Previously, your humble author invoked Poe’s Law over claims of schoolkids identifying as cats, and that identity being validated. It turns out that reality doesn’t have anything to do with it.
“A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was ‘despicable’ after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.
“The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on ‘life education’ in which they were told they can ‘be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you’.
“The row, which has infuriated parents, was allegedly sparked by one of them asking a fellow pupil: ‘How can you identify as a cat when you’re a girl?’
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“[T]he heated exchange taken by one of the pupils, in which the teacher starts by saying ‘how dare you – you’ve just really upset someone’ by ‘questioning their identity’.
The pupil responded: ‘If they want to identify as a cat or something then they are genuinely unwell – crazy.’”
The outburst from the teacher was about a girl’s refusal to accept current gender ideology at odds with biological reality, so that girl’s question is a cromulent one. Oh, and this is coming from a school run by the Church of England.
“The Church of England trust that manages the school along with others in East Sussex, Kent and south-east London reportedly told its teachers earlier this year to ‘re-educate’ those using ‘negative language’ such as “that is mental” and “stop acting like a girl’”
Yup, that’s the totalitarian mindset we’ve all grown accustomed to from the British.
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