“A school faces a threat of legal action over policies that protect all children – so we’re fighting back.”

….. also known as Tranada

I know, I know 🙄
But it's just SO tedious, isn't it..

Don’t they just.

Have a nice day.

Just ignore derailers and don’t engage, is my advice.

Speak for yourself. But I've now caught up with the OP's wish for the fascinating diversion into you and your beliefs to cease on this thread, so if you want to discuss further with me, you will need to start your own.

I agree. But as humans, we have evolved so that our social interactions and community hierarchy are no longer influenced by the likelihood of gamete intermingling. The existence or lack of existence of viable gametes in one's body has no affect on interpersonal or public relationships. Gender theory provides a window into the interpersonal and social.

I understand.

My father kicked me out of our home when he learned I had committed to having surgery. He wasn't having any of it when he learned I'd effectively started socially transitioning with friends and even less when he learned I'd been on estrogen. He snapped at that point and that was that. Until then he would smirk when I'd arrive home. I was well used to being told I'd ruined my life and that as ex-first born son everything in his will would be going to my brother.

My mother accompanied me to my surgery. She helped with the first two weeks of aftercare. Apparently my dad was concerned enough to ask my mother how it went and how I was recovering. A year later, I was invited back for Christmas. I went with my BF as backup. My mother attributes it to 'normalcy' but I don't know exactly what switch flipped in his head but he suddenly became extraordinarily supportive. He was and remains extremely supportive and verbally proud of me and my life now in his mid 90s. I love him and I am thankful that I was able to share my life and my family with him.

The basis of sex is reproductive role. That is the only reason we have two sexes. Sex, binary sex, existed in organisms long before any of them developed consciousness. We cannot switch from one reproductive role to the other. Some organisms have that ability, but no mammal does.

It is hard to keep your principles when someone you love makes their relationship with you dependent on ditching your principles. My wife and I each came to the conclusion that we were not prepared to be coerced into pretending that our son is our daughter. We told him so, and our relationships with him are very strained. This is horrible for us and for him, but I do not believe that a relationship based on coerced pretence is worth anything at all. I hope that at some point he will recognise that, and remember when our relationship used to be based on mutual respect despite some quite foundational differences of worldview. We continue to love him despite the pain. I believe he continues to love us despite the pain, and that his logical thinking will eventually overcome the indoctrination of gender identity ideology.

The Governors bios are collectively a DEI dream. It is Brighton, after all.

Declared conflict of interest?

Can you tell us anything about the progress of your case, OP? No pressure, I can think of lots of reasons why it might not be possible or sensible...

Aaah, now so many aspects of this story start to make sense. Thank you.

I would presume 'biological sex based data' collected from non-trans participants? I would say is surprising that science-focused gender critical beliefs disallow for and/or flat out ignore basic hormonal influence and a biological lack of male adult development. But, allowing such an acknowledgement would make grouping trans women into 'biological men' very difficult.

The best PE lessons I had were when they sorted us by ability (still single-sex) and I didn't have to worry about being with people much better than me. This was done routinely in every other subject but the PE teachers mostly insisted on all abilities playing together for some reason.

If you’ve always been a girl and then a woman, what exactly were you transitioning from or to?

Apologies cut and pasted bbc hyperlink accidentally and can’t edit it out. That story is horrific and shows why safeguarding should be paramount.

I bet the schools lawyers have learned a lot from these threads. I have given my time and expertise to them by writing the facts on this thread in the hope they can get up to speed which is of course is really safeguarding and commonsense.

Look at the headlines today:
• Serial killer given 40-year sentence for murdering Victoria Hall, 17, as judge says 'you'll die in prison'
• Wife of summer camp abuser calls him 'sadistic, monstrous paedophile' at sentencing hearing. The former vet and teacher has pleaded guilty to 18 charges including sexual assault and child cruelty
• Starmer apology a 'huge step', says Epstein survivor.
• 'PM's error of judgement was an error a lot of people made' - Starmer's biographer
• We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands.

Then reflect why on earth could parents possibly want safeguarding for their children, particularly when it is about girls changing in front of boys??

Zealot is the word that springs to my mind

Oh yay.
Privilege X fundamentalism = danger to everyone

Explains a bit. I've a Canadian friend. I didn't realise until recently how misogynist their culture is. Like, work dos at strip bars is normal. Very much what men say goes.