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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Charity rejects disabled child for mother's GC views

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PaddingtonSwear · 31/08/2025 08:22

Archive link here: https://archive.ph/zGGCc

Pretty shocking but it seems they think they're right.

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NotBadConsidering · 31/08/2025 12:33

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:28

No that's not what happened. She made it clear that she would be telling her child to go with what they thought rather than what they were being told when it came to assigning pronouns to others. That's not what a child should be doing regardless of the state of affairs.

There was no need for her to do anything other than ask questions about logistics. She chose to step on a soap box inappropriately and her child was dismissed as a result.

That's not what a child should be doing regardless of the state of affairs.

Is this what you believe? That all children, regardless of the state of affairs, regardless of disability or no disability, should not describe the reality of the sex of the people around them, or the adults caring for them, but should do what they’re told instead? Regardless of the risks involved?

It doesn’t surprise me you don’t see the safeguarding issue.

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:33

ThatZanyFatball · 31/08/2025 12:31

All the woman did was write "seriously" on the application. The charity then contacted her to criticize her beliefs. They'd clearly already made the decision that, unless she relented, her child was going to be kicked out of the camp. The law has already made it perfectly clear that you cannot compell people to "share pronouns" or do anything else that forces people to bow to the alter of tans ideology. The camp should have just let it lie but no, these self righteous cultists are still insisting on forcing their ideology on a world that has repeatedly said enough. So now, like time and time again, they'll learn their lessons through the court system.

What do you think they'd have done if she left it blank?

OldCrone · 31/08/2025 12:34

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 10:37

Is the camp focused around gender and identity in any way?

Of course it is. They've asked parents for their children's pronouns. They're obviously gender zealots.

SouthWamses · 31/08/2025 12:35

AnSolas · 31/08/2025 12:29

The staff member failed to record the "was agressive" as reason for the rejection eg "called mother she was agressive on the phone decided child should not attend"

How strange that they forget to record the real reason for blocking the child and decide to record an unlawful one instead? 🤔

ArabellaScott · 31/08/2025 12:35

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 10:28

I dont think that works because we do all have pronouns. It is the mother's view that his pronouns should be obvious because he's stated his gender.

It would be more like a Christian camp asking attendees if they believe Jesus is the son of God and a parent asking if they're really asking a Christian child that question because they think that belief is fundamental for Christians. Which most do, there are some fringe denominations where it isnt as important.

No, we don't all 'have pronouns'.

People refer to other people using pronouns. The language is used by others. These words don't 'belong' to the person they're being used about.

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:36

NotBadConsidering · 31/08/2025 12:33

That's not what a child should be doing regardless of the state of affairs.

Is this what you believe? That all children, regardless of the state of affairs, regardless of disability or no disability, should not describe the reality of the sex of the people around them, or the adults caring for them, but should do what they’re told instead? Regardless of the risks involved?

It doesn’t surprise me you don’t see the safeguarding issue.

No I don't think children should insist someone is say a boy, based on their limited experience of the world, even after being corrected and then be allowed to express all the reasons they think the other child isn't a girl and still call them "he".

I get why and how the waters have been muddied here, but I think that's for adults to handle on an actual political level. Voting, protests, etc.

ThatBlackCat · 31/08/2025 12:36

JLou08 · 31/08/2025 11:58

There's more to it than your title

"In a statement, the charity claimed its decision was not based on the mother’s objection to the question about pronouns, but her “aggressive” conduct over the phone and the fact that a potential “conflict” might arise given there was going to be a <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/zGGCc/www.telegraph.co.uk/transgender/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">transgender child at the camp"

With trans ideologists, they consider any questioning to be 'aggressive'. Even polite questioning or polite disagreement is considered 'aggressive'. Anything less than 100% submission is 'aggressive', and 'literal genocide'. So I'd take their side with 6 thousand truck loads of salt.

AnSolas · 31/08/2025 12:38

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:09

Safeguarding who? You're filling out a form. It isn't the place to express your socio-political views.

If the form was not a place to express socio-political views why did the organisation decide to collect a viewpoint via their form?

