So this guy has written a book called ‘No Outsiders in our School: Teaching the Equality Act in Primary Schools’ and the proceeds to get one of the characteristics wrong and claims the poster isn’t about the Equality Act?

"gender is the difference between boys and girls, it makes it easier to then explain gender reassignment later on"

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Where did this come from?

This makes it easy to mislead children that changing gender is the same as changing sex, and they can actually become a boy/girl although they are in fact a girl/boy.

This is very, very troubliung to me. It's so very cruel to children.

Intersex people are still either one sex or another. There is no third, or fourth or fifth sex.

That would be because there is no such thing as a ‘transgender child’.

If you are mentioning Transgender Trend, you may want to say that the founder has received a BEM for ‘services to children’.

One tip I was given when writing something not dissimilar was to number the issues/paragraphs and to ask for each to be addressed - that way you can easily track what they have/haven’t responded to which is often telling in itself.

But the poster doesn't mention the equality act. I understand what you are saying, but is your concern about the poster or what the children are being taught? Because if it's the latter, the poster doesn't reflect what the children are being taught about the equality act - wouldn't it make more sense to ask how the children are taught about the equality act, rather than going off on a tangent about the semantics of an inclusivity poster?

Great cake @Boiledbeetle thank you. Is that coffee I see over there?

Excellent letter. And I agree, this lot have foisted all legal responsibility onto the poor schmuck of a DepH and they haven't spotted it yet. Very disingenuous response from them, but also, I suspect, one they have practiced.

Just offering tea and cake to the travellers. And placemarking

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I’m quite concerned about this phrase in the organisation’s response:

If we’re talking specifically about the Equality Act with older children and they use the term sex, I will correct them

Are they really “correcting” children wrongly to say that gender not sex is in the EA? Or do we think this was a typo and they meant to say “if they use the term gender” (fits better with the sense of the sentence perhaps)?

Sorry - slight derail - but I thought it worth pointing out.

I didn't know that intersex was a derogatory term - thank you for bringing this to my attention, I will look into it some more.

The poster makes no reference to transgender children and doesn't necessarily reflect what children are being taught. So I still think it's a bit of a stretch. But clearly both sex and gender are important in terms of inclusivity - so should the poster not be updated to include both terms?

They have an issue with using sex because younger children might find it funny or tell
parents they learned about sex today but they include sexual orientation in the poster. I’d argue sexual orientation can be a more tricky, and more likely to illicit giggles in young children than the concept of biological sex.

Its clear they are setting kids up to conflate sex and gender to make the concept of gender reassignment easier to introduce at a later stage - they’ve said as much in their email. It’s grooming in plain sight.

And I object to the NO person saying sex might make them giggle as a reason to leave it off. Are they going to avoid saying same sex couples or sexuality? Wouldnt males and females be a better alternative anyway than gender for the poster if that is their problem?

Intersex people have repeatedly asked not to be co opted by trans activists like the No Outsiders group. It's ignored of course, just as the rights of every other group are ignored and their situation is appropriated to try to justify women being forced to undress in front men, men being allowed to take over women's sport and the need to remove all hard fought for rights for women etc.

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As their email state, this is not a poster about the equality act. It is a poster about inclusion - "everyone is welcome here".

They are presenting it as though it were officially sanctioned, but missing sex, which is a provision under the Equalities Act. They know perfectly well that it's not. Sex and gender are not synonymous, nor interchangeable. They've demonstrated that they know this.

If they change gender to sex, where do intersex people fit?

Please do not use the derogatory and false term "intersex," when you mean People With DSD. People with DSD are still either male, or female, though there external appearance may not reflect that. They comprise 0.018 % of the population and they'd doubtless know that they are, too, welcome.

DSD people and trans people have no relationship, despite now mostly abandoned attempts by the trans zealots to co-opt them. DSD groups have told them repeatedly NOT to co-opt them into the trans activism sphere. It's highly offensive to them.

Two thoughts. I think the No Outsiders person may mean the posters rather than the children when he says 'i will correct them'. Secondly, that it is a political statement to say 'you have a gender' since the term has been corrupted to not be synonymous with sex but to mean 50+ different things, none of which you are obligated to 'have' or define yourself with if you aren't woo inclined.

From the communication from the external provide...

Should be provider, there's another example, too.