A couple in Hull have withdrawn their four year-old daughter from a pre-school after discovering that pupils there were being taught from a book called Grandad’s Pride, which depicts men in leather bondage gear and a trans man with ‘top-surgery’ scars. The Mail has the story.
Will and Maria Taylor, of Hull, East Yorkshire, were horrified when they spotted “two images of men who are partially naked in leather bondage gear” in the pages of Grandad’s Pride.
One image featured trans men with ‘top surgery’ scars, sparking a furious reaction from parents who claims that it encourages body modifications too early.
‘Top-surgery’ involves either the removal or augmentation of the breasts, which if undergone by a trans man means breast tissue is taken out and the chest is contoured to emphasise the pectoral muscles.
Grandad’s Pride is the creation of Waterstones children’s book winning author and illustrator Harry Woodgate – who uses they/them pronouns.
When the couple approached Genesis Pre School in Hull with their concerns over the overtly sexualised images, they were shocked when the school refused to apologise for stocking the book.
The book, which has a four plus reading aged, tells the story of Milly spending the summer in Grandad’s cottage by the sea.
When Milly is playing in the attic one day, she unearths Grandad and Gramps’ old Pride flag. When Grandad explains to Milly what Pride is, he and Milly plan a Pride march in the village.
The BookTrust, which promotes children’s reading, has already warned parents: “The illustrations in Grandad’s Pride include realistic depictions of what a Pride march might look like, including a person dressed in adult leather wear and some images which are culturally sensitive.
“Parents and carers should read the book before sharing.”
The couple accept a staff member had checked with Maria whether she was okay with the contents. But she did not notice the images at first.
One image shows the two men in fetish gear kissing during a Pride march while another marcher holds up a sign saying “All You Need Is Love”.
When another parent alerted them the couple complained to the nursery, expecting an apology. When staff defended the images, the couple decided to remove their four year-old daughter.
Will said: “We identified two images of men who are partially naked in leather bondage gear. One has a leather cod-piece moulded tightly around his crotch along with garters running down his thighs.
“He also has a studded dog collar around his neck and knee-high boots. Both have various leather straps around their bodies and studs/spikes.
“The main and most immediate concern is that children have been exposed to at least two age-inappropriate sexual or erotic images of a man in what can only be reasonably described as ‘bondage/fetish/BDSM’ gear.
“When we went to the nursery to raise concerns about the book, to be honest, we expected staff to instantly apologise and that would be the end of the matter. But the safeguarding lead began to defend the images.
“They argued the children would not understand or perceive erotic or sexual images. Staff claimed the image was just portraying ‘dress-up’ and would not be perceived as erotic by a child as they have no idea what ‘erotic’ is.”
The staff denied the images are erotic, telling the couple: “That’s just your opinion.”
Mr. Taylor continued: “That was no justification in our eyes. Arguing with us over the appropriateness of these sexual images quickly damaged the trust we held for the nursery team. At this stage I was concerned and took our daughter out of the nursery.”
Will argues that a child’s lack of understanding is no justification in exposing children to sexualised imagery.
He said: “It seems those with safeguarding responsibilities are basing their decisions on what is safe and appropriate based on whether the child will recognise the risk for what it is.
“To be clear, the ’perception’ of the child is not the arbiter of what is age-appropriate or safe, regardless of their level of understanding.”
Will says he and Maria have been branded ‘bigots’ for taking their stand. He added: “The staff felt I was being bigoted and I was not having that.”
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These people want to have sex with children. It’s as simple as that as far as I’m concerned.
Why else would you discuss anything like this?
If you wanted your child to be more prone to violent acts, you’d show them knives, fighting videos and create books about street-brawls for 4 year olds.
It’s just pure, blatant grooming. Why aren’t more parents taking an interest and asking why this is happening? Why’s nobody asking why drag queens would rather read to kids then the elderly in old people’s homes? Anyone who cares about their kids’ welfare should be taking them out of school and officially complaining. I mean, when does it end? Will they just abolish age certification on all movies next or get rid of the ‘watershed’ for TV viewing? Because they may as well at this rate. This states the signs that show grooming is happening and it definitely applies to what we’re seeing in schools;
Because most parents are any combination of the following: stupid, oblivious, indoctrinated and prioritising their virtue-signalling status, or completely asleep at the wheel.
And yet the unedited, non-‘sensitivity read’ version of a Roald Dhal book is now verboten and deemed ‘offensive’ I imagine! I mean, can’t we just go back to a normal world where kids were being read non-controversial classics such as The Famous Five or George’s Marvelous Medicine, as opposed to anything ‘Queer Theory’ or ‘gender ideology’ related, therefore growing up to be totally well-adjusted and emotionally intact human beings who don’t think they can identify as a cat, men can have periods or that it’s normal to cut off your boobs and pretend to be a bloke?
