Furries.... Schools warned not to ridicule

The point is that the teacher recorded by the two girls in Rye was prepared to validate such a hypothetical identity; that she insisted there are three sexes and that she called the girls "despicable" for having a grasp on reality. Regardless of whether there are hordes of children cosplaying as furries, this teacher's reaction shows that batshit ideally can and has taken hold in schools. That's the point the Guardian article also misses (deliberately, I'd say, given their complete capitulation to identity politics).

Yeah, this is a good point. I think that the teacher is extremely confused. She also seems to think that it's homophobic to not affirm trans folk. And I actually agree with you that it is a problem to have such uninformed educators wielding so much power.

But I still do think that it does matter whether there are lots of children who are identifying as animals. If there are, then of course we have a big cultural problem. If there are not but we're reporting that there are, then we run the risk of making this reality come true. Furries do not identify as animals. There are a few role playing furry children. When we report stuff like this, we put it into kids' heads that they perhaps should identify as animals. And we also end up stigmitising and marginalising furry kids, who are already very vulnerable kids.

Also, to all the posters getting upset about the possibility of ridiculing children... let's again make clear that to be 'despicable' (as said by the teacher to the two girls) is to be 'worthy of contempt and hate'.

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It makes you wonder doesn't it ? . Is it the overall veiw if the school or is it rogue teaching . Either way those girls should be really proud of how they handled the discussion.

so I said how can you identify as a cat when you’re a girl?

This is simple and irrefutable. It’s quite something we’re at the stage where it’s problematic to say

*batshit ideology, not ideally.

But the point is not, ultimately, whether there are any actual children identifying as cats, moons, hatstands or anything else non-human in schools. The point is that the teacher recorded by the two girls in Rye was prepared to validate such a hypothetical identity; that she insisted there are three sexes and that she called the girls "despicable" for having a grasp on reality. Regardless of whether there are hordes of children cosplaying as furries, this teacher's reaction shows that batshit ideally can and has taken hold in schools. That's the point the Guardian article also misses (deliberately, I'd say, given their complete capitulation to identity politics).

Without the recording made by these girls, this would also be dismissed as hearsay and exaggeration. Of course the likes of the Sun and Mail are seizing the opportunity for some good old anti-woke scaremongering and moral outrage, but the fact remains that there are teachers in the school system today prepared to threaten children with exclusion - O, the irony! - for understanding biology and to validate utter batshit. Given the reach of Stonewall, Gendered Intelligence and the like when it comes to legally-illiterate D&I training over the last few years, she will not be the only one.

*party

It's "wrongthink". 1984. Conform with the part line or we will make you.

Basically the teacher expressed that if the girls didn't agree with her then they weren't wanted at the school ! . Wow 😲 how is that inclusive ? . It wasn't too long ago that a teacher with that type of opinion would have had her ass kicked out of the school gate !.

The NHS disagree, fabricated induced illness is a crime, that's what has been recorded by the girls, the Teacher is inducing illness and fabricating.

It's no wonder the serious case reviews and government inquiry comes up with the same results.

It's not up to us, that's what safeguarding lessons decided before it was their own sacred Caste involved.

I am too but I just think we don't need to start bringing her personal problems or her family into it or saying that she deserves to be in prison. What's wrong with paddle boarding anyway?!

Follow up and consequences doesn't mean prison.

No. You don't imprison people for lack of critical thinking.

Your hyperbole isn't helping your argument.

I am wondering if this could be a positive thing. If one child's identification as a cat, dinosaur or badger is treated with exactly the same level of respect as another child identifying as a girl when they are clearly actually a boy (or vice versa) then doesn't that helpfully make it easier to clarify the difference between respecting someone's beliefs (good) vs actually believing their fantasy (not good).

We have been able to cope (mostly) with all kinds of mutually-contradictory religious beliefs being respected and not ridiculed, space made for the expressions of those beliefs but no requirement for any of the rest of us to actually believe it. That has been successful for decades. Believe that one is a different species or sex than the body one was born in belongs in the same category.

Respect doesn't cost anything. Capitulation costs everyone everything.

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The teacher's private life is her own business and it's wrong to call it oit on here. We can disagree with her actions in the recording without becoming personal.