"It's Madness!" Piers Morgan's Panel Debates 'Identifying As A Cat' Controversy

Piers Morgan says he would identify as a cat - if it wasn't for the fact he's quite clearly human.
A teacher told a pupil she was “despicable” after she refused to accept her classmate could identify as a cat.
The incident occurred during a Year 8 class on 'life education' at Rye College in East Sussex last Friday, where students were told to 'be who you want to be - and how you identify is up to you'.
Piers Morgan says: "I snack a lot, enjoy regular naps, have higher than average intelligence... and everywhere I go, people want to stroke my chin and call me cute."
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[@shariz2998]

If my child insisted on being a cat at 12, we’d be at psychiatrist’s office asap.

[@noworriesnoproblems6382]

Ummmm or go to ya room I ll leave cat food outside till you want to come downstairs and be human again you twerp

[@michaelsnelling3338]

Next meal would be Whiskas in a bowl on the floor. Next?

[@dubblechunkz]

🤣🤣🤣

[@crissieroserose]

shes a kid ,, thats what kids do ,,, !!!

[@noworriesnoproblems6382]

@@crissieroserose she In upper 6th

[@voodoochile333]

I noticed that once Ava loses the argument she always descends it to name calling like a schoolkid.

[@zinan2959]

Because only schoolkids and man/woman childs support this nonsense

[@Swansong321]

Yes!🙄EVERY time..maybe she identifies as a CHILD

[@tech10k14]

..and the next step is violence like on university campuses across the West... because they keep getting away with it.

[@sproutboy2783]

Totally,,, standard leftist response 😮

[@tizzas1232]

I find her insufferable tbh.

[@iguiste23]

I identify as an intelligent human being. A species that is on the decline and rapidly too.

[@bibakroll8999]

I identify as a goddess. It’s quite a trial getting people to accept that, I can tell you! Oh, I’m so oppressed …

[@nikki2kk]

I identify as a human being too, and the world is gone to sh*t

[@crissieroserose]

@@nikki2kk I identify as a giraffe

[@britishpatriot7386]

I identify as a nipple so suck it up 😂

[@PiggyWiggyO]

@@nikki2kk No not the world. However we the 95% are allowing the 5% controlling the media and commerce in favor of the LGBTQ. Media itself is allowing these people all the time on radio and television.

[@tizzas1232]

The kids were not "bullying someone for thinking they're a cat." The kids were questioning the validity of that and disagreeing with it. They were not even allowed to disagree or hold their own beliefs.

[@ghost06official7]

Incorrect, I actually used to attend this school and personally know the teacher and the students in question. The video was actually cut! They cut out the part where they are BULLYING the kid who for the record doesn’t actually identify as a cat. The kids who recorded this have in question been removed from the school for filming illegally and bullying a child who has autism AND on top of that ruining a teachers life. This is totally stupid and these kids need to learn not to be so ignorant and uneducated!

[@tizzas1232]

@@ghost06official7 Do you have any evidence this is the case? Because last I heard, the school put out a statement saying they did not support the way the teacher handled it.

[@adamskyj69]

@@ghost06official7 What a load of bollocks! Another keyboard fantasist folks, that is what we have here.

[@ghost06official7]

@@tizzas1232 yes I do! I left in the summer of 2022 and my sister still attends the school. Unfortunately the whole situation has been painted out to make the teacher look like the bad guy whereas in fact there are a few uneducated students who think bullying a kid with mental health issues is appropriate

[@crissieroserose]

@@tizzas1232 kids can be very manipulative , and teachers are so brain washed , they dare not speak agains t their training ,

[@terrysmith5168]

You can clearly see by the expressions on this ladys face that she doesn't even believe what she's actually saying but her woke circle would chastise her if she said what she really felt . Its such a shame people are often not brave enough to speak the truth

[@Leon-lt5gv]

Like they say ' some people are leaders some followers ' but this lot are all followers 😁

[@paullegend6798]

It's not a shame. The lack of integrity and honesty is exactly why woke culture was able to sweep the West. Forget the culture war, we have to re-find basic values before we are armed with the tools to deconstruct false narratives, that are dishonest and spread by malign actors. Should have been obvious from the start.

