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Mother demands investigation after school counselor gave her 13-year-old a CHEST BINDER and started calling her by a male name to help her socially transition without her parents' consent​

Amber Lavigne, of Wiscasset, discovered her daughter's chest binder in her room while her eighth-grader was at a school dance. She later learned her daughter's counselor Sam Roy had bought her two binders and told her she didn't have to tell her parents and he wouldn't either. He also reportedly helped her begin socially transitioning at school by referring to her by a male name and with he/him pronouns with her mother's knowledge or consent. She has since pulled her daughter, who she did not name, from Great Salt Bay School and is calling for an investigation into Roy and the school's behavior.
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If you have your children enrolled in a school in an English-speaking country in the present day, you are not raising your children, the school is (and social media is too, if you allow a child a phone/tablet). Thus, your children are not imbued with your social mores, but theirs. Once you know this, you cannot really be surprised by anything that your child comes to do, or to believe.
 
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Universities can cancel your degree for wrongthink – and there’s no real right to appeal​

Imagine the scenario. You are a fifth-year doctoral student. You have done everything you’re meant to – studied, researched and completed a dissertation. You’re on the cusp of getting your degree. But in the final months, a fresh batch of complaints about your “conduct” surfaces and the university decides to deny you a PhD.

What, you might wonder, could this student possibly have done to deserve such a crushing punishment? Did they break the law? Was their work sub-par? No, it was nothing like that. In fact, to read through the investigatory “evidence” on this real case, as I have done, is to delve into a litany of pettiness that almost defies belief.

I wish I could name the student, but the person is reluctant to have their name associated with a penalty they are powerless to overturn. So I will instead try to summarise the case. One of the charges is that the student confronted a professor who had made a complaint about their conduct. The confrontation, according to the university’s investigation, was awkward but non-aggressive. Still, the professor, the investigation found, was made anxious by the incident.

Another of the incidents is that, using a personal social media account, the student made “transphobic” remarks to someone online – a person who had nothing to do with the university. In another, the student was accused of being racist by arguing that a non-white professor who argued for diversity policies in the university might have ulterior motives for promoting ideas that favour non-white people. Is this racist? It could be; it could also just be unpalatable to those who disagree.

The student was further deemed guilty of misconduct because of a refusal to take the disciplinary process seriously enough. How does the university know this? The student’s own academic supervisor reported some off-hand remarks to that effect after a private conversation.

In short, reading through it all, one gains a picture of a social misfit with “unpopular” opinions who did not shut up and keep their head down. For this, aside from barrages of disciplinary hearings, the student claims they were also subject to an ongoing campaign of aggression from other students, including an instance of being told to “f--- off” while innocently using a lift.

What is the student’s recourse in such a situation? They can go through the university’s own process. After that, there is meant to be a robust and cheap safeguard in the form of scrutiny by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA). A read-through of the OIA’s report on this case, however, reveals it to be nothing more than a rubber-stamping body for the universities. Rather than grappling with any of the relevant legal requirements to protect free speech or act proportionately, the judgment summarises the university’s regulations and accepts its conclusions.

This leaves a student with only one option: a judicial review. If brought in this case, it may have the university scrambling for cover. But there’s a catch. The initial cost is £15,000; the potential cost of losing runs to over £100,000. The student simply cannot afford the risk. The Government claims it is going to fix this kind of problem by passing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill. But though the law may allow students to sue their universities, it will not change the cost-benefit analysis of doing so. Until a university happens to pick on a student with bottomless financial resources and a willingness to have their name trashed, they can operate with impunity. As Paul Diamond, a human rights barrister, puts it: “[This] is not an operating safeguard system.” It is not a pretty picture of our university sector either.

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AOC rebuked for 'demanding' Japan 'embrace LGBTQ alphabet wokeness' during controversial Asia trip​

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is coming under fire after she called out Japan for not being tolerant enough during a congressional trip to Asia.