Why did the staff member engage in a process designed for additional data collection?

Why did staff who held a different socio-political view reject the application on the basia of their viewpoint and the mother viewpoint not being in agreement?

BettyBooper · 31/08/2025 12:39

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:28

No that's not what happened. She made it clear that she would be telling her child to go with what they thought rather than what they were being told when it came to assigning pronouns to others. That's not what a child should be doing regardless of the state of affairs.

There was no need for her to do anything other than ask questions about logistics. She chose to step on a soap box inappropriately and her child was dismissed as a result.

Well given that the adults are actively lying she was right to do this! If they were not telling children lies she wouldn't have to tell her child not to trust them.

Even if you are right and the mum is a massive gender roles conformist, why does that mean that the adults at this camp can lie to children? And that the mum shouldn't raise this?

MarieDeGournay · 31/08/2025 12:39

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:31

Perhaps because I have rather a lot to do with religious people, I am privy to a lot of people who completely reject trans ideology and still hold very rigid views on masculinity and femininity. I think that is why I am sensitive to that line of thinking in completely secular people, because I hear the echoes from our past values which were more openly centred around religion.

I recognise what you are saying - rigid gender stereotypes are found in a number of social groups, not just the trans movement.

I suppose what makes the the trans reliance on gender stereotypes stand out so much is that they and their supporters claim to be the brave progressive ones, and gender critical women, who just want children to be children and men and women to be whatever kind of men and women they choose to be, are bigoted old dinosaurs who are going to die out soon!

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:40

ArabellaScott · 31/08/2025 12:35

No, we don't all 'have pronouns'.

People refer to other people using pronouns. The language is used by others. These words don't 'belong' to the person they're being used about.

Well we do have pronouns that are appropriate for us and those may need clarifying at times. Especially today, in the ways we communicate, it may not always be clear whether someone is male or female. Such as right now online.

If someone was referring to me and said "he said", it would be fine for me to say that those aren't my pronouns because I am a woman.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 31/08/2025 12:40

NotBadConsidering · 31/08/2025 12:33

That's not what a child should be doing regardless of the state of affairs.

Is this what you believe? That all children, regardless of the state of affairs, regardless of disability or no disability, should not describe the reality of the sex of the people around them, or the adults caring for them, but should do what they’re told instead? Regardless of the risks involved?

It doesn’t surprise me you don’t see the safeguarding issue.

Well said. It's breathtaking the willingness of people who claim to be parents to throw children under the bus. Allowing random adult gender zealots to gaslight children, to pretend that sex change is possible and to create a climate of fear and intimidation via compelled speech (nonsense pronouns) in order to bully children out of understanding reality.

A complete safeguarding fail supported by some parents. No wonder we see such extreme levels of child abuse in society when those parents who do safeguard their children are so harshly criticised.

ArabellaScott · 31/08/2025 12:40

AnSolas · 31/08/2025 11:04

Its a christian camp insisting that the child and mother believe that "Christ has Risen" in order to attend.

They believe in gender and dont place importance on sex. Which is a problem when safeguarding and safeguarding risk assessments require the designer to understand the importance of being able to recognise sex and to be able to be truthful.

The camp supposedly segregates children on the basis of what they call 'gender'.

So the question re pronouns is clearly highly pertinent and affects their safeguarding decisions.

OldCrone · 31/08/2025 12:41

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 10:40

Was the pronoun question compulsory?

It seems likely that it was, going by this paragraph in the article:

In a written summary of the call uncovered by the mother using a subject access request, which allows an individual to see all personal information an organisation holds about them, Ms McCluskie [a clinical director at the charity] recalled “explaining the importance of pronouns at our camps to ensure inclusivity and respect for all children”.

This charity believes that pronouns are important. They are gender zealots.

NotBadConsidering · 31/08/2025 12:42

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:36

No I don't think children should insist someone is say a boy, based on their limited experience of the world, even after being corrected and then be allowed to express all the reasons they think the other child isn't a girl and still call them "he".

