Western civilization has gone utterly mad - today's edition

You can now get in trouble as a teacher for using language that was universally accepted - for reasons of common sense - until about three years ago:

A school in England suspended a teacher after he accidentally referred to a transgender boy student as a girl.

Math teacher Joshua Sutcliffe, 27, said “well done girls” to two students at an Oxfordshire secondary school. He apologized to the transgender student, however, Sutcliffe faces a disciplinary hearing this week and officials could charge him with misconduct for misgendering, the Evening Standard reported.

“While the suggestion that gender is fluid conflicts sharply with my Christian beliefs… I have never looked to impose my convictions on others,” Sutcliffe, who is also a Christian pastor, said according to BBC News.

The teacher was suspended six weeks after the incident when the student’s mother complained.

Sutcliffe thinks referring to someone by their birth gender isn’t wrong or unreasonable, according to the Daily Mail.

The Oxfordshire school told BBC that it would be “inappropriate” to comment on the investigation into the teacher’s conduct.

More than 2,000 children aged three to 18 in the U.K. were referred to a gender identity specialist last year, BBC reports.

The teacher’s suspension comes after similar events in the U.S. An 8-year-old transgender student and his parents recently sued a California school for failing to let him express his identity as a girl and another set of parents filed a lawsuit against a school in New York, alleging the school created a hostile environment for their five-year-old kid, according to The New York Times.

How many heartbreaking, nauseating levels are there to consider here?

Let's start with the kids mentioned in the last paragraph of the linked report. 8 years old and 5 years old. Like their brains, sense organs, hair, bones and muscles, these kids' genitals and hormone-producing glands are in the very earliest stages of development. They barely have the faintest idea what it means to be the gender identity with which they were born. Additionally, they are social neophytes. Their experience with observing and interacting with opposite-gender people has barely extended beyond parents, aunts and uncles and any siblings they have. In short, no five-year-old is qualified to say anything about feeling like a boy or a girl.

Then there is the mother of the student in the British school. In late 2017, to even ask, "What kind of parent supports this kind of tragic delusion on the part of her precious offspring?" is to open oneself to responses along the lines of, "Boy, is your worldview hopeless antiquated and bigoted." Again, this inflection point has occurred only in the last three or so years. For the ten thousand-plus-year history of our species prior to that, it would have been the key question in such a situation.

Then there is the school system's position. The school system is ostensibly in the business of educating.  Imparting knowledge of how the universe is constructed. You know, things like, there are two genders for humans and most other species: male and female. These are permanent identity traits determined by the DNA in each cell of a person.

We have institutionalized delusion. We are well along the path to atomizing what had been our society. Each individual defining what heretofore had been recognized as objective reality for himself or herself - or itself, as the case may be.

This not only flies in the face of basic understanding, it is a middle finger to almighty God.

It will not end well.