Too many educators (and parents) are taking normal children's make-believe capacities into some sort of faux "reality". Part of the magic of children is their ability to create magical worlds within the actual reality of lives that need to eat, sleep and have other responsibilities like school homework or even preschool attendance.
We can’t stop people believing what they want to believe - that is their right under the BORA. But we can stop them imposing that belief onto others via deceptive language and discriminatory policies. Although transvestite is a more accurate description, I have used ‘transgender’ to suit the audience I am writing for - people sitting on the fence with a gut feeling something is wrong but not sure what to do about it.
Of course the regular public will need to take a run up at this thorny subject - I know it’s going to take every single one of us to turn the Bad Ship Tranny around, of every political persuasion/walk of life.
But imagine if children came home saying ‘Mummy, I’m a transvestite!’ this shit would have been dead in the water….the rebranding of transvestite men into ‘transgender women’ is the most audacious and wrong thing to happen in my lifetime as reality itself is at stake; the children’s bodies are the price.
‘If names be not correct, then language is not in accordance with the truth of things.’ Confucius. How long will we have to skirt around it?
I agree with your analogy but I don’t think the general public are there yet. They’re still struggling with accepting ‘transwomen are men’. Trans is definitely an audacious marketing strategy that has been so successful it will take years to turn around.
Best Wishes! If parents and the public knew and understood what some schools are pushing at the children, they'd be horrified! This RADICAL GENDER IDEOLGY has to get out of schools!!
Thanks Fern for the clarity you bring to these issues. What has happened to the teaching profession. I suspect moral cowardice. But as ever what dismays me the most is the absence of men failing to support and assert women’s rights guaranteed under the law at present.
If anyone in our education system cares about doing the right thing re 'trans' identification, this shows them the way forward as clearly as it can be shown, on paper. It's very, very well written. However, I question that this desire to do the right thing by girls and boys exists in our school systems anymore when so many children, including my three who were groomed to believe 'gender is fluid', and that being straight or 'cis' is boring and old-fashioned, at their co-ed state high-school 10-15 years ago, and their generation is now making a lot of the decisions across the public service sector. The 'trans' leaders, as we know, never intended this to be fair to girls or women, or gay youth. They are evil men intent upon 'transing' as many children as possible and removing rights and digntity from all women and girls, and who have convinced the majority of at least one generation of young people, and a good many of their parents as well, here as everywhere, that they are the good guys who care about young people, and we are the mean mothers/female teachers who don't understand or care. I also don't think religious freedom for misogynist religions can ever give 'parallel dignity' to girls. I have mentioned in comments before that my 15-year-old daughter on a school trip to a Hindu temple in Auckland was told she could not enter the building and participate in the supposed educational and cultural enrichment talk if she was bleeding. The female teacher was forced to stay outside (bleeding or not) with the girls whose dignity surely dropped to rock bottom when they felt forced to admit they were bleeding and miss the talk. My daughter went inside and was told to sit with the other girls on one side of the room, with the boys on the other, and without the presence of their female teacher (or any female adult in the room), before the men presenting the talk proceeded to direct the talk about their patriarchal religion to the boys only. And this is/was all funded by the Kiwi tax-payer. Trans built on this infrastructure of tolerance for religious misogyny to push the eradication of dignity and safety for girls throughout our education system, here as everywhere, but especially through co-ed state schools, to become the openly violent and sexist cult that we now see it as. All the while, an education system that tells boys of 15 that they are superior to the girls in this way, and that periods are dirty and shameful, while the girls are generally doing better (by working harder because they are NOT pandered to by one and all), than the boys at school, and at an age when many of them are trying but struggling, because of this, to attract a girl, is also the worst thing you can do for the extra fragile young male ego, in my opinion. It has given rise to the incels' bitter and violent male resentment of and open disrespect for women and girls, and is the foundational lie that the world of men (and women) is, for the first time, having to seriously reckon with. And they are resisting the reckoning with everything they've got.
Fully agree that tolerance of the intolerable is one of the core problems in our country. Period shaming is commonplace, not just in religious groups but also in Māori tikanga and in everyday classroom interactions. Reportedly, verbal abuse and intimidation of female teachers by male students is getting worse and is not being reined in by school leaders who value ‘tolerance’ for a religious belief in the inferiority of women above the rights and dignity of their women teachers.
