Boy removed from school in transgender rights row

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A crazy story, I can certainly understand why a child of 6 would be highly confused about this.

Nigel and Sally Rowe said their son became confused as to why the child dressed as both a boy and a girl.

The Diocese of Portsmouth, which runs the Church of England school on the Isle of Wight, said it was required to "respect diversity of all kinds".

The couple believe the school should have consulted all parents.
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The couple said under the school's bullying policy their son faced being disciplined for "mis-gendering" the six-year-old pupil.
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This is ridiculous, it's not bullying.

Two years ago they removed their eldest son from the same school in a separate row about a different transgender child.
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It would certainly raise a question of the parents bias here though, I mean two kids having issues?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-41224146
 
Your last quote line sums it up really doesn't it.

Two of their own kids having issues with two different transgender children, 2 years apart? Reeks of parental influence.
 
It is confusing. Also I make the parents right to an extent... the kid in question is 6. What the hell is he/ she doing 'transgendering'?
 
Don't really understand what it's got to do with the parents. Are they worried their children will be so deeply traumatised by another child who is male dressed as a girl?

They're going to have a really difficult time in the real world.

Just homeschool them and make them really weird, that'll set them up for life.
 
LOL. The parents are both Christians and were on the tele this morning trying to defend their stance whilst also saying that they loved everybody as a good Christian does.
 
For me in the UK we have a real issue of teaching basic sex education, and to say this child was a bully because he mis-gendered another child is awful and just breeds resentment, if we take this at face value and the kid wasn't being abusive to the other child.

But before you even start any of that there needs to be an education on this, and it's a minefield of teaching this stuff.
 
They have confused children because their interpretation of their belief system precludes them from equipping the children from understanding and accepting people might be different from them.

I also find it hilarious that they think they should be consulted before the decision was made to acknowledge the transgender child. That not how any of this works.
 
antijoke said:
For me in the UK we have a real issue of teaching basic sex education, and to say this child was a bully because he mis-gendered another child is awful and just breeds resentment, if we take this at face value and the kid wasn't being abusive to the other child.

But before you even start any of that there needs to be an education on this, and it's a minefield of teaching this stuff.
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Perhaps but not at 6.
 
Isn't six years old very young to be engaging in gender determination decisions? I heard about this story over the weekend and I thought it was merely about dressing up in a girl's uniform. And if priests are defrocked doesn't that imply that they wear women's clothes too?
 
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Isn't six years old very young to be engaging in gender determination decisions? I heard about this story over the weekend and I thought it was merely about dressing up in a girl's uniform. And if priests are defrocked doesn't that imply that they wear women's clothes too?
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The Bible does say that men shouldn't wear women's clothes, but it's a little bit of a tough one to call given that no one had invented trousers in 6000BC.

Skirts are well comfy, I'd wear them if society were more accepting.
 
Why should you have to put up with your kids going to school with a transgender? It's just not right.

Same for having to share a classroom with gays, blacks, HIV+'s, kids from Trade Union families, Catholics, people with disabilities, the poor, the opposite sex, or orphans. Shouldn't have to explain that stuff to a 6-year old: they're not old enough to understand.
 
As I understand it, the parents are Christians, the kid who was wearing the skirt was doing just that, wearing a skirt.

The parents have no problem with a girl wearing trousers I might add, it's just the boy wearing a skirt they have problems with because 'it's not what boys wear'.
 
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As I understand it, the parents are Christians, the kid who was wearing the skirt was doing just that, wearing a skirt.

The parents have no problem with a girl wearing trousers I might add, it's just the boy wearing a skirt they have problems with because 'it's not what boys wear'.
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Take the kid to parts of Africa, or Asia, or the Middle East. Mind blown. Even Scotland would do it. I'll come round his house in my kilt.
 
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"Jeff Williams, director of education for the Diocese of Portsmouth, said: "Church of England schools are inclusive environments where pupils learn to respect diversity of all kinds." Sounds to me like the parents could do with a attending a few lessons at that school too.
 
We've just had a letter round from the CofE school that my younger daughter attends about how they're going to be doing some "Rainbow flag" art thing in PSHE, which is all to do with LGBT stuff. I was so not in the least bit arsed, I nearly fell asleep reading it.
 
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