Mick Hartley

Anna Slatz on primary school indoctrination:

An assignment given to children from a primary school in Birmingham, UK has surfaced and is raising some eyebrows amongst members of the public.

In October, Colmers Farm Primary School gave its Year 6 students an assignment to write diary entries from the perspective of "Tilly, a transgender bear." The school initially posted about the results of the project on their Twitter, but has since deleted the month-old tweet, likely due to some emerging public attention. The tweet had included screenshots of some of the children's assignments, which were quickly preserved by netizens.

The kids, who would likely have been aged between 10 and 11 years old, were given a word bank including terms like "bisexual, nauseous, repulsed, discrimination," and "transgender" to utilize for the assignment, in which they had to write a diary entry as Tilly, a transgender bear, coming out to his friend, Errol.

What about terms like "puberty blockers", "double mastectomy", "detransitioners", "a lifetime of sexual dysfunction"? Maybe not.

"I had a big secret to tell Errol – that I was a girl teddy and not a boy teddy." One student wrote, ending her two-page entry with a drawing of the transgender flag.

All students were required to state "I can define/understand what transgender and transitioning means" at the beginning or end of their essays.

The assignment was part of the school's No Outsiders scheme, one created by author and teacher Andrew Moffat.

In 2019, the adoption of Moffat's curriculum at another primary school in Birmingham led Muslim parents to withdraw their children en-mass out of outrage, as well as protest outside of the facility.

At the time, one mother even stated that her son came home questioning his gender after being exposed to Moffat's project.

People have reported that while No Outsiders claims to teach respect for all forms of diversity, there is an extreme slant on transgender subjects and issues, as well as an outright misrepresentation of some facets of the U.K's Equality Act in favor of supporting gender ideology at the expense of other protected rights and groups.

We've come across Andrew Moffat before, when a Muslim parent, Jabar Hussain, was facing jail by withdrawing his son, aged 9, from Parkfield primary school in protest against compulsory lessons on gender:

The lessons at Parkfield were launched ahead of the new sex and relationships curriculum, which becomes compulsory in all English schools in September. Although parents will be allowed to withdraw primary-age children from lessons focusing on sex, the relationships content is compulsory.

The school uses a syllabus of about 30 picture books, based on a programme called No Outsiders, to teach children about relationships. Some of the books, which include And Tango Makes Three, about two male penguins who adopt a chick, touch on themes including gay and transgender relationships and same-sex families. The programme also uses Introducing Teddy, about Thomas, a teddy bear who questions his gender identity, telling his best friend: “I know in my heart I’m a girl teddy, not a boy teddy.”  […]

Birmingham city council said the decision to prosecute Hussain was initiated by Parkfield, which referred the matter to the council “based on the child’s attendance record”.

Funnily enough – something the article doesn't mention – the author and man behind the No Outsiders programme, Andrew Moffat, is assistant head teacher at Parkfield, and indeed Parkfield has been at the centre of the whole No Outsiders controversy. It's presented as a case of backwards and reactionary Muslim parents objecting to their children being taught about homosexuality, but as we see here (“I know in my heart I’m a girl teddy, not a boy teddy”) this isn't about being gay. As we learn from the father Jabar Hussain's quotes, that's not the problem. "I will not allow my son to attend relationship classes and learn he may be ‘in the wrong body’". That's the problem. This is not a protest by a religious bigot about his son being indoctrinated by some sort of "gay agenda": on the contrary, this is about a primary school pushing the whole gender identity nonsense on to young children.