Best practice
Stonewall wants to launder all the brains.
Teachers should drop the terms boys and girls in favour of “learners”, and mix up the sexes in PE classes, Stonewall has told schools.
The controversial LGBT charity is urging teachers to ditch all gendered language and gendered uniforms and suggests that children should compete against the opposite sex in sport.
Great idea! That way boys will always win! (Just don’t call them boys. Small price to pay.)
There are awards for schools that follow the most slavishly.
Those wishing to win are directed to a guide which tells them that “it is unnecessary to say ‘boys and girls’ when referring to learners of all genders, you could instead say ‘learners'”.
They are told that they should check their policies and remove any “unnecessarily gendered language. Instead of using ‘he’/‘she’, you could use ‘they'”.
On the one hand gender is the most important thing on earth, on the other hand gender doesn’t exist. Also it’s very useful for school children to learn that there is no distinction between female people and male people.
Tanya Carter, a spokesman for the parents and teachers campaign group Safe Schools Alliance UK, said “It is shocking that cash-strapped schools are paying for misinformation from Stonewall that undermines basic safeguarding.”
She said that sport should be “separated by sex for reasons of safety and fairness”, particularly in light of a recent Ofsted report that found sexual harassment was prevalent in schools.
Yes but it’s only girls it’s unsafe and unfair to, so that doesn’t matter.
And between singular people and plural people. Oh, added bonus: this also includes “Mulriple Systems”. Remember them?
You mean they are flogging this crap for money? Do they have a shit-vendors licence?
Oh yes, they’re flogging all of it for money, quite a lot of money.
So any bets as to how many summer homes, yachts, and embezzlement is likely lurking underneath the surface?
If they do away with he and she, what is the point of adding pronouns to your profile? If there are no divisions by sex, why do trans women need to be women?
You see, iknklast, they don’t care that their apparent agenda is contradictory and incoherent, because that is not their agenda. It’s not the words per se that are the point; it’s their ability to control the thoughts of others. In fact, the contradictions and incoherence actually help the actual agenda, in that it becomes impossible for anyone to avoid committing a thought-crime, and therefore anyone can be accused of ‘transphobia’ and be piled on, for saying something which could have been reasonably thought to be safe. Nothing is safe.
Even if we grant that we need to move away from using terms like ‘boy’ and ‘girl’, why the fuck would you ignore ‘student’ as the default genderless recommendation? One of the most common themes I’ve noticed in these activists is their lousy vocabulary.
Holms, for some reason “learners” has become a default in education. I see nothing wrong with students, but that is just so 20th century, or something.
Wait a minute, if you ‘ditch all gendered language and gendered uniforms’ how will the trans girls parade their ‘fabulousness?’ Today the plaid skirt, tomorrow the head-tilt!
Grey tunics for all!