Scottish political party accuse primary school of “corrupting” young boys

The controversial political party hit out at teachers from Castleview Primary School in Edinburgh on Friday and accused them of “encouraging” boys to “cross dress”.

Richard Lucas, leader of the SFP, said the school has “declared war on human nature” and it was “absolutely repulsive” that teachers were encouraging boys to wear skirts.

Last Thursday, the school dedicated a whole day to raising awareness for both boys and girls to be allowed to wear skirts.

This was held as part of the #LaRopaNoTieneGenero (Clothes Have No Gender) worldwide movement, which started back in October 2020.

However, after images were shared showing male teachers and pupils wearing skirts, the Scottish Family Party (SFP) slammed the school.

On a Facebook post, which included photographs of three male teachers from the school in skirts, they said: “Men crossdressing and encouraging young boys to do the same.

“Pictures of teachers at Castleview Primary School, Edinburgh, yesterday. This will spread across schools like wildfire in the coming years.

“We can’t just stand aside and let this happen. Take action! Support the Scottish Family Party. Become a member. Come to our conference.

“We can’t just sit back bemoaning this corruption of children while radical activists are busy pushing their agenda.”

The image had the caption: “Appalled? So are we.

“What are we going to do about it?”

The post has gained over 230 reactions, mainly made up of angry faces, and over almost 300 comments from social media users who had mixed reactions.

Moira Grant said: “Bet they don’t wear skirts to go down the pub or anywhere else.

“The best that could be said for them is that they may be afraid not to go along with it for the sake of effects on their careers.”

Fiona M Tait wrote: “If the school wanted to support the cause then have them wear a kilt but no, they had to take it too far. “

Claire Thomas added: “I would hope that any sane parents remove their children immediately from that ‘school’.”

However, Scott Sutherland said: “Sorry, but what’s the issue here? I’m slightly confused as to the objection.

“This is just men wearing articles of clothing more often associated with women. How does this impact the world negatively?”

And Chris Schofield replied: “The state of the lot of you getting worked up about skirts. We are Scots, our national male garb is the kilt. Get a grip.”

SFP leader Richard Lucas addressed the event in a YouTube video on Friday.

He said: “To see male teaches modelling, cross-dressing and urging their primary school class to wear girls clothes is just absolutely repulsive.

“It’s pure, sheer, straightforward indoctrination.

“They’ve declared war on human nature. If you declare war on human nature, you’re ultimately not going to win.

“There can be an awful lot of casualties in the meantime though, and in this aspect, those casualties are going to be children.

“I say they’re not going to win the war on human nature but they’re also not going to lose it without opposition – we are that opposition.”

Castleview Primary shared a tweet last week, praising their pupils for promoting equality and inclusivity.

They said: “So proud of our P6’s who after reading @HappyNewspaper, wrote to our leadership team to ask if we could support #clotheshavenogender #LaRopaNoTieneGenero.

“We promote respect, tolerance and understanding and we want our school to be inclusive and promote equality.”

The #LaRopeNoTieneGenero movement was started back in October 2020 when Mikel Gomez, a student in Bilbao, Spain, was expelled for wearing a skirt to school.

Several of Mikel’s teachers began wearing skirts to school to challenge the norm.

After Mikel’s story went viral on TikTok, male teachers across the world were prompted to wear skirts in solidarity.