Yes. And it is surely not actual religious tolerance when they are up against institutionalised misogyny on that scale. For most it will be resignation, when having little to no choice, especially on the part of the female teachers who are having to 'tolerate' all this shaming of girls and pandering to boys who area also lording it over them. The right to religious, or secular fundamentalism and misogyny like trans, must be revisited at length and rewritten with the limits of tolerance for open discrimination against girls being banned in the name of our human rights that at least on paper accept females are no less human than males. In practice women are a logn way from having effective human rights in modern liberal-democracies. People who think their religion/cult membership makes them better than others and who are raised to resent all who aren't in their club, are raised in intolerance and with a sense of superiority over non-members. Talibanism is the extreme religious manifestation, and trans the extreme secular manifestation of this intolerance. They are both misogynist as F.
This is fantastic. This is the way forward. Trans identified students won't like it because their identity demands affirmation but they'll get used to it!
That’s a great phrase - parallel dignity. So much of this battle is language which can so easily Trojan horse in concepts that mean the opposite. This is a great way to promote difference.
It's a concept we've been working on for a while. Its more than a coined term, its a framework we've been using to redo all policy documents for schools.
"'Parallel Dignity is the principle that every human being possesses equal and inherent worth, regardless of background, belief, or circumstance. It affirms that rights and recognition must never come at the cost of erasing others. Rather than forcing conformity, parallel dignity calls for respectful, evidence-based accommodations that uphold the distinct needs, esteem, and privacy of all. It provides a framework for resolving conflict by honouring difference without hierarchy — where dignity is not ranked but respected in parallel.'
Thanks, Fern, have cross posted.
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/i-came-here-to-drink-myself-to-death
Dusty
Wonderfully put
Too many educators (and parents) are taking normal children's make-believe capacities into some sort of faux "reality". Part of the magic of children is their ability to create magical worlds within the actual reality of lives that need to eat, sleep and have other responsibilities like school homework or even preschool attendance.
The parental role is to parent, not to say "yes" to everything a human with an immature brain decides. You cannot come up with some sort of new "reality" that actually can never be realized: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/the-alternative-universe-offered?utm_source=publication-search
Nothing a transvestite wants is a right. NOTHING.
Stop saying 'transgender' as it's nothing. The only 'trans' should be 'transvestite' and 'transgression'. That's all.
I'm a hardliner, I know. The longer the tranny language is used, the longer this shit drags on for.
We can’t stop people believing what they want to believe - that is their right under the BORA. But we can stop them imposing that belief onto others via deceptive language and discriminatory policies. Although transvestite is a more accurate description, I have used ‘transgender’ to suit the audience I am writing for - people sitting on the fence with a gut feeling something is wrong but not sure what to do about it.
The language is the entire game.
Of course the regular public will need to take a run up at this thorny subject - I know it’s going to take every single one of us to turn the Bad Ship Tranny around, of every political persuasion/walk of life.
But imagine if children came home saying ‘Mummy, I’m a transvestite!’ this shit would have been dead in the water….the rebranding of transvestite men into ‘transgender women’ is the most audacious and wrong thing to happen in my lifetime as reality itself is at stake; the children’s bodies are the price.
‘If names be not correct, then language is not in accordance with the truth of things.’ Confucius. How long will we have to skirt around it?
I agree with your analogy but I don’t think the general public are there yet. They’re still struggling with accepting ‘transwomen are men’. Trans is definitely an audacious marketing strategy that has been so successful it will take years to turn around.
It's been over a decade for me now; like a supertanker at sea, this is going to take a while to turn it fully.
You're always the first place I recommend for parents.
Best Wishes! If parents and the public knew and understood what some schools are pushing at the children, they'd be horrified! This RADICAL GENDER IDEOLGY has to get out of schools!!
Thanks Fern for the clarity you bring to these issues. What has happened to the teaching profession. I suspect moral cowardice. But as ever what dismays me the most is the absence of men failing to support and assert women’s rights guaranteed under the law at present.
