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AIBU to think my tax shouldn't be paying for this shite?

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StealthChocolateHoarder · 08/09/2019 19:47

AIBU to be fuming?!

What an absolute pile of crap. By definition according to this, I'm 'queer gender.' Sex is binary, the rest is just your personality and personal preferences.

Makes a mockery of homosexual rights.

Who on earth made the bbc the expert on this?! Queer theory is just theory, it's hard enough for adults to understand let alone kids!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-films-teach-children-of-100-genders-or-more-7xfhbg97p?shareToken=2d4174642fe39e332558622838ad68af

Safe Schools Alliance Twitter thread breaking down the film in question:

twitter.com/safeschools_uk/status/1169174010732695557?s=21

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CaveMum · 08/09/2019 20:26

I agree. Gender is just an individuals expression, so by rights there are approx 8 billion different genders as no two people are the same. However when they start dragging “male” and “female” into it, it becomes downright harmful.

I’ve seen some tweets (inc SSA) about this video on Twitter and it just sounds like a load of super-woke bollocks to me.

Why is this even within the BBCs remit?!

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StealthChocolateHoarder · 08/09/2019 20:30

I'm guessing it's to do with their schools services except that the 100 genders is not on the national curriculum nor even a reality.

As long as they're giving equal air time to flat earth theory I guess it's ok, right? Angry

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GColdtimer · 08/09/2019 20:30

YANBU and thanks for posting. It’s damaging as hell and we need to hold the BBC accountable.

CaveMum · 08/09/2019 20:40

As long as they're giving equal air time to flat earth theory I guess it's ok, right?

Exactly, why are they promoting theories with no scientific basis? If they were teaching creationism/climate change denial, etc there would rightly be outrage but somehow “gender” seems to be an exemption.

What the hell happened to just teaching kids “everyone is different, as long as you are not hurting yourself/anyone else crack on and don’t make a fuss”. Instead we seem to have a generation who want to dye their hair blue and jump up and down shouting “I’m special, so special! Look at ME! Look at ME!”

Original poster
StealthChocolateHoarder · 08/09/2019 20:45

"everyone is different, as long as you are not hurting yourself/anyone else crack on and don’t make a fuss”

Precisely.

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Outsomnia · 08/09/2019 20:48

The world has gone mad. But what choice do we have anymore?

RadicalStitch · 08/09/2019 20:54

YANBU!!!
I am sorely tempted to stop paying my license fee as a protest. I find the 'I am Leo' programme especially concerning and seriously wonder how many children have been misled in to becoming life long patients after watching this programme. Poor poor children. It's heartbreaking!

RadicalStitch · 08/09/2019 20:55

Outsomnia, we have to oppose it. Too many of us have remained silent on this for too long. Silence is complicity.

Outsomnia · 08/09/2019 21:02

Radical,

I am totally with you, but it looks like we cannot voice anything to do with this anymore now.

fiveleftfeet · 08/09/2019 21:14

but it looks like we cannot voice anything to do with this anymore

What do you mean?

Of course you can. You can complain to the BBC and/or OFCOM for a start.

Outsomnia · 08/09/2019 21:16

five,

Won't change anything. Sorry now.

OhHolyJesus · 08/09/2019 21:21

The complaints procedure with the BBC takes ages but you can appeal and keep escalating it. The BBC is no longer unbiased, it hadn't been for a long time. There is an agenda and it's filtered down to Children’s programmes. I stopped watching the 'news' (if you can call it that) a long time ago, then I stopped using the news website. It's been getting worse and worse.

The I am Leo thing was awful, it actually contains lies about puberty blockers and it completely misrepresents the awful truth.

These poor kids, being told they are being born in the wrong body, I don't know why anyone would ever agree with that statement and tell a child their body is wrong, lord knows kids today have enough to deal with! We don't tell Anorexic children they are fat and should starve themselves!

fiveleftfeet · 08/09/2019 21:26

What a defeatist attitude. Are you a plant to encourage us not to bother?!

If you don't get anywhere with the BBC then you can escalate to OFCOM.

Outsomnia · 08/09/2019 21:34

This type of stuff is being foisted upon us by nefarious sources. We cannot identify really who they are, but they seem to have power far in excess of the people they profess to represent.

For such a minuscule proportion of the population, the power is out there, and we are powerless to resist it now it seems.

drspouse · 08/09/2019 21:38

The I am Leo thing was awful, it actually contains lies about puberty blockers and it completely misrepresents the awful truth.
Totally agree.
Is I Am Leo still available to watch?

MolyHolyGuacamole · 08/09/2019 21:52

Your tax paying for this? Surely if it's the BBC you mean your TV License.

BarrenFieldofFucks · 08/09/2019 21:55

🤦🤦🤦

OldCrone · 08/09/2019 22:01

Is I Am Leo still available to watch?

Two episodes here.

And a short clip in this tweet of Dr Polly Carmichael of the Tavistock Clinic telling Leo that puberty blockers are a harmless pause button.
twitter.com/newsround_blog/status/1151821906707984385?lang=en

hungryhippo · 08/09/2019 22:02

It is very difficult to understand how this one got through even the most cursory of checks before being released on the unsuspecting public.
It's not just that they're spouting nonsense... it's not even the same nonsense. The lesbian head teacher does seem to understand that she's attracted to the same sex. But another random adult says that if you're straight you're attracted to the "opposite gender". Oh and yet another one says there are 100 genders... or maybe more.
Nothing is actually explained in any way that makes sense. It's appalling.

MrGHardy · 08/09/2019 22:29

Basically 'gender' is now the word for people who need their super duper extra special personality publicly lauded and validated.

PencilsInSpace · 08/09/2019 22:31

Here's the video -

www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/rse-ks2-identity-understanding-sexual-and-gender-identities/zfqrhbk

The BBC complaints framework is designed to make you lose the will to live. Nevertheless it's worth doing and it's worth sticking with, for anyone who has the energy. We need to get this in front of OFCOM.

As this is a teacher resource and not part of mainstream broadcasting it might also be worth approaching MPs - do the BBC get any DfE funding?

Melroses · 08/09/2019 22:32

Never say they don't do joined up thinking Wink

DoctorAllcome · 08/09/2019 23:02

It’s just part of the victim culture.
Don’t worry, Gen Z will put the focus back on the environment...you know the real problems of the world.

IdiotInDisguise · 08/09/2019 23:07

I thought this was about that woman in the BBC news today, who transitioned to be a man, who then decided he was gay and got pregnant because he/she/whatever was very broody and that was the most “pragmatically” way to solve the problem.

The level of indecision baffles me. Having said that, there are more things I resent my taxes being used on than this.

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