Any "fluffies" (children identifying as cats) at your child's school?

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I had no idea this was a thing until this week. Parents are fully supportive. Is this happening across the UK? Apparently they're being provided with a litter tray in a private room. I thought being allowed to wear ears and a tail was going beyond reasonable but the litter tray seems completely unhygienic and a step too far in role playing how they feel about their identity.

Well there has been an ‘elf’ at my DD’s school!

I don't think I've been described as giddy since I met Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours about 25 years ago!

well is happening in York !

My understanding is it is a hoax that keeps surfacing and was disproved when it raised its head in the USA a couple of years ago.

The story of children using a litter tray in the classroom was shown to be a hoax I think. But the general phenomenon of children identifying as animals is very much happening.

I’m personally aware of two cases (different schools).

Friend's husband works with a 'cat' (young human woman who says she is a cat). Trendy media company. Not client facing, obviously.

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There were elves at the grammar school my dds went to and no doubt cats. Batshit.

I haven't heard any more on this since I last posted.

I read that this rumour comes out of a particularly US phenomenon- School Shootings.

I wish I could find the article but to give the gist of it.... Some classes keep a box of absorbent granules/cat litter in case there has to be a lockdown and children need the toilet.

So some have heard this, heard that some children like to pretend to be cats (just as some like to be horses, cars etc)

Put 2+2 together and got 5. Shouted their discovery so many times that it becomes a truth.

Nah, really?

YOU are part of the problem, liek it or not. Your post implies that you think its ok for kids at school to 'role play how they feel about their identity'. If your child comes to you and says "i think im a cat" then ffs, you need to be telling them they arent, not pandering to this stupidity, its actually mental. Its like these parents raising their babies as "gender neutral" until they are old enough to make up their own mind???? Like wtf! That child is clearly going to grow up to be confused! Im done with all this nonsense people need to wake tf up

The ear and tail thing is ok (im a therian point of view) but the litter tray is a bit weird

Just wondering if there are any updates on this? My friend says her sister has children in an Essex school where they’ve removed one of the toilets and replaced it with a litter tray to accommodate children who identify as cats. Apparently a lot of the parents are furious about it.

No I don’t know which school. I’ll try to find out.

Someone's surely trolling you or your friend. That would not be legal hygiene wise.
However there was this horrible story recently.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5547934-mail-story-teenage-trans-student-who-dressed-as-a-dog-stabs-parents-to-death-and-knifes-pet-golden-retriever

It's about as likely as the story of the friend of a friend who offered a lift to a hitch hiker, heard a news story on the radio about a serial killer and then when the hitch hiker was dropped off, found an axe down the side of the seat. Or the annual summer brown faced men in vans meaning teenage girls can't possibly be home when expected and are definitely not in the park with their mates eating edibles on Facebook. Or the annual strange brown man looking at a blonde infant in a way that the Facebook friend of a friend just knows is to sell her into an international child trafficking network.

What a load of rubbish. Schools aren’t doing this. It’s always ‘a friend of’ or whatever.

Ive read litter tray thing originated in the USA as schools need to have their lock down procedure so classrooms have this as a precautionary measure if the children are in hiding.

Your friend is talking shite.

Oh for gods sake. Think about this for a minute.

To be clear - I know it’s shite 😁

What I was hoping for was someone to say “Yes there was a rumour about St Gullible’s School in Dipshit-On-The-Wold, Essex” so I could refute it from a place of knowledge.

As I said on the first page of this thread - kids practically throw up if they have to use one of those 'hole in the floor' loos you get in some countries, so I can hardly imagine there's any who would want to use a litter tray! Plus as people have said, it wouldn't be legal for hygiene reasons.

So furreal have I got this right, you're pretending to have heard something in the hope that someone else will pretend to have heard something in order that you can pretend to know the school personally and refute it? Was there a point to all this?

Good luck with that. Maybe don’t waste too much of your time on it though, you know, just in case your friend is taking the piss.

Btw If you spot any pots of gold at the end of the rainbow, or free range unicorns don’t forget to take a picture and post it on here.

I’m not pretending anything.

Allow me to expand a little.

A friend of mine (I’ll call her A), whom I’ve known for decades, and up until the last couple of years has always been incredibly level headed on most matters (although a teeny bit woo on some subjects) has become friends with someone I’ll call B, who is a full on conspiracy theorist. I can’t absolutely say that she believes in all of them but as far as I can see, she believes in quite a few.

It isn’t B who has told A this story about the litter trays but I do think that spending so much time with B has caused A to start to be more credulous about shite.

A’s sister - another very sane and sensible woman - is the person who told A about the litter trays.

I was trying to explain to A how these sorts of urban myths take hold and how it’s so,so,so,SO unlikely to be true. However, if I could point to a Mumsnet post that said “Yes, this rumour was going around about my DCs school - of course it was absolute bollocks” and it was the same school, that would be the end of it wouldn’t it? It would no longer be me saying “It’s soooooo unlikely”. I’d be able to say “Look this person’s child goes to the same school and has confirmed categorically that it’s not true”.

Do you feel better about yourself having posted that? 😁

That's not how urban myths are propagated. They absolutely rely upon it not being traceable.