[@dianelemay3661]

Bravo, you nailed it!

[@Clare0116]

If she identifies as a cat, she can't go to school, must spend her time in lockdown at home, no cosy bedroom, just a bardboard box and a blanket, eat cat food from a dish on the floor and can't join in any conversations! How long would that pathetic fantasy last? Silly girl needs to realise she is being offered an education for the rest of her life!

[@gbc7344]

Also take away all of her electronic gadgets and replace them with a ball of string and a scratch pole…and inform her that she has to do her business in a litter tray…!😉

[@lincliff663]

I don't think she would enjoy being examined by the Vet very much.

[@edmundburke8490]

​@@lincliff663 MEOW... MEOW... MEOW! 😂

[@raymcdonald6734]

Excellent way to stop all the nonsense. If you think you are a cat well it’s Whiskers cat food for dinner and a mouse 🐁 for pudding 😊

[@gillianwhitby7442]

Absolutely! But that's too much like common sense!

[@zinan2959]

You give rebellious confused kids an inch and they take a mile, this levels of insanity needs to be stopped and adults who support these delusions need to be investigated

[@Leon-lt5gv]

Get the straight jackets ready ' more asylums with big padded cells needed 🤣

[@maccagrabme]

No let it continue, we all need to see how far these people are going to push this. We are going to destroy society at this rate, the sooner people realise this the better.

[@Seph0rz]

Your deluded if anyone cares what you believe, Disney is woke but in reality funding republicans way more than official figures. Anyone can see the delusion.

[@crissieroserose]

I AGREE

[@CdEmm50]

There's kids going into schools now, here 🇬🇧; "identifying" as animals in order to be disruptive 😁

[@wickowicks9719]

As a teacher the teacher should fired. We are told as teachers to never show a bias towards politics as it’s a form of radicalisation. Same here this teacher should be sacked pending investigation into this. Simple as.

[@jq32rocks]

I don't know what type of school your working in. Teachers have to conform or they are fired. They are under the same pressure to accept this corruption and teach it.....I'm speaking as someone who has been in many classrooms and meetings.

[@jq32rocks]

That is a beautiful transformation! She looks amazing but wouldn't recognize her as the same person

[@scottpearce771]

Ava is so irritating she doesn’t know how to debate anything just turns to name calling and laughing

[@dianelemay3661]

Bravo, you nailed it!

[@StuMas]

That woman is so annoying and disingenuous.

[@user-ub4pl6tz2e]

Don't take it She not dangerous Just a kitten 🐈 I just come back swimming Some reason I swimming like a fish 🐟🐠🐟🐠 Street wise TAL....,. Ps... We might have a New generation KIT. KAT. KIDS

[@tc6758]

The fact that Ava condescends to a gay man and accuses him of not caring about gay people, then misrepresents what his book is about because she hasn't actually read it, shows the level of stupidity that Ava has. A journalist as young and inexperienced as her wouldn't have been given air time a few years ago, but apparently a BA in English (2018) is now all the training you need if you're connected to join a minor publication and be given air time.

[@s1rsmoke773]

She's the type of person who has no control over her own kids. It's our job as adults to guide our children, not our children guide us.

[@CdEmm50]

She was a tongue tied mess against those sensible girls.

[@dianelemay3661]

Bravo, you nailed it!

[@MrPhantom1961]

You could understand it if the child was 3 or 4 years of age not 12.

[@dianelemay3661]

Bravo, you nailed it!

[@intergalacticshovel]

If you identify as a cat can you be held responsible for shitting in your neighbours garden? Asking for a friend.

[@nikki2kk]

Bahahahahaha

[@eclecticambience5389]

LMAO - Then just casually licking your butt on their front porch.

[@marydavies3392]

At a school near me a child is tolerated identifying as a ‘werewolf’ . This is mad, and 12 year olds are far too old to be disruptive by acting out fantasies in school. This behaviour may be tolerated in nursery schools but should be forbidden in secondary education.(disgusted ex-teacher)

[@robertlyons991]

The blonde and rainbow tie dude need to prosecuted and punished severely for extreme child abuse then placed in a psychiatric institution since they are obviously mentally I’ll !!

