Catching up with this late. I wonder if Jonathan Kay, who I think does terrific work, was caught pandering to trans-mania here. Does he still believe that thousands of "trans" teachers are doing great work in classrooms? Is trans an organic neurobiological condition or a maladaptive coping mechanism?
'Diversity and inclusion' has become a reason to accept everything, however unwise, and yet there can be no safeguarding or child protection without discernment and moral judgement. I would argue that students are in fact being harmed, by being immersed in such a performative environment – a school, no less, where nobody is prepared to speak the truth.
Secondly, it is not possible 'to be born in the wrong body' – and seeking to damage, disguise or disown the body you have is indicative of deep emotional distress. This should be addressed in private, not paraded in a professional environment. It is damaging to normalise this for children.
And then there is the unnecessary and often premature sexualisation of children, through being exposed to this pornified performance, and all the discussion arising from it.
Accepting this behaviour is, in fact, 'grooming' children into a particular ideological world view, based on fantasy rather than reality. Once again, children's needs come second to adult desires and expectations.
Just because some people wish they were the opposite sex, it doesn’t imply they are neither male nor female but “trans”; it does not imply, much less prove the existence of a gender identity and it does not imply that they are anything other then men or women who wish they were the opposite sex.
No one is “trans”. Calling wanting to imitate or become the opposite sex sex “gender dysphoria” (oooh fancy medical words) does not translate into a class of people on the order of gender who are “trans”.
Why not simply acknowledge there are men and women who wish or claim or feel or whatever word you like to be the opposite sex.
The invention of a catch all category of person known as trans is unnecessary, untrue and idiotic.
LMFAO no. There's only three types under the tranny umbrella:
1. Transvestite pervert skinwalkers.
2. Mentally ill.
3. Groomed child.
There's nothing else. Most of the cockfrockers are pornsick and the women are mental. As for your 'thousands' of tranny teachers, what the fuck are you on, bro? No tranny should be teaching or around children. They're mentally ill at best and deviantly fucked at worst.
I don't think you should take it as a given that there are "trans people". There are people who believe in such ideology, but to say "there are trans PEOPLE" implies there actually exists a coherent category of humans who inevitably and naturally require all the accommodations and recognition that gender ideology asks for. We don't need to concede that.
The idea of "trans people" (people who are just 'meant' to be the opposite sex, or who are unable to live any other way than imitating the opposite sex with various forms of medicalization), is purely in the realm of theory, and it's a wild and illogical theory at that.
This man's grotesquely demeaning mockery of the female body is comparable to blackface. It is an act of aggressive domination.
Your article fails to take seriously the reality of sexual harassment and abuse, including the all-too-common crimes of voyeurism and exhibitionism. Consider a thought experiment: if a teacher brought demeaning pornography to school and forced his students to look at it, he would--amd should--be fired on the spot. This man is acting out pornographic imagery in real space, in a school, which is even worse. Imagine how it feels to be a young girl or boy who feels this man brush past you in a crowded school hallway. Yes, that is grooming.
I think you worry too much about this man's psychological problems and not enough about the psychosocial impact he has on the boys and girls he teaches. What effect do you think his behavior has on what the boys say among themselves, and to the girls? Even worse, they learn that the school condones male sexual entitlement, regardless of its impact on others.
I met my first sexual predator when I was eight years old. He followed me through our apartment building hallways and shoved porn magazines in my face. This alone is terrifying for a little girl. How can you not know that such things happen regularly? The sexual abuse and grooming of children is not a rare of phenomenon. Here it is, documented right before your eyes, with the school authorities enabling it. You need to become better informed on this serious topic.
Hi. First: great article. However, if I may nitpick from Japan regarding your your attempt to translate the Japanese word 爆乳.
While it literally means, character by character, "explosion" and "breasts" or "breast milk", just like you shouldn't try to guess the context and usage of English words in modern use by breaking down their Latin root origins, neither should you do so with Japanese or other languages.
bakunyū is simply a juvenile slangy term that means "giant breasts", and the character "explode" is used metaphorically the same way an English speaker might say "her bosom was exploding out of her tight buttoned blouse." It's used in the same puerile way somebody might call very large breasts in English "copious cleavage", "titanic ta tas", or "humongous honkers."
And while it's true that for obvious reasons, you will find the word associated with Japanese pornography, it's not a label that's exclusively associated with a porn subgenre fetish; it's used outside of that context as well (ex. gossiping high school boys or immature men) for any woman who has a very large chest. Obviously, the word is never seen in polite or formal conversation.
FYI. Again, great article and thanks for writing it.
To me, this is most simply an issue of professionalism----dressing in a wild, extreme and/or exaggerated fashion is not professional behaviour for a teacher to engage in.
I take it, then, that the school would have no objection if a subversive-minded student wore a costume that made him--or her, or it--a walking, talking penis. "That lecture made me want to stand tall!" "People say I have a swollen head. I sure do!" "Clear the way, I'm coming!"
I've followed your work for years on Quillette, Jonathon and am delighted to subscribe here. I look forward to your artful analysis of events. This is my favorite of your essays thus far.
I don't care if he hasn't sexually assaulted children - yet. He's a pervert and shouldn't be anywhere near children. Where are the fathers, are they fine with perverts in positions of authority over their children? Shame on the principal, too, such poor judgment should end that career.
Catching up with this late. I wonder if Jonathan Kay, who I think does terrific work, was caught pandering to trans-mania here. Does he still believe that thousands of "trans" teachers are doing great work in classrooms? Is trans an organic neurobiological condition or a maladaptive coping mechanism?
