Students at a New South Wales public high school say they have been punished and threatened with expulsion for using biologically accurate pronouns for a “transgender” teacher and complaining about the promotion of radical gender ideology by staff.
Photos provided to Noticer News by students at Richmond High School, north-west of Sydney, show far-left transgender propaganda posters produced by LGBT youth advocacy group Minus18 placed around the school.
The teenagers said that pins promoting so-called transgenderism have also been handed out to teachers to wear, and that they have been threatened with suspension for complaining about the posters despite 80% of the student body being opposed to pro-LGBT material being put on display at their school.
One of the large posters says “All genders, identities, expressions, pronouns welcome here” while another titled “Your identity is awesome” provides unscientific radical leftist definitions of so-called “LGBTQIA+ identities” such as “non-binary”, “cisgender” and “pansexual”, and promotes homosexuality.
“It seems as if the entire school has changed within the last year and the community is very unhappy about this,” a student told Noticer News, adding that many of his peers and teachers were upset about having “views forced on [them] that they don’t agree with”.
The student said that the changes began when a male teacher “came out as trans” and administrators began to threaten students for using the “wrong” pronouns, and that now it felt like the whole school “has been taken over”.
“In September, I greeted the teacher (who I knew before he started to claim to be a woman) with ‘g’day, Sir’ which seems like a normal thing to say,” the student said.
“Straight after, on the same day, the deputy pulled me out of class and an argument started about my freedoms and my personal decision to not want to refer to this teacher as the gender that he claims to be.
“The day after that I had a talk with this deputy again, and this time he told me that if I continue to use the teacher’s real gender then I would be not just suspended, but permanently expelled from school.”
The student said he was eventually given as formal caution/suspension warning and told that in future he will be suspended to “protect the safety of teachers”.
Then this month the student said that a further complaint about the posters resulted in “action being taken against him”, and that the gender-deluded teacher had sent him and a friend to the office for saying “that’s disgusting”, resulting in their parents being called and both being threatened with suspension and expulsion.
“I told the staff that ‘if this were a normal teacher that had heard this comment, this would not be a concern in the slightest’, and they seemed to become angry and tried to intimidate me with suspension into referring to the ‘trans’ teacher with his ‘chosen pronouns’, despite the teacher not being present,” the teenager said.
Richmond High School students told Noticer News they were considering holding a peaceful protest but feared that they would be “intimidated, threatened and punished into silence”.
“Each time a student tries to express their concerns they are threatened with punishment, despite the many complaints and discomfort shown and made by parents, teachers, students, and members of the local community who have seen how the school has taken a change so quickly,” they said.
The offending posters were produced by LGBT advocacy group and registered charity Minus18, which is funded by the Victorian Government, local councils, the Sidney Myer Trust Fund, the Gandel Foundation, and woke corporations including Disney, Lululemon, Bonds, Lendlease, The Body Shop, and Allens.
Minus18 holds “education sessions” in high schools, provides free resource packs “to grow LGBTQIA+ education”, hosts “queer formal” events for young people in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, and claims to have hosted activities with a total of 3.7 million attendees since 2019.
One Minus18 brochure obtained by Noticer News is titled “A guide to using pronouns in schools and services” and encourages teachers to “normalise sharing pronouns”. It also contains a false claim that the “deliberate use of the incorrect pronouns” is unlawful under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (SDA).
Changes to the SDA in 2013 banned discrimination against a person on the basis of their gender identity, but the legislation does not mention pronoun use, and the citation linked to in the brochure is to a style manual for Australian government employees which does not claim that “misgendering” is illegal.
Noticer News contacted Richmond High School for comment but did not hear back in time for publication.
