A GB News anchor mocking a child said to self-identify as a cat and how best to respond to pupils questioning issues around sex and gender are today’s topic of debate.
It has been prompted by a recording made of a teacher and some members of her class disagreeing over matters of identity.
In the recording, the teacher said the view of one pupil – that a person’s gender was determined by the ‘sexual organ you are born with’ – was ‘despicable’.
The verdict today is that people agree with the news anchor but not with the teacher:
But, what will it be tomorrow? Send in your views and inform the debate.
Elsewhere, we have what may or may not be the final word on lockdown-breaking parties at No.10 and a cyclist in support of ULEZ (but not black cabs).
Share your thoughts in the comments below.
■ When did we go from calling out absurdity to affirming and applauding it?
The many incidences across the pond and now here in the UK of people ‘identifying’ as animals is ridiculous.
It merely ridicules the notion of gender identity. How many genders are there now? Teachers should not be affirming these gender dysphoric notions or getting angry with other children genuinely challenging the lunacy of it.
This is not about rights to live under the trans umbrella. This is about escapism, non-conformity and people with undiagnosed mental disorders.
The backlash towards Michelle is the norm now and witnessed across all social media at any woman who questions gender or trans behaviour, even when merely pointing out real concerns for children’s mental health.
Clare, West Yorkshire
■ ‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.’ So said the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. If children want a bit of escapism they should be reading books like this, not pretending that they are cats. I was so angry this morning I nearly shaved my whiskers off in protest.
Dec, Essex
■ This ideological nonsense does not belong in the classroom. Let children be children.
Steve, Ealing
■ Michelle Dewberry is correct in the fact she says the sooner they realise it’s nonsense the sooner they can get on with being a child. My four-year-old says he is Spider-Man, this doesn’t mean I let him sleep upside down and go out in Witham fighting crime. This is nonsense.
Sam, Witham
■ Michelle Dewberry is right but what she did wrong was call the child ‘silly’.
It’s wrong to call a child silly but right to gently guide them away from the silliness.
Andy, Walthamstow
■ Before reading about this yesterday,
I had never heard of Michelle Dewberry, but to my mind she is a hero and I shall now start watching GB News instead of the woke BBC.
So glad to hear some common sense.
Pete, Coventry
What happened inside No.10 should have stayed inside No.10
■ Let me be the odd man out and say, on the lockdown parties, I wish that what had happened in Downing Street had stayed in Downing Street.
Do we really think that Donald Trump or other Western leaders fully complied with lockdown?
Winston Churchill was widely believed not to have restricted himself to his ration, and no one begrudged him any extra food or drink he needed to get through the day.
Had he been hounded out of office on such petty matters, where would we be now?
As ordinary members of the public who were mostly on gardening leave at home during lockdown (and not infrequently having parties ourselves, judging by my neighbours) are we really in a position to judge those in leadership who were continuously under stress?
They were all working in close proximity anyway and are far as I am concerned were entitled to let off a little steam from time to time.
Bernard Winchester, South Norwood
Polluted air, why prime ministers should be deferential and armed phone robbers
■ Let’s make sure not to follow Gideon (MetroTalk, Wed) into mocking this ULEZ plan by London mayor Sadiq Khan. As a cyclist into London I can assure everyone the air is only slightly worse than the driving of our black taxis.
Bobby Jones, Concerned Cyclist, Kidbrooke
■ Former prime minister Liz Truss needs to understand the role of the media. Referring to the joke that her time in No.10 was outlasted by the lifespan of a lettuce, she says the media isn’t ‘particularly deferential’ to politicians (Metro.co.uk, Tue).
But the role of the press is not to be deferential, it is to get at the truth and hold our elected officials to account.
If anything, the PM and MPs should be deferential to us, the voters, who hand them power and pay their inflated salaries. Maybe that lack of understanding about the role of MP/PM is one of the (many) reasons she was our shortest-ever lasting PM.
Karina, London
■ ER (MetroTalk, Tue) describes how he considered knocking a mobile robber off his moped. I wouldn’t have done it either but not out of fear of hurting them and being branded a criminal himself. They are often armed. Life is more important than a phone.
Stella, Camden
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