Australian schools allowed to expel trans students

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In another post people expressed surprise that trans students and teachers are permitted to be expelled in religious schools in Australia.

This article published today supports this privilege religious schools have,
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/paren ... 3e1b08849d

And this is the tip of the iceberg. There's plenty of other spurious reasons these types of schools hire/fire staff and not permit certain "types" of students from enrolling. That includes autism of course,

I'm not sure how schools work in Oz, but is this like a private school that gets to set their own rules vs a public school that has to take everyone?

^ its a private school.
And they're within their rights to exclude whomever they choose.

These news stories really annoy me.
These children aren't being denied an education because of being trans or gay.
They're being denied an education at an exclusive, Christian, private school because they're trans or gay.
So only the super rich Christian trans and gay kids who want to enrol at that particular school will be denied an education.
And if you want a Christian education, you have to accept that some schools will enforce stricter entry requirements than others.
The sensible thing would be to find a school where these things are accepted.
Otherwise it's a case of trying to turn the pope Protestant.

^ I'm well aware of what the parents want.
I was merely commenting on the hysteria in the article itself.

My god, kids don't just decide to be trans, they already are the gender they are. No one teaches them they are male or female. They already know what they are. Some just grow up feeling weird about their gender and being referred to he or she. And I think kids are coming out sooner as trans because we understands it more and there is information out there now so these kids have the access to that information. Back in the days, they didn't have that information so they were left alone with their feelings or thought it was normal and that everyone felt that way about their gender. And trans kids are not operated on and they are given puberty blockers. Nothing wrong with letting them live the gender they feel.

Thinking that you can turn a kid into trans was the same argument people used in the 1990s that you can turn a kid gay if you "expose them to the lifestyle."

I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion here, but maybe private schools, just, shouldn't exist?

I believe there are certain private and religious schools which offset the incompetence of some of the public schools within areas where public schools are underfunded, or are run by corrupt people.

There are some private schools where no one (teachers or students of any gender) is allowed to colour their hair or wear a smidge of makeup. Some where you can't have piercings including regular earrings. My friend worked in a Catholic public school and couldn't even tell her boss that she got divorced because it was taboo. Then she had to hide living with her new partner before they got married (taboo to live together, and to have a second spouse). She refrained from changing her name to the second husband's name so that her boss wouldn't catch on.

Something about being a moral example.

* pfft *

Teachers in both public and private schools often don't set good "moral" examples.

In my junior high, the kids were always gossiping about the affairs of the teachers.....