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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

London FIRE BRIGADE giving gender identity lessons in schools..

82 replies

Iggypoppie · 22/06/2019 21:43

Can't quite belief how this can be justified but this is 2019 so...

twitter.com/Abby_Crawford_/status/1141682236162490368?s=20

London FIRE BRIGADE giving gender identity lessons in schools..
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OccasionalKite · 22/06/2019 23:24

That has to be someone taking the piss, surely?
Gender ideology is sod all to do with our publicly-funded Fire and Rescue Services.

JoyceJeffries · 22/06/2019 23:37

If she’s been there less than two years the best thing the Fire Service could do would be to let her go. We are living in times of unprecedented austerity and the fire brigade are going into schools to deliver LGBT lessons?!? fair enough going into schools to tell children not to play with matches or play with fireworks etc but this is absolute insanity.

Iggypoppie · 22/06/2019 23:49

It says on her LinkedIn that she's been in the job 1 month.

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OccasionalKite · 22/06/2019 23:54

Oh gods, is it the last week of school term or thereabouts, so someone has sorted their child a job doing a fire and rescue service Twitter account?

I mean, that's what it reads like.

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 23/06/2019 00:04

This went well for her. I'm hoping her probation meeting is a similar car crash.

OccasionalKite · 23/06/2019 00:07

But who is funding her job and post?I

Quote from that Twitter post:
Today I'm delivering LGBT+ at a school in East London as part of my new @LondonFire** Equalities Job.

Why should the Fire and Rescue Service be funding gender propaganda in schools?

I mean, why? Really?

Are they about to start distinguishing between stereotypes, when they are needed for vehicle collisions or burning buildings?

Oncewasblueandyellowtwo · 23/06/2019 00:30

I'm from Ireland, and people from the older generation, my Dad included, have told me that the priest on Sunday mass, would name the people who had not gone to confession the week before and the ones who didn't pay into the collection box. Confession, for those who don't know, is where you sit in a dark box and tell the priest all your sins so that you can be forgiven by Jesus.
Anyway, the shaming of those 8 parents and their kids in that woman's thread reminded me of that.

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 23/06/2019 00:31

Top punnage on this thread

That is all I have to say

I mean the fire brigade are giving equality training so the piss taking takes care of itself

AlwaysComingHome · 23/06/2019 06:16

This went well for her. I'm hoping her probation meeting is a similar car crash.

I it is, at least they’ll have the jaws of life handy to cut her out of the wreckage.

HorsewithnoHoldsBarred · 23/06/2019 07:22

Are stonewall and mermaids putting out fires now?

NotBadConsidering · 23/06/2019 07:23

Bros before hose.

DpWm · 23/06/2019 07:28

Maybe she was teaching them how to get a grease fire going.

NatureWillDeleteTheEvidence · 23/06/2019 07:29

Wow i feel re-peaked. Just feels utterly unreal.

Have they offered ANY explanation to the tweets asking why the fire service is doing this??

TinselTimes · 23/06/2019 07:41

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Jammerjimmer · 23/06/2019 07:47

Dpwm
😂

JessicaWakefieldSV · 23/06/2019 07:56

Wtf? What a disgusting waste of fire service money. It’s totally unrelated to their actual role.

Can we complain to someone about this?

AyeRobot · 23/06/2019 08:01

This job? jobs.london-fire.gov.uk/jobs/equality-manager-frs00173

What's the betting the law isn't actually understood whether you it's in-house or external? And that inclusion doesn't mean cunty women.

OrchidInTheSun · 23/06/2019 08:02

What struck me last night us that if Abby hadn't posted about this on twitter, we wouldn't know.

Abby has no training in education, safeguarding or experience in working with children. Why is a school letting her in?

OrchidInTheSun · 23/06/2019 08:06

In September Abby ran this exciting looking programme on the Stonewall gravy train :

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/sites/default/files/a4achievinggequalitythroughhprocurement.pdf

So your suppliers have to get involved in your lgbt activities? Does that involve buying rainbow coloured items from Stonewall I wonder?

JoyceJeffries · 23/06/2019 08:07

Sack abbey and hire another fire fighter. What a complete waste of money.

GCAcademic · 23/06/2019 08:08

There is nothing in that job description that remotely suggests that going into schools to deliver LGBT education is part of the role. And yet Abby is making it a priority? I wonder how much work she is doing for other groups with protected characteristics of, say, race or sex?

JoyceJeffries · 23/06/2019 08:09

Actually after looking at the job advert link they could sack abbey and hire another 2 firefighters.

GCAcademic · 23/06/2019 08:13

I do wonder how it’s possible not to feel ashamed in a non-role like this when you are raking in double the salary of people who are literally risking their lives to fulfil the actual point of the service.

Jammerjimmer · 23/06/2019 08:13

Massive over reach. I think organisations need to really think about what outreach work staff should be doing. Only two reasons why she should be near a school- fire safety or trying to encourage more girls to become firefighters. Not giving destabilising talks to 11 and 12 year old about the contested idea of gender identity. I really judge the schools who permit this. Where is your duty of care to the students?

TheRedBarrows · 23/06/2019 08:20

But if the Fire Service wish to identify as Stonewall surely that is their right?