Miranda M 💚🤍💜🇨🇦
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@Mirbee1111
Adult human female, lifelong feminist. Politically heartbroken. The language we use to describe things matters, and our language has been colonized by ideology.
With just 10 days to go we are pleased to confirm our Speakers at the @acts_grassroots #OneYearLater protest in Edinburgh
UN expert welcomes International Olympic Committee policy protecting female categories in sport #ioc @iocmedia ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
It is happening in elementary, and I see it every day here in British Columbia. These aren’t assumptions -- they are things I see directly in schools. Calling it “critical thinking” doesn’t change the fact that a specific ideology is being presented to young children as truth. I teach elementary school in British Columbia. There are Gender Unicorn posters on the walls. There are books like I Am Jazz -- about a boy who was castrated at 17 after, as a child, liking sparkly things. Then there’s Introducing Teddy, where Thomas the teddy becomes Tilly, and Jack, Not Jackie, where a little girl who doesn’t like dresses is told she’s really a boy on the inside. All of these books (and many more titles than the ones I've mentioned above and don't get me started about what's in the Junior/Intermediate section) are in the primary section, teaching children that if they don’t fit in, or prefer things outside traditional masculine or feminine stereotypes, they might be “born in the wrong body.” This ideology is rancid with homophobia and outright sexism, and it has absolutely infected our school system. Instead of challenging stereotypes, it reinforces them. It teaches children that personality = “gender,” and that their perfectly healthy bodies may need to be medically altered. Rather than expanding what it means to be a boy or a girl, gender identity ideology narrows it and labels those who don’t fit as the opposite sex. How is that NOT indoctrination into a deeply regressive and sexist ideology? And beyond that, how is this NOT extreme ideological instruction—and outright abuse? And let’s not forget the provincial policy of “social affirmation” in schools. It is the exact opposite of neutral. Teachers keeping secrets about a child’s use of opposite-sex pronouns or different names reinforces and cements those beliefs, contributes to physical dissociation, and drives a wedge between parents and children. This is not support or neutrality; it is ACTIVE psychological interference that disrupts a child’s development and fractures the parent-child relationship. Then we have Gender and Sexuality Alliance clubs, where often the same group of girls go in weekly and come out with they/them or he/him badges, led by activist teachers who are clearly invested in promoting these ideas to impressionable and vulnerable children. We have Pride events built into school calendars, Progress Pride flags incorporated into school branding, and pronouns in email signatures treated as expected. I’ve even seen a lesson where the reproductive system was labeled “people with penises” and “people with vulvas.” Gender identity ideology is taught to children as fact. It is one of the most destructive ideologies to take hold in the Western world, with increasing numbers of teenage girls having healthy breasts removed based on a lie that often begins in school and is reinforced by trusted teachers. Do you think it’s okay for schools to celebrate the removal of healthy body parts? THIS IS IDEOLOGICAL INSTRUCTION embedded in province-wide SOGI policies. Our provincial school system (like most across the country) is fully invested in promoting gender identity ideology. It has overtaken our institutions, and unions and educators are committed to maintaining it, regardless of the harm it causes. I’m a lesbian. I grew up learning that non-conforming girls were still girls, not “boys on the inside,” and vice versa for boys who were more feminine than their peers. What’s being taught now reinforces ugly and damaging stereotypes in a new form and draws children deeper into this cult. And it is happening in schools. I see it every day. Gender ideology has no place in our schools. I only wish all Premiers would get on board with @ABDanielleSmith who is invested in protecting children and getting ideology OUT of the classroom.
