Following on from jelly babies I give you....

What a shame that you weren't all wearing Woman = Aduot Human Female t'shirt,might have been a bit of a stand off.

Invite them back for a proper debate whilst wearing your own factual t'shirts.

Were there science teachers listening and absorbing this without challenging it

Glad there was a sceptical response at your school OP.

The GenderBread person has been around for a while. It's recommended as a resource among pshe teachers.

What did the trainer say?

The fox ate the Gingerbread Man in the original story. Those damn foxes get everywhere. My cousin had some in the hen house.

So I'm not allowed to wear one of Posie's T-Shirts but this individual can wear an offensive T-shirt and that's acceptable?

Lots of skepticism and even some sniggering from the staff attending, and attempts we’re made to challenge the trainer

Sounds like you work with people who aren’t easily gaslighted.

Oh yes, the genderbread bollox. I hope there are lots of complaints about the standard of the training.

Isn't there a Gender Unicorn that does the rounds somewhere?

Lots of skepticism and even some sniggering from the staff attending, and attempts we’re made to challenge the trainer

Sounds like you work with people who aren’t easily gaslighted.

Well it's not new, it's been around for years.

If they were trying to say that "people have a range of personalities and ways of presenting themselves irrespective of their biological sex", we would be getting somewhere.

Also "attraction" should be pointing at the groin, but we all know why it isn't (hearts not parts).

I can't be a gingerbread person, I express myself using the whole, not just the left side of my body.

I also am not baked goods.

If they changed that graphic to make sex male / female and expression the M/F/both symbol, and also took away *ness from the key underneath, it would be quite a useful image IMO

I’ve seen this. It was used in my company in Ireland. I challenged it but tutted down (didn’t take you for a bigot).

Expression is the dotted line that extends towards the head and foot of the gingerbread person. It's basically your sense of style and fashion as part of your personality.

Sometimes we’re talking about sex assigned at birth, and a lot of other times we’re talking about the anatomical sex that someone embodies (which changes, for all of us, throughout the course of our lives — although that change is, for some of us, more drastically, or for different reasons, than others).

WTF?!

I agree and feminists definitely aren’t women at least not the nice “female-ness” type.

Although I will give the leaflet credit for saying you can be attracted to “Women and/or Feminine and/or Female people”
Which reading between the lines means that it is ok to turn down “women with lady dicks” if that’s not your romantic or sexual orientation.

However it loses points as it uses woman as the gender identity description so by woman it means anyone who identifies as one. What we mean by woman gets consigned you “female people”.

and a lot of other times we’re talking about the anatomical sex that someone embodies (which changes, for all of us, throughout the course of our lives

Do they think "child" and "adult" are different sexes? I was going to ask if they think post-menopause is a different sex to "woman" and then stopped and went, wait, of course they do, the misogynistic arseholes.

From the link posted:

Others really find the benefit of discussing the variations of anatomical sex using continua, and have argued for that for years.

Wait what? Sex isn’t a continua.

And also:

Sometimes we’re talking about sex assigned at birth, and a lot of other times we’re talking about the anatomical sex that someone embodies (which changes, for all of us, throughout the course of our lives — although that change is, for some of us, more drastically, or for different reasons, than others).

Again, What? Anatomical sex changes for everyone throughout the course of our lives? Seriously?

I haven’t even finished reading it

I think that's probably precisely what they mean, kittens.

I think this preceded jelly babies. It's been round in various formats for ages and is used in schools too. Worryingly.

Maybe they think the primary means of gender expression is whether or not you shave your pits.

I was wondering the same about expression.

Not that it's the point, but why is "expression" pointing to its armpit?