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Suella Braverman expected to make a speech on Wednesday

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achillestoes · 08/08/2022 12:21

In which she will say (in advance of DfE guidance to be issued in September - apparently) that schools are not legally obligated to facilitate childhood transition through the use of opposite sex or neo-pronouns (non-binary etc), allowing children to use the toilets of the opposite sex (arrangements should be made for children to use a third space if needed), or the uniform of the opposite sex.

For some reason this has provoked an outpouring of accusations of Suella being ‘as thick as mince’. One charming person wished her dead. Someone else said we ‘don’t get to’ disagree with Suella on other things and then agree with her on this. Erm...

Anyway, this seems like a return to much-needed ordinary safeguarding practices to me.

I don’t care if boys wear skirts particularly. I do care about my daughters being bullied to pretend they are female.

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happydappy2 · 08/08/2022 12:49

So much damage already done in schools. Plus its all available on the internet so impossible to protect vulnerable children from it.

MalagaNights · 08/08/2022 12:45

Interesting.
Where is this being reported or discussed @achillestoes ?

Not legally obligated to - sounds a bit wishy-washy though. Suggests it's up to the school to decide whether to support social transition.

We need clear guidance that schools are not to support social transition without the guidance of a clinician.

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achillestoes · 08/08/2022 12:37

It’s a start.

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Helleofabore · 08/08/2022 12:32

I look forward to seeing what she says. I am inclined to not get too excited.

There is still so much shite resources being used by schools even after the change in guidance back in 2020. For instance, just because schools might not be 'legally obligated, just how many of them who put in gender neutral toilets are going to be able to afford to change them back any time soon.

However, I will be interested in the wording around socially transitioning children and just what the government is going to say there.