Glasgow Nursery

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Any Glasgow parents here?

That's a safeguarding issue, full of red flags. Needs reporting. Sorry, I don't live in Glasgow, or even in Scotland, but this would unnerve me and I would want to remove my child.

I don't understand what the issue is?

Nothing wrong* with hiring a transwoman.

Everything wrong with the transwoman demanding the children are taught they are a woman.

Children believe what adults tell them. That's why the concept of grooming exists. That's why they get recruited by nefarious regimes eg Hitler youth. Adults working with children hold a huge responsibility.

*Actually there is now something wrong with hiring any trans person to work with children. There is no compulsion for them to declare their past identity on a criminal record check and an employer would likely be too scared to ask (deadnaming is potentially a hate crime, as is letting slip you know what sex they are). So basically safeguarding and criminal record checks no longer work for trans people. THIS is actually transphobic, because they are receiving different treatment due to being trans. But sadly not the kind of transphobia that interests activists.

@RavingStone Is that true though? I suppose it depends on what you believe motivates a man to believe he is a woman, if you believe as many of us here do that it is motivated my something we can't really talk about here and that it is a condition (which may in itself motivate the individual to seek traditionally female roles including access to young children in pursuit of that conditions satisfaction) that often arises with multiple other conditions of a "similar nature" then should that man really be working with children at all? Not to mention how it confuses the child and leads to complex safeguarding issues.

The issue is the lie. A child is taught that 'sometimes it's ok to lie to be kind' and to deny what they see before their eyes. Nursery age is a very fragile time as kids are learning to make sense of the world. It is the age of imagination but it is also when they start to develop their sense of moral right and wrong. Clearly that little girl could see the person in front of her was a man, but was being told she had to treat him 'like a woman'. Instinctively she knows this does not match up, but she is being taught to go against her natural instincts. If we tell kids to ignore their instincts where does that lead us? I think it's important to draw this distinction that this is about lying and child development. We created a legal fiction on a lie. We never should have done that. This is nothing personal about the individual who is 'trans identified' but a matter of principle. Children should not be taught to lie and to go against their instincts.