Gender identity teaching in primary school s?

[catatecheese]

Hi,
I got a long complicated email from my year 6 child s primary school regarding, basically sex education. Hidden amongst lots of complicated government documents, head teachers long letter opinion poles etc is the fact gender identity is on the list.?
Does anyone know anything else about teaching of this in primary schools? thoughts, knowledge and opinion wanted please.
I will admit now I waded through that email after a long day at work with a glass of wine. I also emailed the teacher to ask for details. They acknowledged my email but are yet to get back with answers.
I am slightly suspicious that from way email was presented and the links attached she may be hoping for this to be questioned? Have a slightly rebellious female head.
But honestly does anyone know should we be worried or is it just a a be kind everyone is different and this is what gender is kind of thing? Ie is the teacher going to label me some awful discriminatory women for even questioning this?
It's my 3rd child at the school for others it was a short letter saying we will be doing sex ed let us know if your child can't take part sort of thing. This is very different, why????

Btw name changed in case I am recognised over this.

[Whatstheweatherlike]

Schools have a legal obligation to share their RSE policy with parents and engage in consultations with parents about it.

The DfE published an operational plan for schools this week in response to the wider reopening of schools from the 8th March. It is giving schools some flexibility with their RSE and PSHE delivery by telling them to prioritise the needs of their pupils, for example by focusing on essential health education such as emotional and physical health (clearly a priority after lockdown). Schools have missed two significant blocks of time in the classroom now and will be desperately playing catch up with parts of the RSE/PSHE curriculum that were difficult to deliver remotely. I would imagine most will be ensuring they get the fundamentals of puberty and sex education covered and that will probably be all they have time for. If you are emailing and asking for details you might want to check what aspects they are prioritising to meet the children's needs given the limited time.

[WarriorN]

Have a look at safe schools alliance

safeschoolsallianceuk.net/

[Flapjak]

If they have been stonewalled they may have materials that include sexist and harmful stereotypes and being born in the wrong body rhetoric, all of which is confusing to children and young people especially when teachers who have to teach this stuff cannot define sex, gender, boy girl, male female. Having gender dysphoria is extremely rare and shouldnt automatically equate to transgenderism therefore why does it need to be part of any mainstream education. Unlike LGB people who equate to approx 5 to 10% of our population. Another thjng worth considering is that according to stonewall, transgender also includes cross dressers , whether they mean those cross dressers who do that for sexual gratification i dont know, but to me that is covertly including kink into the syllabus. As PP look to safeschoolsalliance

[SmallPug]

I'm in the same position. I just took part in a parent consultation about the new curriculum. It mostly looked very sensible. They're using Coram Life Education / SCARF resources. But 'gender identity' is in there. I raised this evening at the (zoom) consultation and got into a bit of back and forth with another parent when I said I didn't have a gender identity (she said everyone has one - erm, no I don't!). We also clashed on the used of 'sex assigned at birth'. I actually think what they'll teach sounds fine and a lot of it was based on challenging stereotypes. But I read on the Transgender Trend website that Primary schools don't have to cover "gender identity" but the Coram representative said they did. It was tough as I felt there were only two of us who knew what any of this was about, me and the other parent, and she had clearly bought wholesale into the bull, despite being a biological scientist (how concerning!).