[@seansroberts8448]

I hate the world these day's, nut jobs everywhere, I want normality back🙄🙄

[@frenzyviz6296]

Me too.

[@Yogeeie]

Here we go again. Little miss “don’t be ridiculous” assuming she is a miss and not a Mr. 🙄

[@nicolataylor6011]

Or s cat 😂

[@n0w3lly90]

It boggles my mind how that woman sits there and laughs off what is self-evidently happening. She is quite obviously a subscribed ideologue

[@nemosays6337]

She is attacking him (DM) because she has no argument that makes rational sense! js

[@Randy_Bentwick]

That Ava was saved by the bell. She's lucky that Piers stepped in to close the discussion down, because I guarantee that Douglas was about verbally eviscerate her with an exquisitely reasoned takedown. I wish Piers had let him just have another 30 seconds, because I would have loved watching him tear her a new one with his words.

[@Leto85]

Yeah, he deserved to have had that chance after her attack on him making a career out of fear. And the 'let Ava speak' after she interrupted him before made that argument sound rather one-sided to me.

[@MissOrchid12]

The teacher did NOT say bullying is not acceptable in any form, be kind etc. That WASN'T mentioned.

[@kevinetheridge7201]

The teacher actually bullied the 2 kids who rightly questioned her.

[@lincliff663]

The teacher tried to humiliate & bully the calm, articulate student. The student won.

[@beulah3484]

@@lincliff663 well said!

[@MissOrchid12]

@@kevinetheridge7201 Yes, exactly. This journalist doesn't seem to have actually listened to the recording!

[@CdEmm50]

@@lincliff663 Two sensible girl students, listen to their horrified voices in unison when they are falsely accused.

[@Peterisnowhere]

Douglas is brilliant! I love his no nonsense cutting through their mad arguments 😂

[@Musical_Man_Guitar]

What must it be like to have a brain like Ava...maybe it is a pea that identifies as a brain.......

[@Bringbackthesixties]

Ava is akin to piles a complete pain in the arse

[@tmaxyb]

Our children are children snd adults should never play out their arguments using children.

[@billhawkins192]

Let's start and end this. If you can say you identify as a cat, you are not a cat. A cat does not speak. A cat does not identify as a cat. A cat is a cat.

[@paulinmazurek2769]

Ava mad as a box of frogs .

[@briansullivan5908]

My cat identifies as the ruler of the world. I don't want to hurt her feelings by correcting her and seriously she'd probably get violent

[@jamesgattuso9778]

That Eva character is truly unpleasant. Clearly she never read the book.

[@thecreativeguitarlounge]

She has some nerve calling Douglas Murray rude when she wouldn't let him get a word in

[@Terf_Rocks]

In more cases kids are saying they are born in the wrong body and girls thinking they are boys and vice versa….THAT is the bigger worry. And this is what is being taught in the schools all over the country….it’s not just one teacher it’s the majority of them.

[@sandradiaz1726]

If a child identified as a cat, the parent need to confiscate all the divices (cats do not use internet) and for sure in no time the child became human again

[@susanbrowne5544]

Douglas is so right, and that woman needs a padded cell.

[@lehnali4103]

Love the sensibility of Douglas.

[@philiphost3349]

Ava identifies as a 10 year old not getting her own way

[@davidgrosvenor1]

The othrr kids shud have identified as mice and refused to stay cos they are in fear!

[@adeleday7430]

😂

[@callmekelvin]

Underated 😅😂

[@Footnote56]

What I am hearing from your female panelist is that the child who identified as a cat had every right in the world to distract from the lessons at hand, and should be applauded as a child who is better as they have a greater imagination.

[@nemosays6337]

Ava comes across as an entitled ideologue with no basis or substance in reality, just being contrary to be supposedly considered virtuous and credible of which she in neither!

[@babycharliebrown]

Ava thinks she’s soooo right. She should stick to getting her nails done and focus on that..

