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 I've seen a Christian couple have withdrawn their son from school due to his male, 6 year old class mate wearing a dress to school.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

Sure they disagreed with it, but I didn't understand why they took their son out of the school. In one of the things I read about it they said it was because he got ill and distressed about the dress-wearing (ha) but on This Morning it sounded like they removed him just because of their dislike for it which implies they have stronger views/fears than they say they do if they wanted to take such a big step. Sorry if that was already talked about in the thread

Foxtrot92
Exactly.

And that in itself is bloody frightening that people can play with a childs biology just to be hip and trendy.

From what I gathered they removed their child as the child in question was sometimes coming in dresses and other times not and it was confusing their child.

bigots

LorLor

The child was upset because the teachers told the kids that the HAVE to refer to the boy as a girl when he has a dress on as he changes sex apparently and then as a boy the next day when he wore trousers.

The parents did not want thier child being bullied into lying about something that was physically impossible. The same as the majority of people on this thread.

'Political correctness gone mad' is such a useful phase. If I hear somebody saying that, I immediately know that they are at least a bit thick (probably completely dense), and also likely to be small minded and intolerant, and can therefore avoid them. Handy.

Oh, and also, you have openly admitted to reading the daily mail, which is like wearing a badge that says 'I am intolerant'

Christians might get laughed at and challenged for their bigotry but there are not, at present, people daubing obscenities and racist threats on Christian places of worship, nor are people being spat at, abused or assaulted
No they're getting blown up instead.

Maybe it's because Christians aren't blowing kids up at concerts and ploughing lorries into crowds of people, not to mention all the hundreds of other Islamic extremist terror attacks. If they were you can be assured the same obscenities would be scrawled all over their places of worship. Christians aren't doing any of those things, neither are the majority of peaceful muslims, but the morans who do it won't look at it that way.Its so wrong but bloody hell its not hard to know why.

Just reading the replies...there is so much transphobia on here! You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You have been lucky enough to identify with the sex that you were born with, but not everyone is so fortunate. It's amazing the ignorance that people will display when they can hide anonymously behind a screen name. Shame on you all.

The parents religious beliefs and potential wider bigotry - which may or may not exist - is kind of irrelevant

Only it does exist. Otherwise why say they've breached their right to bring them (the children) up in line with biblical teachings?

Of course it's relevant.

Most of the comments here are neither bigoted nor intolerant, regardless of the title. People have valid concerns about the whole trans orthodoxy which is emerging and about the harm it's doing to children. It's not about being intolerant of a boy wearing a dress

So all this was done out of mockery?

(my post still stand, don't argue with the kid on how they feel. Even if they decided to wear a dress because they like it)

Polliver- I think at this point you have to say that everyone on here is "vile" and you're going to "hide the thread" [helpful emoticon]

No they're getting blown up instead. confused

So are Muslims. Countless number of Imams have been executed by ISIS for refusing to convert to their way.

Jonsnowswife it isn't relevant to the wider issue - that was my point. The parents could be hard-core homophobic bigoted fruit loops, but it still wouldn't make them wrong that it's unfair to expect their child to conform with the expectations the school is setting around identity. That was my point

@BertrandRussell well, many people are being vile dear - I think I've made my point quite clear.

but it still wouldn't make them wrong that it's unfair to expect their child to conform with the expectations the school is setting around identity.

Their expectations being one of inclusivity? Embracing diversity of all kinds?

Polliver where is the transphobia?

I know Jon* but the mindless morans obviously won't think about that., not really much consolation to them i suppose.

I suppose - taking the long view - we are only 50 years on from homosexuality becoming legal in the U.K. Perhaps it will take another 50 years before the sorts of dinosaur opinions on this thread finally die a death.

@ArcheryAnnie people saying that if you put a boy in a dress it doesn't make him a girl? Is that not transphobic enough for you?

If you are going to insult us and call us morons, at least get the spelling right

Polliver

the thread is about parents telling their child that they can magically transform from a boy to a girl depending on what clothes he wears and the school punishing the kids who rightly do not understand this nor believe it.

Telling a 6 year old that this is possible is not in their best interests. Everyone is saying let the child decide what path they take when they are old enough to know the full implications of transitioning. Not enable them to live a lie, which is what the parents are doing.

Its not to hard to understand if you read without your own agenda to see transphobia everywhere.

Have you seen the school's quote JonSnowsWife? It's really not about just embracing diversity

"The school said it had policies to tackle transphobic behaviour, which included an inability to believe a transgender person was a “real” female or male; refusing to use the person’s adopted name, or using “gender inappropriate pronouns”; and feelings of discomfort and an inability to trust or connect with someone based on their transgender status."

That's not just about respecting diversity and people's choice to dress how they want (I say dress as it's the original topic), that's saying that children are expected to believe that their classmate who they know to be a boy, see is a boy, readily identify as a boy, is a girl. If they do not believe that said boy is a "real girl" then the school classes them as transphobic.

Polliver

You can't change sex. You can't. Sorry.

Male and Female have meanings, specific scientific meanings. Not a feeling in someone's head.