Today I found my bravery!

It seems that "bring your whole self to work" & "be kind" has morphed into a refusal by organisations to set any boundaries for adults seeking to influence children - which history tells us is catastrophic. A school who employed these people would be shut down - yet there's a massive loophole for organisations working in / with / providing materials for schools.

True, although Moffat was employed in schools and his involvement at the 2008 No Outsiders seminar Queering the Body; Queering Primary Education is somewhat worrying given the questions posed included "At what cost do we deny children’s and teacher’s sexuality? What do we lose if desire and pleasure are banned from the classroom? What is the place of the research team members’ own bodies, desires and pleasures in this research?" As the Transgender Trend piece noted, "Reading these questions, you have to keep reminding yourself that the bodies in question are those of adults and the children aged 5 to 11 who are in their care to learn".

Of course, participation in the seminar doesn't mean that he shared all of the views expressed - but the project it related to was clearly central to the teaching materials he went on to produce and Queer Theory appears to run through the project, the seminar, and his publications.

Sadly (because it's in nobody's interests to view charities with suspicion, especially those demanding access to schools) when you look behind the scenes you'll find a depressing number of adults who have no business working near children. Examples include breaching safeguarding principles / paedophile adjacent (Challenor / Stonewall), dodgy porn advocates (girl guides), Mermaids staff (paedophile "apologist" / online provider of nude porn photos).

It seems that "bring your whole self to work" & "be kind" has morphed into a refusal by organisations to set any boundaries for adults seeking to influence children - which history tells us is catastrophic. A school who employed these people would be shut down - yet there's a massive loophole for organisations working in / with / providing materials for schools.

Thanks - really useful background on the origin and intentions of No Outsiders.

Just reading it!

Have you seen this thread @TeenDivided ?
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4684885-school-curriculum-a-personal-win

"Nevertheless she persisted..."

We're at a tipping point with the damaging impact this ideology is having on children finally being acknowledged & spoken about. Now is the time for parents to speak out and challenge schools where there's unthinking promotion of trans ideology so that future generations of children are protected.

Well done OP.

If you were writing further then probably need to include a paragraph explicitly saying no problem with trans people but concerned that sex is the protected characteristic, children mustn't be taught they can change sex, that gender identity is a belief or something.

I think it was brave if the OP felt nervous about doing it. Doing anything you are worried about is brave.

OP what you could do if you wanted, would be to follow up with an email.

Sort of

Dear DH,

Just a follow up on the No Outsiders poster that I mentioned to you last week. <thank you for taking it down/correcting it>. I was wondering about the organisation that produced it getting the protected characteristic of sex wrong on the poster, and whether they had a specific agenda, so I did a bit of research, and following that I am a bit concerned as to whether the school uses an other of their resources?

My concerns are .....

It might be better if the school got its resources for this from .... because ....

Here: www.transgendertrend.com/no-outsiders-queering-primary-classroom/

About 3 years ago at a guess some GC person did a deep dive investigation into no outsiders showing how they want to indoctrinate young kids into queer theory. It was shocking. I can't find the link. It was about the time that Jess Phillips got involved in the Birmingham school protests. I'll keep looking.

That no outsiders thing, yuck. Narcissist dad. Your toddler in dress up is entirely unremarkable. Tell him he looks beautiful and stop him from hassling older kids.

It reads like the writer hasn't set foot in a primary school in at least a generation.

(PS in NoOutsiders world, shouldn't the dad be excommunicated for assuming the gender of everyone else in the story?)

thelionthewitchtheaudacityofTHISbitch

What?

In the current climate, the OP, Vebrithien, has been brave, for picking up on this lie on a poster in her children's school, and pointing it out to the deputy head.

No drama, seems like an adult conversation was had.

Hope Vebrithien and her school and deputy head get together to rid the school of an odious, sexist, homophobic ideology.

Well done for pointing it out but clearly in a way that was firm and factual. The DH would have seen that you were polite, but serious. That carried wight.

But I do agree with @Iheartjoanne this isnt brave. It is necessary. But not brave. And no I am not a goady fucker, yes I have heard of all the names someone listed (as funnily enough I am often on twitter either commenting or forwarding tweets from those very same people). I am rather tired of people saying that they are supportive of GC/Womens rights view but wouldnt want to comment due to x, y, z excuse, but they do so much behind the scenes. Yeah - sorry don't believe a word of that. Integrity, as a professional, is about standing up and standing firm for the right cause. Most people have honesty but very few have integrity. I do.

Well done, OP. Accurate language is so important - especially when something is meant to refer to UK law and the Equality Act - and then misrepresents it, as you pointed out.

Well done. That was brave of you, given the current climate.

You are correct in what you said.

Glad that you got a reasonable response from the deputy head too.

I take it that the “Joanne” that @Iheartjoanne loves is not JKR?

Oops!

Name change fail, @Iheartjoanne /@PumpkinQueens?
😉

Well done OP. I went stickering recently in my home town which floweth over with genderists and pink and blue stickers. It did feel brave at the same time as feeling daft that it should feel that way.

Well done! This stuff just slides in unnoticed and often unchallenged and people like you make a massive difference. Bravo!

What she pointed out was that sex does not equal gender and it is sex that is protected under the EA2010. Gender ideologists insist that gender is the characteristic which is protected - gender is a social construct and sex is biological but pointing this out tends to cause a backlash from the TRA lobby. That's why she is brave. And she is brave.

This is how we kill this bollocks with fire-small individual push backs of the stonewall kool aid any and every where we find it such as to create a tidal wave of scientific reality which wipes out the gender woo.

Well done OP