We are in danger of harming children
JUST when you think the transgender madness cannot get any worse, up pops another story that makes you doubt the sanity of the nation. Brighton and Hove City Council (natch) has just announced that schoolchildren will be taught that “trans boys and men and non-binary people may have periods,” or to put it another way, that boys, like girls, can have periods. To which you can only say: “Oh no they can’t.” This is moving beyond the understanding of transgender rights and the entirely laudable aim of treating transgender people properly. It is wicked. Boys do not menstruate, boys do not have periods and boys cannot bear children. The fact that this even needs to be written down shows how utterly ludicrous the situation has become.
Except that “ludicrous” implies there’s something funny about it and there’s absolutely nothing amusing about what we’re doing to the poor little things who are being taught such arrant nonsense at school. They are too young to understand that they are being lied to by people with an agenda of their own to push and given such a warped and totally false approach to human biology. What on earth are they going to make of it all when they grow up? As has been noted here before, the incidence of mental health issues among the very young is becoming alarming. Is it any wonder, given what claptrap they are hearing in schools, from teachers, the people who, after their own parents, should be the ones they can most trust?
I can’t believe that deep down the majority of teachers are happy about it, either, because the best in their profession know what an important part they play in their charges’ existence and that this is actually a betrayal of trust. I have just heard
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APPARENTLY when a woman meets a man she finds attractive, her voice lowers and she starts sounding like Lauren Bacall. So scientists say, anyway. In our dreams, alas. In my experience when a woman sees a man she fancies, she’s just as likely to start talking in a high-pitched squeak and giggling at inappropriate moments. Not so much channeling husky Lauren as Minnie Mouse. from my own teacher, a woman who turned me from semi-literate to Oxbridge material, self-deprecatingly playing down a piece I wrote here about how a good educator can change lives (she certainly did mine). If anything, I understated it. A good teacher can make a crucial difference to a child’s development and now this lot are being told to knowingly tell an untruth. What sort of a society have we become?