For years I was tolerant of those who we today are supposed to call ‘transgender’. I loved and still do to a certain extent, a good, or rather filthy, adult drag show. I’d met plenty of transvestites who were no great threat to society and for whom dressing up, either in private or in a club designated for such as purpose, was their hobby. I was also quite close to, a relatively large number for the time, transsexuals and I found that some of these individuals were decent, law abiding and respectful people although I also encountered those who were verging on the dangerous obsession side when it came to promoting their views and opinions.
I was the quintessential social liberal when it came to how people dressed and what they did in the privacy of their own homes or in clubs. However that’s not the case for me now. I’ve seen too much of the bad side of the transgender cult. I now reject it because it is no longer a tiny number of adults indulging discreetly in their relatively harmless proclivities, but a dangerous monster intent on doing damage to society.
I’ve looked down the moral abyss of the ‘tranny hole’ and what I find now disgusts me. I’m disgusted at how trans activists now target children in order to get the young to believe falsehoods such as that it is possible to change sex and the damage that the cult of trans has done to women’s rights, women’s sports, women’s justifiable same sex spaces. I’m also appalled at how the doctrines of this cult have been pushed into every part of society and how women have been erased whenever this happens.
One way that women have been erased as women from society is by the trans approved language that is used to describe the natural bodily functions of women, functions that can only be applied to women such as pregnancy and childbirth. Wherever we look these days there is the linguistic abomination of ‘pregnant people’ and ‘birthing person’ used in place of ‘pregnant women’ or ‘a woman giving birth’.
This women erasure crap gets everywhere and has even turned up in a home school communication letter from my own child’s primary school, much to my chagrin.
The letter was about an outbreak of Measles in our area and stated that there has been an increase in cases of Measles in local schools and nurseries. The issue of Measles is not a matter of concern to us as our son was vaccinated against Measles along with German Measles, Mumps, Polio and other preventable diseases, but it is something that those parents who haven’t had their children vaccinated need to worry about.
What does concern me is the wording of the letter and especially surrounding the school’s description of those who are particularly at risk. The letter mentioned ‘people who are pregnant’ and this infuriated me and is something that I will be bringing up in a letter to my child’s school. There is no such thing as ‘people who are pregnant’ as only women, not men, can become pregnant.
This is dishonest and ideological language being used by a school and it is yet another example of how women and women specific issues are being erased from life by the use of such language. There is a long standing term to use to describe those who carry babies from conception to birth and that word is women. The term that the school should have used is ‘pregnant women’ and no other.
The fact that the school felt willing and able to use this term in a communication about Measles both disgusts and alarms me. It disgusts me because it shows that the cult of trans and all that is wrong about it is now metastasising in my child’s school and it alarms me because if they are going to be so open in using such ideological language in the context of a Measles warning, then what other trans related bullshit is also going on in the school? How deep is the tranny hole at this school I wonder? The use of the term ‘people who are pregnant’ is an abomination in itself but to see it being used by the first aid chief of a primary school is extremely worrying.
It is worrying. Very. Pity the poor teacher who has to teach Harry one day & Harriet the next, and wonder what to call him/her/they to its parents on Parent/Teacher evening. It is just a great stack of dangerous nonsense being driven by the 0.5% and their Camp Supporters.
I for one utterly refuse to engage in public or private. “If you’ve got a d*ck, you ain’t a chick” as an American friend says. Frequently.
Like you I feel sorry for the teachers at least in part. They have to go along with the monstrous lie that a child can change sex and if they do not collude with the child’s real or feigned mental illness then they can quite easily lose their jobs. It is indeed a stack of dangerous nonsense but what’s worse is tht the number of actual transsexuals is probably well below 0.5%. I have long observed the advocates for the cult of trans, which wrongly in my view conflates transvestisism and transsexualism, gain access to politicians, civil servants and the wider public sector and the results have been horrifying.
I’ve had some suspicions about how far the trans cult has penetrated into local schools and in particular my child’s school when I examined their uniform policy and found that there were clearly gendered uniform standards in the main parent facing pages about the school however when I drilled down into some of the school’s published policy documents I found uniform guidelines that treated as true aspects of gender ideology and one particular misreading of the 2010 Equality Act that could have come straight from the pens of Stonewall. I can see myself engaging in some future robust discussion with the school over this. The Stonewall-a-like policy wording and the woman erasing term of ‘pregnant people’ gives me ample justification for doing so.
I’m not sure how much sympathy I have for teachers in general.
I have sympathy for the GOOD teachers who (try to) teach in a impartial and non-ideological way.
But I am also certain that there are many teachers who are pushing this bullsh*t. For them and their indoctrination program (one can’t call it a teaching program see – https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/28/how-activism-took-over-the-classroom/) I have nothing but contempt.
Although to be fair, this generation is merely the latest iteration of a process that started last century, back in the 1980s when political goals became incorporated into the aims of education. And I should admit that I do not know how much of the current situation comes about from external pressures or laziness (in adoption of Stonewallian etc. ‘teaching’ (=indoctrination) material); but I suspect that a teacher who stood against this nonsense would be thrown under the ideological bus by his/her fellows (or governing body maybe) rather than the parents.
Schools should be there to educate and teach thinking skills. Theirs should not be the job of being ersatz social workers, police, or social engineers, but sadly far too many teachers today see such things as policing speech or promoting given ideologies to change society as perhaps the major part of their role
Some very good points there, especially about the politicisation of teaching. But I’d say it goes back further than the 80’s and its roots can be more accurately found in the 70’s. It was then, a period when I was at school, that the old timers of the post war teaching generation were retiring and being replaced by those who were radical Left 68’s.