A thread about the sainted 'No Outsiders' lessons which have been defended as "sacred" by everyone from @jessphillips to well...everyone liberal and leftie. You'd think what with Jesscia Yaniv and her still unwaxed balls ...
politicians and journalists would be waking up to the strange undercurrents within trans activism. But pro-trans 'No Outsiders' has remained immune to criticism because it wrapped itself in "inclusivity" and its strongest defenders have been lesbians and gays. Well hey fellow...
...gay peeps ...you may like 'No Outsiders' but it really doesn't like you. Not really. There's a clue in the reading list...weighted heavily towards trans, such as '10000 Dresses'. Here's gay icon Sir Derek Jacobi reading it
Sure it's a tale of a little boy who likes dresses, and there's wrong with that. But this potential future Alexander McQueen isn't really a boy you see. Bailey is described as 'she' and 'her' all the way through. He isn't a little mini gay to be. He is really a girl. Mmm.
If I was a parent I'd protest against this regressive rubbish and the same twisty thread of stereotyping & confusion runs through the other books, ('My Princess Boy' isn't exactly hiding its agenda). So what is 'No Outsiders' really doing ...
..in our schools? Luckily the pioneers of 'No Outsiders' decided to write about their philosophy at length in a study funded by @ESRC (with UK government money ...of course). You can read it here :- academia.edu/1029463/Interr…
Its revealing (if less than catchy) title shows the programme has never been about inclusivity. That's just a fluffy disguise. Instead its authors explore No Outsiders' roots in Queer Theory, paying due homage to its icons such as Judith Butler. Butler as you may know argues...
that almost everything about our identities is constructed including biological sex and sexual identity. Trans herself her ideas are controversial, contested and frankly often very well-argued gibberish. But whatever you think of her ideas ...should they really...
be driving the education of 7 year old kids in Birmingham? If you're a devout religious person maybe not. But what if you're gay? The report is full of the sort of disparaging comments about 'fixed identities' we've come to expect ...
from Queer Theory...but this one is perhaps the pièce de résistance. After one author worries that a story about gay penguins adopting an orphan might give support to traditional notions of family and that this gay relationship might be too 'heteronormative' in p22...
they let cat out of the bag: - "A queer praxis within education as a post-identity project may not be synonymous with gay and lesbian identities and potentially may be seen to render suspect such fixed sexual identities." So while 'No Outsiders' is primarily about confusing
children about gender (and I think that's appalling myself) the irony is they're even more subversive about gay identity. Hey you Muslim Parents on one side with your placards...and you lesbians and gays on the other with yours you actually have a common foe.
Its called 'Queer Theory' and its being funded by the state and taught to your kids by the people to whom you both pay your taxes. 'No Outsiders' is just its well-subsidised recruiting agent.
If you want to read more about links between 'No Outsiders' and deeply strange Queer Theory read this piece by brilliant @charlesworth102 here :- transgendertrend.com/no-outsiders-q…
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