So on one hand...these cultists are literally shoving gay flags down everyone's throats, and even now making all Canadian military personnel use pronouns, and COMPELLING [forcing] private citizens in Canada to use those pronouns AND allowing CHILDREN to get gruesome mutilating surgeries rendering them sterile, funded something like $75,000 by the Government of Canada, but schools must NEVER report to their parents that students - even those in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL [as the note explicitly states] - what their gender identity is?
Must NEVER report it?
Why the fuck would you ever state that something about a person under 18 must NEVER be reported to their own parents?
It's one thing to word it in a way where they say "Students are welcome to share things with staff they are uncomfortable sharing with their parents" [e.g., being abused physically, as an obvious one], but to literally hide the very identity of children from their parents?
That reeks of a pedophile telling a child "Don't tell your parents!"
Why the fuck would this need to be hidden from parents unless parents OBVIOUSLY have a problem with it?
I grew up in a time where even something as benign as getting a tattoo HAD to be cleared with parents/legal guardians. But now we're letting THIS happen without parental consent?
Yeah...no. if the letter said that students MAY keep this private...even that would be unsettling. But to literally say they MUST NEVER share this with their parents could only be for one reason:
Because parents won't approve. Obviously!
Lol, Jesus, Matt, you dingbat, there's nothing for me to try and justify, and there's no need for me to examine any further links as I'm not putting forward any defense of the issue. I'm simply pointing out that you've flown off the handle because you've misread a text.
You cannot reasonably state that the letter reeks of a pedophile telling a child "Don't tell your parents!" when it wasn't even sent to kids. It was guidance sent to 'all staff' and it stated that THEY should not disclose a student's stated gender to parents without permission. This is to safeguard the child because, yes, parents might very well have a problem with it. Same as a parent might have a problem with a child coming out as gay.
Obviously, tattoos and piercings are different and should clearly require parental consent, at least in the latter case (I'm sure tattooing a child is illegal regardless). Likewise, if some kid was seeking some sort of trans surgery - yes, that would be deeply concerning if doctors were stating that parents didn't need to be informed about it.
Kids are immature, unsure of their identities, and go through all sorts of stupid phases. Ideally, a kid should feel safe enough to discuss anything with their parents and have them as a first point of contact. However, in the real world, there's loads of shitty, abusive parents. That is the school's argument (not mine). You're basically advocating thought crime and stating that the school should ring the parents to inform them that the child has made the terrible error of identifying as a different gender. All the school is calling for is a recognition of privacy on the basis that such disclosures might put the child at risk. The point about whether or not children have the same privacy rights as adults is a valid one and merits discussion - I likely have reservations too, but you need to at least comprehend the content of the email before moving to that.
Let's not lay down Straw Matts or go off on tangents again with rainbow flag intubations and pronouns in the military. I think it's pretty obvious I find that stuff ridiculous.
