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 I've seen a Christian couple have withdrawn their son from school due to his male, 6 year old class mate wearing a dress to school.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

It's by Helen Lewis, who's very good. Here's some of the article (bit mindful about breaching copyright):

But the best studies suggest gender identity remains at least partially fluid until puberty: 80 per cent of children who seek medical attention for gender issues remain in their birth sex as adults. Doctors face the difficult challenge of separating out the children who will benefit from hormones and surgery from those who just need the time and space to come to terms with their developing bodies and identities. Sometimes a boy in a dress is just a boy in a dress.

After all, there is no need to attach a label — and a medical diagnosis — to a child in order to argue that they should be able to wear what they want.

Women fought hard in the early 20th century to wear trousers; in the early years of the 21st, we should fight just as hard for men to wear skirts. They do not need to identify as women to do so: try telling a Scotsman there is anything unnatural about him wearing a kilt, or a Masai warrior that he would look more manly in trousers.

We need to stop shoving children into pink and blue boxes, while insisting that we are just following nature. Creating a school uniform policy with skirts for girls and trousers for boys, but allowing a select few children to switch categories, is not a great advance. A better solution would be to have an agreed set of garments and let all children choose their favourites — and not make a big deal of it.

Maryz beat me to it!

I don't care what clothes kids wear. If a boy wears a dress, so what? Girls wear trousers. I do have a problem with a boy, at the age of SIX who wants to be called a girl and another child to then being punished for saying no, he's not a girl. I don't blame them for pulling their kid out of school. I am not religious btw.

Let kids be kids, wear what they want, play with whatever/whoever they want but none of this changing sex rubbish at that age. It's utterly ridiculous and makes me want to stop the world and get off. I do not want my DD to grow up in a world where if she wants to wear boyish stuff, play with boys toys or be a tomboy then she must be trapped in the wrong body^^ and need to 'become a boy' which is the way things are going at the moment. Could she not just be a girl who likes boys clothes/things/activity/company?

This child might grow out of it, and want to 'be a boy' again in a years time or he might go on as an adult to live full time as a woman or have a sex change. It's a decision to be made when he's old enough to fully understand it. Other holders should not be forced to accept that 'he's a girl' when clearly, he is not.

sleepymama81

I agree completely. We are going to be raising some very confused children if a natural inclination towards a certain colour or toy makes them feel they are the wrong sex.

Not to mention their GCSE options, university degrees or jobs.

We're going backwards.

I totally agree. And what do you say in biology classes?

How has it come to this?

What will we say in biology? How about:

"If you have a penis you are male. If you have a vagina you are female. Unless your parents/guardians are jump on the trendy bandwagon fools, in which case if you wear a dress or like dollies you're a girl, if you wear blue and play with trucks you're a boy'

Should clear it right up!

Meanwhile in America: www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/New-Medical-Guidelines-Open-Door-for-Transgender-Children-to-Begin-Physically-Transforming-Bodies-at-Earlier-Ages--444259043.html?amp=y

This is the most sensible thing I've read yet.

You should have a newspaper column!

I 'd read it.