GENDER activists have jumped on the bullying bandwagon to argue that their group is the most victimised in the victim Olympics. They make this argument even when their own data contradict it.

For instance, the writer of the 2019 School Climate Survey from the Silver Lining Foundation declared in a newspaper interview that ‘the most common insults were homophobic’.

What she omits to mention is that her own reports says ‘LGBTQ students experienced bullying at higher rates than non-LGBTQ students, but also showed higher propensity in all categories for engaging in bullying’.

In other words, since LGBTQ students are both bullies and bullied, casting them as victims is misleading to the point of deception.

The report writer similarly forgets to note that, according to her report, gay slurs were ‘most commonly shared between friends’.

Most importantly, the survey also found 59.3% of the students felt all LGBTQ people deserved to be treated with respect, and only 32% believed this did not happen.

This means bullying based on sexual orientation is not particularly prevalent, especially since the survey’s sample has the non-heterosexual cohort at 16.5%-a ludicrously overestimated figure that is found in no other society where such things have been measured. (The usual ratio is 5%.)

This misrepresentation of the facts is, in my view, itself a kind of bullying.

Kevin Baldeosingh Freeport