I get why and how the waters have been muddied here, but I think that's for adults to handle on an actual political level. Voting, protests, etc.

Which do you mean?

Children can sex humans from an early age, even their peers. Very occasionally they get it wrong and can get confused. If a child has made a mistake, that mistake should corrected. In that instance, it’s appropriate for a child to be “told” what sex someone is and what pronouns to use.

But you’re condoning the opposite: when a child is correct in identifying the sex of the human they’re describing, and using the correct sex pronouns, you’re saying children should be “told” that is wrong, and “told” not to do it. This is gaslighting children, abusive and a monumental safeguarding failure. Why do you support this?

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:43

MarieDeGournay · 31/08/2025 12:39

I recognise what you are saying - rigid gender stereotypes are found in a number of social groups, not just the trans movement.

I suppose what makes the the trans reliance on gender stereotypes stand out so much is that they and their supporters claim to be the brave progressive ones, and gender critical women, who just want children to be children and men and women to be whatever kind of men and women they choose to be, are bigoted old dinosaurs who are going to die out soon!

Yes but remember that there are a lot of transgendered people who are estranged from their families because they dont share their beliefs about gender. So it isn't like everybody who identifies as trans was raised by a parent who was all for the ideology by any means. But I bet the commonality will be that these parents all hold pretty rigid gender views despite their belief that they do not.

ThatZanyFatball · 31/08/2025 12:43

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 09:25

Yeah she sounds a problem. Whatever your views, there is a time and place to express them, the way she went about it was all wrong. I'd have just left the pronouns bit blank. Now she fucked over her kid all because she just couldn't hold back from ranting about her opinions.

She shouldn't tell her kid that if "he sees" a girl, then he should insist it is a girl. He is a child and might be wrong. He might "see" a girl because a boy has long hair and then refuse to acknowledge his gender because mummy said girls look a certain way.

"Now she fucked over her kid all because she just couldn't hold back from ranting about her opinions."

The word "seriously" is a rant? What did the camp think it was going to accomplish by contacting her? What was the point? If submitting pronouns is voluntary then what difference would it make what was written there? The point wasn't her behavior after the fact the point was that she didn't comply with the right think to begin with. The camp should have just ignored what the parent wrote but they escalated it by calling her to criticize her views. Doesn't matter if another kid who is part of the cult is attending the camp the courts have made it clear you cannot compell people to say/believe what they dont believe, period. Even if she had left it blank her child has a right to not call a boy who thinks he a girl a girl and the camp can't do anything about it. What do they think they're going to do in the future when this situation inevitably happens? Calling a boy a boy isn't harassment because the truth is not hate speech.

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:45

NotBadConsidering · 31/08/2025 12:42

Which do you mean?

Children can sex humans from an early age, even their peers. Very occasionally they get it wrong and can get confused. If a child has made a mistake, that mistake should corrected. In that instance, it’s appropriate for a child to be “told” what sex someone is and what pronouns to use.

But you’re condoning the opposite: when a child is correct in identifying the sex of the human they’re describing, and using the correct sex pronouns, you’re saying children should be “told” that is wrong, and “told” not to do it. This is gaslighting children, abusive and a monumental safeguarding failure. Why do you support this?

In my personal experience, children aren't right as much as adults. And then even when many adults are right and correctly identify someone who isnt gender conforming as their correct sex, they do so in a way that reinforces rigid gender roles, such as the "boyish girl" or the "girly boy". Not just another variation of being a boy or a girl.

SouthWamses · 31/08/2025 12:46

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:28

No that's not what happened. She made it clear that she would be telling her child to go with what they thought rather than what they were being told when it came to assigning pronouns to others. That's not what a child should be doing regardless of the state of affairs.

There was no need for her to do anything other than ask questions about logistics. She chose to step on a soap box inappropriately and her child was dismissed as a result.

She made it clear that her child should use sexed pronouns as per their observations, not be coerced to pretend someone was the opposite sex.

Do you belief a child a the camp should also go with what they were being told by an abuser if there was one at camp? If he told them he was a she and they should pretend that he was doing something ok?

