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I warned about this madness in postings already almost 20 years ago. Nobody believed me, some laughed at me. I hear nobody laughing anymore these days. Tichy's Einblicke writes about this event in the UK:


UK: Teacher sacked for rebelling against gender ideology

It didn't take a day for the British government's new guidelines on how to deal with supposedly transgender pupils to prove a failure and harmful. A long-serving math teacher had to resign because he had "misgendered" a pupil. He had only listened to his conscience.
It is a development that is taking place in one way or another in many Western countries, including Germany, as shown by the calls to order against AfD MP Beatrix von Storch and the politician's resulting lawsuit against the organs. It is about the issue of so-called "gender reassignment", also known as transgenderism for the sake of disguise. Yes, it is formally a gender change, a change to a different gender identity, but the goal is probably the other biological sex in over 90 percent of cases.

So far, there are only a few patients who want to belong to an unclearly defined "third gender". But all those undergoing medical treatment inevitably slip into something like this, because they do not really belong to either their old "gender" (if they do, then the one without reproductive ability) or the new, desired "gender". So it's also somehow about transsexuality. This could perhaps (not certainly) be better explained by those affected themselves.

The whole area is linguistically and conceptually mined. Where people used to talk about transsexuals (including in a corresponding law), we now talk about transgender people, which most people will hardly be able to imagine. So much for the theory of the matter, it will have to suffice here. Because the conversation is becoming increasingly specialized without the overwhelming majority having a vital interest in its continuation. However, the interest of this - mostly silent - majority is probably to be allowed to continue living more or less as "normally" as before. But this right is as much at stake in Germany as it is in the USA and elsewhere.

In the UK, the Conservative government recently introduced guidelines on how to deal with the issue in schools. On the first day they came into force, Kevin Lister, 60, lost his job as a math teacher at a further education college after 16 years. He had refused to address a 17-year-old female pupil by her male name and the corresponding pronouns. The girl currently "identifies" as a boy.

The whole area is linguistically and conceptually mined. Where people used to talk about transsexuals (including in a corresponding law), we now talk about transgender people, which most people will hardly be able to imagine. So much for the theory of the matter, it will have to suffice here. Because the conversation is becoming increasingly specialized without the overwhelming majority having a vital interest in its continuation. However, the interest of this - mostly silent - majority is probably to be allowed to continue living more or less as "normally" as before. But this right is as much at stake in Germany as it is in the USA and elsewhere.

In the UK, the Conservative government recently introduced guidelines on how to deal with the issue in schools. On the first day they came into force, Kevin Lister, 60, lost his job as a math teacher at a further education college after 16 years. He had refused to address a 17-year-old female pupil by her male name and the corresponding pronouns. The girl currently "identifies" as a boy.

In contrast, Conservative MP and former Prime Minister Liz Truss had called on the government to make the guidelines legally binding. The recently resigned Home Secretary Suella Braverman - a leader of the party right - called for "robust" and statutory regulation to clearly define the issue for all.

Now the predicted salad has happened. The sacked Lister compared the guidelines to the Telegraph to a bulldozer driving through the remaining regulations for school lessons. Teachers in particular would ultimately be left unprotected by decisions that they could not foresee. It introduces the arbitrariness of school administrators: "Any school, anywhere in the country, can now do to any teacher who chooses to follow the guidelines what they did to me. They can fire them and have their license (to teach) revoked." And behind the arbitrary decisions made by schools will again be the threat of a mob that may be unhappy with the decisions and can be made up of parents, charities, NGOs, pressure groups and more.

The guidelines come from the ministry of Kemi Badenoch, who - one would have assumed - leans more towards the Tory right on these issues. However, the friction in this Tory government in particular is extreme because it sees itself constantly called into question by poll results and is therefore increasingly giving in to woke pressure from the media and other organizations.

And so the guidelines from Badenoch do have some loopholes. For example, schools do not have to accept every gender reassignment request from an underage pupil. But there are also no clear rules on how to deal with such an alleged "transition" at school age. This is the crux of the matter in this dispute, which from a distance is reminiscent of the problems faced by Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson. It is about both the pupil or student concerned and the wider social environment, which is almost forgotten today.

But questions of identity (including personal identity) are of course capable of triggering a general lack of orientation in society or in any community if they are not answered clearly or are obviously nonsensical. As school or university teachers, Peterson and Lister were also bound by their personal conscience. If a teacher can no longer follow this inner compass, then he ceases to exist as an authority figure. Another case of the "dominoes of decadence", in which one tile breaks into the next. Today in the British Isles, tomorrow in Germany.

German original: https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumn...der-ideologie/