Posted on 04/01/2025 8:34:47 AM PDT by Twotone
A child between the ages of 3-4 was suspended from a British state school two years ago after being accused of being “transphobic.”
“Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for ‘abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity,’” The Telegraph reported.
“It beggars belief that schools are suspending children as young as five for breaching their ‘transphobia’ policy. I would have thought that if your ideology is so rigid it justifies you punishing toddlers for not complying with it, that’s a powerful argument for discarding it in favor of something less dogmatic,” Lord Young, the director of the Free Speech Union, told the media outlet, which added that “statistics show that 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23.”
“This is totalitarian insanity,” author JK Rowling stated on X. “If you think small children should be punished for being able to recognise sex, you are a dangerous zealot who should be nowhere near kids or in any position of authority over them.”
“Every once in a while, the extremes of gender ideology throw up a story that seems too crazy to believe, and a toddler being suspended from nursery for so-called ‘transphobia’ or homophobia is one such example,” Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, reacted.
“Worse still, this is not an isolated case,” she continued. “Apparently, 13 four and five-year-olds were suspended or permanently excluded from school for the same reason. Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs onto such young children. It’s unforgivable for children’s vital early education to be so traumatically disrupted by school leaders who prioritize activists’ demands over their charges’ wellbeing.”
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the British Department for Education stated, “All pupils and staff should feel safe and protected at school and should never face violence or abuse. The Education Secretary has been clear that she expects school leaders to enforce good behaviour and we are committed to a comprehensive programme of behaviour support for schools. Our Plan for Change sets out our relentless focus on making sure every child gets the best life chances, no matter their background…”
“In 2022, a Church of England school in the Isle of Wight warned a six-year-old boy’s parents that he might be deemed ‘transphobic’ if he were to question another pupil wearing a dress,” The Daily Mail pointed out.
It’s not the children it’s the Insane Perverted Adults running the Preschool
I just wonder, what would it be called of someone was terrified of trannies? Because “phobia” seems to now mean “disapproves of” or “doesn’t like” rather than “an intense, irrational, and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or activity” like the dictionary says.
I can dislike and disapprove of many things that I have absolutely no fear of.
This video is really funny.
The little girl is crying because her daddy called her a Democrat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHEGvSkkpeI
This is becoming ‘phobiaphobia’.
You make a good point. It’s just another example of how the left has taken over the language.
I disapprove of much of the gay culture. But it’s a free country. I don’t hate them. And I don’t fear them. Nevertheless, I’m homophobic. And that means I’m a hater.
Can’t people just proclaim this ideology unacceptable?
Because it is.
Who says it must be this way?
It’s the UK, what do you expect?
Evil incarnate.
It’s been only a generation since Margaret Thatcher was running the UK. Reagan was right when he proclaimed that freedom is always only a generation away from being lost.
“It’s been only a generation since Margaret Thatcher was running the UK. “
Almost two. 35 years.
The UK has become a totalitarian dictatorship that oppresses its White/Christian citizens. However, it’s very welcoming when it comes to its newly-arrived middle eastern inhabitants who are thrilled at the prospect of oppressing White/Christian Britons.
Lucky child, homeschool it, that’s what our grandkids are doing.
‘abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity’. That’s a new one on me.
“All pupils and staff should feel safe and protected at school...”
Yep, nothing says safe like big brother terrorizing a 4 year old kid.
I’ll bet it was one of those mooselimb schools. I forget what they’re called but you know how tolerant they are. Their acceptance of other lifestyles borders on the tyrannical.
Exactly, the Brits have only themselves to blame.
Nope just the United Socialist Soviet Kingdom <- That tracks.
Such sick bullying. Are the authorities proud of ganging up on a child who doesn’t even know what sex stands for? GB no more.
They're called madrassas.
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