Political correctness gone mad - parents under fire from withdrawing their child from school after male class mate wears a dress.

[ThaiRedCurry]

Ok so just catching up with my mail online news before bed. I've seen a Christian couple have withdrawn their son from school due to his male, 6 year old class mate wearing a dress to school.
They where on This Morning and have come under fire from viewers and the presenters for their decision to remove their son from the school as they don't agree with a boy wearing a dress.
I will just say I would find it a little odd but wouldn't withdraw my child from school.
I can't help but feel that if another race/religion did the same thing they wouldn't come under fire. It's as if white British folk are trying to be so politically correct we no longer can see what is ok and what isn't incase we offend some one.
I feel political correctness has gone mad 😖
I'm now going to sit and wait for Mums net abuse to roll in.

But WHY can't boys wear dresses? WHY?

Religion has no place in schools.

This is their second child to be removed from school, and home educated.

But I've definitely seen priests wearing dresses before

Ok, cynically vestments, but basically the same

It's as if white British folk are trying to be so politically correct we no longer can see what is ok and what isn't incase we offend some one.

Get a fucking grip, love

It's as if white British folk are trying to be so politically correct we no longer can see what is ok and what isn't incase we offend some one.

It looks like Stewart Lee's nan has joined Mumsnet.

They need a vicar to tell them not to be so bloody ridiculous.

Or this chap?

I think there was some confusion about whether the child was supposed to be a girl or a boy. I can see their child finding it distressing. I find all this changing sex stuff bonkers tbh. Just let them be kids.

at priests wearing dresses

What is your actual point? You disagree with them, but still think they shouldn't be criticised?

Yes, "political correctness" gone mad is at the root of this. Turns out the boys's male classmate did not just wear a dress, but the boy was asked to use female pronouns and pretend that this boy in a dress is a girl.

That's gaslighting and brainwashing, and I totally understand why the parents took their son out of the school - though it seems they are not entirely sure why they did it or why their son was distressed by the whole thing. The genderism nonsense was only mentioned in one sentence in the article I read on the whole thing, everything else was just "a boy in a dress" as if that was the actual problem. (Perhaps, to the parents, it even was)

Girls are allowed to wear trousers.

Why shouldn't boys be allowed to wear a dress, if they feel like it.

I expect the school is very relieved these parents have left. They sound ridiculous.

Oh do get a grip

They're attention seeking idiots who have absolutely no understanding of the Christian values they claim. What happened to love and tolerance for all? Especially a child. Who the hell cares so much about what another child wears?

6 year olds dont question, they accept. parents question and put words in their childrens mouths

You read the Daily Mail, you say...and you think political correctness has "gone mad"...hmm...I wonder why?

My 5 year old certainly questions everything. Kids still think at that age and they still worry about stuff that confuses them.

It's as if white British folk are trying to be so politically correct we no longer can see what is ok and what isn't incase we offend some one.

Nice dog-whistle about the muslims there, I presume. Not that they've got anything to do with this, of course.

Is the issue that they quietly withdrew their child because they think dress-wearing is against Christianity (do they not look at the pictures/priests in church??) or that they are publicity-mad bigots determined to try and paint themselves as victims because they can't control someone else's child?

We are bringing our children up as Christians, the number 1 lesson in that is to love your neighbour.... this includes empathy and understanding of others who are different to you....

It sounds like these people's personal principl/prejudice against the transgender child will be causing alarm and suffering both for the child that has been singled out, their parents and their own children.

They need to practice what they preach and use it as an opportunity to teach their own children about tolerance, love and resilience.... Their other option is home schooling in an intolerant religious bubble.

Reporting has been very misleading, and parents clearly not media-experienced enough to stop themselves being disgracefully misrepresented.
This is not just about there being a boy in the school in a dress. It is also about the fact that their son will be punished (going by school policy) for not agreeing said boy is therefore a girl.

It's as if white British folk are trying to be so politically correct we no longer can see what is ok and what isn't incase we offend some one.

So it's ok to pull your children out of school because you don't like what a six year old is wearing? I'd say that was a definite over-reaction on their part, given the dress sense of most six year olds.

The boy in question almost certainly won't still want to wear a dress when he's seven - kids go in and out of these phases all the time at that age. But this family's kids will still be out of education (yes I know home education can be excellent, but it doesn't sound like it will be in this case does it).

I'm a resolute atheist and have no time at all for 'religious' conventions.

But as I understood this case, their issue was not with a boy wearing a dress, but with their child being told to accept that a boy had become a girl.

And seeing as you cannot change you biological sex, that's a valid point. Can a person with a penis wear a dress if they want to? Of course they can. Does wearing a dress mean that a boy has turned into a girl? No, it does not.

I'm sure the school is a better place for them removing their child

Is the issue that they quietly withdrew their child because they think dress-wearing is against Christianity (do they not look at the pictures/priests in church??)

The Bible in fact explicitly forbids crossdressing. That probably meant entirely different clothes back then than it means today, but in the spirit of the law ...

Absolutely. It's nonsense to refer to a 6 year old child as transgender. Or a girl who has a penis.