Source material
The story of the bullied student appeared on Transgender Trend first, and the Times linked to it. It’s not well written, so I’ll quote only sparingly, but with all the anonymity and Owen Jones’s hunt for heretics, there’s an interest in sources.
Teacher John Rickards has written this account for us of how transgender ideology has infiltrated the girls’ school where he teaches, to the extent that the consequences are severe for any pupil who questions it. Recent government guidance on political impartiality in schools states:
Existing statutory requirements on political impartiality cover all schools, regardless of type or funding arrangement. This includes independent schools.
But there’s an invisible coda that says “except on trans issues.”
Anyway. There was
an ‘educational’ visit to a 6th form PSHE session of a member of the House of Lords. We will call her ‘Baroness A’. She is a well known LGBTQ speaker and activist with views on transgender issues not dissimilar to those of Mermaids and Stonewall (or to what its position has been in recent years). It’s worth noting that the school is a registered ‘Stonewall Diversity Champion’ and has in the past invited Mermaids in to address most of the school.
Why would a school invite Mermaids to talk? Inviting Mermaids to talk amounts to marketing trans idenniny to teenagers; why would a school do that?
It was during an after school activity on the day of the Baroness’s visit that the small group of 6th formers involved in the activity arrived very late and in an animated state. There had been, I learned, some major spat in the 6th form centre which they just ‘had’ to stay behind to witness. It involved a significant group of girls verbally ‘laying into’ one particular 18 yr old who had had the audacity to question the position of Baroness A during the Q & A. I later learned that the girl had pointed out that there was another person in the House of Lords, ‘Baroness B’ who held different views to ‘Baroness A’ and she wanted to know if they had debates or arguments about their differing positions.
It’s not at all clear why the Baronesses can’t be named. The sixth form can’t bully them.
Baroness A is probably Baroness Hunt aka Ruth Hunt, former CEO of Stonewall. Baroness B could be either Baroness Falkner or Baroness Nicholson, both are relatively high profile GC members of the Lords. Falkner more so I would say, as a result of her being chair of the EHRC, so has made more headlines on this subject recently.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on it, but they are the best known proponents of either side of the argument that I am aware of.
Oh, the inhumanity! To suggest that there are people with different views! Oh, how terrible! She got off lucky – I’m surprised they didn’t tar and feather her.
I really do wish mainstream papers would print what the “transphobes” actually say. It would peak a lot of people instantaneously to realize that such mild speech is being called “hate speech” and “dangerous”. They would begin to look at the trans lobby as deluded, and maybe be concerned about getting them some help, but they would not support the pronoun police and all the other nonsense.
Right now, most people (especially liberals) just think it sounds reasonable that trans should have the same rights as everyone else (I do, too) but they only know that the GC feminists are saying dangerous, hateful things. In short, they don’t know what we are really saying, almost all of which they would agree with.
Herein we see the difference between learning and indoctrination, and how the latter interferes with the former. QUESTIONS!??! HORRORS!
Of course “questions” and “debate” are the Achilles heel of the entire movement. Given the nature of reality, trans ideology is about as robust as a submarine knitted out of rainbow cotton candy.
Diversity Championship in action. Extra points for the spitting, too. I’m sure Stonewall will take this into account when the school’s membership comes up for renewal. How many (if any) of the teachers or staff felt inhibited from coming to the student’s aid when she was attacked for fear of losing Stonewall’s seal of approval?