I think it’s two sides of the same coin. Left to decide for themselves as adults, many kids will grow up to be adults that think “trans” stuff is aberrant and also to have conservative views on things. If you ensure that from an early age they are only fed a left wing view of the world, and that “trans” stuff is normal, you stand some chance they will believe that as adults.
“Anti-racist” indoctrination has already embedded itself into the younger generations.
I think it’s as much about normalising “trans” at a societal level. They probably know there is a hard core of adults who know it’s abnormal and they will never persuade them, so they work on future generations before their attitudes are set, as they did with “anti-racism”.
One parent who complained about this withdrew his children. I saw another case of a mother who question the material shown to her daughter by a school and she asked to see the material but was refused. She went to court to get access to the material and the court said it was confidential and copyright and she was refused access. How have we arrived at a situation were parents cannot see the source material being taught to their children? In the case the material was from a charity. We were not told which one but Stonewall is a good guess. Who is in charge of teaching material these days?
the children would not understand or perceive erotic or sexual images
That implies they consider any pornography is considered acceptable for the children in their care. Are they getting investigated or will the police be providing them protection to deter concerned parents?
Interestingly, a permanent memorial to the outpoured wrath of Almighty God on a society filled with occultism and militant, aggressive homosexuality.
Jesus said it would be just like like the days of Noah before His return.
Mogwai
1 year ago
Next time you have an appointment within the NHS you need to check if your nurse or doctor passes the ‘Woke sniff test’ by asking them if men can have a cervix. If they give you the wrong answer you know it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge!
Go back further and ask them why they did not know that the covid vaccines were neither safe nor effective. I doubt that any of them can explain what 95% efficacy means.
Hester
1 year ago
warning should go along with this school that it is grooming children from a young age.
I sincerely doubt the scene depicted by Harry Woodgate of a shirtless bearded lady with mastectomy scars brandishing an ‘out and proud’ sign next to a Muslim mother and daughter was drawn from a real life situation.
The ubiquitous pride flags were curiously absent from the mosque nearest my home. Strange.
Mogwai
1 year ago
Like I keep saying, these woketards and butchers home in on kids and vulnerable adults, and this person is an example of somebody who falls into the latter category. How can this possibly be lawful? How on earth is having dreaded ”gender affirming care”, which leaves you with permanent changes to your body, going to negate having 14 diagnoses and improve this person’s quality of life?
”Tavistock’s Gender Clinic has approved testosterone and mastectomy for a 22 yr old with A TOTAL OF 14 DIAGNOSES, who continues to have complex needs and may likely need 24-hour support in the forseeable future.”
This (female) autist (obviously again) has been a Tavistock patient since she was 15. And it presumably already took quite a bit of grooming to get her into Tavistock at 15.
As I recently wrote in another comment: These are evil people. And I do mean evil. They aren’t helping their so-called patients, only exploiting (to the hilt) whoever falls into their clutches.
Sick, Sick, Sick! How can this be happening to our children and grandchildren? What is wrong with the parents?
Have a look at this with Dr. Anna Loutfi and the ‘Bad Law Project’.
This woman is a force of Nature. Thank goodness for her and people like her. There may yet be some hope for our children.
If I wanted to desensitise children to particular concepts or materials then continually exposing them in a benign setting is precisely how I would do it. Safeguarding Lead; JFC these people are useful idiots and that person should be out of a job. But then, these jobs don’t exactly attract the brains of Britain.
JohnnyDollar
1 year ago
Indoctrination Not Education . Banish the politicians in charge
Pembroke
1 year ago
If children won’t understand the images why have them in the book in the first place?
There was a discussion on GB News about this and it was claimed that the picture considered most offensive was from a German version of the book and not the one shown here.
But what concerns me is the view that the children would only see this as dressing up. So why show this to them? What were they supposed to learn from it?
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These people want to have sex with children. It’s as simple as that as far as I’m concerned.
Why else would you discuss anything like this?
If you wanted your child to be more prone to violent acts, you’d show them knives, fighting videos and create books about street-brawls for 4 year olds.
It’s just pure, blatant grooming. Why aren’t more parents taking an interest and asking why this is happening? Why’s nobody asking why drag queens would rather read to kids then the elderly in old people’s homes? Anyone who cares about their kids’ welfare should be taking them out of school and officially complaining. I mean, when does it end? Will they just abolish age certification on all movies next or get rid of the ‘watershed’ for TV viewing? Because they may as well at this rate. This states the signs that show grooming is happening and it definitely applies to what we’re seeing in schools;
https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1693315906275774698
Because most parents are any combination of the following: stupid, oblivious, indoctrinated and prioritising their virtue-signalling status, or completely asleep at the wheel.
“Equality for all”
“Trans rights now”
In what way do these people not already enjoy “equality”?
What “rights” do they want that they do not currently have but that non-“trans” people have?
