GEO logo used without permission on teaching resource

WTFSeriously that tweet from Scottish Trans Alliance is so bloody sinister and lays bare their end goal of the complete dismantling of single sex segregated provision and thus safeguarding, dignity and privacy go out the window - and no-one in the GEO employs the critical thinking required as to who this benefits and why?????

You would think that anything produced on the back of 'Queering the Classroom' would give pause for thought, the title alone should have rung alarm bells.

It's almost as if there is a tiny cabal of ideological zealots who are successfully pushing out this nonsense to public sector organisations who are too time-pressed (or possibly too lazy) to investigate it properly.

Funny, that.

As someone has pointed out on that Twitter thread, if it's not endorsed by the government, what the hell is it doing being taught to our kids?

An excellent question. You'll notice that the EqualiTeach pack has a lot in common with the trans toolkits issued by Oxfordshire County Council, Warwickshire County Council and many other local authorities. Those toolkits also, surprise, surprise, have a lot in common with the Allsorts toolkit and other toolkits produced by a variety of trans lobby groups around the country. The recently-withdrawn CPS guidance was also quite similar.

It's almost as if there is a tiny cabal of ideological zealots who are successfully pushing out this nonsense to public sector organisations who are too time-pressed (or possibly too lazy) to investigate it properly.

Interesting... slowly slowly catchy monkey.

Can you imagine this happening 6 months ago? I can’t.

Their little house of cards is slowly falling.

As someone has pointed out on that Twitter thread, if it's not endorsed by the government, what the hell is it doing being taught to our kids?

They are saying that these things are law, that you have to comply with what they are saying otherwise you are in breach of the equality act, that it is a legal duty - (and a moral duty, but that just makes them look like extremist twats).

Actually, I think the GEO also has some liability here and should also issue a public apology to TransgenderTrend, Women’s Place et al. They funded this rubbish therefore they are complicit in its production.

They're on speed dial to Scottish Trans Alliance & "... other trans and LGBT equality organisations, human rights lawyers and academics..." so I'm guessing they'll give it 🤷🏻‍♀️ on the mea culpa.

So what happens now do they have a legal obligation to inform everyone they sent it to that it is not endorsed after all?

Can schools still use it anyway?

That excellent that GEO tweeted that.

I was a little worried that Liz Truss was saying and not doing iyswim.

No apologies from EqualTeach.

I noted the bit about pansexuality. In relation to primary school age children, this certainly strikes me as odd, to say the least. What other kinks are we teaching young kids about?

mobile.twitter.com/GEOgovuk/status/1256254669585866754

GEO have publicly distanced themselves

Liz truss seems really on the ball with all this

I would hope that this will result in more oversight of projects given government funding.

If GEO et al are aware that if something legally dodgy goes out (a) the public will notice and care and (b) the Minister won't defend it, they're going to have to do their homework. Maybe even be a little more careful about who they fund and under what conditions...

It is a good demonstration of bad faith. Schools really should be looking at it and understanding that not everything is as it seems and you really can’t take things on face value. Just because something looks pretty and has official looking logos - doesn’t mean it should be swallowed wholesale.

They have made their ‘customers’ look like fools.

Actually, I think the GEO also has some liability here and should also issue a public apology to TransgenderTrend, Women’s Place et al. They funded this rubbish therefore they are complicit in its production.

I agree. An apology is definitely in order. I think the document has four things wrong with it:

• Arguably defamatory content about Transgender Trend, Woman's Place and Fair Play for Women

• Serious misrepresentation of the Equality Act to the extent that the advice they give about changing rooms etc is unlawful

• Content that is inappropriate for a primary school age group (eg nonsense about being pansexual)

• Dodgy safeguarding advice, e.g. on p.34 it says there is no need to inform parents if a child discloses they are transgender. The changing rooms and toilets advice is dodgy from a safeguarding point of view as well as being unlawful.

The thought that schools are actually downloading and using this document is quite shocking.

Well, TRAs are now out claiming Truss is supporting the 'hate groups' Women's Place, transgendertrend and fair play for women.

At some point, someone will need to show clearly how they've arrived at the assertion that feminist groups are 'hate groups'. They'll need to show their workings. People will want to see the evidence. And there's none.

Keep the sunlight coming.

Actually, I think the GEO also has some liability here and should also issue a public apology to TransgenderTrend, Women’s Place et al. They funded this rubbish therefore they are complicit in its production.

Liz Truss is not going to be intimidated by the TRAs, is she? This is excellent stuff.

Removing the logo is not enough. They should be raising serious questions about how an organisation with such a overt disctiminatory agenda and/or so little knowledgde was awarded funding in the first place. And pull any future funding. And require them to issue an apology to all the organisations they defamed, and females as a class.

You still check someone else’s logo before publishing - it’s a courtesy.

I think it is normal for a third sector org to use the logo of a funder on documents produced with that funding. I have worked with EU grants and we put the EU logo on absolutely everything we produced.

The issue here is that the document is such a shitshow that the funder has asked for its logo to be removed. Presumably no further funds will be disbursed from that grant if any remain to be disbursed!

How is this not the systematic grooming of children? Insisting that children must accept the opposite sex in their changing rooms when undressing, their dormitories when sleeping. Telling random adults to keep secrets from parents about a child's confusion about their sex? Undermining every school's safeguarding policy.

This has to stop.

This tweet is bang on the money

Creating their own awards seems to be a big thing doesn't it?

This document is an absolute shitshow