Teacher banned over misgendering pupil loses High Court appeal

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/teacher-high-court-government-department-for-education-oxford-b1172931.html

by je97

16 comments

  1. Good. Any teacher willing to put his own political beliefs before the wellbeing and safety of his students doesn’t deserve to teach!

  2. Good. Don’t want people who are deliberately mean to kids because “my religion said so” teaching in our schools. Not even sure where the bible says anything about being transgender.

  3. Good. There is no reason for this to happen at all, the teacher is basically bullying the kid.

  4. Because a lot of folks will consume the headline but not any of the judgement:

    *”The judge said in his 24-page ruling: “This case is not about a teacher who accidentally failed to follow a school’s policy of referring to a transgender pupil by the child’s chosen pronouns or even about a teacher who reconciled his religious convictions with such policy by choosing to avoid pronouns altogether and referring to the child by name.”*

    *”Rather, it is about a teacher who deliberately used female pronouns to refer to a transgender male pupil both in the classroom and then on national television in such a way that he would be “outed” without any apparent regard for a vulnerable child who was thereby caused significant distress.*

    *”Further, it is about a teacher who told his class that homosexuality is a sin and implied that homosexuals might be cured through God without any apparent regard for the gay and lesbian children in his class and who made them feel that their teacher regarded them as worthless.”*

    When you scratch the surface of people who get in trouble over transphobia at work invariable they are broken awful people and despite their protestations it’s never that they just said “sex is real”.

    How do all these transphobes have access to never ending legal funds for cases and appeals? Alison Bailey lost her appeal this week too (she raised over £500,000 across two lost court cases.). It’s wild how easy legal funds are accessed the moment your case has an anti-trans angle.

  5. I’m tryna understand. How did he out the kid on national TV? 

  6. You can’t bully children and forget your responsibilities to uphold their anonymity and expect to be allowed to work with them in a professional capacity

    You don’t have to believe in gender to know that, ffs

  7. You can’t be a cunt these days without being called a cunt. Western civilization, etfc etfc.

  8. Good, bigotry discrimination against charges in your care is completely unacceptable

  9. >After the judgment, Mr Sutcliffe claimed: “With this ruling every teacher is at risk if they share their beliefs and views in the classroom.”

    What a stupid piece of shit. Maybe if your beliefs are harmful to children, don’t be a teacher. Doesn’t seem a big loss to the maths teaching community if this cretin can’t even put two and two together.

  10. To summarise the judge -they deliberately tried to cause harm to a child to further their political agenda.

  11. Good, he and anyone else with his shitty beliefs can shove their religious bigotry up their arse.

  12. I’m friends with a teacher who doesn’t ‘get it’ but he still uses what they want because even though he doesn’t get it, he doesn’t want to make kids cry…

  13. Absolutely the right decision. This was a teacher bullying a child based on their identity. It’s worth noting the decision didn’t even need to get into whether that was unlawful harassment under the Equality Act to conclude it was a clear unmitigated breach of professional standards. 

  14. Thank god I went to school before they started filling kids heads with bullshit

  15. A religious fuckhead got banned over being a homophobic, brain dead moron. And then also outed a trans person who confided in them to the nation. This person shouldn’t be working customer care for The Range let alone a teacher.

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