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[–]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.