LBC speaker blasts conservative media for ‘recycled homophobia’

LBC speaker Natasha Devon has actually condemned conservative media for “recycled homophobia” over its protection of a supposed gender identity conflict at a school in east Sussex.

It was declared that a disagreement in between a trainee and instructor at Rye College emerged when a 13-year-old apparently declined a schoolmate’s demand to be recognized as a cat.

An short article released by The Telegraph interviewed a separate anonymous teacher who reported that a trainee at their school “identifies as a cat”. The claim forced the Aquinas Church of England Trust, which runs Rye College, to clarify that “no children at Rye College identifies as a cat or any other animal”. 

During a segment on LBC, Devon knocked the UK’s conservative media for its “recycled homophobia” and explained where claims of kids determining as cats stemmed.

“It’s the 2023 version of if a man is allowed to marry another man, he will eventually want to marry his dog,” the author, advocate and broadcaster said.

Following the story being gotten by news outlets, minister for ladies and equalities Kemi Badenoch demanded the department of education investigate the school.

Devon questioned why Badenoch felt the story was “within her remit”, including: “It’s interesting how quickly she jumped on this.”

‘This isn’t even an initial story’

“If you’re not convinced by the school’s denial of the existence of this pupil, perhaps the fact that this isn’t even an original story will convince you, because this actually started in America,” Devon continued.

“It was found that there were cat litter trays in American class … and when I inform you the reason that they existed … you wish to sob? I understand I did.

“It’s in case there’s a school shooting and the children had to barricade themselves in their classrooms. It was somewhere for them to go to the toilet.”

Devon referenced the cat litter phenomenon which, as reported by Insider in 2019, was not due to kids’s identities, however rather since some instructors in Colorado had actually asked moms and dads to generate containers of cat litter to function as a toilet if kids were caught in their class due to an active shooter lockdown.

‘All a way to de-legitimise trans people’

Devon went on to state: “But conservative analysts took this kept up it and said kids are now determining as cats. 

“This was all a way to de-legitimise trans people and malign the entire LGBTQ community. Same grift. Slightly different story.”

Negative and deceptive media protection has a real-world influence on the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. In 2022, dislike criminal offenses in England and Wales struck a record high, with stats from the Home Office revealing that hate criminal offenses increased by about 26 percent from the previous year, while transphobic hate criminal offenses soared by a stunning 56 percent.