Are there any GC teachers here?

[VictoriaLucas102]

I used to be very active on edutwitter not as a teacher although I work in education. I decided in the end it was too risky to carry on tweeting as I would also occasionally tweet about GC feminist issues (which did once result in an anonymous complaint to my employer .. one example of my transphobia was an RIP dedication to Magdalene Burns 🙄).

I noticed Tom Bennett (the ‘behaviour tsar’ and a sometimes controversial character) has recently been tweeting stuff about the ‘cervix-shaver’ thing and in true edutwitter tribal style it’s split opinion with the more ‘traditional’ teachers adopting a critical response and the ‘progressives’ in the be kind’ camp.

I’m just feeling so fed up as yet again I am questioning myself and my (hatefully bigoted) beliefs, but on the other hand I’m so frustrated that people who I know are thoughtful and intelligent are just going along with it.

Is it just the twitter bubble? What’s the general feeling in schools?

I'm a Physics teacher, teaching age 16 - 18 and I'm GC. I spent about 30 minutes bringing our head teacher up to speed when she considered having a talk from Stonewall about 18 months ago. Most of the resources and information I had came from here - thank you everyone . Unsurprisingly all of the science department 'got it' instantly.

I also have four children at a different secondary school to the one I teach at, and their head teacher appears to be gender critical too. There is a 14 year old boy who identifies as a girl but he's not allowed to use any of the girls facilities or participate in their sports.

I am primary SLT and GC. Most of the SLT are but not all. We did have a trans student but there were a whole host of safeguarding issues/ history and the situation was very complex.

Can’t remember who it was but someone mentioned having a gender non-conforming son. I have one too although he is going into Year 3 next year. He has thick curly hair that he keeps long as that is his preference. Whenever anyone asks about it he just tells them that boys can have long hair too. No one from the school has ever suggested he might be trans despite the long hair and a fondness for stereotypically ‘girly’ hobbies / toys so I’m sure it will be fine. His reception teacher was fab, a real old fashioned battle axe in the best possible way.

I'm a GC secondary school, middle leader teacher in a large comprehensive. We have about 6 Transboys at the moment, 2 of which I've been involved with and both have dysfunctional backgrounds. No Transgirls.

4 years ago, Stonewall tried to peddle their bollocks and without any teacher consultation nor parental consent, our confused and easily led kids were told that women can have penises and men can have vaginas. Cue lots of "whaaaaat?!" from many kids and lots of looking around. I wasn't a middle manager at the time but my face was thunder and I made it known to all colleagues.

I am loudly GC but massively supportive of the Transboys who've sought my ear. They're mixed up, heavily influenced by social media and, dare I say it, disappointed by their reality.

Thankfully, my Head, despite not actually having an official conversation with me about this, is on my wavelength. I have however, very vocal about this. I get away with it because everyone knows that I'm very pro-pupil.

My board of governors for now are 'old school' and traditionalists. The danger for me is when that changes.

I'm no longer active on Twitter as I know I was on 'the list' and was threatened with doxxing. I'm the only breadwinner in my family and Cannot afford to do more. My local MP is next to useless and just parrots out the party line.

I'd name and shame them but I know these threads are being watched and folk are vindictive enough to work out my place of work.

Don't be disheartened OP. Join the army of women who will no longer take this utter lie and deception and manipulation by activists, lying down.

I actually had the Stonewall training about two years ago. I brought back the key points for the training and presented to governors and the overwhelming response was 'We won't be doing that.' I also lead science and teach it to our older children (Primary). They have had lots of questions which I have answered - particularly around chromasomes and whether your chromasomes can change.

Yes, I am a gender critical teacher. I find it weird and akin to living a double life. I work with and have trusting relationships with trans students. But outside of work, and privately, I have very different views.

I worry about what I see happening.

As a parent this is really good to hear.

I've been wondering though whether my primary aged children could get taught mermaids nonsense without me knowing. Would we get told what the what the phse curriculum was? I clearly don't want to bring it up and be 'that parent' unless I get wind that something objectionable might be taught.

Welshmoth these threads are being watched, and even though it may be naive, I’m glad that people are seeking out and reading different opinions even if their aim is to hunt for screenshots

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I find it hilarious we have a noun, "the gender crits!" Who in their right mind thinks not being critical of gender stereotyping is a good thing?!

