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Boys school and Transgirls

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OurMamInHavianas · 11/08/2021 01:35

I’m wondering if a transgirl can apply to a all-boys school?
Don’t girls typically perform better in exams in primary/early secondary, so any entrance exam or 11 plus/12 plus/13 plus exams would favour a female-born person.
So, we could end up with some boys’ school being populated with a large percentage of female-born people?

Just asking out of interest - this doesn’t affect me or my family personally.

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Cailleach1 · 11/08/2021 07:52

Is it not more that when it comes down to it, that those 'afab' will find they cannot identify themselves into boys selective schools. For some strange reason, identity doesn't seem to gain privileged access to those 'afab' people the way it does those 'amab'.

arethereanyleftatall · 11/08/2021 07:52

This is an awesome idea, and I hope they do. For every male in a female sporting event, females should nick a place in a boys school.

RoyalCorgi · 11/08/2021 07:50

We have had threads on this before. I strongly suspect that most boys' schools would not allow trans boys (girls identifying as boys). Imagine the implications for Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Rugby and so on if parents cottoned on to the idea that all they had to do to get their daughters a superior education was to say they identified as boys.

However, I don't know if anyone has yet tried - and the real test would be in the law courts.

HirplesWithHaggis · 11/08/2021 02:44

I read it more as a genuine error, with a touch of "wouldn't it be amusing if female-born people took over the exclusive boys clubs of private schooling". Which is a feeling I can smirk at, tbh.

theThreeofWeevils · 11/08/2021 02:38

We’re not allowed to use the clearerterms used elsewhere on this forum
No, you just got it 180° wrong.
Your concern is pesky biological females colonising boys' selective schools, or have I also misunderstood?

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OurMamInHavianas · 11/08/2021 01:53

Sorry, I meant transboys. Female-born people.

We’re not allowed to use the clearerterms used elsewhere on this forum.

Apologies for any confusion.

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HirplesWithHaggis · 11/08/2021 01:47

Trans girls are "assigned male at birth".

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OurMamInHavianas · 11/08/2021 01:35

*an, not a

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