If You Found Out There Was A Transgendered Child At A School Your Child Was Attending, Would You Take Them Out Of Said School?

[sp1814]

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/uk_59b63647e4b0354e4412c18a?ir=UK

I can understand the concern of the parents involved - they're being confronted with something they don't understand, but withdrawing their children from contact with all other children in their school?

Is that wise?

What would you do?

[ummmm]

I would do nothing, say nothing, and keep my fat nose out of it

[jno]

that's about it, ummmm. The idea of going to the school - or the newspapers - and saying "It's my child or theirs"... well, there's only one sane answer.

[whiskeryron]

Surely the child in question & all other children at the school mentioned should be wearing the school uniform.

[naomi24]

Woofgang, //naomi, is there any part of who or what you are that you expect people to respect without understanding it? //

Can’t think of anything – but then I’ve never sought approval from other people.

[dannyk13]

Over the top reaction.

[mikey4444]

Completely Danny.

[Cloverjo]

Yes, whiskeryron, but the question remains about whether he or she should wear the boys' or girls' uniform.

[naomi24]

It is an over the top reaction, but I feel sorry for the child in question who at 6 years old is being indulged by his parents and the school, as transgender.

[mikey4444]

At the Priory School in Lewes, East Suffolk, have introduced trousers for everybody, boys and girls, which would seem to neatly nip this nonsense in the bud.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-sussex-41185149/lewes-school-makes-trousers-compulsory-for-new-girls

[woofgang]

I think that's sensible too mikey and would have loved to wear trousers to school but there is an argument that could be made by the same sort of idiots who started this furore that this means that girls are being "forced" to wear boy's clothes

[mikey4444]

Woofy....I think that the days when trousers were considered to be male wear, and not women's wear is long gone. Trousers on women were called "slacks" back then, a word that is not often heard now.

But isn't it interesting that millions of women and girls now want to wear trousers, but you can count the numbers of men and boys that want to wear dresses on the fingers of one hand ?

[woofgang]

mikey, I suspect that that might be yet another social construct. In other societies men wear long robes or kilts and that is considered to be the "male" dress.