All eyfs staff know this. And all eyfs staff are always the most knowledgable about child development!

Ewe, I expect it's because there's a lot of threads at the mo about how many slebs and organisations are backing away from a certain charity...

Me. Secondary teacher. Had Barnado training and made my thoughts very clear. Had a few woke colleagues look unimpressed but most people interested in GC ideas. The biggest difficulty is making clear that GC questions are not trans or anything else phobic.

I'm a GC science teacher. I've never discussed it with other teachers, but the students have asked me questions about it a few times, possibly because there is a transboy at the school. Honestly the students can be pretty transphobic (not towards the transboy just in general) and I have had to speak to them about this a few times.

I’m a science teacher - so I teach the science, not the gender woo woo.

We had an lgbtq awareness programme. I didn't deliver it because I don't have a. Form group, but a teacher who did said a child had commented about transgenderism "what, so I could just identify as a pig? ". Woke teacher outraged.

This was a white working class boy. Although he was expressing himself crudely he can obviously see the absurdity of it, and yet he is sneered at as uneducated by the woke. It's like Douglas Murray says, we have forgotten what we knew until yesterday.

[quote EweSurname]Welshmoth these threads are being watched, and even though it may be naive, I’m glad that people are seeking out and reading different opinions even if their aim is to hunt for screenshots

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Oh my ... that’s creepy 😳

Not just creepy - they are calling us Nazis.

twitter.com/capybarawins/status/1293316293014114306?s=20

Nazis. Teachers who disagree that a teenage boy who tries to get to change with the girls, well thats OK because he said the magic word Trans.

Yes thats definitely what the Nazis did.

twitter.com/JPMasters/status/1293345820171890689?s=20

And child abusers. Do these people have reading comprehension difficulties?

I thought I’d really seen it all, but clearly not ...

Teachers may be atheists but that doesn't mean that they don't treat their religious students with respect. Same as with the trans kids in their schools.

Awning10 the religion analogy is interesting. It makes sense from the perspective of respecting individuals’ rights to hold particular beliefs and striving to avoid offence.

But I can’t think of a faith that would require others to ‘embrace discomfort’ to accommodate its needs. And if a pupil was in a sect that advocated unnecessary surgery and taking drugs that have irreversible effects, would we really turn a blind eye and not regard it as a safeguarding issue?

@VictoriaLucas102

*Cervix-haver not shaver 🥴

As someone who has had their cervix shaved, I'm not offended

Re future proofing governors thoughts on teaching gender identity, I'm planning on briefly listing all the reasons against teaching it at primary level in our PHSE policy so it's there as a record and would need to be actively overturned by people fully aware of the evidence.

GC primary teacher here. It’s come up in the staffroom once - another staff member, a woman, said ‘it must be awful being trapped in the wrong body’. I pointed out that I identified as a very rich, slim, concert pianist trapped in the body of a menopausal woman with no musical talent but apparently ‘that’s different’. We have one boy who used to like to wear Disney character dresses but he’s got multiple behavioural problems anyway and no one is reading anything into the dress business (thankfully). I tweet under a different name because I expect my local authority are horribly woke.

I was told in training session that a short haired, rugby playing girl MUST be trans and it was our job as teachers to help her see that. I pointed out that this hypothetical child might be happy gender non conforming or lesbian, and shouldn't be told they were in the wrong body. That was a key moment for many colleagues' understanding I think. The homophobic undertones.

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I was told in training session that a short haired, rugby playing girl MUST be trans and it was our job as teachers to help her see that. I pointed out that this hypothetical child might be happy gender non conforming or lesbian, and shouldn't be told they were in the wrong body. That was a key moment for many colleagues' understanding I think. The homophobic undertones.

I've just realised my seriously un-PC (I pull him up but what else can you do?) dad might be more woke than me with his drunken comments like:

'Ah but it's ok for (lesbian presenter) to comment on sports, cos if you're shagging a woman that makes you a bloke really'

Let's remind those eyes that in Iran trans is acceptable as being gay isn't. Ops provided for all gay people.

Great chat with my teacher Sil just now, in charge of pshe in a Leeds school. Understands all the issues without the wider knowledge of the capture.

Main thing she recognised is how sexist the trans movement is.

Child abusers- pot kettle black.