Church of England guidance for teachers has been slammed for pushing the anti-science idea that a person’s sex is “assigned” at birth rather than a biological fact and telling teachers to challenge “outdated terms”. The Mail has the story.
Guidance set to be issued to thousands of schools states that a transgender man is someone “who was assigned female at birth but identifies and lives as a man”, and a transgender woman “was assigned male at birth but identifies and lives as a woman”.
The statements are in the document ‘Flourishing For All’, which is backed by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and tells teachers to challenge “outdated terms”.
About a million children attend 4,630 Anglican schools.
Last night, critics condemned the proposed guidance.
Lucy Marsh, of the Family Education Trust, said: “It is extremely concerning that the Church of England does not recognise that biological sex is immutable. Sex is not ‘assigned at birth’, it is determined at conception and recorded at birth. These are biological, unchangeable facts. Coercing staff and children to believe in contested gender ideology as fact is not only wrong, but extremely harmful.”
Stephanie Davies-Arai, of Transgender Trend, which challenges trans ideology in schools, said: “Biological reality is not ‘outdated’, and it is worrying that the C of E thinks it is. Knowing that sex can’t be changed is not an old-fashioned idea, but basic reality.”
Marsh and Davies-Arai further point out that the guidelines conflict with the Department for Education’s draft transgender guidance, which says pupils must not be taught about the “concept of gender identity”.
Anyone still under the misapprehension that C of E schools are any kind of refuge from the deluge of woke gobbledegook will not be thinking that now.
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The “assigned at birth” hypothesis was just coming into fashion when I studied social psychology at Cambridge in 1972-3, courtesy of the ongoing, and fraudulent, research of John Money. The evidence base was crap then, and it’s crap now.
A late afterthought: the one thing that John Money’s research proved is that if you assign a gender at birth that doesn’t match the fundamental biological facts, you create suicidal disaster.
In the days, when we had to wait until the birth of a child to know if it was a girl or a boy, sex was assigned at birth, even though it was determined at conception, due to lack of knowledge.
The redefinition is just another twisting of the language by those that have nothing better to do.
Two points:
1. Is this the end of the gender reveal party?
2. Where does this leave the CofE in respect of ‘Living in Love & Faith’, their accommodation with same sex marriage? If they decide that a man is a woman could a trans marry someone of the same biological sex but a gay couple couldn’t?
Another interesting question – who assigned the sex of Adam and Eve, in the bishops’ view?
We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
One day, these bishops must explain to Him why they decided His commands were ‘outdated’.
This directly contradicts the bible which has the following verse in Genesis 1 27
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Church functionaries deciding that the Bible, supposedly the word of God, outdated, is an interesting idea. What does Welby believe in instead? Petrol share or, as that’s bad for the climate, shares of renewables companies?
I’m not sure of the COE’s position on the soul and when they think it enters the zygote/embryo/foetus but presumably bishops believe we have a “gendered” soul. Therefore if a gendered soul ends up in the “wrong” body, resulting in a person who thinks they’re trans then at best God took his eye of the ball to allow this to happen and at worst he deliberately set someone up for a difficult life. Either case means He either isn’t omnipotent/omniscient or isn’t omnibenevolent. Therefore the bishop’s views on trans people logically contradicts their teaching about the nature of God. Have they not thought about this?
They probably don’t care. They’re – for all practial purposes – civil service functionaries working in a dedicated branch of the civil service and they’ve all gone through the same universities to get the degrees which enabled them to do so as all other people working in the civil service. The CoE is just another government institution they’re controlling and whose resources are available to push their political pet projects, the weird transreligion with its devil-god seeking to torture people by making then wrong¹ being among them.
¹ Mortals supposed to be able to fix that with pills and surgery. A weird religion, indeed.
He believes what most Globalists believe it seems, Sovereignty bad, mass immigration of other faiths good.
Justin Welby probably thinks Jesus was a transwoman because he had long hair and wore long dresses. What happened to let God be my judge. He is acting like he is God now and deciding to change the basic facts of life on earth.
