dingodan
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- Feb 16, 2011
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Why does it need to confuse children, if it is explained to them in a sensible, well reasoned way? When would you say is the right time to explain to a child that this is a real thing that real people do? Or do we just let the likes of Littlejohn make their minds up for them? I'm not sure I see what is wrong with gender re-assignment or what's wrong with children that they lack the mental ability to understand it.
The only thing that should have mattered here is her ability as a teacher and her right as an individual to be treated fairly. She's not broken any laws so why should she be subjected to a media witchhunt? Littlejohn knew exactly the prejudices he was awaking in people in the writing of this article and in that way it is similar to times when we would have had the same attitude to a black man, a gay man or even a woman teaching children. Doesn't the struggle that those 3 groups have been through in the last 100 years to attain something close to equal rights give you some form of sympathy to the trans community?
Littlejohn did not say that this person should not teach. He said it would have been better to leave the school as a man and start teaching somewhere else as a woman. Not because the individual has done anything wrong. This is 1000% not the same as saying a black or gay man should not teach, stop trying to make this about bigotry and prejudice because it is not.
As for "why does it need to confuse children, if it is explained to them in a sensible, well reasoned way", - because they are children.
and "what's wrong with children that they lack the mental ability to understand it." - because they are children.