And yet the unedited, non-‘sensitivity read’ version of a Roald Dhal book is now verboten and deemed ‘offensive’ I imagine! I mean, can’t we just go back to a normal world where kids were being read non-controversial classics such as The Famous Five or George’s Marvelous Medicine, as opposed to anything ‘Queer Theory’ or ‘gender ideology’ related, therefore growing up to be totally well-adjusted and emotionally intact human beings who don’t think they can identify as a cat, men can have periods or that it’s normal to cut off your boobs and pretend to be a bloke?
I think it’s two sides of the same coin. Left to decide for themselves as adults, many kids will grow up to be adults that think “trans” stuff is aberrant and also to have conservative views on things. If you ensure that from an early age they are only fed a left wing view of the world, and that “trans” stuff is normal, you stand some chance they will believe that as adults.
“Anti-racist” indoctrination has already embedded itself into the younger generations.
Their right to utilize other people’s children as raw material to create more “trans people” in their own image is still somewhat restricted.
I think it’s as much about normalising “trans” at a societal level. They probably know there is a hard core of adults who know it’s abnormal and they will never persuade them, so they work on future generations before their attitudes are set, as they did with “anti-racism”.
You never get an answer to that. What they actually want is priviledges.
Exactly
There must be grounds for prosecution here.
Name, shame and arrest the perpetrators.
Where are the parents?
One parent who complained about this withdrew his children. I saw another case of a mother who question the material shown to her daughter by a school and she asked to see the material but was refused. She went to court to get access to the material and the court said it was confidential and copyright and she was refused access. How have we arrived at a situation were parents cannot see the source material being taught to their children? In the case the material was from a charity. We were not told which one but Stonewall is a good guess. Who is in charge of teaching material these days?
And all of this deviancy has flourished under the Conservative Party.
That implies they consider any pornography is considered acceptable for the children in their care. Are they getting investigated or will the police be providing them protection to deter concerned parents?
On that basis the schools could lie to them about anything.
We need to be teaching children what the rainbow really means
Interestingly, a permanent memorial to the outpoured wrath of Almighty God on a society filled with occultism and militant, aggressive homosexuality.
Jesus said it would be just like like the days of Noah before His return.
Next time you have an appointment within the NHS you need to check if your nurse or doctor passes the ‘Woke sniff test’ by asking them if men can have a cervix. If they give you the wrong answer you know it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge!
https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1693958441973272635
Go back further and ask them why they did not know that the covid vaccines were neither safe nor effective. I doubt that any of them can explain what 95% efficacy means.
warning should go along with this school that it is grooming children from a young age.
But that’s age-appropriate gay porn! It was drawn by an award-winning author of children’s books in children-book-style !!
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NB: That’s what Weremaids et al mean what they’re using the word age-appropriate. Adult content rendered in children’s book style.
I sincerely doubt the scene depicted by Harry Woodgate of a shirtless bearded lady with mastectomy scars brandishing an ‘out and proud’ sign next to a Muslim mother and daughter was drawn from a real life situation.
The ubiquitous pride flags were curiously absent from the mosque nearest my home. Strange.
Like I keep saying, these woketards and butchers home in on kids and vulnerable adults, and this person is an example of somebody who falls into the latter category. How can this possibly be lawful? How on earth is having dreaded ”gender affirming care”, which leaves you with permanent changes to your body, going to negate having 14 diagnoses and improve this person’s quality of life?
”Tavistock’s Gender Clinic has approved testosterone and mastectomy for a 22 yr old with A TOTAL OF 14 DIAGNOSES, who continues to have complex needs and may likely need 24-hour support in the forseeable future.”
https://twitter.com/Neverfallingfo1/status/1693370906041569609
This (female) autist (obviously again) has been a Tavistock patient since she was 15. And it presumably already took quite a bit of grooming to get her into Tavistock at 15.
As I recently wrote in another comment: These are evil people. And I do mean evil. They aren’t helping their so-called patients, only exploiting (to the hilt) whoever falls into their clutches.
Do the only sensible and responsible thing a parent should do.
Remove your children from the school immediately
The really surprising thing here is that just one set of parents complained…..
These evil people need to do jail time but with the current governance of this country there’s little chance. Vote Reform UK
The image of a raging Christ in the temple with a whip comes to mind. Trouble is, they’d probably like that.
Sick, Sick, Sick! How can this be happening to our children and grandchildren? What is wrong with the parents?
Have a look at this with Dr. Anna Loutfi and the ‘Bad Law Project’.
This woman is a force of Nature. Thank goodness for her and people like her. There may yet be some hope for our children.
https://youtu.be/mW86JFn8lwE
If I wanted to desensitise children to particular concepts or materials then continually exposing them in a benign setting is precisely how I would do it. Safeguarding Lead; JFC these people are useful idiots and that person should be out of a job. But then, these jobs don’t exactly attract the brains of Britain.
Indoctrination Not Education . Banish the politicians in charge
If children won’t understand the images why have them in the book in the first place?
There was a discussion on GB News about this and it was claimed that the picture considered most offensive was from a German version of the book and not the one shown here.
But what concerns me is the view that the children would only see this as dressing up. So why show this to them? What were they supposed to learn from it?