It’s not assigned at birth, it is observed and recorded shortly after birth.
Actually it’s normally observed and recorded during an ultrasound scan, weeks before the birth.
My son is due to marry in 2026, the COf E is insisting he needs to attend church for 3 months in order to marry in his fiancée’s parish. We are Catholics but not v good at church attending. He wanted a church wedding, so did I for him,but reading this, I would strenuously advise he goes through a civil service, and asks a Catholic priest to later bless the marriage.
The C of E is for me the worship place of Satan
There are about 3000 Catholic churches in England and Wales, so why doesn’t your Catholic son get married in one of the 3000 Catholic churches by a Catholic priest in a Catholic ceremony, like Boris Johnson did?
Of course the Protestant Church of England insist that non-Protestants attend the Protestant church for at least 3 months, in order to understand what it’s all about, rather than just letting anyone use the Protestant church building as a wedding venue, like a beach or a hotel.
Hasn’t the Catholic Church also been trying to confuse and terrify people, particularly around the issue of sex, for just as long? I mean, last time I checked, they were still maintaining that Jesus was born of a virgin, and that you’ll go to hell if you have sex outside of marriage.
Welby’s little declaration seems to be furthering this agenda. He’s just adjusting his church’s version of Christianity to the Zeitgeist (to win new followers?), while still achieving the overall aim.
Very cunning.
What a horrible squirt he really is.
Well exactly. And don’t even get me started on that other epic and shameful Woketard ‘man in a frock’, the Pope.
Meanwhile, bang goes the women-haters’ “women are the problem” hypothesis, once again. I’ve lost count of how many pieces of contradictory evidence have been demonstrated to refute their delusional theory now, with not a single bit of supporting evidence provided by them.
Huge respect to the above ladies, Stephanie and Lucy, for speaking out against this toxic ideology and for maintaining a common sense approach with a focus on protecting the kids.
Welby is an absolute disgrace of a man and an embarrassment to the Church of England, and I say that as a complete non-believer.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Training people to deny their own senses.
Next, Welby will be telling us his personal hero was born of a virgin!
…oops
Plus ça change, folks, plus ça change…
I don’t seem to believe in God for some reason (wrong wiring?) but isn’t sex determined by God?
TRANSPHOBE
Lol
Me or God?
So the Archpillock of Canterbury is at it again, condoning something that is not only “anti-science” and “anti-biological”, but “Anti-Christian”.
And the sacrilege doesn’t end there:
Muslim pupils outnumber Christians in dozens of British church schools | UK | News | Express.co.uk
Why Muslim parents are sending children to Church of England schools (lep.co.uk)
Apart from the obvious idiocy of the guidance, I am confused by the phrases “identifies and lives as a man” and “identifies and lives as a woman”.
The “identifies as” bit is woke jargon but comprehensible.
But what about “lives as”? What on earth does “living as a woman” mean? Doing the cooking and cleaning? What does “living as a man” mean? Wearing trousers?
I think the use of these phrases tells a simple truth about the transgender cult: they are actually stuck in outdated concepts of sex roles.
Welby is simply demonstrating that the C of E still believes in 6 impossible things before breakfast.
It’s just the nature of the delusion which has changed.
Just like Khant in London Welby has been put in place to Damage the C of E on purpose !
If that was the real reason, there’s not much that he’d be doing differently.
‘Challenge “Outdated Terms”’, says bloke who dresses up in long robes.
And today’s sermon from Welby? You can guarantee it will have nothing to do with faith or religion but everything to do with woke culture and politics. No wonder the pews are empty around the country!
Desmond Tutu is a proper man of religion, you can tell by the way he speaks. Welby as just an academic and Globalist put in there to wreck the Christian faith it seems.
Hold on a minute! I thought the new religion of trans accepted that sex was not alterable but gender is? Naturally confusion is part of the game so the gatekeepers of these new religious movements can create a hierarchy and slap us down when we don’t follow the current orthodoxy.
I left the C of E when they closed the churches to services and even private prayer during lockdowns. As I suspected, Welby did not question the woke trajectory and followed it. And here we are