A teacher called a schoolgirl, 13, 'despicable' for not accepting that a classmate 'could identify as a cat'
A teacher has called a teenage student "despicable" after she did not accept a classmate's claim to identify as a cat.The teacher, at Rye College in East Sussex, said she would report the girl, 13, to school leaders after a row sparked by the student's questioning of her fellow pupil's identity.
The argument took place on Friday afternoon in a class on 'life education', where students were told that "who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.During the row, of which an audio recording was made, the teacher is heard to say: "How dare you – you’ve just really upset someone" by "questioning their identity".The pupil hits back: "If they want to identify as a cat or something then they are genuinely unwell – crazy.
The teacher then asks the girls: "Where did you get this idea from that there are only two genders", adding that this "is not an opinion." According to the Telegraph, the teacher tells the class that "gender is not linked to the parts that you were born with, gender is about how you identify, which is what I said right from the very beginning of the lesson."
She adds that "there is actually three biological sexes because you can be born with male and female body parts or hormones" and "there are lots of genders – there is transgender, there is a gender who are people who don’t believe that they have a gender at all".
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