Category: Schools & Gender Ideology

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Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

I mentioned author Helen Joyce in my last post. She has written a very fine book on the topic. A “Book of the Year” according to The Spectator. It’s one of the several that I’ve read on this subject. She has a PhD in Mathematics. She is the finance editor at The Economist. And now she has turned her attention to the most important issue of the day.

She is not a Christian, but she defends the reality of sexed bodies, male and female.

She’s very sharp. As you will see. She is also relentlessly reasonable.

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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”

Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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Kids Taught ‘Sliding Scale’ Between Male & Female

In England 800 schools have been sent copies of a children’s book, for children ages 8-11, entitled, What Does LGBT+ Mean?

In the book they are taught that a person’s sex is “assigned” to them by a doctor at birth and that gender can be a “sliding scale“.

The Times reports the book is….

Written by mother-and-son diversity campaigners, it features a picture of a doctor holding a clipboard and pen by a row of babies under the “assigned sex” chapter. The book adds that “gender is different from assigned sex” and is who they “feel” they are, with examples given as “male, female, both or neither”.

Author Helen Joyce, from the advocacy group Sex Matters told The Times:

Nobody is assigned a sex. I’ve given birth twice and both times I knew what sex the baby was at 20 weeks. It’s just absurd. How did we get to a place where teachers feel they can sit and say to primary children, ‘Some people feel male, some feel female, some feel both and some feel neither’?

(See my rebuttal of the “assigned” fiction here.)

If you wonder why states like Florida have written new laws about these matters, this is why.

According to The Times:

There are also two pages dedicated to an explanation of sexual orientation, with labels of heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual and asexual.

The book…

includes a section on “gender as a spectrum”, saying: “Some people find it useful to think of gender as a sliding scale between male and female.” The scale is shown with labels in between male and female, including mostly female, partly female, both or neither, partly male and mostly male.

The full story in The Times.

The importance of the teacher
“The importance of the teacher” by gibsonsgolfer is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0.

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“Outed” Student & How It Saved Him

Here is a sensitive, honest article by a gay man with a different perspective from most LGBTQ+ activists, activists who want to keep parents in the dark about their children.

Activists who say telling parents about a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity will endanger that student.

Years ago he was “outed” to his parents by a school counselor. And he is so glad that happened.

Read about it here. [Standard link disclaimer1Links from this blog to online resources don’t necessarily mean I support everything found there. But as adults we should embrace viewpoint diversity. And make alliances where we can.].

A huge parental backlash over this issue is making for some unusual political coalitions. People in the U.K. are voting “Tory” for the first time. I expect this will be concerning to many political liberals and moderates. So much so, that the upcoming mid-terms in the U.S. will find many “crossing the aisles” to vote Republican for the first time.

When you get between parents and their children expect political fallout.

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