Male teachers can supervise girls changing rooms under new NSPCC guidance.

It does not say that.

It USED TO SAY kids should be supervised by someone of the same gender, if you read that as gender identity rather than sex it could mean a trans woman (man) supervising girls.

They've removed that part so now it gives no advice.

It would have been nice for the papers to have used these headlines when it released the old guidance, but they were too afraid.

Sex Matters are raising issues with their guidance but this isn't it.

The problem with this you are all forgetting is that there are male primary school teachers who necessarily have to supervise a mixed class of children changing for PE. A male year 2 or year 3 teacher who doesn't have a female TA or otherwise available to them doesnt have much choice do they, primary schools rarely have dedicated changing rooms for children, in year 6 often the self conscious girls with changing bodies will use the toilets to change.

Seems after all that your title isn’t reflecting the facts correctly, which is a considerable relief.

No, you are wrong

Sex Matters explains the issues.

So if there is a serious medical emergency in a female changing room, a male first responder couldn't go in?

There’s always one person on AIBU who brings in the very direst of scenarios as reasons why we can’t have every day common sense.

YES if the male teacher is the only one defib trained and a girl has a heart attack in the shower he goes in, but if it’s not a life or death situation he stays the fuck out. Got it?

That wouldn't be supervising changing would it? So nothing to do with this and would be fine.

The telegraph might have an angle to take

For goodness sake, obviously male staff should not be in girls changing rooms. I worked in secondary schools for 30 plus years, no headteacher in their right mind would countenance having a situation where men are
in girls changing rooms.
And if the NSPCC advice is so unclear Sex Matters has flagged it then thats not fake news its poorly written advice, and its not hard to get this right.
And to claim that the advice from government is not clear is also nonsense. At some point adults need to accept responsibility for making choices based on reality.
Maybe if boys who think they are transgirls are unsafe in boys school changing rooms the male PE staff could be stationed in there to prevent bullying. A practice so common good schools do it routinely!
Schools must stick to clear and lawful boundaries or girls will suffer.

Clickbait headline to start the frothing

I think the NSPCC is limited in their scope because they are a charity. Their guidance fleshes out the law and makes it accessible by staff who can't be expected to read the legislation and decide what each word means in a legal sense.

The NSPCC have revised their guidance to remove 'gender' but there is nothing specific in the law to say that supervision in changing rooms must be single sex. Therefore, they've described a range of steps that can make young people safe regardless of the sex of teacher (don't hang around in the changing room, listen from a distance, give a warning if you need to enter, try to supervise in twos).

Sex Matters wrote to NSPCC on 4th September to warn that it is a serious institutional failure for the nation’s pre-eminent child-protection charity to lose sight of the need for clear policies.
Some useful links:
Previous mumsnet thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3611447-Potential-Systemic-Safeguarding-failures-in-NSPCC-Childline-illustrated-by-appointment-ending-of-relationship-with-Munroe-Bergdorf-Thread-2

sexmattersorg article online outlining the current problem
https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/nspccs-changing-room-guidance-fails-girls/

Apparently the NSPCC background includes them supporting men using babies in the sexual fetish 'lactophilia' (ie supporting CSA/ drug abuse of babies if the perpetrator is trans), not having any training materials to help staff recognise the child safeguarding risks if a man IDs as a woman (or has sexual fetishes/ paraphilias around this), senior staff publicly supporting one of their staff members making porn videos
uncommongroundmedia.com/nspcc-employee-films-himself-masturbating-at-work/
& also calling women who raised SG concerns 'bullies' (before then quietly sacking him after deciding it was 'inconsistent with the values expected of an employee' (the email confirming this from NSPCC has been widely retweeted on x).

Don’t forget the NSPCC were reluctant to sack a sex-fetishist employee in 2019, after he’d uploaded videos of himself indulging in ‘inappropriate behaviour’ in the workplace toilets to a fetishist website!

I haven’t trusted them since then.

Or if Hitler came. Is that want they are saying!?!?! That we should just let Hitler in the changing rooms! Discusting…

This is dangerous because, especially younger girls, they will start to think it’s okay for a man to watch them while they’re changing or showering, which can lead to predators taking advantage.

None of this is okay.

The NSPCC has been infiltrated by predators.

🙄 oh FFS

So it used to say gender, and now because they're too scared of genderists kicking off they won't say sex, so they don't say anything?

My local hospital has just done this with their chaperone policy, it used to say a same gender chaperone should be offered, now post EHRC Guidance they can't say that but they're too scared/ captured to say same sex, so they've deleted any mention at all.

We'll probably be seeing a lot more of this type of cowardice in policies being amended to grudgingly comply with the Equality Act.

Oh my god.

The EHRC technical guidance which is out for consultation, as far as I can see doesn't mention anything about supervision of changing rooms, so it's unclear why they need to wait on this.