Instant banned from r/TeachingUK for reasonable discussion over parental concerns about the teaching of gender identity.

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Just wanted to make others aware that the subreddit of TeachingUK is a very biased resource.

I was taking part in a discussion about whether parents had a right to withdraw their child from lessons about gender identity.

Most of the posters were incorrectly stating that it was clear cut that parents had no right to do this. I posted the latest government advice that gender identities should not be taught and that parental rights were unclear.

I also stated that, unlike climate change and flat earth theories, there was no hard science about gender identity and so it remains a controversial subject.

Then I got permanently banned without warning.

I think it's important that people are aware that the views expressed on that subreddit are heavily biased and one sided.

It's a very different forum to MN. I think it skews far younger (as in younger than 33, mostly childfree teachers), predominantly secondary and obviously more male than MN. Your post doesn't surprise me given the viewpoints I have seen.

I use reddit a lot and have used the r/TeachingUK subreddit a lot too. I'm just really shocked that I got suddenly banned without any warning for simply sharing official policy and trying to have a fairly inocuous discussion. It's shocked me that people who are meant to be encouraging our children to be able to reason, think rationally and be open minded are so intolerant and unable to engage in any kind of discussion.

I honestly believe that we should be teaching children how to think, not what to think. We teach them the law, how other people live etc. The education profession rarely teaches children how to have an opinion, rather that they should belive this and they should believe that. Banning people with an opinion or pretending / hiding alternative views is counter productive.

What lessons are these about gender identity? Not on the UK curriculum...

You're misrepresenting what you said, you referred to 'transgenderism', weren't able to back up your claims with any recent government guidelines, and your misinformation, as a none specialist in PSHE, was challenged by specialists in PSHE using the relevant Acts and regulations. I expect that's why your post was deleted and you were removed.

This is an outright lie. None of those things are true. I suspect you are confusing me with someone else.

I did not use the word 'transgenderism'; pretty much the only thing I did do was quote the latest government advice and suggest that the OP speak to their head or head of department as it was a sensitive, and controversial topic.