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To be really, really pleased about the explicit ban on the proactive teaching of gender identity?

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BiologicsBeforeIdeology · 16/05/2024 13:35

It's just such madness that we even got here. My family has been badly affected by activists pushing this madness on my Autistic son, who now half believes he's a girl because some nitwit came into the school and told him people who feel uncomfortable and like they don't belong are trans (not maybe gay, not maybe Autistic, not maybe just Puberty, but trans)

I won't apologise for wanting to safeguard children. This is not a Section 28 thing, it really is protecting vulnerable kids.

"Gender identity
The guidance will introduce an explicit ban on the proactive teaching of gender identity. It will say that the idea that children can change their gender by using different names, pronouns and wearing the uniform of the opposite sex is highly contested. If pressed by pupils, they should instead focus on the facts of biological sex.
Teaching children about gender identity could lead to them questioning their own gender when they may not have done otherwise, the guidance will suggest. Children can be taught the law about gender reassignment — that people can legally change their gender from the age of 18 — but children will be told that that they cannot legally be classified as members of the opposite sex."

More info on the changes https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4a2b0d57-13c9-409a-a40b-104d7a0499b2?shareToken=ed46490f36a6c9fbb0f70d6bf03c0a99

What the new sex education guidelines mean for schools and parents

The changes will ban teaching about gender identity and set out what children should be taught at each age

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4a2b0d57-13c9-409a-a40b-104d7a0499b2?shareToken=ed46490f36a6c9fbb0f70d6bf03c0a99

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MagnetCarHair · 16/05/2024 13:48

Have the NEU popped a vein over all this yet?

AnneLovesGilbert · 16/05/2024 13:48

It’s a great move. I’ve got a child in reception and am hugely relieved I won’t have to worry about her being peddled the genderbread bollocks or told she might be born in the wrong body or any unscientific homophobic stereotype-laden dangerous belief system.

Third parties providing secretive inappropriate sex education/grooming have no place in our schools, this will hopefully put them out of business.

SingleSexSafeSpace · 16/05/2024 13:48

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MagnetCarHair · 16/05/2024 13:47

Lots of sensible statutory guidance there and also banning outside agencies from secret squirreling their batshit teaching materials away from parents. Brilliant.

ResisterRex · 16/05/2024 13:46

I agree. And a safeguarding first approach, as well as that informed by a child's developmental stages, is the right one.

GrammarTeacher · 16/05/2024 13:45

And the age related limits are going to make so many things a whole lot worse.

GrammarTeacher · 16/05/2024 13:45

They've phrased it as gender identity. That is a real thing. That crops up repeatedly when I teach Shakespeare.

TuesdayWhistler · 16/05/2024 13:44

Changing sex is impossible.
No one should be taught that it is.

No kid should be taught that Stereotypes define their gender either.

ilovesooty · 16/05/2024 13:43

People will have different opinions on this.

I disagree with both this and the ban on sex education for under 9s.

GerbilStyle · 16/05/2024 13:43

It's fantastic, although I suspect a lot of people have no idea about the background to needing this legislation. I do hope the BBC make a few documentaries about it now. And Chanel 4 who prides itself on groundbreaking stuff should be ashamed of not covering this years ago

FrancescaContini · 16/05/2024 13:43

Couldn’t agree more, @BiologicsBeforeIdeology

Beowulfa · 16/05/2024 13:43

I would like children to be reassured that it is completely normal to resent the changes puberty brings, and to feel uncomfortable in your body. This seems to have been lost in the rush to label everyone.

SingleSexSafeSpace · 16/05/2024 13:41

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YouJustDoYou · 16/05/2024 13:41

Utterly relieved about this. Pushing this indoctrinating crap on kids has had horrific consequences.

SingleSexSafeSpace · 16/05/2024 13:39

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JacquesHarlow · 16/05/2024 13:37

I think it is a sensible ban. We are a generation away from understanding the effects of the 'proactive' approach.

What I will always support is inclusion, in the widest sense. Ensuring people have a safe space to be themselves.

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