Sorry for all the Telegraph links, but they keep pinging on my phone. Here is an extract from yet another article about the 'furries'. I think it is spot on, and mirrors a lot of the things we have been saying on here for years. The accusations of a 'Right Wing plot', the fact that Gender Dysphoria is very rare, but treated as though it is as commonplace as Anxiety, the anger from the teacher as she is challenged - it's all very familiar on these threads. There are more articles, including one saying that Keira Starmer has finally spoken sense on the so-called 'gender' issue, and this is, as I say, just an extract; but I am in danger of reproducing the entire Telegraph on here if I keep going. You can read it all free for a trial period if you are so inclined, but the gist is in the extract:
It feels absurd to be typing this, but audio has emerged from an East Sussex school of a teacher reprimanding some pupils who’ve refused to treat as a reality another pupil’s claim that they are, in fact, a cat.
The teacher’s response has to be heard to be believed; were it not for the recording made by a shrewd child in the room, I would have struggled to believe this wasn’t a hoax. Having chastised them about the importance of “inclusion”, the teacher informs the girls they are “despicable” and ought to be at a different school. (Child murder? Despicable. Defrauding a charity? Despicable. Saying girls have a vagina and boys a penis? Not so much.)
Next, she threatens to report the children to “Miss Willis”, the Cotton Mather de nos jours. When one pupil says that her mother will back her up on this, the schoolmistress claims that this explains why we have such a problem with homophobia around the world. Yes, that’s right, we’ve cracked it. The Ayatollah and the Taliban are taking their lead from the mother of a teenage girl somewhere in East Sussex.
The teacher concludes by solemnly explaining that the cat-identifying pupil is now “writing a statement” of her own. Presumably in lieu of a traditional written statement, Macavity will be dropping a furball or a dead shrew at the teacher’s feet.
There is much to unpack here – good and bad. Firstly, it puts paid to the myth that all young people are on board with this rubbish. Children are discerning; with a keen eye for the absurd. They are not stupid. It’s the adults peddling such nonsense who can’t take the flak. Note the teacher’s mounting anger at having her beliefs challenged. While she parrots gender buzz-phrases, presumably learnt at some inset training day or in the nether regions of Tumblr, the pupils remain calm yet utterly convinced of their own beliefs. This represents a grotesque inversion of roles; adults should provide rationality to the young, not vice versa.
Though this teacher embodies the “ad absurdum” end of the spectrum, this can scarcely be called a “made-up culture war”, or “Right-wing propaganda”, but proof of the deranged indoctrination infiltrating our schools. Nor is it an isolated incident. Indeed, it mirrors the logic used regularly by the trans lobby.
Gender dysphoria is a distressing and extremely rare condition, whose sufferers need proper care and support. But the explosive rise in the numbers of children identifying as a different gender, within a short space of time, suggests vast social contagion.
