How do you feel about Drag Queen Story Time?

Yeah, there's a difference between Mrs. Brown which is aimed at adults and what we were talking about.

Anyway, we won't see eye to eye so I'll leave you to it.

Have you seen Mrs Brown?? I don't think it is aimed at adults at all? To me it would be "family entertainment", It was shown on BBC as their big Christmas Day special/offering ffs

I never recall anyone in my school during my day having gender issues.

Kids worrying about their gender is a very new phenomenon.

I hear he’s a racist now.

I am totally straight. But when I was in first year I remember staring at my maths teacher boobs. Then wondering was I gay. And worrying was I straight but it was weird that I was obsessed with her boobs.

With hindsight it was just plain old teenage hormones going bizarre/running amok. But also with hindsight, wouldn't it have been nice to have been able to share my worries and just know "you are what you are, you will be who you will be, what you are feeling is normal"

And I want to be totally clear: Sharing these feelings would NOT HAVE CHANGED WHO I AM. Just because I could talk about something was not going to magically convert me into a person who is gay.

I did a lot of worrying about crazy things when I was a teen. And when I was pre teen. I was a very anxious little girl. I think much better we talk about things and explore them now. And things like story time: stories about anything, gender...death (that was a big anxiety for me when I was around 6) bring these things out in the open allowing children and young people the opportunity to talk.

Wouldn't you hate to think of your child or your young person/teen in bed at night not sleeping because they were worried sick about stuff and were afraid to share their fears with you?

Great fun.

Don't say gay! Then your child won't be gay! Magic protection from the gay and trans curse! Good luck with that ;)

If Mr Musician feels his kids aren't of an age to learn or understand these things then who is anyone to say he is wrong,

Let kids be kids ,

Mr Musician conceived them children or at least has parental status over them, he feeds them, he puts clothes on there backs, he raises them , he spends his hard earned money on them, there for he has every right to project his own views on them ,

No else has that right , not me, not you ,not the LBGT community & defiantly not governments ,

He's said nothing hurtful or hateful so no need to be smart,

It's really not 'pretty generous'.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#Ireland

A study of the responses of 7,441 individuals, conducted by the ESRI, found that 2.7% of men and 1.2% of women self-identified as homosexual or bisexual. A question based on a variant of the Kinsey scale found that 5.3% of men and 5.8% of women reported some same-sex attraction. Of those surveyed, 7.1% of men and 4.7% of women reported a homosexual experience some time in their life so far. It also found that 4.4% of men and 1.4% of women reported a "genital same-sex experience" (oral or anal sex, or any other genital contact) in their life so far.[53] The study was commissioned and published by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency in partnership with the Department of Health and Children.

I've often brought kids to the pub, generally for food, occasionally for other family events. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with bring kids to the pub.

Why would you refer to 'hypothetical' trans kids. Are you saying trans kids don't exist?

Most of us didn't see the video you reference, because most of us don't follow far-right campaigns designed to stir up hatred against a vulnerable group, as a first step towards a broader attack on LGBTQ rights.

Would you be proposing a total ban on men in dresses telling stories to children?

No one is impinging on Mr M's parental rights. No one is going to force his kids to attend story time.

He does seem to think that if kids don't hear about being gay or trans or talk about being gay or trans, they won't be gay or trans. That's not a sound theory.

Grand bit of projecting there, but they'd typical of your posting style.

My children will be free to choose whatever path in life they wish. I won't however be exposing them to this kind of gender bending nonsense that's in vogue with a middle class that's literally got so little to care about that they care about this.

When they are old enough to understand these issues fully, they will be informed. But I fully intend to let my children be children.

Holy fcuk we made it nearly two pages before someone brought up the old Priests and vestments post. Standards are improving in AH.

The age old pantomime is full of men, dressed as women.

All on the parents.

I'm going to bring a child to hear a story read by a man in a dress. Why?

It is so hyper specific, there's nothing incidental about it. And then knowing that there will likely be protests around it into the bargain. What is going through these people's minds?

Using children as pawns to signal their own thoughts? To who? Why?

So strange.