Teachers face ‘significant challenges’ to avoid outing trans pupils to parents

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Article in the Times Scotland section. I know it's not a parody but it reads in part like one:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1c01ac90-3a90-11ed-84dd-c16384999350?shareToken=60057f659e554f87d8b7fb78db7b88a0

It is totally wild and yes, that’s exactly what it’s like up here in the activist schools (it’s not my daughter’s former school, but is frighteningly similar).

It's just written so fawningly (is that a word?) there isn't a hint of critical assessment by the writer.

He’s normally onside and the article is so completely over the top, I’m wondering if it’s intentional. They’ll have known what the comments would be like…

I can’t believe this isn’t a parody.

I would do anything to avoid sending my DC to that school. The seriousness adults accord young people who want to be known as 'it', the possibility of social contagion, the gender stereotyping - it's unbelievable.

WTF - my DC are at the school and it is that mad!

I struggle to know who they are talking about as I can't mention previous names!

To be honest, I was really sad at points because obviously I gave birth to a little girl, all of my memories of Kai were as a girl and I had all of these photos. You do have to come to terms with it because it is is a loss.

That is just awful to read so sad. Those who gave grieved for their dead children must find this very insulting (I do).

Ness said Kai received a lot of support from guidance teachers as he “has a lot of anxiety about things because he has been through a lot
Really changing pronouns is trauma now? I agree thinking you are born in the wrong body and adults facilitating that is trauma, but being non binary is trauma?

Kai is helping other pupils feel comfortable with their gender identity, and introduced S1 pupils aged 11 and 12 to the pride club at a recent health and wellbeing fair. He said: “A lot of the S1 pupils found us too much to handle.”
16 year olds indoctrinating 11 years olds. These are children grooming children. I wonder if the younger kids just thought what the actual fuck school have I come to!

They (pupils) urged teachers to avoid shouting at pupils who expressed transphobic views and work to educate them instead.

So teachers were shouting at kids who don't go along with this belief? I would love to hear from some other parents whose kids are not into all this.

Oh my god this is just awful nearly as bad as all those non binary and trans names. At our school we have two Jays and an Ash, not very original to change your name, from the one you were gifted, to something so common among this group.

I can't bear to be educated by the videos. What's so special about Dr T? Our last SEND support we called Mrs (letter of her first name). That school is spending serious time and mental energy in managing this social contagion. I feel sorry for all the children who just want to get on and get an education without having to pamper to all this speshull kids.

A rather astonishingly uncritical piece for The Times - is it captured north of the border?!

I felt that article was the equivalent of the ones in local papers where they report something like 'Pixie-Boo Smith (pictured) has been convicted of indecent exposure. Her penis ...' blah blah blah, all in accordance with IPSO regulations, but the picture clearly chosen with care to set the comments section alight.

Mark McLaughlin is usually quite uncritical when he writes about this topic @TheBiologyStupid but this article is extrem even for him.

Personally I would run a mile away from any school that is part of the LGBTYS award scheme. <lesson learned the hard way>

How can it be okay for a whole separate identity to be nurtured in school, while parents are unaware and the child lives a double life?

How can teachers think this is good for children?
Are they really all complete jobsworths with no ability for actual thought ?

Nc for this obviously
I live in Dunfermline and have friends with dc at Queen Anne and please believe me when I say that this article doesn't show quite how bad the school is.
They actively push gender identity theory on to the kids and punish with detentions any child who refuses to tow the party line

I did a FOI to Fife Council ages ago about gender ideology in schools (did a whole bunch of FOIs to councils and got heaps back). I’m pretty sure they sent me stuff about this school. I’ll need to go dig it out…

@rogdmum do you by any chance have any about woodmill?

“You’re gaining so much though, gaining a confident child who is suddenly becoming themselves and start to blossom, but I had to let go of the future I thought he was going to have. Once I got my head around it I just threw myself into it, which was empowering for us and he saw that we loved him so much and it was OK for him to be whatever he wanted to be."

Perhaps having future plans for your child, based on their sex, is a bad idea.
Perhaps they could be whatever they want to be anyway - except the opposite sex because that's impossible.

These people think they're so progressive and innovative when really their thinking is so limited.

Namechange that doesn’t ring a bell but I’ll look tomorrow.

"pronouns they/he/it,"

Parody? Oh my word...

Thanks @rogdmum

What is a 'transgender male'? I would have thought that was a transwoman or transgirl but the article seems to use this expression to refer to a transboy.

‘Perhaps having future plans for your child, based on their sex, is a bad idea.
Perhaps they could be whatever they want to be anyway - except the opposite sex because that's impossible.’

This is so true. After half a century of feminism setting everyone free from personality constraints governed by sex, we suddenly have an ever-multiplying series of ever-tinier boxes in which to imprison people.

By coincidence, I've just been reading an old thread in which Germaine Greer was criticised for using "it" to refer to someone. www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4430375-germaine-greer-in-1989-sex-change-is-a-lie

Is Dr T actually a Doctor? It seams crazy to allow a teacher to use that sort of a title if they aren’t. For clarity I am not a Doctor It is play on the trope you can only be a DR if you have “delivered” a baby.

Oh my god

So it's ok for the teachers to push this 'let's pretend' shit behind the parents backs? It's a total abuse of their position.

Is this a funnel for the the pharmaceutical industry?

I am continually horrified by the awfulness of this crap. These children are being pushed towards the ideology that will inevitably lead a percentage of them to transition & have their own healthy body parts amputated.
Does any of this shit happen at private schools? (No idea, just thought of this, but just wondered if it turns up in those places too).

I hope it is rooted out sooner, but I can see this falling to bits eventually when the number of detransitioners / kids that grow up with mental health issues etc because of this, that sue schools, hospitals, doctors, surgeons, head teachers etc for allowing this harm to come to them makes it impossible to continue. (You know what with the end result for a lot of them being unhappiness, pain and a lifelong dependance on medicine).

I wonder if deep down some of the 'pushers' of this ideology know how harmful it is for the kids, but it's just how they get their jollies. (And they like to think of themselves as the nice right on progressive types).

I reckon people who are friends with head teachers should start having a word with them about the litigation that will be upcoming over the next 10years or so. Since looking after the kids wellbeing isn't top of their priority list, perhaps their own fiscal future might be the push they need to stop this shit.

Sorry to be a bit ranty but ffs!