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School Transgender Policy

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WhoWants2Know · 15/04/2021 09:52

I got an email this morning with my eldest's school's new transgender policy. Complete with "assigned at birth", students choosing their changing rooms, and all of it will be taught in PSHE. The school wants to achieve a "Rainbow Flag Award".

It's not that I would want trans kids to be bullied. I feel that they are presenting an idea as a fact, and removing the choice from children who don't want to change with a opposite-bodied child.

It was presented as a done deal. Is this just every school now? Is there any point in responding?

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OldCrone · 15/04/2021 10:13

Links to Transgender Trend resources page with their guidance for schools:
www.transgendertrend.com/schools-resources/

Template letter about trans toolkits from Safe Schools Alliance:
safeschoolsallianceuk.net/resources-2/letter-templates/#Trans_toolkits_letter

UppityPuppity · 15/04/2021 10:08

trans boys can change in the boys changing room because they are boys

How many safeguarding and education fails is the school clocking up?

HermioneWeasley · 15/04/2021 10:06

Definitely worth challenging, and mobilising other parents to do so as well. Also complain to governors if no joy with school

Schools have to provide single sex toilets (and changing facilities?) and given the current discussion about sexual assaults in schools, this is vital for girls. Also girls from certain religious backgrounds cannot share with boys.

DOE guidance says not allowed to talk about “wrong body” and the high court recently determined that children can’t consent to puberty blockers and saw evidence that vast majority of kids desist, so I’d definitely want to review the content they’re using in PHSE classes to make sure they’re compliant and accurate/factual

ValancyRedfern · 15/04/2021 10:05

No. Definitely not every school. Look at the safe schools alliance and transgender trend schools guidance. Lots of trans policies have had to be withdrawn because they contravene existing laws/guidelines.

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WhoWants2Know · 15/04/2021 10:05

The policy did explicitly say "trans boys can change in the boys changing room because they are boys" and vice versa.

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WhoWants2Know · 15/04/2021 10:03

Thanks, that's really useful. I'll read from those sources and then respond

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MrsWooster · 15/04/2021 10:00

Every point responding. Get the relevant info from Transgender Trend and Safe School Alliea ce. The school are abdicating their responsibility to all groups: they’re removing single sex legal rights and they aren’t bothering to provide third, private spaces for children who don’t feel comfortable changing in the area that matches their sex.
They are also taking a line which tacitly claims “TWAW /TMAM” without acknowledging that this is an ideological position.
If they want “Rainbow flag” awards, they need to do so by adding facilities for marginalised groups, not by removing facilities from legally protected groups (or indeed from any group; no group of teen boys wants a peer they have known as a girl all their life watching them change).
Fight this. Get help, but fight.

PronounssheRa · 15/04/2021 09:57

I saw this on Twitter this AM, it was for @Primani whose thread I think was deleted, but it might be useful here as well. The policy is probably against government guidelines so worth checking

mobile.twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1382580183048323072

School Transgender Policy
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