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No sacred cows

How should schools handle ‘furries’?

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

Last weekend an audio recording emerged of a 13-year-old girl being called ‘despicable’ by her teacher at a Church of England school in East Sussex for refusing to respect a classmate’s decision to identify as a cat. The teacher told her she would report her to a senior colleague and she would no longer be welcome at the school if she continued to express the view that ‘if you have a vagina you’re a girl and if you have a penis you’re a boy’.

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