Mixed sex changing rooms in a Brighton secondary school - part 3 - we're really cooking now

I spoke to DD earlier and read her the PP who said a 15 year old couldn't understand the discussions here. DD said "well it sounds like at the very least there are at least 2 of us who do!" (meaning her and OP's DD).

We both wanted to say that we think you are amazing and thank you so much for persisting with this fight and what you are doing to defend the rights of girls across the country. We will send a card to you via the solicitor. Sending courage and many hugs to @SingleSexSpacesInSchools and your DD xxxx

It would be unkind to ask how the attempt at silencing you and avoiding publicity is going .

I am pleased to read that you have shared the messages with your DD, OP.

Pity that Suella Braverman has chosen to make a political issue of it, given that for many years she supported a Prime Minister who did nothing to help the safety of girls and young women in schools and elsewhere. It should not have needed the Supreme Court to stand up for women and girls, it should have happened at least five if not more years ago.

Might be a flying leap but sounds like the ex came on here !!!!!!!

And I'm so fucking angry that I feel I need to send a young girl a positive message so that she is supported in not feeling she has to accept a male in her space at fucking SCHOOL!! Wtaf!

(SSSIS your DD is a legend)

@SingleSexSpacesInSchools Great that you have got some traction. I am troubled about what you told us about her mum. She is likely to find out at some point.

I am shocked if she does not support her daughters discomfort.

Dear SSSIS DD

You are incredibly brave. I, as a fully grown woman, appreciate how brave you are. It has been so hard to speak out and be heard on this, and here you are doing just that.

Thank you. Take care of yourself. And know that there are so so many of us behind you,. It's the girls that get overlooked, but also their voices can be the most powerful. You are the powerful.

Best wishes to you and your family xxx

I've said it before, SSSIS, you and your daughter are amazing. Thank you to the both of you for your sheer tenacity and courage. I'm so sorry your daughter's having to go through this, but she should know what a difference she's making to women and girls everywhere.

Good on you both! Wishing you well

Thanks for the link, it all looks very encouraging, a summery of the situation -

At the centre of the case lies a genuine legal collision, not between law and prejudice, but between two protected frameworks: the rights of female pupils to privacy, dignity, and sex-based protections, and the rights of gender-questioning pupils to non-discrimination and inclusion.
What distinguishes this case is the setting. Unlike workplaces or voluntary environments, school attendance is compulsory, pupils are minors, and changing rooms involve inherent physical vulnerability. The courts are therefore being asked not whether inclusion is desirable, but how far it may lawfully extend when it conflicts with safeguarding obligations grounded in statute.

I'm not sure I'd characterise it as 'gender-questioning' as more gender changing, if they were just questioning it the school wouldn't be insisting that males could go into female changing rooms. But I expect I'm being picky.

Absolutely, I was just remarking on the weird double standards.

Indeed @LlynTegid and @YourAmplePlumPoster
the residents of Moulscombe and Bevendean also have very little truck for this nonsense

As the school cannot be identified, I don't think that is the only area of Brighton where there would not be time for this. Indeed, I expect that the 'woo' parts of Brighton and Hove are less than many would expect if they never visited the area.

OP, I know Whitehawk estate very well having taught at a school there once. I'm sure the mainly working class people who live there wouldn't have any time for this ideology.

A 15 yr old schoolgirl doesn't need to " understand the complexity of an argument" to feel deeply uncomfortable and compromised, and at the same time scared to report this distress to the responsible adults around her.