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[–]malleus_maleficarum[S] 29 insightful - 2 fun29 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

His access to commit this act was facilitated by the school's inappropriate policies which pander to trans-feelings, and that's unacceptable. There's a lot of text in the links, but basically that's what the complaint/lawsuit is all about: the responsiblity of the school to protect the female student.

[–]GConly 28 insightful - 2 fun28 insightful - 1 fun29 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Not disagreeing.

Just saying that kind of behaviour in a kid that young is a big red flag for sexual abuse.

[–]Sun_bear 35 insightful - 1 fun35 insightful - 0 fun36 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That he is 'genderfluid' aged five is a big sign of abuse too!

[–]msteacherlady 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I know malleus doesn't want to discuss it further, but I don't really see the topic as a sidetrack. As part of my teacher training, we were educated on certain behaviors that should alert us of possible abuse. I'm afraid that some of these behaviors will now be relabeled as signs of being trans, or will be ignored when a child is identified as trans. I swear I'm not into conspiracy theories, but as a mother and a teacher it stops my heart that the TRA lobby is so obviously grooming kids and trying their best to create some narrative that parents are abusing their children by questioning TRA rhetoric. Very cultish.

[–]PassionateIntensity 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Trans ideology is so anti-safeguarding it might as well have been designed for sexual abuse. Schools are also hiding it from the parents, and telling kids they should keep it a secret from their parents. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/don-t-tell-the-parents

[–]msteacherlady 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh god that article makes me queasy. I teach high school, and the worst we had was a workshop about something else, but the facilitator's assistant was some kind of enbie so we got a booklet, officially produced by their organization, about being sensitive to trans colleagues and students. It was a bunch of horseshit that wouldn't stand up to the light of day, so of course it just gets handed out with a pithy "please follow these guidelines, ahem, moving on."

I teach high school science, so they aren't ready yet to stand up to the kinds of questions and objections science teachers would have. Although, I see we've now got Sam Long http://sam-long.weebly.com here to help cross that boundary https://www.genderinclusivebiology.com/bettersciencelanguage

A couple of summers ago I attended a conference focused on helping elementary schools implement new science curriculum - an age-old struggle because most elementary teachers have humanities backgrounds and wish they had more support. I noticed that once we all started intermingling, one group of elementary teachers had pronouns on their official conference badges. They had attended an optional, special session for select elementary teachers the previous day. I feel like they are so vulnerable. They want to do right by their students, and it's easy to sway them with appeals to emotion, which is all TRA's have.

[–]jet199 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My cousin actually had a kid like this when she was doing her teacher training but that kid was 4. Rather than being physically abused what had happened was his mum died, the dad got depressed then at sat at home all day watching porn in front of the kids. The youngest kid then tried to copy what he'd seen in the porn with other kids because he didn't know any better.

[–]msteacherlady 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh my heart...

[–]PassionateIntensity 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

100%, but instead of the school contacting social services or having a counselor talk to him they were so afraid to question trans/gender ideology they covered it up, endangering not just the girl but the boy they were "protecting." This is how institutional coverups of child sexual abuse start.

[–]malleus_maleficarum[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

...I'm not really down with sidetracking the focus from the victimisation of the girl or the primary issue of the dangerous policies driven by the trans lobby, so I'm not going to discuss it further.