Friday 20 May 2022 10:28 PM The sixth form girl bullied out of school for saying biological sex is real trends now
This week, it was revealed that a teenage girl was hounded out of a private Home Counties school for questioning why transgender beliefs are not debated more openly. Her story emerged in articles on the website of Transgender Trend, a parents' group challenging trans orthodoxy, written by a music teacher at the school who was so upset by what happened to her that he decided bravely to blow the whistle.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling condemned the 'shameful treatment' of the sixth former who dared speak out on one of the biggest controversies of the modern age. Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi called the school's behaviour 'unacceptable' and is to meet the girl and the teacher next week. Here the teacher, JOHN JAMES, gives his disturbing account of what happened — and how it exposes the terrifying grip trans ideology now has on our education system . . .
Every so often an event occurs that reveals the stranglehold of transgender ideology on our schools and society. One such event happened recently at the girls' secondary where I teach.
An 18-year-old pupil who dared to question the ideology was surrounded and shouted at by a group of fellow sixth formers in an incident that forced her to leave the school.
Her crime? To suggest to a visiting baroness from the House of Lords that transgender-sceptical views, such as the belief that biological sex is real, deserve balanced debate.
It was probably naïve of the girl not to realise that to disagree, however respectfully, with transgender ideology is not allowed in much of our education system today. To question its basic tenets is heresy and heretics need to be exposed, attacked and got rid of. Even if they are such notable figures as J.K.Rowling. These tenets sometimes include the trans language that women are 'uterus havers', 'people with vaginas', or 'chest-feeders'. And the concept that the birth sex of male and female is a myth.
After daring to challenge the baroness, who had joined a sixth form transgender rights' discussion, up to 60 other pupils gathered round the girl and verbally attacked her.
This week, it was revealed that a teenage girl was hounded out of a private Home Counties school for questioning why transgender beliefs are not debated more openly
They screamed abuse so loudly that she ran away from them to escape, before collapsing unable to breathe properly with the shock of it all. By the next day, tales about the incident spread down to lower years. I was told by one of my younger pupils during an individual lesson that a sixth form girl had been saying horrible transphobic things.
It was chilling to witness first-hand how this ideology had rooted and grown in my school. What is known these days as a 'woke pile-on' had taken place.
Otherwise perfectly nice and agreeable sixth formers had colluded and congregated to show they were on the moral high ground, the 'right side of history'. Any waverers got the clearest message about what would happen to them if they didn't conform. Initially, the girl won support from the sixth form head. But after sustained pressure from the attackers, this teacher changed her position.
She publicly apologised for not providing a 'safe space' for them. In a pronouncement to her pupils (which I believe was written or approved by senior management) she said hate speech in the school was unacceptable.
Little was mentioned of the right to free speech. The girl, who after the incident had been asked to work alone in the library (for her own safety), says she was later told by the head: 'How can the testimony of an entire group of other students be wrong? I have to support them, too.'
Sadly this sort of affair will be repeated again and again if we fail to see what the ideology is — and the way it operates. It is not that any individual is particularly to blame. The sixth form head was almost broken in two by the aftermath of the attack on the girl.
She was in an untenable position, in a sense a victim herself.
It takes a very strong, sure-minded teacher to combat the powerful transgender ideology permeating schools, a person who is prepared to risk losing their job and career. There are now infamous examples of what happens to perceived non-conformers in the education system.
A maths teacher at an Oxfordshire secondary school was suspended after he 'accidentally' called a transgender pupil a girl when the student identifies as a boy. And remember Kathleen Stock, the Sussex University philosophy professor, who resigned after a poster and graffiti protest by students demanding her dismissal over her critical views on gender identification?
When I inquired a couple of weeks back as to how our 'heretic' sixth former was doing (having not seen her around), I had a strong sense that I was committing some kind of crime by even posing the question.
I was asked why I wanted to know. I was informed that she was 'no longer in the system', that the 'matter had been dealt with', and that 'we're not talking about it'.
This, to be fair, may be simply because sensitive matters these days are always handled on a 'need to know' basis. But I have since discussed it with several sixth and fifth form pupils, on an individual basis. All admitted privately they couldn't really see what was wrong with what the girl had said that day.
I even spoke to one of the girls at the centre of the 'outraged group' who took on the role of chief spokesperson.
