Stop This PC Madness

Don't call female pupils girls or ladies because it reminds them of their gender, headteachers are told (Daily Mail) Do not refer to female pupils as 'girls' or 'ladies' because it 'reminds them of their gender', headteachers told (The Telegraph)  

Paperchase 'sorry' for Daily Mail offer http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42057493 By the notorious so-called "Stop Funding Hate" group... Why did Paperchase bow to a few bug-eyed Corbynistas? https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/why-did-paperchase-bow-to-a-few-bug-eyed-corbynistas/

Far-right accounts lose Twitter verified tick

Laurier launches third-party investigation after TA plays clip of gender debate Canadian university embroiled in free speech controversy see also Suppressing TVO video, stifling free speech, is making Wilfrid Laurier unsafe Beware the modern-day heretic hunters After audio recordings of the interrogation was published, the university "apologised".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41964542

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-41966554 He is taking the school to employment tribunal: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-42312342

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4899076/teachers-schools-parents-transgender-children-scottish-government/ Teachers told to let primary school kids change gender WITHOUT telling parents Guidelines endorsed by the Scottish government say schoolkids as young as three 'should be supported to explore and express their identity' School staff should inform local authorities about parents who 'struggle' with their child's transgender identity Parents should not be told if their children are sharing rooms with trans pupils on school trips

Drag queens sent to nursery schools to teach kids as young as two about ‘gender diversity’ (The Sun) Transgender lessons for two-year-olds: Drag queens drafted into nursery schools to teach children about sexual diversity (Daily Mail)

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-11-09/topshops-new-gender-neutral-changing-rooms-spark-row-among-customers/ Also see this excellent article by Brendan O'Neill: On Topshop (Medium) We live in strange times. It is considered perfectly reasonable, and in fact progressive, to create ‘Safe Spaces’ on campus for 20-year-old adults who want to hide away from mere speech. Yet anyone who suggests the Topshop changing rooms should be for girls alone – and many of them really are girls, aged 13, 14, 15 – will be shot down as a vile, trashy transphobe. Some adults demand, and are granted, protection from the ideas of Maryam Namazie or Julie Bindel or Linda Bellos, on the basis that these women’s speech is akin to violence and could literally, for real, damage these adults’ feeling of safety. And yet those same adults, most of whom are trans-sympathetic, will rail against you if you suggest that young girls, who might be shy and self-conscious, deserve a space in which they can t...

Good to see. The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country