Single sex schools will be able to refuse trans pupils - Daily Telegraph

The headline is a bit of a transgression from the facts. Had the guidance intended to leave out all transgender pupils this is clear discrimination. What it's in fact saying is that the school will remain segregated by sex, meaning those who transition F2M will still be eligible to attend. Whether a single sex school is a place they feel comfortable in is for them to determine.

Single sex education has its benefits and I would not like to see this become a thing of the past. When it comes to kids struggling with their 'gender', this is simply another factor which will need taking account of when selecting which schools to attend; same as parents do with all other criteria.

Treating sex and gender as the separate entitles they are could avoid an awful lot of angst for a lot of people. To do otherwise is the antithesis of #BeKind. It's trans people, along with women and vulnerable minors, who are really copping the flack of an aggressive movement that's co-opted their interests when these are the least of their concerns.

It's the activists the kids need protection from.

It sounds as though the law is not clear, so the guidance will seem weightless.

this post made me laugh so much. Not mixed “co-ed” schools! Not for the precious trans kids! Oh, the humanity!

Jesus wept, indeed.

Can't they just go to a co-ed like the vast majority of kids? Or does that not suit their gender affirming needs? At a co-ed they are not pushing themselves into where they are not wanted. Parents send their children to all boys school because they don't want their sons to be distracted by girls, and vice versa. Single sex schools don't have two sets of changing rooms or other facilities and why should they? If the child decides to detransition they don't have to move schools.

Wasn't they something recently where on a school trip all the ftm trans boys were put in the same dorm and one kicked off because they were in a room of girls?

Where would you send the trans kids? To their own special camp for their safety? A trans kid at an all boy or girl school of the wrong gender will just get bullied. I guess they will be forced to mixed co-ed schools, and take their chances in the toilets. Sad days indeed. Such a hateful society. Jesus wept.

I would very much hope that we are striving for a society where people accept difference and that schools have robust anti-bullying policies to combat that sort of behaviour. I think that is the key to a lot of this stuff. Acceptance and inclusion in a very real sense - done honestly.

Or... send gender non-confirming children to mixed schools?

This is brilliant news if it's set as a rule and not down to the whim of a potentially captured HT/senior management.

Most schools are mixed

So Single Sex schools means single sex schools?

Another headline that would have baffled readers only a few years back

Yes, it needs to be a rule, not a guideline

This doesn't really reassure me. It will be up to the individual head...all good assuming the head isn't a TWAW type

Where would you send the trans kids? To their own special camp for their safety? A trans kid at an all boy or girl school of the wrong gender will just get bullied. I guess they will be forced to mixed co-ed schools, and take their chances in the toilets. Sad days indeed. Such a hateful society. Jesus wept.

What a tolerant and loving society we now live in.

I hope this is true, finally some common sense.

Interesting stuff I wonder if trans people will start campaigning for their own schools?