School Puts the Gay Pride and Indigenous Flags on Student Uniforms

School turns kids into progressive billboards

A Melbourne high school has released a puffer jacket featuring the Aboriginal and gay Pride flags as part of its uniform.

The jacket is all about promoting “inclusion”, the school said.

Well, of course.

In order to make Indigenous and gay students feel included, everyone at Cheltenham Secondary College needs to walk around the playground adorned in their flags.

Interestingly, the jackets don’t feature a Christian cross. The school has not clarified whether that is because Catholics are naturally secure, or whether they are just not included.

While the Gay Pay the Rent puffer jacket is not compulsory, failure to wear it does tend to out kids as bigots since it’s the only jacket approved for winter.

“You don’t want to be warm? Why do you hate gay people?”

A parent complained to local media that student uniforms should not be turned into political statements.

But LGBTIQ+ organisation Equality Australia said the jacket was “wonderful” and encouraged other schools to put gay flags on their uniforms.

“We shouldn’t need flags to remind people that they are loved and valued, but as the reaction from some people to this jacket again demonstrates, these symbols of inclusion are as important as ever,” the organisation said.

This is how “inclusion” works.

It’s not enough to treat LGBTQ students exactly the same as everyone else. Inclusion means that everyone must agree with LGBTQ ideology and, importantly, make a public confession of it.

Failure of some people to do so only proves that LGBTQ people are not included and that more coercive work needs to be done.

A spokesman for Equality Australia said LGBTQ students faced “unacceptably high rates of bullying”.

And then he added:

“It’s pretty simple. If you don’t like the jacket, don’t wear it.”

Which means, if you won’t support gay Pride, you can freeze. Equality Australia don’t claim to be experts on bullying for nothing.

Gail McHardy, chief executive of Parents Victoria, defended the uniform, telling the Herald Sun …

“Government schools have to represent everyone in being inclusive.”

Great, so where’s the uniform celebrating students who passed Year 8 biology and so don’t agree that men can become women? How are those views included?

Anyway, it’s interesting that the parents association believes the best way to promote inclusion among kids is to insist everyone wears divisive political statements.

“If that is viewed as a political statement by some, then there are parliamentary processes and mechanisms to express their objection,” she said.

This is known as the ‘like it or lump it’ argument which, of course, is so not very inclusive.

Professor Katherine Johnson, an expert in LGBTQI+ mental health at RMIT University, said she loved that the school “celebrates representations of diversity and inclusion on an optional piece of uniform.”

Optional in the sense that kids are free to freeze if they’d rather not promote same sex attraction at recess, that is.

And representative of diversity in the sense that’s it now the uniform.

Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.