Monday 13 February 2012

Down with trousers - up with skirts!

The Mail reports on the case 13-year-old  Luca Scarabello who believes he has the right to wear skirts like girls. This item of news also appears in the print edition of the Daily Telegraph but does not seem to be on-line. Young Master Scarabello's case has been taken up by Tam Baillie, Scottish parliament's Commissioner for Children and Young People and Scarabello's campaign, needless to say, is being backed by the Scottish Transgender Alliance and LGBT Scotland, which represents lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.


Leaving to one side that this may well be a case of a child attempting to be 'clever'; or his mind has been led astray by a 'not-fit-for-purpose' education system, one aided and abetted by Baillie; the question has to be asked whether a 13-year-old actually does have any idea what gender he is? I cannot help but be reminded of 1 Corinthians 13:11 "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me".


Having said that, it may be Master Scarabello has not noticed that for yonks, where he lives, men have been wearing skirts.......... 



10 comments:

john in cheshire said...

Adults using children to promote their own political agendas, isn't that really repulsive.

WitteringsfromWitney said...

jic: Agreed. There was so much that I could have written however I felt it better to treat the story with the disdain it deserves.

Anonymous said...

I don't know where, but somewhere in that same Bible as the Corinthian quote, there is another about when people refuse to obey God, truth, justice, common sense, fair play, etc. and says when that happens, then God puts children as rulers in charge of the country, then everything goes to hell in a hand-basked and everyone wonders why, not realizing, it was easy enough to prevent all along, but nobody standing up for it was what done it in. I don't know where, but I know there is a quote like that somewhere lurking in that same book regarding the classic outcome when people fail to insure their liberties, freedom, justice etc. and go trapseying off after packs of lies, easily led, like children.

James Higham said...

Groan.

Anonymous said...

So we have girls wearing trousers.
Or skirts.
Maybe it hasn't been noticed....but girls have internal genitalia on the lower part of their bodies.
Boys have external genitalia.
Logically, skirts would be better for boys.
And testicles work better if cooler than the general body temperature.
So logically skirts for males makes more sense.
And in any case, if they refuse they'll get their goolies sued off. Good thing too.

PeterCharles said...

I assume this lad is just being irritatingly 13.

I would imagine the idea for this came from the incident last year when 12 year old Chris Whitehead wanted to wear shorts rather than long trousers to school as it was hot. The school uniform policy did not allow shorts, only trousers or skirts, and since the policy did not specify gender he claimed it was all right to wear a skirt and did so for a day. The sensible headmaster gritted his teeth and smiled.

I do agree with the others here that the jumping on the band wagon in this latest incidence by adults for their own purposes is completely unacceptable.

WitteringsfromWitney said...

Anon(1): If you say so.....

JH: I know, that was my first reaction....

Anon(2): As with your namesake above - if you say so.....

PC: Was it never thus? Whilst a believer in free speech I do think that people like Baillie should suffer what some senior Tories are reported to have wished on Andrew Lansley........

DeeDee99 said...

Whilst I think the young lad is being 'advised' by his elders, if WfW thinks a 13 yr old doesn't understand what gender he is, then he is sadly mistaken.

My eldest son had worked out by age 4 or 5 that boys and girls were different. At age 6 he was asking questions about reproduction, long before the school system had started any form of sex education.

At 13, with raging hormones, ALL young people know what gender means.

Why doesn't he just wear a kilt? Because someone has a political point to make.

WitteringsfromWitney said...

DeeDee99: Yup, I well remember my hormones at that age.....

Perhaps badly worded by me as I was referring to a 13 year old boy feeling he was in the wrong body - ie having a yearning for men rather than women? Better?

Anonymous said...

I'm much more concerned by the "Gender is determined by objective biological facts and not by a person's feelings, no matter how strong they may be".
Unfotunately, having worked in farms and lived for over 60 years, I have memories of many animals both male and female, whose "biological gender" was obviously not apparent to the animals, going by their actions. I also have memories of many men who looked, dressed and acted as men, but who only had sex with other men. Todays 13-year-olds are nothing like a 1960's 13-year-old. The genie has been out of its lamp for decades, maybe it is time people realised that ?