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 I've seen a Christian couple have withdrawn their son from school due to his male, 6 year old class mate wearing a dress to school.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

Why would a 6 year old boy want to wear a dress. How ridiculous

As DS2 pointed out this morning - Jesus and all his mates wore skirts, and when ever you see pictures of God he's not wearing trousers either ...

You don't need to be religious to work out that a 6 year old boy does not magically turn into a girl. It is brainwashing and an unsettling concept for children.

Why would a 6 year old boy want to wear a dress. How ridiculous

Its just fabric cut and sewn a different way to other bits of fabric. I don't see why it's 'ridiculous'.

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.

That's quite disturbing.

^ yy to what verycunning said! My dcs are v logical, they'd be fine about accepting people wearing what they want (one of them often does choose clothes from the 'wrong' section) and behaving in a 'girly' wAy but if they had to pretend a boy actually was a girl they'd be like [sceptical] and I'd hear lots of 'but they can't be!'.

The tolerance that transgenderists don't have? Transgenderism is an alternative religion that is utterly intolerant and threatens those who disagree with its ideology (namely with the notion that genderfeelz turn someone into the other sex) with murder and, ironically rape.

Wait, what????

The parents, if you actually listen to them speak, as opposed to let the Daily Mail report it for you, are making a number of points.

One of them is that at age 6, these complex transgender matters are beyond children's genuine consent and understanding. That argument, I get.

Their apparent acceptance of support from the right wing religious zealous types, obviously not so much.

The LGBT spokesperson comparing some of their supporters with ISIS - bit of an own goal perhaps?

All very interesting because of the very young ages of the children, and the competing agendas.

The media furore is really confusing. I don't think a 6 year old can really be 'transgender' (as some reporting has suggested) as 6 year olds don't really have a sufficiently sophisticated understanding of gender. I also don't think a 6 year old can really belong to a religion in a meaningful way as they can't have sufficient information and understanding to choose to belong.

I do not agrre with the OP

I do however agree that telling a six year old boy that another boy is a girl and that he should address the child with different names and pronouns must be extremely confusing and potentially upsetting

Just because some children can take this in their stride (and potentially fail their biology GCSE in due course) does not mean that all children can

How did the media get hold of the story any way

Probably not the right place to ask but when did women become so welcoming of people with fucks in their spaces? Wasn't a transgender person almost elected as the NUS women's officer or some such? Rapists in women's prison?

It's fucking daft.

VestalVirgin

I'm going to need an explanation!

Why can't the school just say this child's name is "Alex" (or wherever their name is) and be done with it. No he or she required, just Alex. And that it doesn't actually matter whether Alex is a boy or a girl or what they wear- just let them all be 6 year olds.
If there was less gendered thinking around I'm pretty certain there would be less of this "transgender" stuff too- after all if wearing dresses or playing with lego wasn't seen as a girl or boy activity it would just be personal preference wouldn't it? So when a small child said "I want to do x or y" it would be fine and not an immediate "my son wants to play with barbie ergo he must be an actual girl!"...

YABU just for using incredibly lazy, bigoted clichés.

Any report I've seen about this has muddled two entirely separate issues. Objecting to a boy wearing a dress is pretty ridiculous, IMO - but the issue here seems to be that when this child wears a dress, the other children are obliged to agree that he is in fact a girl, or they risk getting into trouble. And then he changes back to being a boy again. I can well believe that a young child would be confused and worried by this. And there's also the worrying implication that wearing a dress is what makes a child a girl.

#dicks

Pretty sure jesus wore a dress. Their missing out on a brilliant learning opportunity and setting an awful example. Don't like something, run away

I can't help but feel that if another race/religion did the same thing they wouldn't come under fire.

I agree! Imagine the shitstorm if a Muslim couple were saying this? But apparently it's okay for them to be prejudiced because they're christians. No I'm not saying all Christians are bigots. Just these two. Apparently they removed their eldest boy two years ago after a conflict with another kid in the school - imagine a school being all inclusive and letting children dress how the hell they like (with uniform of course). They sound brill!

I can't help thinking they're the type of couple that got their kids into a very select school and then got pissed off when they started letting the 'riff raff' in.

I've a child that age and he could certainly be told (and understand) that Jack now wants to be called Olivia (or whatever) but he quite rightly wouldn't understand that this meant Jack was now a girl.

I think the Diocese of Portsmouth just woke up to whole new theological shitstorm, just after blessing that new big aircraft carrier.

If a boy in ds suddenly started to come to school in a dress and asked me why I would tell him some people feel they are more comfortable presenting themselves as the opposite sex it feels more natural to them

But the boy is still a boy even if they have changed their name and how they dress I think children will usually accept that but will be confused if told the boy is now a girl becuase that's an untruth

And from some reports I can't work out if they are now always dressed and referred to as a girl or only sometimes

World has gone mad.

They are twats. Self-righteous ones at that.

If it's really all about their child and their education, why are they so desperate to get their snouts in the media trough?