Not again! - Government is proposing to allow trans-identifying boys into under 18s girls’ school sport - unless it is deemed unsafe

That’s an argument for boys and girls to learn about condoms and self defence separately. Not an argument that girls don’t need to know about condoms nor that boys don’t need to learn self defence.

Again: Why do girls not need to know about condoms and boys about self defence?

Because it’s an opportunity for girls and boys to ask questions they may be uncomfortable asking in front of members of the opposite sex, to raise concerns they may have.

Completed this- thanks for sharing.

It would be very odd for a government to change the equalities legislation without the direct involvement of its own regulator, the EHRC. Is there evidence of this in anything said by Stephenson?

Please can you post a link as I obviously missed this?

@MyAmpleSheep Agreed - I don't think there is a reason why Yoga should not be mixed sex.

This might mean just one solitary boy chooses this option, or one solitary girl chooses skateboarding - which could cause staffing issues on supervising changing rooms - which means they say no to it.

The guidance says that schools can choose single sex PE for safety or for fairness. This is single sex - so social transitioning is irrelevant - these students go to their sex PE provision and use their facilities.

This means that if neither fairness nor safety is an issue then mixed sex sports provision is okay - which is how adult sports participation works (not competition)

If there is some mixed sex provision in some PE then the whole socially transitioning thing should be irrelevant and might be a good way for schools to deal with the issue. That said there may simply not be enough PE teachers to allow this - or space/sports facilities.

In terms of school competitive teams this be related to fairness - so sex segregated.

If a boy is able to do a single sex sport with the girls due to social transition (which I thought Cass said was harmful btw), then what stops him from going in their changing rooms and toilets?

I knew Labour would be bad, but I didn't think I would hate them this much. Absolute shower of shine.

If it’s ok for even one boy to do yoga with girls then it must be open to all boys. If it’s not ok for all boys then it’s not ok for one “special” boy.

The guidance should require schools to re-evaluate whether the activities they offer genuinely need to be sex segregated, and then if they do need to be, that’s a hard line they are required to stick to in law.

It's always a young child used as an example as they don't want you to think about the post pubescent boys.

No, it’s about sport. Which in schools takes place within the structure of PE, but it refers specifically to sport.

My daughter was injured in 2021 by a boy identifying as a girl who was playing netball with the girls and using their changing room. The school would not have anything said against it, as the boy “was at risk playing football with the boys”. It went as far as ofsted in the end but the boy was still allowed.

I don't think there is any problem with saying a boy can do yoga with the girls but must use the boy's changing rooms.

I can see that there could be a supervision issue for the PE teacher though.

This itself could be the reason a school would say no

The men doing yoga don't come into the women's changing at my gym.

But single sex sports at a competitive level is entirely different from school PE which might be single sex, or mixed sex, or predominantly one with a few boys/girls requesting to join the others - and that being assessed carefully depending on safety/fairness and other aspects to the wider group. (and not necessarily having anything to do with gender ideology at all)

This is about school PE, not competitive sports guidance.

Bloody awful civil servants imposing their misogynistic religious beliefs on us. I despise them.

Yes they are reviewing the Equality Act provisions.

Quite. If single sex sports exists for a reason then who is anyone not of that sex to say the reason is null and void if they say so.

I think a lot of people think of 'trans kids' as being 7, or someone who the class has known. only as presenting as the opposite sex for the whole of their school life.

What about the 15 year old boys who discovers his inner trans? Why would girls be happy to be in a yoga class with him?

They are a party of total misogynists.

they will destroy women’s rights and gay rights on one hand to appease the trans activists and from the other end to appease the Islamists.

I hate them

The govt are planning to change the law. In order to avoid having to enforce sex based protections for women and girls.

Do you have a link or is this just your personal speculation?

No it forces a girl to play tennis with a boy if he wants to.