FFS. The teachers' resource linked from the Twinkl blog.
Anyone who still thinks that Stonewall hasn't developed into a regressive movement needs to read this document.
content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/8f/53/t-lf-255290-lgbt-inclusive-education-primary-best-practice-guide-english.pdf?token=exp=1551041030~acl=%2Fresource%2F8f%2F53%2Ft-lf-255290-lgbt-inclusive-education-primary-best-practice-guide-english.pdf%2A~hmac=c437d16911ca825185ca7fa0f5f3a7edb62bf3600798758e23d6e24b937a0df0
Forgive me for a longish post and Sunday evening brain, but this is making me grumpy!
From p5
The Stonewall Teachers Report found that the young people most likely to experience homophobic bullying were those who don't conform to gender stereotypes, such as boys who were perceived as being feminine or girls who were interested in sports. This was true for both primary and secondary school, suggesting that intolerance for non-conformity begins in primary school.
OK, yep, something that feminists have been challenging for years, that girls can be interested in sports, boys should be able to display stereotypically feminine behaviours without either sex being bullied for it. I hear you, let's challenge it (though not sure that automatically puts them within the rainbow sparkle T banner).
You can help inhibit this tolerance developing by actively challenging gender stereotypes. Ensure that school activities aren't exclusively for pupils of a particular gender (SEX, Stonewall, it's sex, not gender, that's the problem!) and model the use of inclusive, non-stereotypical language.
OK, despite you getting confused between sex and gender stereotypes Stonewall, that's great advice, don't segregate activities into gender stereotypes.
The very next para:
Challenging gender stereotypes will help make your primary school a more inclusive space for children who are showing gender variant behaviour, or who may feel their gender is different from the sex they were assigned at birth. Many schools are already demonstrating excellent practice in working with these pupils to ensure they feel safe and able to be themselves at school. Seemingly small changes, like helping a pupil to use their preferred name and pronoun at school, can have a huge impact on the child's self-esteem
Woah there.
Hang on Stonewall. You've just jumped from encouraging an environment where gender stereotypes are debunked, a child can express any behaviours, like whatever activities they want to without being constrained by these stereotypes, to identifying specific children breaking out of stereotypical behaviour 'needing a special inclusive space' and potentially new pronouns. (But you chucked 'sex' in there, briefly, even though you don't use it anywhere else). That's odd.
And, to be honest, confusing, given that your initial paragraph was about homophobic bullying. Even though your organisation is an LGBT one, this page jumps straight from 'homophobic bullying' to 'child is trans'. And even though this document is LGBT inclusive, the majority of the case studies at the end are about 'gender diversity and trans' issues, not LGB.
Anyone reading p5 with their critical thinking hat on will see how confused this thinking is.
And illustrating a page that descends into pronouns and celebrating trans people with a picture of a girl kicking a football. Fuck that.