Ocasio-Cortez targeted Japan in an almost 40-minute-long Instagram video, during which she said that she was shocked at "very discriminatory" comments from a member of the Japanese government on the LGBT community.

"There was a member of the Japanese administration that was caught in off-the-record comments making very discriminatory statements about LGBT people," she explained in an Instagram video that she streamed live on Monday. "It is quite shocking, I think it's fair to characterize this as [a] pretty shocking development," Ocasio-Cortez added.

"It is our view that marriage equality and LGBT protections being enacted in Japan would [play] a very strong and important role in U.S. and Japan relations," the congresswoman said.

But political commentators and journalists did not take kindly to Ocasio-Cortez advising Japan on how to conduct its affairs.

Political commentator Ian Miles Cheong summed up the congresswoman’s visit in a tweet: "AOC is currently in Japan demanding that their government embrace LGBTQ alphabet wokeness, or else."

"Japan’s internal affairs are none of AOC’s business," journalist Sameera Khan fired back, sharing headlines from Time and Bloomberg News on the controversial trip. One user agreed, advising that Ocasio-Cortez to stick to American politics: "Kind of a far out concept, but how bout we focus on America."

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View: https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1628781018000814080


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Chaplain reported as terrorist for questioning LGBTQ activists digs in for legal battle​

A school chaplain in the United Kingdom who claims he was left unemployable after he was fired and reported as a terrorist for questioning LGBTQ activists is set to appeal a legal ruling against him.

Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall, an ordained Church of England minister, sued his former employer Trent College in Derbyshire, England, for discrimination, harassment, victimization and unfair dismissal, according to a statement from his legal counsel at the London-based Christian Legal Centre.

Randall, a former chaplain at Christ's College Cambridge who served five years as chaplain at Trent College, explained to Fox News Digital last September that he was fired from the school because of a 2019 sermon that told students they are entitled to make up their own minds about the claims of LGBTQ identity politics.

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nivek said:

Chaplain reported as terrorist for questioning LGBTQ activists digs in for legal battle​

A school chaplain in the United Kingdom who claims he was left unemployable after he was fired and reported as a terrorist for questioning LGBTQ activists is set to appeal a legal ruling against him.

Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall, an ordained Church of England minister, sued his former employer Trent College in Derbyshire, England, for discrimination, harassment, victimization and unfair dismissal, according to a statement from his legal counsel at the London-based Christian Legal Centre.

Randall, a former chaplain at Christ's College Cambridge who served five years as chaplain at Trent College, explained to Fox News Digital last September that he was fired from the school because of a 2019 sermon that told students they are entitled to make up their own minds about the claims of LGBTQ identity politics.

(More on the link)

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The Church of England looks to militant atheists for its moral direction these days, not to God, scripture, tradition, or whatever else people might think it should.
 
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I don't have Netflix anymore, but somebody might find this worth watching.
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Chris Rock's new comedy special outrages liberals on Twitter: 'Shocking,' ‘Turned my whole TV off’

Comedian Chris Rock attracted outrage from the woke left on Twitter after he slammed Meghan Markle and addressed the Will Smith slap in a new comedy special.
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NBC reporter Ben Collins said that he couldn’t force himself to watch the special, an edited version of Rock's show in Baltimore. "Got 14 minutes into the Chris Rock special before my subconscious took over, said ‘okay that's enough’ out loud and turned my whole TV off. Pure animal instinct defending against hearing the same joke for the 8,000th time. My soul was dying and took control of my physical self."

"Truly shocking and I didn't have high hopes," Collins added.
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Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya, who identifies as an "[a]ntiracist" and "feminist" on her official Twitter profile, said that Rock deserved to be assaulted. "Netflix keeps screwing over subscribers. They cancel hit shows people actually wanna watch and give Chris Rock millions of dollars to prove Will Smith was right to slap him."
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Not a diametric polarity, but regular folk seem to like it more than the refined professionals.
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