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 I've seen a Christian couple have withdrawn their son from school due to his male, 6 year old class mate wearing a dress to school.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.

The word bigot has no meaning anymore.

They pulled their children out because their children were distressed and upset about being told that their fellow had changed sex day to day. They were obliged to believe that he was a girl on some days and a boy on others. That's deluded and they have every right to challenge it. I certainly would and not in the name of religion but in the name of facts

Which child was 'threatened' with punishment ShowandTell? The first child or the second? They have form for this sort of thing.

He repeatedly said in all his interviews yesterday that his problem was that the parents were not consulted. He needs to make his mind up on what basis he's objecting to.

Objecting on sorry, not to.

So your kids go around telling the others that their religious beliefs are nonsense and that there is no magic/Father Christmas/ tooth fairy Assigned? I applaud their honesty

They pulled their children out because their children were distressed and upset about being told that their fellow had changed sex day to day

Why would you pull one child out and leave the other there for another two years if they were so 'distressed'?

Makes you wonder how they cope when the Vicar wears a Cassock one day and is suited and booted the next...

The link I posted was regarding the fact that male prison officers work in women's prisons and there is a considerable amount of abuse of female prisoners by male prison officers.(Abusive men often seek out jobs which allow them access to vulnerable people, remember...) Which doesn't seem to attract anything like as much attention as a story which can be used for trans-bashing.

Of course people think those men are scum. What it has to do with a convicted rapist getting moved to a women's prison I don't know.

Deflection?

Makes you wonder how they cope when the Vicar wears a Cassock one day and is suited and booted the next...

The Vicar will not be changing their gender and telling people how to address them in a whim of imagine.

That's deluded and they have every right to challenge it

They really don't. It's none of their business. It's also discrimination.

Barbarian
Not challenging 'beliefs' at every turn is different to being compelled to tell lies or being forced to be silent. I think that's fully on the road to Totalitarianism.

And if you are comparing this ideology to Santa, the tooth fairy and other ideologies or beliefs, then surely you have your answer right there?

Biological sex is a scientific fact JonSnow. Your analogies are not making sense, this is not about a dress. Anyone should be able to wear a dress if they want. Good luck to them. But they cannot change sex

'they felt the unnamed school had breached their right to bring their children up in line with biblical teachings'.

If that's not bigoted then I'm a size 6.

www.thesun.co.uk/news/4438573/christian-parents-sue-school-boy-wearing-dresses-this-morning-nigel-sally-rowe/

I'd challenge it every day.

Children at the age of six should not be deciding their whole future, they should not be able to make a decision which impacts every other child around it.

Its absolute madness and anyone that is advocating it is bat shit crazy

Its absolute madness and anyone that is advocating it is bat shit crazy

Or maybe the boys have medical professionals that know more about their circumstances than we do?

What a crock of shit. Watched the interview with the parent of the transgender kid this morning. First of all there was no 'chopping and changing' the kid has always felt he was a boy and started wearing 'boys' clothes at 2.
Secondly, there is no 'political correctness' nor 'ideology' Contrary to the bigot brigade, transgender people have existed since gender became a thing. Previously they hid away in shame, suffering mental health and killing themselves in droves. If acceptance is an 'ideology' then I'm all for it but let's not pretend it's new.
Lastly, I don't believe for one minute their little darlings were 'confused' or 'troubled'. What the parents mean is that they've pushed their bigotry, using religion as an excuse onto their kids to also make them intolerant fuckwits.
My kids have known about gay people, the fact that some kids feel they have been born in the wrong body and wish they were the other biological sex and that some kids are happy being boys but like dressing in 'girls clothes' and visa versa.
Guess what they said after I told them?

"Oh ok, great. What time is dinner mum?"

You are avoiding the facts too Jonsnow

But you get to call people bigots a lot

There is a HUGE difference between you examples Jon .
The vicar does NOT claim to have miraculously turned into a WOMAN when he puts on a cassock. He is still a MAN.

What facts are those Assigned? The fact they've done it twice with both kids over a transgender child. Twice?

Ok.

Or maybe the boys have medical professionals that know more about their circumstances than we do?

It still doesn't get away from the fact that this is a little male and other children are being forced to forget about that scientific fact and pretend that he is now a female because of one six year olds feelings.

A whole class of six year olds are going to have to deal with and process something a lot of adults struggle with.

In a school setting it's not on

No 6yr old can possibly understand the difference between wanting to wear a dress and making a decision that will affect the rest of his life.

That you cannot change sex.

I dont either streetface. Completely agree with you.

Willow
"A whole class of six year olds are going to have to deal with and process something a lot of adults struggle with. "

Absolutely spot on. And a lot of the posts on this thread prove that point over and over

First of all there was no 'chopping and changing' the kid has always felt he was a boy and started wearing 'boys' clothes at 2.

So why is he wearing a dress at school and the kids have to say he is now a girl?

streetface: "Previously they hid away in shame, suffering mental health and killing themselves in droves."

Suffering mental health must be awful...

Seriously, though, where's the evidence that transgender people used to have mental health problems and kill themselves in droves? If they hid themselves away, presumably no-one knew they existed, so how can we possibly know they were killing themselves?