It's bad folks. My friends who are teachers already have to walk an incredibly fine line to be supportive of their students and this is specifically designed to detonate any ability to do that. And far worse than that...

This doesn't even try to keep up the bullshit guise of being about parental consent. It's designed to force teachers to dead name students, to ban usage of preferred pronouns, and force weird gender clothing norms on kids (even aside from targeting children questioning their identity or sexuality, anyone demanding girls wear skirts in school should have their hard drives checked).

It's about being able to sack 'woke lefty' teachers at will and further destroy the state education. And worst of all of course, it's specifically designed to out potentially LGBTQ+ kids to abusive parents for punishment and 'correction'. And not just trans kids, but queer kids, kids curious about their sexuality, even kids who just don't buy into a misogynist view of gender norms. Our trans comrades are at the sharpest end of the spear, but they're coming for everybody.

And all of this at the same time the Prime Minister is caught mocking trans people, a supposedly protected class, behind closed doors.

  • Bjork_shhh [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    reminder that Jimmy Saville's pedophilia was enabled by anti-state neoliberals like Thatcher: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/jimmy-savile-government-monarchy-police-thatcher

    It would be, instead, replaced by a taskforce headed by Savile, who had been involved in the facility on a volunteer basis since the 1960s, but would now be given free rein of the hospital.

    This was rubber stamped by Junior Health Minister Edwina Currie, who wrote ‘Attaboy!’ in her diaries on hearing Savile’s plans for reform at the hospital—which included union-busting, as Savile alleged that inflated overtime payments was rife among the unionised workforce. Currie later conceded that this was likely Savile blackmailing staff who could blow the whistle on his abuse.

    Read the NHS investigations into Savile and there are numerous examples of everyday people with little power standing up to Savile, or at least doing what they could reasonably do, within their small domain, to protect those who were in their care. There are no such stories within the Thatcher government: only an elite who took him at face value time and time again.