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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Caitlin Moran in yesterday's Times magazine

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WhenIsTheEasyBit · 31/03/2019 11:50

Sorry, can't link, but she addressed the Parkfields School row and in her usual, brilliant way dismantled any arguments against teaching children about same sex relationships or bisexuality.

I completely agreed with every word. Except, that throughout she referred to LGBT. Her argument and all her examples demonstrated that children aren't taught to be L, G or B. But there in the abbreviation about education was that T again, which a poster on these boards recently described as parasitically attached to LGB. I am not for one moment wanting to describe people who are T as parasites, but the activism movement has attached itself to a wholly different cause and Moran's article really brought this home to me, because it does seem, from the massive rise in cases, the clustering of spikes, that identifying as T can be taught or at least significantly externally influenced.

Just when I think that sense is prevailing and we're hitting peak-trans, something like Parkfields comes along and is labelled as being about LGBT: bingo, people like the deputy head of Ofsted and multiple slebs speak in support of teaching about "LGBT relationships" and it feels like a massive step back and more potential allies lost.

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drspouse · 01/04/2019 12:48

every article I've read recently on LGBT teaching has at no point mentioned the trans bit.
However, parents are adding this in in their minds and assuming it will be taught (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) and either approving (e.g. saying "I've told my children they can marry who they want and be whatever gender they want") or like some of us getting very nervous.
I am pretty sure that most people think these ARE legitimate bedfellows, if they haven't thought about it properly.

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