Schoolchildren in Brighton get to wear pronoun badges to prevent misgendering.

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As usual, only in Brighton. Coming soon to your local school?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6876285/Brighton-school-pupils-badges-saying-pronoun-want-called-trans-inclusion.html#comments

Directed at no one in particular but can this nonsense please fuck off now.

I'm not in the most patient of moods this evening!

Och the kids will be having a laugh at this.

In hierarchical institutions, the rule is ''salute the rank, not the man''.

Quite a few comments along the lines of 'April 1st was yesterday'.

If I lived near Brighton, I might take a 'gender is a spectrum' badge and add 'but sex is an immutable binary'.

Are you fucking shitting me? Who comes up with this shit? Have none of the staff watched in betweenners and seen what happens with the head of 6th’s badge initiative? JFC Have any of these people ever met a teenager? Have any of them ever took their head out of their arse for long enough to engage in critical thought?

Please tell me there is it least one sane parent left in Brighton who’s gone down the school and handed whoever thought up this BS their arse on a plate?

'They have been told they must adhere to the advice...' so not advice then, more a command.

These badges are apparently optional, so hopefully no school is enforcing the wearing of them. The blank ones are just asking for trouble and I think could make the atmosphere worse for children who are questioning their gender.

What would actually help is a school where bullying of any kind is effectively dealt with and where all children feel safe. That's harder to achieve and costs more than a few badges.

An excellent point.
Window dressing rather than dealing with the problem.

I’m in Totnes and I’d hazard a guess that we’ll be doing it next. I’m slightly more surprising news I wore an AHF T-shirt in town the other days and has 3 separate women tell me that they like it. It was like a secret handshake.

These badges are apparently optional, so hopefully no school is enforcing the wearing of them. The blank ones are just asking for trouble and I think could make the atmosphere worse for children who are questioning their gender.

The questioning of 'gender' most often accompanies the stirrings, flutterings, and realisations around sexual orientation. The 'trans thing' is being conflated with sexual orientation - but with potentially damaging physical repercussions. Questioning gender is a common marker of homosexuality/lesbianism.

What an absolute pile of shite 😂😂😂😂😂

Wtaf?! Have these people actually met teenagers?! It's the most awkward of times and there are going to be few teens who will want to wear them and I can only imagine that those actually questioning their gender will be the last person to want to wear them. Honestly!

Ffs

I think the DM are being a bit misleading.

Brighton are distributing pronoun badges from April 1, for anyone who wants them, at various civic buildings

new.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2019/return-badge

"This year, we’re also making a number of stickers available in the city’s secondary schools for any young people who want to show their support."

The stickers seem to look like this:

static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2019/04/02/15/trans-stickers-brighton.jpg

Let's not label people, by labelling people.
We will be giving out armbands with symbols to highlight trans people soon.... reminds me of a certain point in history.

Cook is a late transitioning male getting involved with children and forcing his ideas of sheing boys and heing girls on kids. The first time I heard a male being she'd I was an adult in a gay club. Why are we letting these middle aged men force this onto children.?

I think I'd be a dolphin, addressed by a series of high-pitched clicks.

Trousering
That's a question that needs to be repeatedly asked. Why are late transitioning males even being allowed to target children with their beliefs / wishes / ideologies? And why are schools so frightened of this movement that they lack the confidence to say no to political groups grooming children in this way?

Yep! What trouserimg said. Did nobody notice the Savile fiasco? Anybody? Do school leaders still have safeguarding training in this brave new world of academies?

I am wondering id Mermaids is behind/sponsoring/funding this. I find it hard to believe that the council came up with the idea and went to the trouble and expense without some backstage power pushing them.

Those stickers say ‘my pronouns matter’ in text and background very similar to the ‘black lives matter’ campaign. I find that quite offensive piggy backing.

I’m not normally a conspiracy theorist it was just the first thing I thought.

I thank God every day I no longer teach science in Brighton. I would be sacked

They had these in my local library. I think it's fucking ridiculous, but hey that's Brighton for you.

I used to work at Brighton University school of Arts. Some of the students were really weird. Their art projects very quirkily creative like the student whose artwork consisted of her dirty knickers of the week attached to board, crotch-side out, when she had her period. There was a very obvious obsession with sex and genitalia the more outlandish and taboo-breaking, the better. Not really to my taste, as a 50-something!