By Michael Thompson
Founder, Falsely Accused Network
The absurdity of modern gender politics has reached new heights in Strasbourg, France, where school officials are now fitting children with GPS tracking devices to prove what any parent or teacher already knows - that boys like to play football during break time.
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This Orwellian experiment, which involves tracking 125 children without parental consent, is a disturbing example of how far ideologues will go to push their agenda. As the founder of the Falsely Accused Network, I've seen countless examples of anti-male bias, but tracking children like tagged wildlife is a new low.
The council's solution to their "discovery" that boys enjoy active play? Destroy the football pitches. This isn't about creating equality - it's about punishing natural male behavior. Instead of celebrating boys' energy and competitive spirit, or finding ways to encourage girls who might want to join in, they're choosing to eliminate activities that boys naturally gravitate toward.
What message does this send to young boys? That their natural inclinations to run, compete, and play vigorous games are somehow wrong? That their very presence in the playground is a form of "domination" that needs to be controlled and monitored?
The cost of this surveillance program - several hundred thousand euros - could have been spent on additional sports equipment, coaching programs for girls who want to play football, or any number of constructive solutions. Instead, they've chosen to spend it on proving their predetermined conclusion that boys' behavior needs to be controlled and restricted.
Most concerning is the complete bypass of parental consent in this monitoring scheme. The normalization of surveillance in schools, especially when targeted at one gender, sets a dangerous precedent. Today it's playground monitoring - what's next?
The solution to playground inequality isn't to destroy what boys enjoy, but to create more opportunities for everyone. Build more play areas, introduce more varied activities, and encourage participation across gender lines without demonizing either sex.
As someone who has spent years advocating for those falsely accused and fighting against anti-male bias, I can say with certainty: this isn't about equality. It's about control, and it's about pushing an ideology that views natural male behavior as inherently problematic.
Our boys deserve better than to be treated like problems to be solved. They deserve to be children, to play freely, and to develop without being made to feel that their very nature is somehow wrong.
The real discrimination here isn't happening in the playground - it's coming from the adults who seem determined to find fault with boys being boys.
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