[@PiggyWiggyO]

she would fight with her nails.....😵

[@jamierenaut]

When I was in primary school at playtime I often pretended to be Chewbakka and a friend of mine was Hans Solo but when we returned to the classroom we reverted back to actually reality. Kids have great imaginations which is fantastic but they need adults to be the sensible influence teaching them about the REAL world!

[@donaldbate3017]

This ridiculous scenario in schools is self refuting: I could speak common sense (like Piers) to my teacher, deliberately identify as a "bigot" or "transphobic", and nobody would have any right to punish me because I'm allowed to identify as whatever I like!

[@jeffatkins6890]

The woman and Tachell belong in a funny farm ! that’s fact

[@Swansong321]

🐱❤this is SO wrongful!..I'm proud of people challenging this nonsensical echo chamber...I'm 19 and NOT all young people are buying into this..a lot of it is older people trying to show how cool they are at ANY expense, and kids innocence being hijacked into something it isn't!🙄Peter Thatchell gives me creepy vibes...

[@CdEmm50]

Look up Tachell!

[@lk1590]

There's a time and a place to exercise your imagination and that's not in class where it disrupts the learning of other children.

[@Burglar-King]

What gives this child the RIGHT to disrupt every classmates education? The law says every child deserves an education. It’s their right.

[@michaelsimpson4400]

I identify as a billionaire, and if I am not given the money to be a billionaire I am being oppressed.

[@lynnebarnes3840]

If meowed at my teacher when a lesson was going on, I'd have gotten a detention. How tomes have changed.

[@quimble2177]

“You’re so rude!” >meanwhile she’s hurling insults at the man Right, sure thing, *he* is the rude one.

[@thatsthejobbb8587]

Has she been on the continent recently? Absolutely delusional!! She'd tell you its just a warm day when your house is on fire!!

[@garrymcfadden4105]

12 year thinks they’re a cat?? Maybe a 6 year old, but not 12

[@oxid71]

My whole high school clasroom was meowing at eachother all the time, arrest us for having fun

[@garrymcfadden4105]

@@oxid71 lol

[@quantumshock6620]

Why do people treat 12 year olds like little children who play pretend? They are *adolescents* who are on the verge of entering high school and taking on adult responsibilities!

[@rekab4528]

I love, love, love Douglas - that gentleman is so intelligent.

[@user-ub4pl6tz2e]

Back in my days 1960 We were given milk every morning at school But I never think I will become a 😺🐈 cat Oops, sorry I have to go I have swimming lessons Don't worry I won't become a fish 🐟🐟🐟 Street wise TAL.... Ps no wonder UK broken The future KIT KAT KIDS

[@luvstellauk]

If a child is identifying as a cat or dog the parents need to check that child's internet activity as this may suggest links to furries which is a fetish where people dress as cats or dogs and is linked to bondage.

[@hubertinepankhurst1161]

Indeed, and the issue is that teachers are now pushing these fetishes in schools instead of teaching reading/writing/maths, they indoctrinate schoolkids and encourage them to sexual perversions.

[@briansullivan5908]

and from what I've heard a pretty wild time, for consenting adults only.

[@Leon-lt5gv]

Insanity ' but think the media are getting caried away ' just kids messing around ' saying it for diffrent reasons ' i think their joking 🤣

[@luvstellauk]

@@Leon-lt5gv Furries are a thing though, they are all over the sort of social media that kids use such as Tic Toc, they are seen at pride events and there are links to bondage, yes the kids may be messing around but they could also be being groomed.

[@britishpatriot7386]

​@@Leon-lt5gvthey aren't joking as you well know already.

[@GeorgeSquare]

That woman is insane - their mental gymnastics get's worse and more desperate

[@jontibloom6125]

Tatchell is a very strange and confused person ....or should I say persons ?

[@jeffatkins6890]

He’s odd

[@kevin982]

What about the teacher several weeks back who was fired because he/she addressed some pupils as ladies and they went on a full tantrum because he/she misgendered them.

[@thunkjunk]

The kid is just playing a cat and being coddled by a woke teacher. This will damage the kid. Under normal circumstances the kid's peers would properly socialize each other.

