Teacher made to apologise - “good afternoon girls”

The only political difference is that the Tories seem slightly better at reverse ferreting while the Lib Dems, Labour and Greens keep digging down deeper.

Absolutely this!

Yes. All this in schools has happened on the tory's watch - I've been raising concerns with the government since 2017 but successive secretaries of state completely captured (or held hostage by civil servants) and have stood by watching. All our political parties have enabled this ideology to rampage unchecked amongst children - shame on the bloody lot of them.

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It’s been allowed to flourish and we can see how invasive it is unchecked

One side says no one is talking about it. They don’t want people to even do that

It’s worrying. Talking about it and pressurising change is all we’ve got atm

It was being pushed hard by all sides until fairly recently. It’s a mistake - and dangerous - to insist it’s a movement of the left. It enables both sides to politicise it further.

I completely agree with MarshaBradyo that this is being pushed hard by the Left. Really hard.

I don’t think so. I look at Welsh Labour, SNP, Greens and o/s at NZ, Tas, Canada

It is predominantly aligned to the left

I’m not happy with recent response and guidelines from gov which could be stronger but Labour ‘no one is talking about it’, rights hoarding dinosaurs, we don’t know GSCE biology is more concerning.

It’s not a left thing. People from all sides of politics push it.

There are female Conservatives such as Caroline Noakes and Penny Mordaunt who are vociferous trans allies. Similarly there are Labour people like Rosie Duffield who disagree with it.

Presenting it as a left/right divide is simplistic and dangerous because it muddies the waters and confuses the issues. For example, gender critical people are accused of supporting the alt-right, which is not true.

Well yes. I take it you agree with me. No loving parent who has given birth to a gorgeous baby boy or girl is going to be 'delighted' to hear that their DC wants to try to change their 'sex'/gender so this likely normal logical shock/displeasure should not be a reason for keeping parents in the dark.

re DfE, don’t underestimate the impact of churn in political leadership. This article gives a flavour https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/dfe-reshuffles-meet-ministers-education-school-leaders

Since 2016, DfE has had 9 Secretaries of State - average tenure well under a year.

I would always encourage people to write to ministers and/or to their MP (depending on the MP) with calmly worded, evidenced concerns.

every day a mental health activity is completed

As someone who has suffered MH issues in the past, I can confidently say that that would drive me mad.

@MrsMurphyIWish im not a teacher & you’ve had brilliant advice from posters who are & who understand your position so I just wanted to send you an unmumsnetty hug 💐 it must be so stressful to have to work in this environment

What is dsl?

It’s invasive and atm we’re feeling powerless to change it. It’s madness

Labour will be worse, I fear that even more

These lobby groups are harming dc and I’m not sure what can be done

If instead of being a lobby group we considered them more like a political party; how would we feel about government civil service departments getting training by the conservative party, trying to get conservative Party supporting workplace of the year awards, and applying for conservative Party award points - all following a landslide election by the Labour Party. And for those departments to ignore any Labour Party ministers statements and implement Conservative policies, ask the Conservative Party for input on any matters, get all civil servant to wear lanyards with the conservative logo and build staff networks for Conservative Party members….

That is what is happening at the moment with LBGTQ groups.

if a kid says home isn’t safe for any reason it surely necessitates an onward safeguarding referral?

On trans stuff be so careful with unions. You are safer with dsl and their knowledge tbh. We just need to quietly push in the interests of the child with the tide, be part of the tide but in a caring way that is always clearly within the standards. Very very hard though!

'Parents absolutely need to know, unless there’s a child protection issue.'
This 'get out' needs to be removed surely?
Schools could be choosing to define a 'child protection issue' as the pupil says their parents 'will react badly'.
If it is to stay, then it needs to be defined/nailed down as a pre-existing legitimate cause for concern e.g. as 'prior social services involvement for violence against the child by parent'.

The Trade Unions should be protecting their members' employment rights and terms and conditions. That they have abdicated their responsibility on this because they have normalised an anti-science ideology is sinister indeed.
Unions are supposed to represent all their members who have paid their subs, even the ones who have 'transgressed'.

Teacher needs to change their chosen name each day and give pupils detention for using the incorrect name.

This is to me one of the most shocking aspects of all this. DoE is a civil service department and as such are required to be politically neutral and put in place the policies of the elected government. Same with other civil service run organisations like the NHS. Not doing means there has been a coup where our elected government is ignored and unelected activists are in charge instead.

Take advice from your union but also be wary of how captured they are.