If anyone in our education system cares about doing the right thing re 'trans' identification, this shows them the way forward as clearly as it can be shown, on paper. It's very, very well written. However, I question that this desire to do the right thing by girls and boys exists in our school systems anymore when so many children, including my three who were groomed to believe 'gender is fluid', and that being straight or 'cis' is boring and old-fashioned, at their co-ed state high-school 10-15 years ago, and their generation is now making a lot of the decisions across the public service sector. The 'trans' leaders, as we know, never intended this to be fair to girls or women, or gay youth. They are evil men intent upon 'transing' as many children as possible and removing rights and digntity from all women and girls, and who have convinced the majority of at least one generation of young people, and a good many of their parents as well, here as everywhere, that they are the good guys who care about young people, and we are the mean mothers/female teachers who don't understand or care. I also don't think religious freedom for misogynist religions can ever give 'parallel dignity' to girls. I have mentioned in comments before that my 15-year-old daughter on a school trip to a Hindu temple in Auckland was told she could not enter the building and participate in the supposed educational and cultural enrichment talk if she was bleeding. The female teacher was forced to stay outside (bleeding or not) with the girls whose dignity surely dropped to rock bottom when they felt forced to admit they were bleeding and miss the talk. My daughter went inside and was told to sit with the other girls on one side of the room, with the boys on the other, and without the presence of their female teacher (or any female adult in the room), before the men presenting the talk proceeded to direct the talk about their patriarchal religion to the boys only. And this is/was all funded by the Kiwi tax-payer. Trans built on this infrastructure of tolerance for religious misogyny to push the eradication of dignity and safety for girls throughout our education system, here as everywhere, but especially through co-ed state schools, to become the openly violent and sexist cult that we now see it as. All the while, an education system that tells boys of 15 that they are superior to the girls in this way, and that periods are dirty and shameful, while the girls are generally doing better (by working harder because they are NOT pandered to by one and all), than the boys at school, and at an age when many of them are trying but struggling, because of this, to attract a girl, is also the worst thing you can do for the extra fragile young male ego, in my opinion. It has given rise to the incels' bitter and violent male resentment of and open disrespect for women and girls, and is the foundational lie that the world of men (and women) is, for the first time, having to seriously reckon with. And they are resisting the reckoning with everything they've got.
Fully agree that tolerance of the intolerable is one of the core problems in our country. Period shaming is commonplace, not just in religious groups but also in Māori tikanga and in everyday classroom interactions. Reportedly, verbal abuse and intimidation of female teachers by male students is getting worse and is not being reined in by school leaders who value ‘tolerance’ for a religious belief in the inferiority of women above the rights and dignity of their women teachers.
Yes. And it is surely not actual religious tolerance when they are up against institutionalised misogyny on that scale. For most it will be resignation, when having little to no choice, especially on the part of the female teachers who are having to 'tolerate' all this shaming of girls and pandering to boys who area also lording it over them. The right to religious, or secular fundamentalism and misogyny like trans, must be revisited at length and rewritten with the limits of tolerance for open discrimination against girls being banned in the name of our human rights that at least on paper accept females are no less human than males. In practice women are a logn way from having effective human rights in modern liberal-democracies. People who think their religion/cult membership makes them better than others and who are raised to resent all who aren't in their club, are raised in intolerance and with a sense of superiority over non-members. Talibanism is the extreme religious manifestation, and trans the extreme secular manifestation of this intolerance. They are both misogynist as F.
Six star review! Saving this one and will return to it/share it often.
This is fantastic. This is the way forward. Trans identified students won't like it because their identity demands affirmation but they'll get used to it!
This is a great article
that all school managers should read!
That’s a great phrase - parallel dignity. So much of this battle is language which can so easily Trojan horse in concepts that mean the opposite. This is a great way to promote difference.
It's a concept we've been working on for a while. Its more than a coined term, its a framework we've been using to redo all policy documents for schools.
"'Parallel Dignity is the principle that every human being possesses equal and inherent worth, regardless of background, belief, or circumstance. It affirms that rights and recognition must never come at the cost of erasing others. Rather than forcing conformity, parallel dignity calls for respectful, evidence-based accommodations that uphold the distinct needs, esteem, and privacy of all. It provides a framework for resolving conflict by honouring difference without hierarchy — where dignity is not ranked but respected in parallel.'