Citing fear of controversy
One of Edinburgh’s top performing secondaries has been accused of censorship after it emerged senior teaching staff banned an interview with a gender-critical MP.
A pupil at Boroughmuir High School secured an interview with the former SNP politician Joanna Cherry last year – but the headteacher pulled the article from the school newspaper citing fear of controversy.
Fear of controversy? No. Fear of relentless uproar and shouting and bullying. So the noose tightens and tightens – no you are not allowed to talk to someone who says men are not women, because those men would shout at us. It’s not years in the Lubyanka, it’s not life in Siberia, it’s angry stupid deluded men shouting at us, and we just can’t face it.
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censure[censorship] occurred following a storm of publicity after it was revealed the school was teaching children there are “three sexes”.
Note: there are not three sexes.
The teenager, who is now about to start a law degree, told The Scotsman: “Fellow pupils were unhappy about having a ‘terf’ in the paper and that was fine, I was happy dealing with that because you can have these debates. But to have it from the school itself – about our local MP – was shocking and odd.”
The council was the first in Scotland to criticise existing Scottish Government schools guidance – which is currently subject to legal threat – as “unlawful”.
A council insider said: “It shows how far this issue has moved back to sanity when we had one of our best schools censoring Joanna Cherry for her gender critical beliefs and now we are pushing for single-sex spaces in schools.” Edinburgh city council declined to comment but did not offer any corrections to the teenager’s version of events.
The former pupil said he was taken out of class to be told that the head had held a meeting with senior members of staff and they had decided an interview with Ms Cherry was “too political”.
Too political for what?
The student appealed to Ms Cherry’s parliamentary office for help.
Staff from the English department and school library privately told him they were supportive but could not say so publicly. “Another teacher approached and told me Joanna Cherry is a ‘horrible terf’, and that language was normalised,” he added.
Ms Cherry said it had been “very disappointing” that a school head should have seen “fit to censor the hard work of a bright pupil in this way”.
“This reprehensible behaviour is just another example of the capture of our public institutions by a regressive ideology which puts magical thinking about gender above the rights of women and above basic human rights to freedom of expression and belief,” she added.
Quite the package holiday.
So if we look at this from the other direction, it’s not at all controversial to put male sex offenders into women’s prisons, open female-only hospital wards to men, have men runing women’s shelters telling women who resist having even more men in them that they are bigots who need re-educating, have men compete on women’s sporys teams, endangering and displacing female competitors, and stealing their awards and titles. That’s a lot to swallow in order to avoid the “controversy” that supposedly arises by stating the basic fact that men aren’t, and can’t be, women.
Oh yes, I almost forgot: in this backwards world, it is perfectly normal and uncontroversial to expect and force lesbians to accept males as potential sex partners.