by Rod Liddle, The Times
Tug gently on a thread of the ideology and it comes apart like a jumper knitted by an imbecile
At the height of the madness, from which I think we are now in merciful and terminal retreat, a Scottish schoolboy announced that he identified as a wolf and was apparently indulged in this fantasy by his teachers. There was a confusion here — a kind of ideology-versus-reality disconnect, as so often happens with lifestyle-left intersectional idiocies.
If the teachers had truly believed the child was a wolf he would have been separated from the rest of the pupils by extremely robust metal fencing and thrown chunks of raw bison every few hours. Of course the school did not do that, meaning that in truth, and contrary to the approved narrative, it did not really think he was a wolf.
At the same time reports surfaced of other British schools where kids were identifying as a multitude of creatures, real and imagined, such as cats, horses, dinosaurs and dragons. One assumes that in each case the schools responded similarly, by pretending to respect these expressions of the fictional condition “species dysphoria” but in reality not believing it for a minute.
If only, one wished, they had taken the same approach to the suddenly booming popularity of teenage children telling everybody that they had been born into the wrong body — an impossibility — and identified as a different gender from the one they had been “assigned” at birth. Instead the schools indulged these dangerous fantasies, regardless of whether the parents approved.