Why there should be no transgender teachers.
Children need wholesome role models in school
In this epidemic of children thinking of themselves as transgender their disease does not ever arise because they are transgender. Transgenderism is merely an idea in a person’s head.
Such an idea ought to be dismissed immediately it coalesces. However, there is a bewildering array of reasons why young people will, instead, ruminate on the idea and give it credence that it does not deserve.
There are individuals who suggest to others that they “might be trans” and for them Hanlon’s Razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
There are other individuals who, in adopting a transgender persona, make that suggestion not in words but merely in their being present. Now, any liberal-minded person would wish for individuals to be free to express themselves in any way that they see fit – on the proviso that it does not harm others. And it is this condition that is the reason why transgenderism is something that should only be practised behind closed doors.
It is the very idea that somebody can be transgender that is harmful. The mere suggestion of this idea to a susceptible person is on a par with throwing a rock at them.
When that rock hits, only the resilient are unaffected. We can build resilience by equipping young people with the fortitude to resist patently ridiculous and harmful ideas. In the case of transgenderism then we have a duty to make that idea one that everybody agrees is patently ridiculous and harmful.
Unfortunately, the current climate is such that not only is transgenderism considered valid, practitioners are lauded and given elevated status. In this mad world where we must artificially divide people into oppressor and oppressed classes and then oppress the oppressor and equip the oppressed to become the oppressors (yup, bonkers, isn’t it, everyone gets oppressed in the end) the black transwoman is king.
Health services tout ‘gender affirming care’ as if opposite sex imitation medicine is a panacea for all adolescent angst. Governments pass bills to recognise ‘gender’ and contrive to give those in denial of their sex especial privileges. The ridiculousness of the whole vacuous farrago is summed up in the activist mantra “Trans Rights are Human Rights” – the very epitome of speaking without saying anything.
The idea that a person can be transgender, beyond merely as a social or medical malpractice classification, is one that lacks any evidential support. It is just a daft idea.
And yet that daft idea is being taught in schools as if it were fact. How are children meant to resist such an unevidenced and harmful idea when it has been given the gloss of academic authority?
If you give a daft idea official validity then it is harder to dismiss. Young people with anxiety or depression, or a tendency to take things too literally, or a desire to escape their current persona, might ruminate on that idea as they explore possible solutions to their perceived problems.
When this happens, what we can call transgender ideation becomes a real and dangerous problem.
Activists will have you believe that if a child thinks that they are transgender then they probably are. These activists have formed into affinity groups labelling themselves as LGBTQ+ Support Organisations and they infiltrate schools to promote their queer theory and gender identity ideology. Their motives? To validate their own delusions and to recruit more acolytes to prop up their perverse worldview are two of the more innocent possible explanations.
Activist teachers exist and welcome these grooming groups into their schools. What is their motivation? Tribalism could explain it. They want to virtue signal their woke credentials to their equally credulous peers.
And then there are teachers with a transgender persona. Some teachers who imitate the opposite sex might be fully aware of the problems around youth transgender ideation, they might not care which pronouns their students use for them, they might use the correct bathroom for their sex; no matter how honourable and principled they might be, they have no place in a school setting. Their being present is enough to give validity to the idea that being transgender is not ridiculous and harmful. School teachers are role models, schools must ensure that the teachers they employ are people that students can admire and seek to emulate. A transgender teacher does not fit the bill.
Once a child has accepted the idea that they might be transgender, there is a short window of opportunity, before they have ruminated on that idea too long, in which they can be helped to reject the idea. However, if rumination persists, and especially if it is reinforced by official recognition – for example by social affirmation or a transgender teacher – then desistance from transgender ideation becomes harder to achieve. If a young person fails to desist in their ideation before they are convinced they need medical intervention to imitate the opposite sex, then real harm will be done.
Schools should be places where students are safe. Therefore, schools should be places where the idea of transgenderism is given no quarter. Schools need to be “Trans Free Zones”.
In the United Kingdom, under the Equality Act 2010, it is permissible to discriminate against a person on the basis of their protected characteristic when such discrimination is “a proportionate means to achieve a legitimate aim”.
‘Gender reassignment’ is one such protected characteristic (although I do not think it should be).
When the legitimate aim is the protection and preservation of the health, wellbeing, even lives, of children and adolescents, then I would argue pretty much any means can be considered proportionate. It could also be argued that if this point of view were both widely accepted and widely upheld then we would probably not be in this mess right now.
The idea of a transgender role model needs to disappear. Only the Zeitgeist will do this in online media, but in the real world we can start with our schools.