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Head bans transgender pupil from exam... so she shows him Equality Act.
A transgender pupil had to show her headmaster a copy of the Equality Act before he allowed her to sit a GCSE exam while wearing girls’ clothes.
Full story: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article4444161.ece
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Wow, the Sun
uses correct gender pronouns, whereas the Daily Wail used inappropriate ones throughout their report of the same story.
Here's one that happened earlier, also from the Sun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4347129/Miss-Engla...
Angharad
Daily Hate
We had a link here a while ago to the Sun, where they covered the story of a very young transgendered child in a similar way. The Mail's coverage of that was also vicious and gender-skewed. A clue was in that particular article, where the Daily Hate sneeringly referred to 'a deal with a tabloid newspaper'.
Short answer: the paper that buys the story will be a sweety (so far) but the one who doesn't get the scoop will slice you up.
Daily Hate
Daily Hate = Daily Mail?
Perfect description of that evil paper
Daily Wail
That's my preferred title, in that they're always wailing, moaning and gnashing their proverbial teeth. You could be forgiven for thinking their editor was Chicken Licken (of "The sky is falling!" fame)...
Anyone who's not in their target demographic is a potential target for their vitriol, while a few years back they seemed to be going through an oncology phase (frequently citing questionable research to argue that a variety of inanimate objects either cause or prevent cancer (handy summary here) - including the infamous "How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer"; while more recently they've been moaning about the sexualisation of children and campaigning for ISPs to block pr0n by default... but strangely don't think there's anything wrong with the objectification of women on their own website (finding real news there's almost like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack in amongst all the commentary on celebrities lives, clothes and bodies). Oh, and last year they experimented with website polls - but quickly discovered that if you ask a leading question, quite a lot of people will turn up and vote for the 'wrong' option :)
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Head tries to ban TG student from exams
Glad to see that Ashlyn Parram has the courage to stand up for her rights.
May Your Light Forever Shine
If...
...Ashlynn were autistic or had Spina bifida or was black or Blind would they have treated her like shit for a medical condition or a inherent trait of her self which she neither could or would change? It seems to me that that school is perpetuating a culture of hate and hypocrisy, you simply cannot hurl abuse at a pupil and then turn around and boast of being an Outstanding school according to some Ofsted standards. I'd get that Head sacked, see how he likes eating dog food on the dole, then maybe he will learn to respect others a bit more.
The nature of Monkey is - Irrepressible!!!