ve got the courage to print this stuff. The BBC and The Guardian sure as hell aren’t touching it. I think it’s good that the word’s getting out. A bit of Middle England outrage directed at their MPs would soon cut into the nonsense of some of the proposed reforms