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A thread about sex, lies and paedophiles. Yesterday @PinkNews published an article on comments I made on a Facebook thread about teachers. I have to say whenever I hear Pink News is publishing something resembling a story I think of Cecilia Martinez.
2./ Remember her? In her early 80s this amateur painter decided to restore a Spanish fresco. The results were hilarious and bore as much resemblance to the original as the average Pink News story does to the actual facts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921
3./ People who are gender critical like those involved in @AllianceLGB have asked innumerable times for a proper debate with Pink News on issues of substance but they never take up the offer. We'd be happy to engage in debate, for example, on how the rights of same-sex...
4./ ...attracted peeps may be undermined by the conflation of biological sex and gender. We're also keen to discuss why there's been an over 3000% rise in the number of girls being referred to GI clinics. Pink News and its allies make endless excuses why they can't debate.
5./ Instead they attack, skew, obscure, exaggerrate and obfuscate. The reason is simple: they're scared of open public debate. They and people like @DawnButlerBrent @patrickharvie and @OwenJones84 know they cannot defend their positions except by silencing critics.
6./ Only if they shout, bully, troll and malign can they retain their status as rather agitated Wizards of Woke. So do I really think gay teachers are all abusers as Pink News implied? Of course I bloody don't. Even the quotes they used ...
7./ ...disprove their own headline and their claims. I was actually discussing LGBTQ+ groups being set up in schools and the potential risks. All I pointed out (among other comments) was that we do have to be careful because a tiny minority of adults do prey on kids.
8./ I made clear the obvious fact that this tiny minority will be mainly straight because most teachers are straight. But it's silly to deny there will also be a tiny minority of gay teachers who come into contact with kids who are a risk. But no more and no less than straights.
9./ As critics have rightly pointed out any group of kids doing any activity are at risk from those adults. True enough. BUT an LGBTQ+ group unlike any other group in schools is set up specifically around sexuality. Talking about equations or parsing verbs...
10. ..isn't the same as talking about sexual attraction, and how comfortable a kid might feel in his or her body. And these groups are not set up by kids. Here's the first Stonewall guide to setting up LGBTQ+ groups in schools. https://www.stonewall.org.uk/sites/default/files/2_setting_up_lgbt_groups_for_young_people.pdf
11./ It makes clear groups are set up by adult teachers FOR kids; and for kids ....of all ages. The guide includes quotes from a Year 7 student praising their group (yes an 11 year old). I'm not saying 11 year olds don't ever know if they're LGBT. Some later say they did know.
12./ Most don't and are just pondering. The age range of many of the clubs is 11-17 yrs old. Any 11 year old is also at a distinct disadvantage to 15 & 16 yr olds in the group. Whose monitoring interactions? Stonewall recommends "anything discussed in the room stays in the room".
13./ Err. Ok. All of this would just be vaguely concerning if we could be sure that Stonewall and the army of people it's trained to march through schools really cared about safeguarding. But here's Stonewall's Aimee Challoner talking about her work in schools (last para).
14./ That's the same Aimee that failed to tell the Green Party her dad was on a child rape charge for which he was eventually jailed. She was later suspended from the Lib Dems after her fiancee's child sex fantasies were exposed. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lib-dems-suspend-trans-campaigner-over-tweets-jcsg0tdtq
15./ And then there's the mental confusion caused by other Stonewall so-called mentors. Believe it or not Alex Drummond the bearded lesbian goes into schools where "she" elucidates the mysteries of being "gender-queer and gender-fluid". To 11 year olds?
16./ So what's all this got to do with my comments that Pink News botched? It only shows that all LGBTQ+ school groups may not always be safe spaces. Stonewall should surely acknowledge there may be risks. Then everyone can work together to remove them.
17./ Denying there might be risks isn't just naive. It undermines LGBT education. If and when something goes wrong the whole enterprise will be tarred. Safeguarding of kids requires vigilance and shouldn't be lost in the rush of enthusiasm for so-called 'inclusive teaching'.
18./ And if that's true of safeguarding around sexuality it's just as true on gender identity. Here's Elly Barnes from Educate and Celebrate explaining how they go in and "educate" teachers in the latest minutiae of gender doctrine.
19./ And here's Relationship and Sex Education paid for and provided to schools by the BBC. At 1min 35 secs one of the teachers explains how there are over 100 genders and reveals the mysteries of "bi-gender". Yeah me neither. To 9 year olds! https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/rse-ks2-identity-understanding-sexual-and-gender-identities/zfqrhbk
20./ Don't get me wrong. I'd have loved some more pro-gay commentary at my bigoted Ayrshire school. But Elly's breathless enthusiasm and the BBC's baffling baloney worries me. It hasn't been thought through and parental objections are being steamrollered.
21./ Also I hate to be boring but what will straight kids and their tax paying parents make of all this expensive navel-gazing and weirdness? It's easy to forget but working class kids (straight and gay) actually NEED education and skills if they're to succeed.
22/. There really is poverty and inequality in Britain and education can be a way out of it. This garbage reeks of entitled middle-class "teachers" failing in the one job they were asked to do: educate. As for Pink News it jumped on a comment of mine about a tiny minority...
23/. ..of adults. Their real intention tho is to close down a debate about the much bigger risk of gender identity propaganda in schools. But if they and their ilk can scream, rant and troll so abusively at a gay bloke that dares to question their precious belief system..
24. ..just imagine what they do to ordinary parents. If lesbians and gays who step out of line are denounced with bullying accusations of homophobia what chance have parents and teachers got who worry about this reckless experiment with the future of our nation's children?
