There’s been calls to fire teachers at Cheltenham Girls High School in New South Wales, after the school decided to use only gender-neutral terminologies.
Teachers have been told to stop referring to the students as ‘girls’, ‘ladies’, or ‘women’, instead using only gender-neutral language towards the students.
This is very obviously to be more inclusive of LGBTQIA students who identify as intersex, gender-fluid, non-binary, or transgender.
The request for gender-neutral language was put to teachers during a meeting last year, which allegedly discussed implementing the ever-fantastic Safe Schools anti-bullying program.
It was reportedly suggested to teachers that using gendered, exclusive language could be seen as breaking the law, and the school could therefore be at risk of being sued.
However, due to the fact that some young women felt safer at school with just a minor change in language and the term ‘Safe Schools‘ was mentioned, right-wing shock jocks have risen from their dark, musty basements to yell about favoured topics such as ‘political correctness gone mad’, and ‘indoctrination of cultural Marxism’.
2GB talkback shock jock Chris Smith described the language change as “deplorable”, saying,
“They’ve been scared into doing this by whoever’s pushing that twisted bible the Safe Schools program, and they’re scared of somehow being sued.”
On this morning’s ‘Today’ show, Sunday Mail editor Peter Gleeson also condemned the change, saying it’s “overreach at its worst”:
“I am all for diversity and making sure that our younger generation understand exactly what is going on within the community, but to implement something like this, it’s just ridiculous.”
The NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has asked his department to investigate. However, he denied that the decision has any connection to Safe Schools, and that the meeting merely reminded teachers about the parameters around discriminatory language:
“I don’t think there’s anything improper about that.”
The issue has been written about by Daily Tele writer Miranda Devine (surprise surprise), who says the issue came to light after students complained to their parents that if they didn’t want to participate in LGBT activities, they were made to feel ostracised and marginalised.
How much would it suck to be marginalised and ostracised for something that you actually couldn’t change? Jeez, that must *really* suck. Really maek u think.
We’ll update you on this story as more information arises.
Source: Daily Tele.
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