Conservative fears that gender ideology is taking its toll on our children are certainly justified, with one in five millennials now identifying as ‘LGBT’ (seven times the share of baby boomers). Almost half of Americans claim to know someone who is transgender, and five percent of young adults actually claim to be so. The number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria has trebled in five years, with the prescription of puberty blockers more than doubling within the same period. Most worrying of all, are the rising numbers of young people who come to regret the gender-affirming surgeries they were rushed into.
The questionable motives of those pushing such an agenda do nothing to allay these fears. This is particularly evident from recent ‘Pride’ events, which are becoming ever-more brazen by the day. One such event was a New York City Pride march last Friday, in which drag queens and topless activists chanted ‘we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children!’ Reassuring stuff.
In our schools, this obviously translates to less time on the three R’s and more time on non-binary nonsense – and it is hard not to conclude that such influence is not (at least in part) responsible for the failing standards of education. How could it not be? With the vast majority of teachers of a liberal persuasion, many are clearly in sympathy with current gender ideology. Even those who are not, are loathe to question such a doctrine for fear of losing their jobs (e.g. for ‘misgendering’ pupils), while record numbers are simply washing their hands of education and leaving the profession.
However, while there is clearly something to worry about, there are grounds for optimism too; not from the teachers, but from the children themselves. It is obvious from the news reports that a rebellious streak is alive and kicking within our academies. Not the fake rebellions orchestrated by the likes of Greta Thunberg – conformists who couldn’t organise a bunk-off school if Armageddon depended on it, and who find themselves in the embarrassing position of having to delete apocalyptic tweets, because the climate fails to ‘wipe out humanity’ on schedule.
No, humanity’s last stand is being manned by those brave enough to speak out alone when the world has lost its mind; a stand increasingly being taken in our schools, out of necessity. Last month’s heretic was a 13-year-old girl at Rye College, East Sussex, who was branded ‘despicable’ for daring to question another pupil’s assertion that she identified as a cat:
Teacher: ‘How dare you? You just really upset someone, saying things like [you] should be in an asylum.’
Pupil: ‘I didn’t say that, I just said if they want to identify as a cow or something, then they are genuinely unwell, and they’re crazy.’
Teacher: ‘You were questioning their identity,’ the teacher replies. ‘Where did you get this idea from that there’s only two genders?’
Pupil: ‘I just said my opinion. If I respect their opinion, can’t they respect mine?’
Of course, the teacher did not respect her opinion. Worryingly, this is hardly an isolated incident. It is an increasing sign of the times that British pupils are excluded on the grounds of refusing to believe a lie. When they dare to point out to the teachers that there are, in fact, only two genders, students are advised that this is an ‘unacceptable opinion, which would need to be kept to your own house’.
The same intolerance meets any child who believes in free speech, and dares to question the prevailing narrative. Up and down the country pupils are being routinely excluded for questioning trans ideology, disqualified from examinations for daring to suggest that halal slaughter is ‘disgusting’, and are forced to expose the 30-year-old bearded migrants in their classes, because the schools and authorities are too short-sighted or too fearful to notice.
The young must be congratulated here not just for their courage in speaking out, but in their ability to find novel ways of circumventing the nonsense which is increasingly being foisted upon them under the guise of ‘education’. Much like the secondary school boys banned from wearing shorts in 30 degree heat (who bypassed the pompous regulations by wearing skirts), an increasing number of pupils are fighting fire with fire, and are choosing to ‘identify’ as bizarre entities – an approach which may well end up breaking the system.
English schools are now no longer home to pupils, but breeding grounds for cats, horses, dinosaurs and moons. With teachers evidently in fear of being branded ‘discriminatory’ should they question any pupil’s identification, students have clearly found an ingenious way to waste class time. In any normal era, this would almost certainly have a deleterious effect on their education; in modern Britain however, this merely means less time for indoctrination, and is unlikely to do them anywhere near as much harm as the teachers’ scuppered lesson plans.
The authorities are now involved in this particular case of feline identification, although how much that will assist matters is unclear. Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, has demanded the school in question face an investigation over ‘pupil safety’ which sounds sensible enough, until one realises this is the same Gillian Keegan who backs the ‘common sense’ policy of allowing children to ‘change gender’ at school, provided parents agree.
In Han’s Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes it was a small boy who saved the adults from their fears of being branded stupid. I suspect that in the absence of any adults in the room, the intervention of the young may be required once again. If anyone is to save us from the ravages of cancel culture, it is almost certainly going to be those youthful bigots cursed with the knowledge that there are only two genders.
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I’m not so sure. My daughter, now aged 23, was quite successfully brainwashed at school despite her father voting for Brexit and subscribing to right-ish blogs. Even her experience in the cut-throat world of commerce hasn’t dimmed her Thunbergesque beliefs. We shall see, I suppose.
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Maybe a few children should identify as teachers, as clearly no teacher is able to at the moment.