Firefighters have been taught that sex is “just a label” and may run along a spectrum, whereas “in white Western cultures, gender is seen as being an either/or choice, also known as a binary”. The Telegraph has more.
Training material for emergency service staff at West Sussex Fire and Rescue, seen by the Telegraph, shows that they have received instruction in “transgender and non-binary” inclusion.
A bitesize guide for staff at the fire service makes a series of claims, including a section asking “what is the gender binary?”, in which firefighters have been informed that “in white Western cultures, gender is seen as being an either/or choice, also known as a binary”.
The training material relates to best-practice for inclusion, and informs emergency service staff that gender is a set of behaviours, while “sex is the label we’re assigned by a doctor when we’re born”.
This label does not cover the “range of innate gender identities a person might have”, the material claims, adding that biological sex may also run along a spectrum.
It states: “In truth, our understanding of the amount of difference between bodies is only just emerging, and current research indicates that there is probably more of a physical spectrum of biological sex rather than the simple binary of male and female.”
The guide goes on to claim that scientific research “increasingly shows that everyone’s biology is complex and doesn’t fit a simple binary anyway”, adding that things like hormonal make-up, reproductive systems and sex chromosomes are “irrelevant to the gender they are”.
Along with these claims, the guide offers several caveats, warning people should respect the pronouns of trans people and apologise if they use them incorrectly and concludes saying “celebrate trans identity, community, and creativity”.
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Look just get up the f…..g ladder
Perhaps “Fire” is just a label that runs along a spectrum? Maybe the service should think twice about responding to an emergency call, if it’s just a “conflagration”, “blaze” or “flickering flames”.
But I’m sure that courses on the spectrum of gender will help them put out house fires more efficiently!
It’s hard to think of a less gender-relevant job… except that your female-male trans firefighter is going to be significantly lacking in physical strength, endangering both colleagues and the public.
Rapid promotion to a desk-based senior rank.
“in white Western cultures, gender is seen as being an either/or choice, also known as a binary”.
Well, in every culture on Planet Earth, since time immemorial, sex has been correctly recognised as an either/or fact (not a choice).
Their statement doesn’t even make sense on their own mad terms, because if your evil White western culture correctly observes that there are two sexes, they will also correctly observe that sex is not a choice but simply a fact determined by the hand of fate.
The fire service is not made up of private companies therefore it is a public service. Like the Civil Service, It is not a plaything for activists or similar individuals that haven’t matured enough to be aligned with reality. Would using the correct pronouns have allowed the fire chiefs at the Grenfell Tower disaster to have read the reality of the situation so as to abandon the rules and get the inhabitants out one way or the other?
All too stupid for words.
Another question to consider is who gave the fire service “educators” their own education in biology, sociology, philosophy, psychology and metaphysics to qualify them to teach these subjects to their staff.
I’ve no doubt that some ordinary firemen have, through choice or necessity like so many nowadays, foresworn careers in these subjects before signing up. So are they not perfectly entitled to tell these amateur experts to shove their theories up their hoses?
You can’t just mess with someone’s world view and epistemology even if you are the Messiah. I think the offence consists in the sheer effrontery of me telling my neighbour that I have a hitherto unrevealed truth to tell them and that once I have told them they will be expected to take it as gospel. This is not human interaction it is a reflection of something else. Fortunately even the simple-minded have the nous to see this for the most part.
For all you firefighters out there – there is a choice, you may have to sit and listen to this crap, but you don’t have to believe it.
Well, I suppose it is important to know if you are called out to rescue a cat from up a tree, whether it is a felis catus or whether it is someone identifying himself/herself/themselves as a cat.
It takes balls to go into a burning building.
It’s not possible to ‘teach’ adult human beings something that is biologically, scientifically, and morally bonkers…you may be able to persuade them that to prevent being disciplined or sacked they should just nod and agree…hopefully there’s enough sensible firefighters to disagree…and yes just put the fires out, rescue folks from fires, crashes, flooding, etc….