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Usbourne publishing calling mums transphobes

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Abite · 11/01/2020 08:49

Go woke go broke

Usbourne publishing calling mums transphobes
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KatvonHostileExtremist · 14/01/2020 15:29

If they're going to push a narrative, they should have the decency to own it. That book should have stonewall branding all over the front.

KatvonHostileExtremist · 14/01/2020 15:26

Dunno datun
Poor Issy might have seen this:
metro.co.uk/2017/10/08/charity-advised-mum-to-force-her-son-7-to-live-as-a-girl-6984649/

Datun · 14/01/2020 14:38

PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS FORCED INTO SEX CHANGE

That's meant to be a newspaper headline? Has anyone ever seen that in real life?

JolyonsChickensAreBigots · 14/01/2020 14:30

So disappointed in Usbourne, I have bought a lot of Usbourne books over the years and now I have first grandchild would have bought more over the next few years but I'm not using a company that would call me and my DIL trolls for expressing safeguarding concerns.

theflushedzebra · 14/01/2020 14:20

Wow, thanks for the screenshots!

It's worse than I thought it would be - it's just outright propaganda. Let me guess - coming to school libraries up and down the country...

Datun · 14/01/2020 14:11

Nobody, but nobody is going to be taken in by this. It's just embarrassing.

GoodbyePiccadilly · 14/01/2020 13:51

GirlDownUnder Yes I am raging! It's awful on so many levels.

Thingybob · 14/01/2020 13:50

Omg that is one of the worst written most dull books.

I have had the opportunity to read a copy and yes it is so boring that even as an adult I struggled to not skip whole chapters.

The storyline can be summed up as Izzy fighting the ignorance and bullying of her peers due to Dad being Trans. It hardly touches on the emotions (other than embarrassment) and the grief you would expect Izzy to be going through.

GoodbyePiccadilly · 14/01/2020 13:30

@TinselAngel that's fine :-)

drspouse · 14/01/2020 13:11

That wording looks like it's copied straight from a lesson plan.

RoyalCorgi · 14/01/2020 13:11

Bonkers. Truly bonkers. Since when did "Get over it" constitute the zinger in an argument? In my experience, any time a sentence starting with "Get" is used in an argument (e.g. Get over it, Get a life, Get over yourself, Get out more) it's a sign the person deploying it has lost conclusively.

SisterWendyBuckett · 14/01/2020 13:05

Wasn't one of Pan's People called Dee?

ScapaFlo · 14/01/2020 13:02

D(ee) for Dad?

Justhadathought · 14/01/2020 13:01

Usborne apologises for puberty book that says breasts exist to make girls ‘look grown-up and attractive

Seriously? Which book was that?

Justhadathought · 14/01/2020 12:59

That is not a children's book.......( and I used to be a secondary school English teacher!)....that is a piece of adult propaganda.

Clymene · 14/01/2020 12:51

NotBad - I'm assuming the children come up with the name Dee in the 'heartwarming scene' that was mentioned in the review I quoted upthread, where the children come up with a new name for their dad.

TinselAngel · 14/01/2020 12:29

@GoodbyePiccadilly Do you mind if I tweet your screenshots? (I don't think you're on Twitter), or would you rather I wait until after you've blogged about it?

SorryAuntLydia · 14/01/2020 12:25

Omg that is one of the worst written most dull books. And odd - because in a children’s book the protagonist is normally the child but this appears to be all about the Dad. Funny that. Although not the book, there is no humour in the book... seriously I cannot emphasise how badly written and boring this book actually is.

GirlDownUnder · 14/01/2020 12:22

GoodbyePiccadilly wow - how’s your blood pressure? 😬

Brew maybe too early for Gin?

Did Stonewall commission this book?

SisterWendyBuckett · 14/01/2020 12:17

Thanks for the screenshots.

Makes this all very clear.

Gendered Intelligence - what a surprise to see them popping up here!

Datun · 14/01/2020 12:14

I'm wondering quite how much of a strawman they are making it.

Datun · 14/01/2020 12:13

...You might as well read the article, just make sure you don't believe a word of it

it's twisted and mean and not true

Despite the fact I've never actually seen a headline like that, ever, does the dad explain exactly why it's not true GoodbyePiccadilly?

NotBadConsidering · 14/01/2020 12:10

It’s not a novel, it’s a propaganda tool.

NotBadConsidering · 14/01/2020 12:08

So to be clear, Izzy can’t call her dad “Dad” anymore and has to call him “Dee”?

And Dee goes on tv and repeats the “trans people are dying while you’re fussing about ‘evidence’ trope?

I will never, for the life of me, understand how trans people get from

“We need to know the best way to help children”

to

“You can’t pretend we don’t exist”.

GoodbyePiccadilly · 14/01/2020 12:02

Along the way there is some full-on Stonewall propaganda.

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Usbourne publishing calling mums transphobes