[@davidgrosvenor1]

Teachers are in fear today!

[@smutnamezatka]

If she thinks she's a cat, next time she's sick just take her to a vet, carrying her in a cage. Right'o, u want it, you get it.

[@jamesdaniels234]

My son told me the other day he identifies as a frog...me oh ok😂what's ur name....ur gunna love this dad..Roobert ....I was in stitches

[@mehcol]

I would tell him to hop it.

[@jamesdaniels234]

@@mehcol I didn't think of that🤣😂🤣

[@juliestewart5707]

Interestingly, the evidence seems to suggest that teaching gender fluidity has such a negative impact on the lessons learned that there is now species confusion. Extraordinary! Well done?!

[@CImum]

Douglas Murray, love from Croatia ❤

[@SaccoBelmonte]

That cat episode in the classroom sounds like good Monty Python material.

[@catweasle5737]

Douglas is absolutely brilliant. Did you notice Piers was doing his best not to laugh when Douglas was trashing that fool of a woman.

[@avagrego3195]

I remember a friend's child "identifying" as a cat or dog, the child got tired of it and stopped. Remember how kids sometimes had imaginary friends - no one made a fuss over it and eventurally the child tired of it or out grew it. Sometimes a child forms an attachment to their fav blankie or stuffed animal? They eventually out grow it.

[@CdEmm50]

At 13 years old, in a SCHOOL!

[@WilfChadwick]

She sounds fun. Literally anything could splirt out of her mouth.

[@JoshFrancis-bz4xj]

Is this woman actually sticking up for the fact that people are identifying as cats. This is crazy how did we get to this point in society?

[@kingmbuso6448]

I’m sorry to say this but we wouldn’t tolerate this insanity in Africa 😂 thank God I’m black

[@raven-sf3di]

The kid can be a chunibyou if she wants. she can believe her right eye holds unlimited power , but when her teacher starts playing into the delusion then you have to question if the teacher is mentally stable enough to teach kids. Here we have kids teaching the teacher while yhe teacher is in cuckoo land

[@donotsupportterroristgroups]

The kids and teacher should be supportive; to show peace and goodwill the students should gift that "cat" cat food, live mice, cat toys and a scratching post.

[@briansullivan5908]

Giving live mice would be cruelty. Have you ever seen what a cat does to a live mouse, not pretty.

[@davidcrazyrides]

Ava all she has to give in that debate was nothing but assumptions and none facts

[@kaitlin3498]

If someone identified as a animal years ago they would be in a Mental Hospital

[@orins2052]

Decades ago, also a gay would have been...

[@bradfiegehen7092]

Gender and sex are not disconnected from each other. FACT!

[@raven-sf3di]

So he identified as robin hood ,so by the same logic he should have been allowed to steal money from other students and the teacher would have to defend that? Infact it would be the other students complaining about being robbed that are in the wrong. If thats the case can i identify as someone who doesn't need to pay tax and rent

[@karenyoung8341]

12 year olds know better. If the child was 5 or 6 then yes, ‘imagination’ could be blamed.

[@geoff873]

Gives a new spin on grooming.

[@CherylCold]

We need litter trays in the classroom.

[@tasha3757]

If that student GENUINELY believes they’re a cat then until I see them walking on all fours, using a litterbox (that won’t get cleaned often enough), and then licking themselves clean afterwards obviously, eating nothing but tinned cat food from the pet shop, and of course, hunting mice and rats and eating them RAW - as that’s a big treat for “cats” - I will never believe them and just assume they’re just doing it to seek attention.

[@A_A610]

The original version of the hoax that went around North America about two years back actually did claim these kids were being provided boxes by the schools...which was very obviously bullshit, and a lot of people were quick to catch that it was, in fact, bullshit. The Tories learned that by dropping the most blatantly fabricated parts of the hoax, they could make it appear much more plausible...even though the original story was still complete bullshit (just with the most obvious bullshit left out).

[@maggieedwards3951]

You cant make this stuff up ! These poor children have to be subjected to these so called qualified people in the classrooms.😑

[@icikle]

Is Ava's argument really that the kid is 12 and should be allowed to pretend to be a cat in school?

