Recently the Telegraph reported that school children are being taught that Joan of Arc was “non-binary“.
The anachronism is contained in the Who We Are anthology which is published by Collins for use in English lessons at school. It is aimed at 11-14 year olds. The relevant part reads: “Joan of Arc (1412-31) is today considered by some to have been non-binary.”
The term comes from gender ideology. If as a man/woman you don’t feel entirely manly/womanly then you are non-binary. This leads some girls to believe there is a right way to be a girl – and they are not it. Some of these girls end up on a pathway to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible harm.
The Joan of Arc story is an example of how the teaching of gender ideology in schools has escaped out of the ‘Relationship, Sex and Health Education’ curriculum where it started and into the mainstream. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive” – it’s an illustration of Sir Walter Scott’s aphorism, contained in ‘Marmion’, and which school children would be better off learning; deception unleashed is hard to control.
The story also illustrates how it is not just a small number of LGBTQIA cranks who foist harmful pseudoscience upon school children. Collins is part of HarperCollins, considered one of the ‘Big Five’ English language publishers. It has a 200 year-old reputation to protect, but it has come to pass that it openly promotes gender ideology to school children.
Collins sells a three book series for use with children in Key Stage 3 (ages 11 to 14) and covering all of the PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) and RSHE (Relationship, Sex, and Health Education) curriculums. Encapsulating the PSHE and RSHE requirements of successive governments, the series is a fascinating read. The best of the Western canon, the wisdom of the ages, it is not.
Chesterton said: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” When we decided that our state schools should not teach our children the 2,000 year old exploration of the human condition that is contained in the Christian canon it left us with books like Collins’s Your Choice, Books One, Two and Three. The title does not bode well. The series’ starting point is identity politics; Unit 1 is entitled You and your identity.
The extracts below show how the spread of gender ideology has resulted in even our reputable publishers undermining their reputations for rigour and integrity.
This is confusing nonsense – targeted at 11 year-olds:
This is the discombobulating crankery of about two parents being normalised:
The suggestion below that a child’s gender should “feel right” is pernicious. Gender ideology and its idea that we all have an inner gender identity encourages children down a pathway of introspection. Abigail Shrier in her book Bad Therapy explains how damaging this is; rumination and inner-state fixation are markers for depression. Consider the alternative starting point of Jesus’s instruction “to love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and to love your neighbour as yourself”. Which of these, an outward focus towards others, or inner reflection about your identity, encourages greater curiosity, a more enquiring mind, a more outward focus and generous spirit?
The normalisation of gender ideology crosses into other RSHE subjects – this section below is on “Exploring your sexuality”. How did the human race cope before RSHE? Note the anti-parent push here too.
Here, elementary science is undermined as being a myth. What are children meant to make of this? Who benefits from our confusing them in this way?
Here children are taught that ‘trans women are women’. How did such arrant nonsense make its way into a school textbook published by a mainstream publisher of 200 years standing? Why did no-one in the entire Collins hierarchy say no?
Collins Your Choice Book Two has a two page spread on “Caring for your feet and back”. It has six pages on alcohol use. But it introduces children to gender surgeries and hormone treatment without a note about their high risk and irreversible consequences:
Finally, here is Collins lecturing kids about how to support friends who buy into this pseudoscience.
The complicity of Collins in this promotion of harmful gender gobbledegook illustrates what a serious problem we have. Science and reason are bedrocks of our society. So is the role of the adult to speak the truth and pass on our shared accumulated wisdom to our children. But via gender ideology we are undermining science, defying reason and lying to children. Gender ideology has exposed our human fallibility.
Campaigners against gender ideology being taught to school children have focused their efforts on calling for updated RSHE guidance as well as greater parental visibility of the curriculum. But the Collins books are publicly available, entirely visible and full of gender ideology. And the Joan of Arc material is from an English textbook. We have a wider problem.
For decades we have had a culture where parents have generally trusted schools and the school curriculum. We have dropped children off at the school gate and arrived back at pick-up.
But now those days of trusting negligence are surely over. Instead we need a culture that takes a far greater interest in what we are teaching our children at school. We currently see more reviews and greater public discussion about the new Snow White movie than we do about the books being used to teach our children. If we do read about the school curriculum it is usually only via exposés, for example, the ‘Joan of Arc is non-binary’ story.
Part of the solution needs to involve normalising all of us taking a much greater interest in what we are teaching our children, the cultural legacy we are passing on. We should regularly be reviewing school materials, assigning star ratings, creating public discussion and engagement.
From me, Collins’s Your Choice Books One, Two, and Three gets a bad review and zero stars.
Caroline Ffiske is a Director of Conservatives for Women. Find her on X.
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Apart from a snake bite antidote injection I’m beginning to think that all childhood vaccinations should be scrutinised ! It’s a pity there’s not a doctor out there to delve into them ! Oh wait a minute – Dr Wakefield did & look what happened !
