Enoch Burke turns up to school again despite sacking - read OP before posting

For the record, I agree with burkes stance on not recognising an ideology that has no scientific basis.

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This is not the thread for it, and I'm not going down the rabbit hole of having to explain the differences between sex and gender, and orientation and attraction.

If people want to be remain willingly ignorant, that is on them.

That's like asking if I can disprove that God exists. YOU posted it, YOU prove it.

What I can prove, however:

1 - that article does not have a single checkable fact in it

2 - you totally believe it dispite this.

Again: there is NO evidence that ANY child in Australia EVER identified as a cat and was accepted as such by the school and allowed to use non-verbal communication. None. Nada. And yet you see fit to believe it and spread it for the sole reason that you WANT to believe it.

His religious belief is not based on science.

It's amazing how much people quote and claim science in transgender debates and then go on and defend religion.

Again, I think you may be another who conflates sex with gender, but in this day and age, not educating yourself on the difference between the two is remaining wilfully ignorant. And doubly so, when you may be faced with it in your workplace, (as EB has discovered). That is my view.

Unless you are personally affected, there isn't actually anything for you to agree or disagree with. In your case, your house guest's gender identity (or anyone elses) was entirely about them, and had nothing to do with you or anyone else.

If anything is irrational, it is is making comparisons with animals, inanimate objects or anything else in a discussion on how humans identify their gender. Animals are not a gender. Inanimate objects are not a gender. So not only is it ridiculous, it is just completely immature and disingenous. In my view, of course.

You said: For the record, I agree with burkes stance on not recognising an ideology that has no scientific basis - His stance is based entirely on his religion - and religions ARE ideologies that have no scientific basis.

If you agree with his stance, you defend his religion. There's the contradiction.

They used to say the same about homosexuality. They used to say that either people chose it and therefore groomed young men to be gay, or that it was a perversion that they had no control over and therefore were dangerous.

Here's the thing, we got over that based on two things. One was science. the other was gay people showing us who they were. We now accept being gay is completely natural.

It's the same with trans people. I don't understand them. I have no idea what it would be like if my brain was telling me something different to my body when it came to my gender. My gender aligns with my birth sex and my brain can't comprehend it being any different. However i know that for some people it's not like that. How do I know? because they exist. They can tell us exactly what it's like. And all the medical professionals who work with people like them confirm this. The alternative is a massive conspiracy where every trans person and all the doctors are just pretending.

It's not accepted anymore to bash gay people so the bigots have moved on to the trans people.

It's as simple as that.

@Grayson

Very well said.

Well it's a belief system, and you either believe in it & go along with it, or you don't.

I'm wondering why mods aren't pulling this thread back on focus.

It is universally accepted that Burke is not in jail for his beliefs, therefore discussion of those beliefs is wholly irrelevent to this thread. It is interesting (and not a little concerning) to note that there are a number of people who genuinely believe this is a matter of conscience, even though the courts have been explicit on the matter.