We all remember the famous old tale of Cinderella - the orphaned girl forced into servitude by an archetypical "wicked stepmother" and her two evil-minded daughters. In that classic tale, the ever-hopeful heroine, through an act of magic, attends a royal ball and captures the heart of a prince, who delivers her from servitude. Most versions don't let us know the fate of the evil stepmother and her spawn, but there's little doubt many folks have their own gleeful imaginings.
There's one constant, though, in every version of Cinderella: The main character is a young woman, and the prince, a young man. "Boy meets girl," after all, is always a good starting place for a story. In the end, there's only ever really one story, and this is it.
That constant is now being challenged. In the United Kingdom, which was once "America, Original Recipe" and is now a leftist spawning pool, Labour politicians are teaming up with a transgender activist group to push a gender-challenged version of Cinderella on other people's kids.
Pop’n’Olly, which describes itself as an ‘LGBT+ educational resource’, tells children that sex is ‘assigned’ at birth and gender can be seen as ‘a spectrum’.
It has also produced a book aimed at primary schools, ‘Jamie - A Transgender Cinderella Story’, featuring a girl who gets to dress as a ‘boy called Jamie’ for a ball and win the heart of a princess.
Pop’n’Olly distributes this and other books to schools, and claims to have donated a total of 12,000 to 4,000 primaries.
The real message here should be that the girl, Jamie or otherwise, can dress up however she likes, but that she remains a girl. She still has two X chromosomes. She still (we hope) has the normal female endocrine balance and all the requisite female plumbing. This girl has not transitioned to anything; she remains a girl. She can claim to "identify" as a boy, a platypus, or the constellation Cassiopeia, and that doesn't make it true.
These are facts.
And, of course, the Pop'n'Olly group's propaganda leader "identifies" as non-binary, which is, again, counter to reality - not that this stops him.
The group’s training lead, Jack Lynch, who identifies as ‘non-binary’, wrote last year about speaking to a group of children aged nine to 11 at a primary in Sussex ‘about gender identity’.
Lynch said a nine-year-old girl said during the session: ‘I feel like you feel. I don’t fit into a box that everyone else seems to fit into.
‘I don’t like doing normal girl things. I like football and wearing boys’ clothes.’
Back in the day, we used to call girls like this "tomboys." They were usually pretty popular, too; I remember one girl from high school who loved fishing and hunting, who had her own horse, and was cute as a button - her habit of running around in the summer in a black tank top and Daisy Duke shorts didn't hurt. Most of the boys in our school were in love with her, and guess what - she grew up to be a perfectly normal woman with a perfectly normal family. Last I heard, she still loves fishing and hunting.
Nowadays, activists would have tried to convince her she was a boy. They would have slapped her with irreversible hormone therapy and surgeries, ruining what became a normal, happy life. This is what Jack Lynch and his fellow travelers are in favor of, and this is what they are pushing on other people's kids.
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Other people's kids - that's the really horrible part of all this. They aren't just indoctrinating their own kids, presuming they have any; the transgender lifestyle isn't exactly conducive to breeding. They are trying to get this advocacy into the schools, elementary schools at that, and in the United Kingdom and in some places here in the United States, they are succeeding. These programs, this propagandizing, don't belong in the schools. In the UK, as here in the USA, the purpose of these schools is to produce young adults with marketable skills. This does nothing to that end.
Here's the thing: Most people wouldn't give the transgender advocates a moment's thought if they just went about their business, dressed up as they pleased, diddled as they pleased, and left everyone else out of it. But they always seem to feel the need to go after other people's kids with what can only be described as indoctrination efforts, and that can not be tolerated.
And remember: Look to Britain for the model, because these same advocates are already trying it here, and will 1) make it mandatory, and 2) take it nationwide, if they are allowed.
