Fri May 20, 2022 – 5:14 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – An 18-year-old British private school student says she was viciously bullied by her classmates for challenging a visiting speaker from the House of Lords on transgender ideology.
The Daily Mail reported that the student, who is unidentified, says she took issue with the also-unidentified parliament member’s language for “implying critical theory took precedence over biological reality in defining women.”
“’When I questioned that, she said it wasn’t an issue of semantics,” the student continued. “She said trans people don’t have basic human rights in this country.” While their exchange was civil, with the student even apologizing “if I came across as rude,” afterward, upon her return to class she was allegedly surrounded by as many as 60 girls who “screamed, swore and spat at her, leading to her being unable to breathe properly and collapsing,” according to the Mail.
John Rickards, who teaches at the school in question, backed up the student’s account in a piece for Transgender Trend.
“It was the whispered and frequent use of the terms transphobe and transphobic during that after-school activity that alerted me to the depressing fact that these girls were
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