Hey you put coherent sentences together! I usually just swear and shout in big letters!

Thanks. I'm not as articulate as many of you marvellous people on here, but I'll keep reading and learning and will hopefully be able to chip in every now and again without making a complete arse of myself.

When they should be striking, they don't...

Everyone, in any capacity, who participates in this body-mutilation propaganda will have their reputation in tatters and zero credibility for a long time to come.
Being the last man (last them! ) standing is all good, unless everyone is playing The Musical Chairs, and the music just stopped.

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I'm Sure there's a dirty joke to be made of that but I'm to tired to formulate it!

How about “Isle of Person of Personhood Who Wears Trousers And Doesn’t Like Nail Polish Or Makeup” since apparently these days you are a man if this fits your daily clothing style.

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

Schools should not be wasting classroom time and resources on this sort of bollocks.

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I just don't understand how allegedly sensible, intelligent people, who run schools and council departments manage to fall for it, so often.
It either benefits them in some way or they don't feel they can speak out about it.
Drag Queens are everywhere as I think the intention is to normalise the aesthetics of men in dresses and break down the healthy boundaries which keep women and children safe.

New to posting here, have been lurking and hopefully, learning.

Just how the fuck did the school think that this is in any way appropriate?!
I had a peek at the school's 'Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy'
"...There are five main elements to our policy:

1. Ensuring we practice safe recruitment in checking the suitability of staff and volunteers to work with children...."

Massive fail there.

The policy also states "Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. The Queen Elizabeth II High School fully recognises its responsibilities for child protection and safeguarding of students. We have developed this policy in conjunction with guidance from the Isle of Man Safeguarding Children Board. All procedures issued by the Isle of Man DEC and the IOM Safeguarding Children Board as published on their websites will be followed. This policy should be reviewed annually by Governors at their Autumn meeting."

So I searched for the 'Isle of Man Safeguarding Children Board' I found this link to Child Protection on gov.im

www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/education-sport-and-culture/inclusion-and-safeguarding/child-protection/
which has a related link to 'Protecting Children Board Website', though the link doesn't work for me - the server can't find it.
So I searched again using 'Protecting Children Board Website' and found it:
www.safeguardingboard.im

Looking at their information on what they themselves state constitutes abuse; then surely the school is culpable in the Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse and Neglect of children?
www.safeguardingboard.im/safeguarding-children/information-for-professionals/child-abuse-definitions/

It seems to me that schools and other organisations have thrown safeguarding out of the window under the guise of ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’, when they allow this, when they look to Stonewall, Mermaids et al for ‘advice’ and materials, when they seek to distance/create a divide between children and parents in some way.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – what bunkum and poppycock.

Those organisations seek to take away women’s rights, trample on womanhood, dismantle our boundaries, cause division, sew hate and cause harm to and indoctrinate children, it’s pernicious. I've peaked and I'm really angry.

This stuff seems to be some sort of cosmic piss take. They're seeing what they can get away with, conning the poor rubes, who just don't want to be offensive.

The serpent-tongued swine clump in and tramp around, leaving their cloven footprints all over, swearing that really, they're Kosher.

I just don't understand how allegedly sensible, intelligent people, who run schools and council departments manage to fall for it, so often. People who are supposed to understand the intricacies of keeping children safe and teaching them appropriate things.

Did something get missed off the end of your last sentence?

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Ah, I think maybe it’s me who is thick!

Not at all; it's not the first time I've got the wrong end of the stick and I'm sure it won't be the last!

Maybe you don't like drag, but if you amplify these stories uncritically you are being a useful idiot for deeply unpleasant people who want to destroy LGBTQ's people's lives with the 'won't someone think of the children' line and turning otherwise reasonable people to the idea that all gay rights have gone too far and they need putting back in the closet

Oh, just stop. The one place you’re supposed to ‘just think of the children’ is when you’re teaching and supposedly safeguarding children.

This has nothing to do with LGB or T rights. Stop apologising for these creeps and their nasty agenda.

Ah, I think maybe it’s me who is thick!

Maybe you don't like drag, but if you amplify these stories uncritically you are being a useful idiot for deeply unpleasant people who want to destroy LGBTQ's people's lives with the 'won't someone think of the children' line and turning otherwise reasonable people to the idea that all gay rights have gone too far and they need putting back in the closet.

Stop concern trolling. Many of us are LGB.

*Transparent2 · Today 22:19

Don’t you think that outfit is indecent?

I meant his name, but a couple of posters have pointed out that it's ADHD.

And no, obviously, I don't think he should be within a country mile of children, whether he's in his gimp suit, or a three piece suit.

The world has gone absolutely insane, also there's two genders man and woman you're either one of the other x

Actually I would blame any teacher who goes along with this utterly ridiculous situation. FFS why don’t teachers speak up?

Don’t you think that outfit is indecent?

He was clearly doing something like teaching for him to be able to send out the child questioning his genderist "facts".

I think one of the most alarming aspects of this is that they wouldn't consider it teaching but 'affirming' basic 'facts that everybody must surely already know'.

If you state something confidently as a done deal, by throwing it in casually with other obvious things that nobody would ever quibble, that has the combined impact of both strengthening it in the mind of those who have already been captured and also subtly making the others question their own understanding on highly controversial belief-based issues that you present as 'simple facts', if their current understanding (or lack thereof) differs from what you are telling them.

Moreover, an elaborate costume provides an excellent foil to get away with apparent lighthearted comedy banter - which is sometimes actually agenda-driven ridicule and conditioning/gaslighting - that nobody standing there in ordinary clothes, using their ordinary name and ordinary voice, would ever be allowed to get away with.

but I don't see the text saying that the drag queen was doing any of the teaching

He was clearly doing something like teaching for him to be able to send out the child questioning his genderist "facts".