A link to 160 papers which support the autism link FYI
There are a few who are delving into this.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/160-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link
This might be of interest.
https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/Amazing_Short_Docu_on_the_History_of_Vaccine_Effectiveness:c
Having learnt a bit about this lot, it seems that antibodies are short term structures created as part of a reaction to an infection, and should normally be thrown out as junk after recovery, with relevant T-cells being used for longer term records and future defence against the culprit, or it’s near-neighbours. Assuming that is the case, it’s no surprise that measuring antibody levels in various people leads to junk results. Lots of other places on this topic, but this is one of them – but note the date on it – about 2 years old: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-is-the-role-of-t-cells-in-covid-19-infection-why-immunity-is-about-more-than-antibodies/
If the so-called vaccines actually created long term memory, it would not look so good for the Pharma balance sheet, a cynic might say. They’re probably glad that the viruses mutate themselves – after all, that assists the corporate cash flow.
T cells are first responders, and kill the body cells invaded by the virus to stop them being used for reproduction. Antibodies are secondary line of defence.
This T cell activity is at the site of infection, nasopharynx mucosal surface, and if successful greatly reduces viral load leaving antibodies as ‘mop up’ in the blood stream to kill the virus that have escaped.
If the T cell activity is not successful, the viral load may be so high that there are not enough antibodies to fight it.
This is fairly accurate — the antibodies are the ‘mopping up” agents, not the primary focus for infection control.
The entire so-called ‘protection’ provided by these shots has always and only been claimed to be based on the production of antibodies.
At the same time, the UKHSA vaxx surveillance report keeps stating that it is not known precisely what role antibodies play in protection, what level of antibodies, if any, actually provides protection. I believe various ‘scientists’, on the pfisser payroll and otherwise have also indicated that precisely what antibodies do in the grand scheme of things is not really known.
And still they inject this garbage into people, even after saying they have no idea whether the only active mechanism really does anything, even after a 1 1/2 years of seeing poke after poke fail, even as those poked suffer AEs and as time goes by they are at greater risk of infection than those unpoked.
I would also like to see similar studies for different age groups, were they ever even done? The poke seems to do a run-around of T-calls, causing the body to skip straight to antibody production – surely this applies to people of all ages? I believe it is worse in children in the sense their immune system is still developing and is being corrupted to work in an unnatural way, but I suspect the corruption of the immune system applies at all ages. And we still have no idea of possible long term damage to and corruption of the immune system.
And yet plenty of so-called scientists and medical professionals still back this garbage. Presumably they have always secretly believed that the sun revolves around the earth as well and that leeches will cure all ills.
There is a fair bit about it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826622/ If you look at figure 3 it presents a graphical summary of what seems to happen to us across age groups. The term T-cell is a bit of a wide spectrum of subsets. In the graph, the term Trm (Tissue resident memory) is used. A point worth noting is that a lot of work is done on mice, but it appears that we are a bit more complex than those – after all, we live a lot longer! Thus the capability of hanging on to long term memory of certain things is more useful to us. Note that the article I sent a link to is dated as 2018 – well before the panic ensued.
What an astonishing set of results from this study.
Anyone might think that there’s more to immunity than antibodies (Hello Mr. Patrick Vallance – and thanks for your BBC lecture to the nation during the early “pandemic”) and that the immune system must have some sort of reliable memory system.
Unless it’s been trashed by some form of genetically engineered therapy.
Vaccine induced ADE and or OAS anyone….
Just the start of the problems for the jabbed.
Sadly. Dr.Geert Vanden Bossche told us this would happen.
Indeed, without T-cells (and probably NK cells and whatever else), antibodies alone are useless or worse than useless. No wonder natural immunity is superior to the jabs.
Let’s get the terminology right. Infection = a pathogenic irgsnism such as a virus entering the body. Vaccination infects an individual with a dead, deactivated or similar harmless virus.
The immune response occurs ONLY if there is an infection, ie virus in the body, to fight it to stop it developing into disease (symptoms), although there may be some mild, short-lived noticeable symptoms.
Antibodies kill pathogens once inside the body but cannot stop them entering (infection) the body.
Mr Jones is traditionally unwilling to accept that. That’s why he’s publishing article after article about another study again detailing that umbrellas don’t prevent rain and that the coronation of Charles III did not revive his mother. Etc.
Some new ones: Turning the heating on in winter doesn’t cause a transition to summer. And switching the light on in the night doesn’t accelerate sunrise. All stuff socio-vaccinologists could publish an endless amount of studies about: In a recent experiment in Glasgow, fifteen randomly selected, quintuple-vaccinated SNP members simultaneously openend their umbrellas. But the effect on the rain was again uncertain. It stopped after a while but this also happened in areas not subject to the experiment. The science has again spoken!
It has been known for some time that protection against coronavirus (in general, ie ‘some colds’) is mediated by cellular and not antibody immunity.
Quite why we’ve had the barrage of ‘ANTIBODIES!’ over the past two years is beyond me.
It’s not just the quantity of antibodies either. Quality matters as well. The wrong kind can be useless or even worse than useless.
A brave attempt to educate “the system”. Thank you.