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Staff at a Melbourne boys’ school have been told not to use gender-specific terms in order to be more inclusive.

I know what you’re thinking: “More inclusive of what? It’s a school exclusively for boys!”

But you’re only thinking that way because you’re normal. And normal people don’t run things anymore.

The Woketards are in charge of pretty much everything nowadays, and so everything is completely messed up.

Minority Rules

Staff at St Bede’s College can’t refer to a boy as a boy at their all-boys school just in case one of the boys who likes to think of himself as other than a boy gets upset.

It doesn’t matter that 99.9 per cent of boys at the boys’ school know that they are boys. You must never refer to them as boys.

Call the boys students.

Call the boys children.

Call those boys anything but boys.

This is to protect the feelings of the 0.1 per cent of boys at the boys’ school who don’t know they are boys.

Going Along with Governmental Overreach

The school principal sent a letter to teachers and staff this week, advising they should no longer label students using the words “boy”, “young man”, or “Beda Boy” — the term used when referring to alumni of the secondary school.

The letter, reported in the Herald Sun, is believed to have been sent after Victorian Child Safe Standards were updated mid-year.

The principal wrote:

“As part of this, along with other schools, we are looking at the language we use. Can I ask that we start to use gender neutral language in our communications where possible?

“The use of the term ‘student’ rather than ‘young man’ or ‘boy’ can easily be made. I’m yet to find an alternative for ‘Beda Boy’, and given the history of this term, we would need to think carefully on any changes here.”

Hmmm… if a Beda Boy is not a boy, what is they?

A seahorse?

Wrong Priorities

I can imagine next week’s staff meeting:

Parents are paying more than $8,000 a year to send their children with penises to this Christian school.

You have to wonder what it is parents are paying for. LGBTQ+ gibberish and gobbledegook? You can get that at any public school for free.

Why is a Catholic school going along with this rubbish?

If Christians won’t even stand for the simple truth that “God made man in His image, male and female He created them”, what will they stand for?

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.

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Update: “St Bede’s College: All boys school retracts plans to stop calling students ‘Beda Boys’ or ‘young men“, The Herald Sun, 19 October 2022.