BettyBooper · 31/08/2025 12:46

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:36

No I don't think children should insist someone is say a boy, based on their limited experience of the world, even after being corrected and then be allowed to express all the reasons they think the other child isn't a girl and still call them "he".

I get why and how the waters have been muddied here, but I think that's for adults to handle on an actual political level. Voting, protests, etc.

The problem is that the people doing the correcting here are lying. Do you not see the problem?

The child in this situation is likely to be right (there is a 'trans child' at camp and the adults are lying (they buy into gender ideology ).

You are focused on the idea (without evidence) that the child will mis-sex another child based on gender stereotypes.

Why do you think a disabled child would be unable to correctly sex another child? Why do you assume that the mother believes in gender stereotypes?

AnSolas · 31/08/2025 12:46

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:28

No that's not what happened. She made it clear that she would be telling her child to go with what they thought rather than what they were being told when it came to assigning pronouns to others. That's not what a child should be doing regardless of the state of affairs.

There was no need for her to do anything other than ask questions about logistics. She chose to step on a soap box inappropriately and her child was dismissed as a result.

"Dont tell your mum I raped you."

MrsOvertonsWindow · 31/08/2025 12:48

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:43

Yes but remember that there are a lot of transgendered people who are estranged from their families because they dont share their beliefs about gender. So it isn't like everybody who identifies as trans was raised by a parent who was all for the ideology by any means. But I bet the commonality will be that these parents all hold pretty rigid gender views despite their belief that they do not.

Parental / family alienation is baked into transgender ideology & practice with children being told from a young age that if parents don't immediately affirm and use correct pronouns they're bigots and children are better off without them.

Anyone who know anything about the life outcomes for children alienated from theur families (national data shows they do appallingly in every aspect measured) knows that keeping children in their families where possible is the best outcome.

But this doesn't stop the adult gender zealots who make it their business to promote the notion to children that parents who try to establish boundaries and safeguard children are bigots and transphobes and must be rejected.

NotBadConsidering · 31/08/2025 12:48

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:45

In my personal experience, children aren't right as much as adults. And then even when many adults are right and correctly identify someone who isnt gender conforming as their correct sex, they do so in a way that reinforces rigid gender roles, such as the "boyish girl" or the "girly boy". Not just another variation of being a boy or a girl.

But that doesn’t answer my question. Do you condone the practice of deliberately gaslighting children into believing they’re wrong about the sex of the person they’ve identified? Do you believe it to be appropriate for adults to lie to children? If so, why? Don’t you see the safeguarding problem with that?

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:48

ThatZanyFatball · 31/08/2025 12:43

"Now she fucked over her kid all because she just couldn't hold back from ranting about her opinions."

The word "seriously" is a rant? What did the camp think it was going to accomplish by contacting her? What was the point? If submitting pronouns is voluntary then what difference would it make what was written there? The point wasn't her behavior after the fact the point was that she didn't comply with the right think to begin with. The camp should have just ignored what the parent wrote but they escalated it by calling her to criticize her views. Doesn't matter if another kid who is part of the cult is attending the camp the courts have made it clear you cannot compell people to say/believe what they dont believe, period. Even if she had left it blank her child has a right to not call a boy who thinks he a girl a girl and the camp can't do anything about it. What do they think they're going to do in the future when this situation inevitably happens? Calling a boy a boy isn't harassment because the truth is not hate speech.

It just shows your intentions. It isn't to only tackle things that may rise. It is to attack anything you think might have the potential of rising.

BettyBooper · 31/08/2025 12:49

Ihavetoask · 31/08/2025 12:45

In my personal experience, children aren't right as much as adults. And then even when many adults are right and correctly identify someone who isnt gender conforming as their correct sex, they do so in a way that reinforces rigid gender roles, such as the "boyish girl" or the "girly boy". Not just another variation of being a boy or a girl.

Why are you so focused on the child doing potentially the 'wrong thing' with zero evidence, when the adults are absolutely already doing the wrong thing from the evidence out of their own mouths?