I am going to try to find a source, the only source this article seemingly gives is this:
"The
Daily Mail interviewed clinical neuropsychologist
Tommy MacKay, who criticized, "We have a council that seems to literally accept the fact that a child identifies as a wolf, rather than being told to get out of this situation and deal with themselves, which would be the common-sense approach."
I will try to find that
But I think it's important to also mention the response of the school:
The school reportedly chose to use the Scottish government's guidelines called
Getting It Right For Every Child (Girfec) and the "well-being wheel" to support students regardless of the learning obstacles or challenges they encounter. The previous year, a school in
Aberdeenshire (Northern Scotland) had to deny rumors about placing a litter box in the bathroom for a child who identified as a cat.
Species Dysphoria
The student in question suffers from
species dysphoria or
species incongruence. It is a condition experienced by those who do not identify with their birth species. In this case, feeling like a
wolf despite being born
human. According to psychology, this often causes discomfort and a depressive mood alteration due to the difficulty in being accepted and feeling free to express oneself in the surrounding world. It is less known than gender dysphoria but is a phenomenon that still involves several people. One can feel like belonging to the most disparate animal species. A phenomenon criticized as representative of an era where people want to identify as anything other than what they are.
So another school had the same rumor and denied it,
This may just be made up,
