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.

Thanks, @ManchesterBeatrice it does work.
Some wild claims on there.
Clearly some people have really no idea at all how schools operate.

It all got quite heated 🥵

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There’s a girl in my son’s year who identifies as a cat. I mean, she shouldn’t be allowed to wear a tail and ears at the very least, according to uniform policy. However, they let her. She behaves like a cat as well. Like I said, batshit.

Identifies as a cat is a long way from a child wears ears and a tail.

She behaves like a cat as well. Like I said, batshit.

In what way? Considering she goes to school she obviously realises she's not a cat. If she truly identified as cat she would be sleeping for most of the day in the sunshine, and pretend to be starving despite having just finished a full bowl of food. Which I have to admit sounds like a fantastic life

Well, she will certainly not be allowed to identify and behave like a cat in the classroom.

Indeed, @Whinge .
A cat's life sounds excellent.

Not fluffies but 'furries' I've heard of down here but dressing up isn't needed to be a furry.

This it what happens nobody has the balls to say no.
How the hell did we reach this point?

We haven't reached any point. There's no evidence to support any of these claims.

As others have said, the cat litter part is a hoax.

But there are children in secondary schools who identify as animals. They used to be called Furries but Therians seems to be the preferred term now.
Those dismissing it as right wing propaganda have clearly never had the misfortune to come across any of the utterly batshit videos that some of these kids post on TikTok.

We have 861 children in our primary school and not a single one identifies in this way!

Posting things on tiktok and it actually happening in secondary schools are two different things.
I'm still waiting for evidence that this happens in any school.

There are ongoing cases within the NHS of staff wanting to identify as cats whilst on shift

It's probably so they can curl up and get some much needed sleep

We actually got an email from dc's primary school this week about this bizarrely so must be a craze.

Saying under no circumstances were they providing litter trays and children were just playing 'pretend' cats like they would pretend to be Batman/similar.

The class WhatsApp groups were buzzing that night.

Yes!

Still waiting for the source for this.

Not forthcoming.

Strangely.

😂 I love that they had to say that 😂

Its absolute bollocks and a dog whistle for transphobia and anti LGBTQ+ sentiment from the USA.

Stop peddling this idiotic claptrap.

Grow a fucking braincell.

Urban myth so YABU for being so …
well, you can fill in the blank there!
it’s always the friend of a friend or the grandparent who heard it about another kid in their DGCs school…

It’s from the far right… ‘see THIS is what we told you would happen when you let gays marry etc etc’

This, 💯

This is really what it's about.

Have you ever heard the term 'urban myth'?

‘There are ongoing cases within the NHS of staff wanting to identify as cats whilst on shift’

of course there are, of course 😅😅😅😅😅

@Idontfinkso and @Maireas 👏👏👏👏