School toilets ‘should be mixed-sex so transgender pupils feel comfortable’
History teacher Julia Neal, chair of the [ATL teaching] union’s equality and diversity committee, put forward the motion challenging “gender identity prejudice” in education.
She told the Evening Standard that teachers need training on how to provide “non-gender-specific facilities”. She said: “It’s about senior management teams and governing bodies understanding that there are a lot of facilities in schools that are separated — changing rooms and toilets and uniforms are very gender-specific...
...“If there is gender fluidity they need to understand the importance of gender-neutral facilities. And they need to understand how pupils want to be referred to, as he or she.
Ms Neal suggested schools could consider introducing unsegregated toilets and changing rooms, or adding a third option of “gender neutral” to the existing male and female facilities.
But she admitted: “If you ban female or male toilets you might make other people feel uncomfortable.”Wow - that is so big of her! Besides, would any schoolgirl object to having to undress while a male classmate watched? Seriously? And, really - would her parents be selfish and old-fashioned enough to actually object? As white teenage and pre-teenage British girls in Rotherham and other centres of vibrant multiculturalism have discovered in recent years, they don't actually currently feature on the left's list of pet victim groups, while transexuals (or would-be or perhaps-would-be-but-don't-really-know or pretend-transexuals - i.e. blokes who claim to be transgender but still cling, as it were, to the old meat and two veg) have shot to the top of the charts - well, to No. 2, at least, because Muslims look set to occupy the No. 1 spot for the foreseeable future (or until the caliphate has been established in Britain and every Guardian-reading collaborator has been summarily decapitated).
Do read the rest of the Standard article, because it's an absolute dilly. It includes Ms Neal's calls for teachers to be given training on how to "support young people who have gender identity questions", and on "celebrating" trans role models (a fairly short list, one would have thought), on using "inclusive language", and on how to provide "non-gender-specific" facilities.
Given that there are only estimated to be 2,500 or so transgender people of all ages in the whole of the UK, you wouldn't peg this as an issue that crops up a lot in schools. Despite her right-on role, Ms Neal has only encountered "one or two" pupils who wanted to change gender (this sounds oddly unspecific - it shouldn't be too hard to remember whether there were one or two of them). But no matter: “My own view is that it doesn’t matter if it’s just one student who isn’t served by the lack of [teachers’] understanding. That is one student’s life that is very difficult.”
Please stop, Julia - I might start crying.
In case you think there hasn't been enough sympathetic coverage of the liberal-left's latest crush, never fear - Hollywood, as ever, stands ready to oblige. This is from Variety, March 21st:
Joel Silver Transgender Drama ‘New People’ Is in the Works at Freeform
Freeform is developing “New People,” a drama series from writer Don Roos, who is executive producing with Joel Silver and Rodney Ferrell...The series is based on the novel “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family,” which tells the story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother and their family.
The book was a New York Times best seller. It was named one of the 10 best books of the year by People and Men’s Journal magazines.How utterly lovely.
There literally isn't anyone in the whole world I could possibly care any less about than a woman who thinks she should have been born in possession of a penis, or a man who thinks he shouldn't. There are so many genuine victims of discrimination and violence and ignorance throughout the world that the liberal-left's obsession with this utterly trivial non-issue strikes me as positively immoral and perverted. The only reason they're trumpeting it so vigorously is not that they care about the people themselves - the Left does not care about individuals - it's purely in order to embarrass all those conservatives and right-wingers whom the very thought of transgenderism renders queasy. It's a political manoeuvre, designed to allow leftists to demand of conservatives, "Do you support transgender people?" If your answer is "No", then you're a heartless fascist. If you answer "Yes", they've triumphed by forcing you to deny your beliefs, values and instincts. You're not allowed to answer "In some cases", because the Left deals in classes of victim, not individual victims. If you answer, "Yes, well, I don't want them to be punished, of course, and I feel a bit sorry for some of them, I suppose, and as long as they have an operation and then keep quiet about it, I won't object," you will learn that turning a blind eye is not an option - not only do you have to grudgingly accept transgender people, you have to enthusiastically support their "cause" and clasp them to your bosom, all the while begging forgiveness for the centuries of prejudice and cruelty they and their kind have been forced to endure, because - even though you weren't alive then and probably wouldn't approve of whatever indignities were visited upon them - it's still your fault, right?
Finally, you have to capitulate entirely and admit - publicly - that people who choose to change sex, and even those who are just vaguely thinking of doing so, are morally superior to you - and that your world should be altered in whatever ways are necessary, no matter how inconvenient or expensive, to make all transgender folk feel valued, accepted, and universally loved.
I'll end with one of the comments posted under the video of the "adorable" video I started with: "When she grows up & has kids of her own she'll have to take them to visit Grandma & Tranpa." No, don't laugh - members of the transgender community might think you're laughing at them.
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