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That all sounds very helpful and rational. I think a lot of patents are feeling angry, frustrated and powerless with respect to what their children are being exposed to in schools. Frequently, without their knowledge or consent beforehand. It's not educative and offers opinions, beliefs and prejudices as facts. That's not acceptable and if it referred to something other than gender identity ideology, there would be no controversy around this.

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Wonderful! Hot on its heels is an education group for parents about to launch in New Zealand, too 🙂

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It's the best thing I've heard this week - and that's saying something, as this week was full of gains. Will you have any contact with safe schools alliance?

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They're planning to build a new mega school where I live with "gender neutral" formerly single-sex spaces.

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Can you alert Safe Schools Alliance etc to this? I don’t understand why now of all times they think this would be a good approach having seen how problematic is has been already, how uncomfortable children/teens find mixed sex spaces and the safeguarding risks when rape culture/rape and sexual assault are serious issues in schools.

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yes, I have a little job ahead of me.

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Don’t get me wrong that all sounds positive and the more voices and orgs in this field the better! But isn’t that was safe schools alliance do? Why not reinforce and amplify their message or join forces? Just a thought, not a criticism.

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Personally I feel that the more organisations working towards this aim the better in a way as it speaks to the importance/widespread concern around the issue and also means that TRAs have another organisation to attempt to discredit/spend energy on and establishing their pattern of behaviour/lack of reason/rationale (EVERYONE IS TRANSPHOBIC).

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A good point! Diverse targets.

Side-bar, I now have the Lego Movie theme tune ‘Everyone is Awesome’ going through my head with your sign off message. Perfect

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This sounds like a fantastic organisation to support. I will happily teach my child to respect others beliefs and feelings while (when she is old enough to understand) bringing her up to understand that gender ideology is just something some people believe in and feel reflects their reality. At a young age children don’t need to learn why other children wear certain clothes, have their hair a certain way, or prefer certain names. They should not be groomed into believing an ideology as fact, and defining themselves in response to it. All children should be free to act, dress and play as they wish without discussion of definition that will confuse their feelings about themselves and indoctrinate damaging, limiting beliefs about what boys and girls can do and wear. Let children be free to develop naturally!

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