Tricked Into Sex Change?

[fender62]

autistic teenagers want sex change, surely not capable of making such a drastic decision.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401593/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html

[vetuste_ennemi]

That's not a question the ideologues ask themselves. Their vision of the utopian future and their role in its creation is more important than the real well-being of children.

[jno]

why, are autistic people somehow stupider than others?

[vetuste_ennemi]

What's "stupid" got to do it?

[cassa333]

Their not stupid. They are easily influenced though and when they don’t fit in, when they feel alienated and alone they are easy prey.

My 15yr old DD is on the spectrum. She has Aspergers Syndrome and I know that every minute of every day she struggles with social interactions. Going so far as to hide from a fellow scout (who was bag packing at the supermarket) whom she sits next to in half her classes. She knows him but couldn’t bring herself to even acknowledge him because he was out of context.

Her alienation is such that she hides from people and I know that should someone show her ‘friendship’ she would try and fit in with them. It is actually quite frightening for her future to think that.

[TheChair]

There's absolutely no information in the article that allows for fact-checking. The whole thing could be the invention of either the so-called "whistle-blower" or (and it wouldn't be the first time) the DM itself.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"fact-checking"? Ah, the new pseudo-science.

Will sit down and think about that.

[1ozzy]

"fact checking"

Isn't that what every publication should do, unless it's a work of fiction?

[vetuste_ennemi]

If "fact-checking" means examining claims and comparing them with facts, then yes.

But that's not what the term means, is it?

[1ozzy]

//Fact-checking is the act of checking factual assertions in non-fictional text in order to determine the veracity and correctness of the factual statements in the text. This may be done either before (ante hoc) or after (post hoc) the text has been published or otherwise disseminated.//

Blame Wikipedia, don't shoot the delivery person ;-/

[Spicerack]

Who checks the fact-checkers. They're all left wing, so naturally bent as a nine-bob note.
TheChair /// The whole thing could be the invention of either the so-called "whistle-blower" or (and it wouldn't be the first time) the DM itself.///

Don't be ridiculous.

[naomi24]

Mad world.

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds like these types of situations need independent checking.
Too much risk of messing lives up.

[Ken4155]

I did read most of the article and nowhere did i see that 'Carole' taught at a school for special needs. So, i find it quite odd that, of the 18 youngsters who believe they are in the wrong body, 9 are autistic with the others borderline. And, the Mail's research team have done an excellent job publishing a photograph of David Davis instead of David Davies!

[vetuste_ennemi]

The ideologues exploit adolescent confusions (VE: been there, done that - the confused adolescent bit I mean, not the exploitative ideologue) and will damage their prey, sometimes temporarily as in the laboratory rats end up working out that they are after all a girl or a boy as their biology suggests , but sometimes permanently as in they have been physically experimented on as in the Island of Dr Moreau.

[naomi24]

As a child I so wanted to be boyish George of Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’. Girly Ann was such a wimp. I’m so very pleased the adults didn't take me seriously.

[Peter Pedant]

oh in the famous five
I thought the only one with brains was the dog.

identified very heavily with ORAC in Blakes seven
and also Callie ( hur hur hur) - no her telepathy ....

no drugs or operations available for any of them

[vetuste_ennemi]

I admire the ability to see the comic potential of Auschwitz and its famous surgeon.

[naomi24]

Admiration for that sort of thing somehow passes me by, v_e.

[Peter Pedant]

how insulting to reprove dear Nigh ( bless !) for introducing The Famour Five !
can we have more decorum on this thread please ( as dear Mr Trump was only saying er in a different context yesterday)

I think quite a lot of the questions have been raised
special school - over loaded with autism - no doctor in sight - drugs taken without medical supervision - teacher gone public without evidence of exhausting local remedies. - some odd points
or facts that need to be checked ....

[Peter Pedant]

you're the one being admired Nigh
enjoy the moment whilst it lasts

meanwhile back at the school ... since this is not about Nigh or me - no matter how much we might like it

is it in the interests of the teenagers to make such a public claim without details of what she has done ( to exhaust local remedies)