[@tonyadigitalnorway1155]

As someone quite rightly said some time ago "The World Has Gone Nuts" . . . .

[@karhukivi]

Horses, cats and dogs.... how strange that none of them want to identify as pigs, goats, snakes or insects with compound eyes..... ?

[@sharonreichter2537]

There's a great deal of difference between pretending to be something and this ideology.

[@sharonreichter2537]

I think you can generalise when it's clear that children are increasingly thinking they are something they are not and people are going along with it.

[@noahkifle3034]

He destroyed her, and she pretended that she knew much, but she is null.

[@oogyboof]

The teacher is 100% in the wrong but this child is most likely in normal development it's just that she is being encouraged to act in a way she probably doesn't even believe in. She needs to be told that it's not appropriate for a classroom and let it be done with. I am quite proud of the girls for standing up to authority

[@muhammadalieesaa3379]

Would a cat call him/herself a human? No. Would a dog call him/herself a human? No. An horse? No. A cat is a cat, an horse is an horse, a dog is a dog & a human is a human.

[@kbeetles]

So a 12 year-old with slightly more active imagination (!) is not to be taken seriously, 'cos she is only a child, but if same child says she is a boy, that should be affirmed and taken dead seriously.....!? Since when are 12 year-olds developmentally at the level of a 3year-old? Does Ava know anything about children by the way?

[@ronnieneo]

Excellent point.

[@oxid71]

You don't seem to know children. How is playing at an animal something only a 3 yearold does? 12 is a pretty normal age to play for a lot of children. The older the child gets the different style of play he engages in. Even highschoolers play pretend, just not in the way a 6yearold plays. 15 years ago my friends were meowing at eachother in higschool because it was fun, some were wearing catears... according to you are they also develpmentally stuck at 3? They are normal adults with succesfull jobs and family. You don't understand children and probably not even people...

[@rayperkins1719]

Complete madness needs to stop

[@zeusthecat6295]

I love Douglas Murray. Couldn't help but notice him mouth "fallacy" sarcastically when the lady accidentally misspoke.

[@scubasausage]

The dude and the lady in the middle have got to be paid actors. There is no way these lunatics actually exist in real life.

[@berrlett]

Simple, if a kid 12 year old meows in class and everybody laughs and forget about it a minute later it’s fine. If a kid of that age demands to be addressed as an animal and identify as one then parents must be alerted immediately with a strong recommendation to go see a psychiatrist, a psychologist or at least the family doctor to start with. The blonde and gay tie Micky there are clearly campaigning for an ideology that worships trans and gay activities there is no doubt about it.

[@sandyjamison5929]

Allowing children to play make believe and not stopping the fantasy game isn't healthy for growing young people. Pandering to this nonsense is unacceptable & encouraging mental health problems.

[@jemmaj2919]

That lady is so bankrupt, when she couldn't counterargue Douglas's points, she ran off like a rat attacking him as a person

[@avk-kq7gv]

The woman on the panel ought to volunteer to spend some time locked up with the types of people she is so fiercely and misguidedly defending, that would make her see some sense, maybe!?

[@dianelemay3661]

BRAVO TO Piers and Douglas! Thank you sooo much for voicing this in public, very much appreciate your honest no nonsense approach to reality! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!👍👍

[@enzoman444]

I identify as a king. All kneel before me !

[@lyntaylor8607]

Not imaginative, at all identifying as an animal. He is just desperate to be noticed. He needs his brain rewired, so perhaps they should treat him as one , feed him like one, let him do his tooletries like one and see how soon he wants to be a boy again.

[@trayanagesheva2579]

The teacher of my daughter in nursery told her that she can be anything she likes when she grows up, even a boy. This happened when my daughter was 3. The teacher then went on to study children psychology. You can imagine how she is going to "heal" the mental issues of all the kids unfortunate to be brought to her by their parents. And there isn't a law to protect these kids from her. This is why I keep telling my kid that what teachers say is sometimes wrong.

[@Pyrrhic537]

I'm sueing my neighbours for not tweeting back to me after I started identifying as a Robin.