EHRC consultation - schools technical guidance

Tbh, I think that ship has sailed. Too many adults have failed to step in and stop queer theory activists from using children in all this for it to be changed now.

And look at the nonsense about pronouns

It's so naive to suggest that a school can have a policy about how to address each individual "trans pupil" that both "respects the rights of the trans pupil and others including staff members and those whose beliefs either align or conflict with using preferred pronouns!" Next it suggests that people could "avoid using a direct pronoun". Sigh...

Leadership teams will simply need to issue a management instruction with staff expected to comply. Children in school should not be used by adults expressing their personal disagreements about pronouns etc. In my experience only a minority of adults fail to respect that so it's likely a minor issue

This new bit is more clear than KSCIE about pronouns.

Schools should adopt a policy whereby teachers and children who don't want to use preferred pronouns for trans pupils should be directed to avoid pronouns.

I think they've been in tension from the outset. Initially nobody even considered that anyone would be so dangerous to suggest that sex change for children was a thing to be promoted.
Once all the dubious male led trans organisations started on their campaigns of bullying and intimidation, all those who should have stood up for safeguarding children were either intimidated, too frightened of being called bigots or perhaps blissfully unaware that pubertal children were being gaslit that their uncomfortable pubertal bodies could be wrong but a sex change would fix them.

The EHRC proposals pay no attention to children's interests . They are a purely legal approach that are child and school unfriendly. I can understand why, as the pc of gender reassignment sees the demands of a middle aged man as being identical to a 6 year old boy or an 11 year old girl.
No politicians or safeguarding organisations have had the courage to highlight this anomaly. So children remain as major victims of all this with their rights being ignored and the EHRC will get this bureaucratic nonsense through as they fail to recognise that pc of age for children should give them rights to be safeguarded because of their youth.

Sorry - not meaning to derail the importance of responding to this - just so frustrated at the law and the EHRC essentially viewing all children as mini adults.

The whole 'dress in the uniform of the opposite sex' thing as a reasonable adjustment.... ffs.

There is in almost every school the option of girls wearing trousers, one gender neutral option, and girls identifying as boys will already be wearing it. There is no need of any kind to make a thing of a boy wearing a skirt. Plus that goes against the KCSIE guidance that schools should not be enabling social transition.

It's very frustrating that all this is written by adults with zero insight into schools and / or children - just a narrow legal viewpoint about an adult desire. .
It's theoretically fine to suggest 3rd spaces but there are major safeguarding issues when you have a single child undressing in alternate spaces in a big school building at different times of the day. If it's a staff facility then adults may also need to use the space during the day - how will that work? Where will belongings be stored / kept safe? is it lockable? How will they be supervised etc etc?
It's actually a predator's dream but of course safeguarding children isn't on the EHRC's agenda.
Add to that the fact that the EHRC guidelines apply to children of all ages. 4 yrs, 8, 10, 12 etc because the law about gender reassignment applies to children of all ages - despite the nonsense of that. The notion that sex change is an adult concern that little children should be safeguarded from again, never crosses their (or anyone else's) minds who write this stuff.
It's frustrating to see no joined up thinking about children with this & that their safety and wellbeing is never addressed..

These are reasonable examples. They can’t use spaces for the opposite sex, but forcing them into a situation that will be distressing also isn’t appropriate