As reported recently on the BFD, an Irish teacher has been sentenced to jail in a dispute over “preferred pronouns”. This is the sort of brutal authoritarianism that Jordan Peterson tried to warn us would inevitably follow in the wake of enforced “pronoun” speech.
Now, another victim is feeling the wrath of the Trannish Inquisition.
A maths teacher has been sacked after refusing to affirm a pupil’s gender change because he wanted to first obtain the permission of the student’s parents.
For a mob who vehemently deny that they’re groomers, the gender whisperers seem to have an overriding obsession with secrecy. “Don’t tell your parents, it’s our little secret…”
Kevin Lister is taking legal action against his employers for unfair dismissal, claiming he is a victim of a ‘witch-hunt’ for challenging ‘dangerous transgender ideology’.
He has been backed by campaigners as well as Tory MP Danny Kruger, who said he was ‘very concerned’ because recent government guidance says the teacher had been within his rights to apply caution.
Caution which is well advised given the obvious social contagion behind the staggering rise of female-to-male transgenderism. It’s yet another teenage girls’ fad.
He had refused to refer to a biologically female student, aged 17, by their preferred male name and he/him pronouns in A-level lessons.
The 59-year-old teacher told The Mail on Sunday he was concerned that the ‘out-of-the-blue’ request amounted to social transition, which could put the teen on a pathway to irreversible medical treatments.
‘I wanted at least to make sure that my student had parental support and was making an informed decision,’ he said. ‘As a parent myself, I would have been furious if my child had taken this step and I hadn’t been told anything.’
Mr Lister said he was ‘gobsmacked’ when he approached the safeguarding officers and was told the parents would not be informed about the student’s wish to identify as male in the classroom.
“It’s our little secret — don’t tell nobody…”
A few weeks later the student wanted to enter a female maths Olympiad.
Mr Lister said: ‘I put the names of the students on the board who wanted to take part and I put her name up on the board as being a female’s name to enter a female maths competition.’
I wonder why this “trans male” didn’t want to compete against actual boys in maths — a field where boys notably out-compete girls?
Probably for the same reason that third-rate male athletes demand to compete in girls’ sports as “trans women”.
Earlier this year, Mr Lister discovered some students had made accusations of transphobia against him and he was suspended in February, pending an inquiry, and escorted off the school grounds.
A disciplinary hearing last month upheld three complaints, namely that he had ‘subjected a gender-transitioning student’ to ‘transphobic discrimination’ and ‘harassment’ and ‘refused to use’ their preferred name and he/him pronouns.
It is likely that the school acted, not just blatantly immorally, but highly illegally.
Last month the then Attorney General, Suella Braverman, said the law was clear that under-18s could not legally change their gender, meaning schools were under no legal obligation to address children by a new pronoun.
Daily Mail
Let yet another of the avalanche of lawsuits coming for the oleaginous gender industry begin.