This whole gender pushing is an example of the gay agenda! It doesn’t belong in the schools! Stop bowing to this nonsense!
'Diversity and inclusion' has become a reason to accept everything, however unwise, and yet there can be no safeguarding or child protection without discernment and moral judgement. I would argue that students are in fact being harmed, by being immersed in such a performative environment – a school, no less, where nobody is prepared to speak the truth.
Secondly, it is not possible 'to be born in the wrong body' – and seeking to damage, disguise or disown the body you have is indicative of deep emotional distress. This should be addressed in private, not paraded in a professional environment. It is damaging to normalise this for children.
And then there is the unnecessary and often premature sexualisation of children, through being exposed to this pornified performance, and all the discussion arising from it.
Accepting this behaviour is, in fact, 'grooming' children into a particular ideological world view, based on fantasy rather than reality. Once again, children's needs come second to adult desires and expectations.
This stuff is just garbage!
What is wrong with everyone??
Just because some people wish they were the opposite sex, it doesn’t imply they are neither male nor female but “trans”; it does not imply, much less prove the existence of a gender identity and it does not imply that they are anything other then men or women who wish they were the opposite sex.
No one is “trans”. Calling wanting to imitate or become the opposite sex sex “gender dysphoria” (oooh fancy medical words) does not translate into a class of people on the order of gender who are “trans”.
Why not simply acknowledge there are men and women who wish or claim or feel or whatever word you like to be the opposite sex.
The invention of a catch all category of person known as trans is unnecessary, untrue and idiotic.
LMFAO no. There's only three types under the tranny umbrella:
1. Transvestite pervert skinwalkers.
2. Mentally ill.
3. Groomed child.
There's nothing else. Most of the cockfrockers are pornsick and the women are mental. As for your 'thousands' of tranny teachers, what the fuck are you on, bro? No tranny should be teaching or around children. They're mentally ill at best and deviantly fucked at worst.
Amen to that!
I don't think you should take it as a given that there are "trans people". There are people who believe in such ideology, but to say "there are trans PEOPLE" implies there actually exists a coherent category of humans who inevitably and naturally require all the accommodations and recognition that gender ideology asks for. We don't need to concede that.
The idea of "trans people" (people who are just 'meant' to be the opposite sex, or who are unable to live any other way than imitating the opposite sex with various forms of medicalization), is purely in the realm of theory, and it's a wild and illogical theory at that.
It's not a real condition. It's a fetish.
This man's grotesquely demeaning mockery of the female body is comparable to blackface. It is an act of aggressive domination.
Your article fails to take seriously the reality of sexual harassment and abuse, including the all-too-common crimes of voyeurism and exhibitionism. Consider a thought experiment: if a teacher brought demeaning pornography to school and forced his students to look at it, he would--amd should--be fired on the spot. This man is acting out pornographic imagery in real space, in a school, which is even worse. Imagine how it feels to be a young girl or boy who feels this man brush past you in a crowded school hallway. Yes, that is grooming.
I think you worry too much about this man's psychological problems and not enough about the psychosocial impact he has on the boys and girls he teaches. What effect do you think his behavior has on what the boys say among themselves, and to the girls? Even worse, they learn that the school condones male sexual entitlement, regardless of its impact on others.
I met my first sexual predator when I was eight years old. He followed me through our apartment building hallways and shoved porn magazines in my face. This alone is terrifying for a little girl. How can you not know that such things happen regularly? The sexual abuse and grooming of children is not a rare of phenomenon. Here it is, documented right before your eyes, with the school authorities enabling it. You need to become better informed on this serious topic.
Hear hear! I cannot believe this writer has the nerve to attempt to elicit sympathy for this paedophilc AGP.
This is what happens when you listen to Zack Polanski's hypnotism.
Hi. First: great article. However, if I may nitpick from Japan regarding your your attempt to translate the Japanese word 爆乳.
While it literally means, character by character, "explosion" and "breasts" or "breast milk", just like you shouldn't try to guess the context and usage of English words in modern use by breaking down their Latin root origins, neither should you do so with Japanese or other languages.
bakunyū is simply a juvenile slangy term that means "giant breasts", and the character "explode" is used metaphorically the same way an English speaker might say "her bosom was exploding out of her tight buttoned blouse." It's used in the same puerile way somebody might call very large breasts in English "copious cleavage", "titanic ta tas", or "humongous honkers."
And while it's true that for obvious reasons, you will find the word associated with Japanese pornography, it's not a label that's exclusively associated with a porn subgenre fetish; it's used outside of that context as well (ex. gossiping high school boys or immature men) for any woman who has a very large chest. Obviously, the word is never seen in polite or formal conversation.
FYI. Again, great article and thanks for writing it.
To me, this is most simply an issue of professionalism----dressing in a wild, extreme and/or exaggerated fashion is not professional behaviour for a teacher to engage in.
I take it, then, that the school would have no objection if a subversive-minded student wore a costume that made him--or her, or it--a walking, talking penis. "That lecture made me want to stand tall!" "People say I have a swollen head. I sure do!" "Clear the way, I'm coming!"
oh, they DO have a Dress Code for students...but, evidently not for teachers.
I personally think that this is far more insulting than blackface.
I've followed your work for years on Quillette, Jonathon and am delighted to subscribe here. I look forward to your artful analysis of events. This is my favorite of your essays thus far.
I don't care if he hasn't sexually assaulted children - yet. He's a pervert and shouldn't be anywhere near children. Where are the fathers, are they fine with perverts in positions of authority over their children? Shame on the principal, too, such poor judgment should end that career.
Stop pretending this is ok.