Teacher Calling Students' Transgender Remarks 'Despicable' Sparks Outrage
TikTok, they claimed that people of such a disposition were "generally unwell." The teacher, who has not been named publicly by the school, said that their beliefs were "not an opinion you can have" and that it was "very sad" that their mothers agreed with them.The verbal reprimand, in which the teacher said that if the pupils did not like what they were learning, they "can go to a different school," was reported to have taken place in a life education class at the Church of England school on Friday.
The conversation was uploaded to TikTok the following day.The incident speaks to a wider issue of the inclusion of transgender and non-binary discussions in education curricula.
While advocates say that teaching about gender identity helps students who are questioning their own, some argue that alternate views should also be discussed and others say the issue should not be discussed at all.One argument that has gained prominence in both the U.K.
and the U.S. is that greater transgender acceptance poses a threat to biological women, whose hard-won rights face being encroached upon by who they see as biological men.In a YouGov poll on various subjects around the issue in May 2022, 36 percent of Brits agreed that increased transgender recognition posed a genuine risk to some women's rights, while 33 percent disagreed and 31 percent did not know.Trans rights and inclusion are proving to be deeply polarizing issues in America as well.
