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Need Advice or SupportTIM at primary school?
My daughter's primary school have a TIM, I overheard a teacher "correct" himself yesterday to this "girl" (a boy in an extremely short skirt, length definitely not allowed for actual girls). I'm so annoyed. It's such a tiny school, years are actually combined so I wasn't expecting it. Now I'm sure that gender programming will be included in the PSHE course and I'm wondering if there's any way I can just opt out of it, maybe a religion we can become or something?
My daughter is already confused. I didn't understand why until I connected the dots today but a few days ago she was really upset and asked me when she would turn into a boy... I work in a sector where cancellation would end my career and as a lone parent I can't risk that. I also can't risk my daughter being completely indoctrinated into the self-hating man-serving girlhood these arseholes are trying to inflict on her.
I genuinely am at a loss for what to do.
(Also, as an aside, this kid couldn't have been older than 7... so young to have the delusion entertained!)
So sorry. It's inescapable, isn't it?
I mean, you could just tell her the truth, something like "he's a boy who's got a medical condition and some adults think this will help him. So, they think it will help him to pretend he's a girl. I don't think it will help him, and I don't agree with it, but at school, they might ask you to pretend as well..." and go from there. (And then if it comes up at school, you can say that yup, you told her it was like "pretend", because she found it distressing, and she's a young child, thank you very much.).
I have no clue whether that's feasible.
That's so rough.
As soon as she mentions him, I will- but I don't want to raise it until she specifies, otherwise I'll give her the idea that it's interesting.
I told her nobody can change sex because we are all born with a special set of rules in our cells that decide how we look, and even if we dyed her hair it would always still grow back black, because you can't change the rules in your cells.