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Caitlin Moran in yesterday's Times magazine

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WhenIsTheEasyBit · 31/03/2019 11:50

Sorry, can't link, but she addressed the Parkfields School row and in her usual, brilliant way dismantled any arguments against teaching children about same sex relationships or bisexuality.

I completely agreed with every word. Except, that throughout she referred to LGBT. Her argument and all her examples demonstrated that children aren't taught to be L, G or B. But there in the abbreviation about education was that T again, which a poster on these boards recently described as parasitically attached to LGB. I am not for one moment wanting to describe people who are T as parasites, but the activism movement has attached itself to a wholly different cause and Moran's article really brought this home to me, because it does seem, from the massive rise in cases, the clustering of spikes, that identifying as T can be taught or at least significantly externally influenced.

Just when I think that sense is prevailing and we're hitting peak-trans, something like Parkfields comes along and is labelled as being about LGBT: bingo, people like the deputy head of Ofsted and multiple slebs speak in support of teaching about "LGBT relationships" and it feels like a massive step back and more potential allies lost.

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AdultHuman · 31/03/2019 11:58

I am not impressed that children aged 4 are being taught that they can change sex, these children believe in Father Christmas and could be removed from their parents care as a result.

I am not going to be popular posting this next opinion.

As a child I was intrigued as to what was so difficult about homosexuality, why were people making such a big deal out of it? I find oral and anal sexual activity unpleasant to this day and I would rather have waited until 14 to have had such notions brought to my attention, after all the age of sexual consent is 16 in this country.

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