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Residential trip gender identity requested

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Glamoureader · 25/03/2025 13:10

Thankfully my children go to sensible schools so I haven't needed to dig out any safeguarding guidelines but my child is due to go on a residential trip organised by our local council. They've just asked for everyone's gender identity, they have not asked which sex the children are.

Does anyone have relevant guidance to hand please so I can send it to them?

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Hermyknee · 25/03/2025 13:43

Barleysugar86 · 25/03/2025 13:31

They are a council, I'm sure they probably more aware of legal child safeguarding guidelines than you are. This is a very normal way of wording the question now on job applications etc., I don't think you can fight them on how they word their question. They will be very sensitive to any suggestion of perceived discrimination. I think you run the risk of creating a uncomfortable environment for your kid on this trip (or making them unwelcome on it at all) for an unlikely hypothetical scenario in your head. I don't know what reaction you think you will get from the council but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be whatever you are after.

Ignore this poster OP.

‘This residential trip needs to have single sex dormitories for safeguarding. So you need to be asking for the sex of each child. Unfortunately you have asked for gender, which, in the past, was a polite way of saying sex but gender now has different connotations of social presentation. Therefore you may get a variety of answers making it impossible to designate rooms’.

Barleysugar86 · 25/03/2025 13:31

They are a council, I'm sure they probably more aware of legal child safeguarding guidelines than you are. This is a very normal way of wording the question now on job applications etc., I don't think you can fight them on how they word their question. They will be very sensitive to any suggestion of perceived discrimination. I think you run the risk of creating a uncomfortable environment for your kid on this trip (or making them unwelcome on it at all) for an unlikely hypothetical scenario in your head. I don't know what reaction you think you will get from the council but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be whatever you are after.

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