9 Comments
author

My goodness that’s a lot of words. My priority has always been and will always be prioritising what is best for children from a developmental perspective. How they ‘identify’ is irrelevant. I am suspecting you didn’t actually read the whole thing.

Expand full comment
Apr 22Liked by Kate E. Deeming

I notice women’s suffrage colours have been appropriated for use by the ‘Genderqueer Community’ in the flag line up. I’ve also noticed the colours increasingly used in corporate advertising (England) One example was for cigarettes another for a disreputable garage door company. We also had Rylan Clark blatantly mis-using these colours for his latest TV bio.

I’m noticing but ignoring because I feel the people doing this are trying to foment female outrage and anger. I live by the rule you should never give an abuser/aggressor what they want. It’s served me well in the past and although it’s difficult to do in the moment, it always proves to be the right strategy in the end.

Expand full comment
author

It is all led by propaganda- which is greatly enabled by social media. That is no surprise. I fear this is only ‘the end of the beginning’ as Malcolm Clark so aptly quoted.

Expand full comment
Apr 22Liked by Kate E. Deeming

Very well put, thank you. Yes, it's not just that we're trying to indoctrinate children into performative group think, at the same time we're failing to provide all those other critical development foundations for children flourishing. You have the right approach to direct your attentions towards that.

Expand full comment
Apr 21Liked by Kate E. Deeming

Total nonsense! None of those are real!

Expand full comment

Flagging for sex encounters at the hospital is clearly next - they’ve already started for bears, leather, rubber and… more. Gay “Flagging” is the term for men picking up men by flagging handkerchief colors in a pocket, left active right passive, paisley-decorated.

Buckle your seatbelts because there’s another 60+ combinations and that’s only one list (below). I don’t know how people will react to what I call “Chemosexuality” Pride (tiny ziplock bags of licorice-scented poprocks I guess) being stapled onto some of these flags. Never a dull moment.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c78b581809d8e5e0f657d76/1556212024119-2MFIY5LBIGD2U3YL9GX2/0d683afa26bff761ed9fd4a3f2df7d7e.png

If would be much simpler if public spaces simply converted to open-air public-sex cruising cottages, more to the point and sustainable since that what these signal to a degree.

I’m all for children having an expansive education but most education involves topics that children can understand, like adding piles of small coins, identifying beetles, memorizing poetry from Alice in Wonderland.

Small children can’t experience many things because they’re physically immature - sex, emergency response (carrying a body), driving (too short), and because they’re too mentally immature - contractual obligations, medical decisions, complex life-altering reasoning (war planning).

Therefore we don’t generally teach children things they cannot understand. It’s constantly amazing to me to consider there are people somewhere teaching children sex fetishism.

Expand full comment

Disgusting, whining, deeply transphobic drivel. I would say you should feel incredibly embarrassed and guilty for promoting such violent and controlling ideas, but I doubt you have a single modicum of empathy in that hollow heart of yours. You are doing nothing but suppressing, silencing, and actively harming children. I wonder if your school has seen this, the world’s most pathetic and violent wall of text ever.

Expand full comment
Apr 23Liked by Kate E. Deeming

Should this post be reported as ‘factphobic’? Although the author appears to suffer from factphobia, illness isn’t an excuse. Words are powerful and as demonstrated here, can cause great harm and distress. 🤔

Expand full comment
author

I suspect the writer has done something to his/her own child in name of ‘gender medicine’ and is desperate to uphold his/her choice. Someday s/he will face a reckoning. And it will be worse then anything s/he could imagine. In the meantime we can make child centric programs that centre all child having fun w/o having to identify in any way.

Expand full comment