Transgender ideology – the new fundamentalism
by Lynda Rose, Christian Today:
Forget the Catholic Inquisition, Protestant iconoclasm, or the Salem witch-hunts – there’s a new kid on the block. He, or perhaps I should say ‘ze’, goes under the banner of LGBTQ+ equality, inclusivity and tolerance. It’s a faith that will brook no questioning or dissent. But the description of its foundational values as ‘inclusivity and tolerance’ is an oxymoron – a contradiction in terms – because it’s a creed built on denial of equality, on exclusion and harassment of those who dare voice disagreement, and on bigotry and prejudice.
The latest victim to fall foul of this brand of intolerance is a schoolgirl who was unwise enough to challenge the opinion that critical theory takes precedence over biological reality in defining women, after an unnamed female member of the House of Lords was invited into her unnamed private school to talk about transphobia in Parliament.
A not unreasonable comment for the schoolgirl to have made, one would have thought, and a view shared by many women. But after the meeting, when the girls had returned to the sixth form, the teenager was apparently surrounded by up to 60 baying and screaming schoolmates, who swore and spat at her, eventually driving her from the room in tears. Since that time, the girl has felt so intimidated by the bullying and accusations of transphobia, that she has been forced to leave the school, and is studying for her A-levels alone, at home.
At every level, behaviour such as that displayed by the feral mob, who appear to think it is alright to hound a fellow pupil like this, is a disgrace. As too is the attitude of the staff, who might have been expected to step in and robustly defend her, telling her persecutors that all have a right to express honestly held opinions and ask questions – especially where such views are based on science – and that discussion and debate is foundational to a society that values freedom and respect, and upholds the rights of all. But, unbelievably, the teachers appear in the main to have sided with her tormentors, banishing her, before she left, to the library.
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