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Telegraph article on the Kiera Bell decision

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nevertrustaherdofcows · 04/12/2020 16:29

www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2020/12/04/light-keira-bell-case-schools-need-look-approach-transgender/

Pretty good, I thought

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rogdmum · 04/12/2020 17:06

Safe Schools Alliance have the text on their fb page.

It’s rather excellent.

I am just so furious right now. All of this was completely avoidable. All I can do is hope that this really is the start of the end of automatic affirmation in far too many schools. I’m absolutely incandescent at my daughter’s school. I have pointed them to so many robust sources and all they have done is ignore them, say it is “controversial” and stuck with the lobby groups who have no experience of child development etc.

Incandescent

nauticant · 04/12/2020 16:56

It's a series of questions to inform this readers, for example:

What did the ruling say?

The three high court judges found in favour of Bell. They said that children under-16 were unlikely to be able to understand the consequences of taking puberty blockers, which in the vast majority of cases lead to children taking cross-sex hormones, the effects of which are not reversible.

Much of it is focused on schools:

They will also need to review their use of external resources, many of which appear to tacitly or openly endorse the use of puberty blockers. Typical examples are the Trans Inclusion School Toolkit produced by the charity Allsorts Youth Project and the Cornwall Schools Transgender Guidance, both of which have been adopted, with minor variations, by some local authorities and schools. Widely-used guidelines from Stonewall and the PSHE Association (an organisation for teachers of personal, social, health and economic education) similarly discuss the use of puberty blockers. Trans charities Gires and Mermaids have provided training to teachers that talks about puberty blockers, with one Mermaids trainer describing them as “completely reversible” and providing “immense relief from the dysphoria”.

and it goes on to discuss the guidance issued by the Department for Education (DfE) about not using external providers who suggest that non-conformity to gender stereotypes is synonymous with having a different gender identity.

It's good. They've done their homework.

nickymanchester · 04/12/2020 16:55

It's behind a paywall

BitOfFun · 04/12/2020 16:39

Subscriber-only, gah! What's the gist?

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