Christian parents sue government over school's transgender policies

Thank you @Missmissmiiiiiiiiisss . I couldn't put it in any better way.

Political leanings have absolutely nothing to do with the fact or faith of the situation. Not at all.
I feel great sympathy for these parents.

Male children are boys regardless of what they wear.

I have two children who don’t present in sterotypical ways for their sex. I am very concerned that someone would make a daft comment to them that could be really damaging.
As we have always been very forthright that sex is unchanable but men and women can wear different things, enjoy different past times and do different jobs, our kids feel (thankfully at the moment) entirely happy in their sex and expressing their individuality.

I’m a Christian. The bible and biology are in alignment here.

You should love your neighbour as yourself. There are also only two sexes.

You teach children stuff at school and they believe it" shocker..

Some of us have started a resistance movement. We have some unpicking to do.

"You teach children stuff at school and they believe it" shocker...

whatcanidoaboutit.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/mary-whitehouse-versus-pie-the-home-office-1978/

Mary Whitehouse and her letter BBC's Director-General, Charles Curran about the song:

droppedthemoon.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-great-chuck-berry-has-passed-away.html

Maybe this should have been discussed in the public arena but how many more instances like this would have occurred, and, given the period, how much of it would have been dismissed as Boys will be boys?

I think I agree with the idea that isn’t fair or a good thing to let children believe they can change sex

In a recent Year 9 PHSE lesson at my school, we discovered that every single pupil believed men could change sex to the extent that they would be able to have babies. They were shocked to learn that was not the case.

I think I agree with the idea that isn’t fair or a good thing to let children believe they can change sex. They’re too young to understand it.

Another good reason for not letting children believe they can change sex is that it isn't true.

I think I agree with the idea that isn’t fair or a good thing to let children believe they can change sex. They’re too young to understand it. Also he is quoted as saying it’s about an “ideology that is now embedded in schools, local authorities and Church of England leadership”. I think that’s right too.

Plus we also have Seyi Omooba's father's organisation (the actress sacked from Colour Purple)

We have The Christain Legal Centre of gay cake fame, and it all goes back to the Festival of Light and Mary Whitehouse complaining about My Dingaling.

These parents have a protected characteristic and though important it isn't necessarily relevant to the story if you read what happened.

What I think is interesting is they are suing the government, not the school, council or LEA.

I share this as it covers what happened in more detail and not because of the source, if the BBC or Guardian was covering it in the same way I would be sharing that.

christianconcern.com/comment/nigel-and-sally-rowe-true-love-warns-it-speaks-the-truth/

The mother has essentially been forced to give up her career as a teacher in order to home school now both boys. This is their choice as parents but how much of a choice is it if they are not able to send their kids to school for fear of what they will be indoctrinated into.

This obviously affects their income and home life dramatically and has a huge impact on their sons. I sounds tired me like it wasn't their plan or their preference for the education of their sons.

Should they not be able to send their kids to school because they are Christian? Or because they don't subscribe to gender ideology?

Should they have to work to find money to send their boys to private school so to avoid it (if they can) or drive further away each day for the school run to find a school that doesn't teach gender ideology or can a school call you transphobic if you don't agree?

We don't really have a "right wing Christian" subculture in the UK so this is an entirely American issue.
In the UK bog standard homophobia and thinking that gender non conforming children should be sent to a clinic for medical intervention is our problem.

But you'll also note a huge number of parents of "trans kids" in the US that show up in the media with child in tow are also strong Christians.

There's a real pattern of them being uncomfortable with the way their kid was expressing themselves until they realised they were "really a girl/boy", so it's actually okay. And they get to do a sort of "born again" thing.

These people give ordinary gender critical women a bad name.

Yeah, this is the religious right I don't align my feminism with. Definitely no objection to boys in dresses, definitely happy when schools accept children as they are.