The gender craze is causing surreal situations in British schools that teachers and schools do not know how to deal with. Teachers’ fear of of being accused of transphobia, or even of agreeing with this ideology, has favored the appearance and increase of children who declare themselves to be animals (“furries"), and demand to be treated as such.
Some schools appear to have a blind spot over "identity" because they are frightened of doing the wrong thing. They think they are being kind by affirming these children but instead they are likely to be missing all sorts of things that are going on in that child’s life.
— Safe Schools Alliance (@SafeSchools_UK) June 19, 2023
A 'cat-girl' in Sussex discovered to be a widespread phenomenon
What seemed like a joke, or even urban legend became reality after what happened at a school in Sussex. According to The Telegraph, several children were reprimanded by their teacher and even threatened with punishment for not accepting their classmates’ decision to self-identify as a cat. According to the teacher, the insistence of the girl's classmates in telling her "you're a girl" had really upset the little girl.
After this event received publicity, the newspaper began to investigate and discovered that this was not an isolated case. Among others, they found several cases of children declaring themselves "horse" or"dinosaur." They even detected a student wearing a cape and demanding to be recognized as a moon (not the Moon).
Meowing in response to teachers
Beyond the anecdotal evidence, some students regretted the situations they experience with these types of classmates. For example, a student from a secondary school in Wales reported what they have been experiencing for years with a student who asks to be treated as a cat and "feels very discriminated" if this is not done. "It's affecting other people and their education and everyone in their classes. It's distracting to sit in a class and have someone meow at the teacher instead of responding in English, especially in high school. That takes a lot of value away from the class, because people are going to spend the whole class talking about whoever is there meowing at the teacher," he said.
The Sussex case serves experts to explain why this growing trend is occurring. The teacher tried to justify to the class that there are not only two genders, something the students flatly denied. Two of the students went so far as to tell them that "if you have a vagina, you're a girl and if you have a penis, you're a boy, that's it." In other words, the teacher related the problematic, woke gender ideology to feeling like an animal.
"Teachers have a blind spot when it comes to identity"
This was the analysis of Tracy Shaw, of the Alliance for Safe Schools, for whom this type of behavior should set off alarm bells for teachers about what that child is experiencing. "Teachers should deal with it within the framework of existing protection measures. If a child comes to school identified as a cat or a horse, that should immediately set off alarm bells," she said.
The problem is that teachers have a blind spot where anything involving identity comes in, because they are frightened of doing the wrong thing. They think they are being kind by affirming these behaviours, but they are not being kind, because they are likely to be missing all sorts of things that are going on in that child’s life.
British government refuses to legislate on furries
For Shaw, faced with such a situation, teachers "should be asking themselves, what are these kids looking at online? What forums are they on? What is going on in the home? What is happening in that child’s life and who else is involved?"
However, the confusion, which the British government refuses to legislate on, about how to treat these children is affecting teachers and schools. From the Safe Schools Organization (not to be confused with the Safe Schools Alliance), published what they call "a guide" for parents and teachers that doesn't make things any easier: "The furry community itself is a
complex one, made up of many different identities and definitions of what it means to be a ‘furry.’” The organization invites parents and members of the educational community to "engage in conversation about what it means to be a furry and the benefits of the furry community."
