Pupil made to leave class by drag queen for disagreeing with notion there are 73 genders

@Redebs This is not ok

The section of sex education which parents cannot withdraw children from is the content covered in biology. So the mechanics of sexual reproduction in humans, sperm / ova, reproductive systems and the menstrual cycle. I think there is some stuff on STIs and how the contraceptive pill works too, but I haven't taught GCSE biology for a long time!

The non-withdrawable aspects of relationship education is almost all fine. Schools are required to teach healthy relationships, consent etc with gay relationships covered alongside heterosexual ones rather than just a stand alone lesson on being gay. We do have to teach about the protected characteristics, and I don't think anyone here would be fine with some parents being allowed to withdraw children from content that teaches women are equal to men (for example). The bit which is problematic (in the statutory guidance) is that schools are told to teach about gender identity, without any guidance on what it is or what we are supposed to teach. But parents can withdraw their children from anything sexually explicit in this area.

Teaching by drag queens is an issue for multiple reasons:

Teaching should not be about indoctrination, but about presenting children with material facts or about competing ideologies and ways of viewing the world.

Anyone brought in to teach children usually needs to have gone through a full CRB check and they are expected to have some basic teaching and classroom management skills. An invited guest teacher should never be left alone with a group of children.

What drag queens are 'teaching' is in fact highly contested theory which most people would consider inappropriate, confusing or upsetting for younger children especially.

The presentation of grotesque parodies of womanhood as being liberating or as challenging gender stereotypes is highly questionable.

Drag is adult entertainment and these acts tend to be saturated in crude and sexualised comedy and innuendo. It is not suitable for children.

No one has said sex shouldn't be taught in schools.

And why are you capitalising the Q in queen?

What has "gone too far" is the pushing of queer theory and the attempt to "queer society" of which DQST is just one part.

Not all LGB people identify as 'queer' or want anything to do with the 'queer community' or with the idea that being same sex attracted totally determines your personal or cultural identity along certain predictable lines.

It was always inevitable that there would be push back from the public when all of this reached consciousness. If Pride and other LGB related activities are saturated with fetish, BDSM and all of the other kinks and paraphillias that are now common - in the guise of the 'big rainbow family' or 'queer community' then the average member of the public will associate LGB with all of that, unfortunately.

Queer Theory has been so regressive and damaging with its insistence on the pushing of 'transgressive' sexual, and other, practices to the detriment of many.

Yes it is. It's perfectly normal for girls to be able to masturbate, even before we're born. I have no memory of ever learning to masturbate but I could always do it. I didn't know that's what I was doing until about 12, but it's something I know I did since at least toddlerhood.

I hope the idiot that sanctioned this is sacked. And then their computer usage checked with the police.

Teaching by a drag Queen not a problem for any subject. Teaching about gender and the multiple different genders (more are coming to light so I don't think we should put a number on it) not a problem. My concern would be that at age 11 sex is still a bit ick, so teaching about sex positions is likely to turn into an avenue for bullying especially towards LBQT+ students.

Maybe this should have been for older pupils and the Queen asked to introduce more broad subjects such as relationships being between anyone and what it means to be a drag Queen to the younger pupils.

I do think sex needs to be discussed in schools so kids aren't forced to learn about it from porn, glamourising what will never happen in a average relationship.

Keeping kids away from adult performers is a hill I'm prepared to ...etc etc. It's never "senior story time " with a woman currently in a care home, it's never "disability positive story time" with someone from a disabled persons activist/support group.

It's always woman face story time.

😂

user1477391263 · Yesterday 23:51

I have a feeling that the poor sod teachers did not actually make the decision in this case. Probably some loony SLT type.

That may well be the case, but surely at least one teacher could / should have said, "Hang on, this isn't right." If the local trouble maker came onto the school grounds, they'd chase him, right?

75.999 recurring, I think.

Yes. Said penis performer won a ‘Breakthrough’ comedy award and an award at the Edinburgh fringe.

It just goes to show that a penis trumps talent in the misogynistic comedy world.

I watched it. He made a good case for not taking children anywhere near drag queens. He did end by saying mothers doing this were ruining drag queens (as well as children) which I found cloyingly distasteful. However, I still agreed with him in principle. In the UK pantomime uses dames (and I miss Principal Boys) and Morris Men traditionally black up as sweeps, as part of the guising tradition, traditional disguise (as Morris collected money i.e. begged), wood spirits etc. - and I am not just happy with that I get annoyed with people who say it's racist: historical illiteracy annoys me much more, obv. Drag queens are not necessarily associated in my mind with nightclubs etc. (more Saturday Night at the London Palladium) but I do not think they are suitable entertainment for children - unlike pantomime dames and Morris Dancers. Worth a watch.

Sorry, yes.

Sab’s child rapist friend repeatedly had to be stopped from taking jobs where he could access children because sexual predators are persistent, tenacious and patient.

They are willing to play the long game and work with other men to groom the adults supposed to be protecting children into dropping their guard. Jimmy Saville groomed police forces, people in authority, the general public and they all helped to silence the nurses who tried to report his sexual abuse of children. This pattern is now apparent again.

There is not one DQ that has come to public attention for performing in schools and other spaces that hasn’t got huge red flags around them. These individuals are the main performers - obviously Sab runs DQST and seems to be one of the busiest.

If they weren’t ‘representatives’ of ‘LGBTQ community’ and didn’t wear their wigs and glitter, I’m sure every school and parent wouldn’t dream of having them close to their children. Yet here we are.

ADHD got a twitter suspension for threatening to track down a woman and ensure her AND her husband lost their jobs.

Just to demonstrate the impulse control of this person.

That poor little boy. I hope his parents make a fuss.

Same here. Welcome.

Well,he doesn't look the least bit dodgy does he?

HooverIsAlwaysBroken · Today 07:20

This is a very educational video about pronouns, my children loves this.

"You're not learning English to be a BIGOT, are you - Luis?"

I don't know what's going on with the auto hide feature

I don't think it's been written in a nasty ambiguous way at all.

Parents of pupils at Queen Elizabeth II High School in Peel, on the Isle of Man, have reported that Year 7 pupils were <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/oQ2ig/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/16/drag-queen-story-time-primary-school-children-prompts-backlash/" rel="nofollow" target="blank">taught by a drag queenen who told them there are 73 genders.*
The children were taught by a drag queen.

When one “upset” child responded and said “there’s only two”, the drag queen allegedly responded “you’ve upset me” and made the pupil leave the class.
An 11 year old child was ejected from the classroom for questioning queer theory.

Some 11-year-olds at the school were taught about oral and anal sex, while another group learned about sex change operations and were shown how skin graft taken from a girl’s arm could be used on an artificial penis, according to reports.
This is part of wider sex education at the school which is teaching sex ed heavily informed by queer theory.

If there is any kind of homophobic backlash, it's down to the people who push this shit at children, not those of us who object to it.

I'm trying to forget that ever happened. 😱

Of course it is. Children explore their own bodies. Some more than others. They are doing nothing wrong.

Why is it always drag?

By all means have representation from the lgbtq+ community in schools. I fully agree with the notion that young people need to know that however they fit in it's fine and normal but drag is an extreme caricature.

How have they become the go-to group to traipse into schools sprinkling fucking glitter and tottering about on platform heels? Why can't we have lesbian doctors and gay car salesmen and trans greengrocers and bi stay at home parents and so on so that young people see sex as just part of who we are and not something that's overblown and grotesque?