To wonder if a child at a single sex school comes out as transgender

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Will they be expected to leave the school or will they be allowed to stay?

Why are you wondering about this?

I wonder about loads of things which won't or will never affect me.

People wonder about many things

Perfectly valid wonderance. I do not have the answer for you.

I think this was covered recently in the press, regarding St Paul's.

DD is at an all girl's school. They have more than one transgender that are now boys. Both still there but I'm wondering what will happen at 6th form.

I dont see how they could or would want to stay in a single sex school which was the wrong one for their professed gender even though whatever they do or say, they can't change their actual sex.

I wonder about loads of things but wouldn't necessarily start an AIBU thread on MN about them.

One of my GC goes to a single sex school, AFAIK there is one transgender child at the school. Doesn't seem to cause any problems, children seem very accepting of it.

I dont see how they could or would want to stay in a single sex school which was the wrong one for their professed gender Because their peer group, friendship base and stability is at that school?

I sometimes wonder why I wonder...

My sister was at an all girls school with a transgender pupil who stayed.

Well when they leave school and go to work the won't pick a same sex office will they? So why should it matter at school?
They will probably need their own loo and changing room though

I get why they might want to stay because of friends etc but it makes a bit of a mockery of single sex schooling doesn't it? Wouldn't any boy then be within their rights to want to go to a girls' school and girls to a boys' school?

Yes of course they should leave. Can't have it all ways!

Well they should leave. If we are to believe becoming the other gender is so simple once they say they are the other gender they should have to leave the original school as they are no longer what gender that school is set up for.

But that would cause outrage in the trans community no doubt. So you will now have boys in all girls school and girls in all boys schools.

Girl at a local Catholic school was a boy by the time they finished A levels
Nuns were probably a bit shocked but the kids did not give a stuff.

Not really a fan of single sex schools so perhaps that coloured my judgement

I know a boy at a boys' grammar who is trans. He is still at the boys' school. No idea what he does re loos and changing.

Useful indication that a) sex and b) single sex education aren't that much of a big deal.

I know of a boy who went through an all boys boarding, very rugby playing school as transgender (not sure if it that was what anyone was calling it back then but he dressed as a girl and grew long hair). He was really accepted and supported by all, and is now living fully as a woman, as far as I know. At school, I believe the general consensus was, be who you want to be.

Young person I know was at a girls' grammar, he informed me that he was transgender about 6 months before he left at the end of yr11. He changed separately and used accessible toilets.
Other students were fine, school didn't want him to leave. Uniform code allowed trousers. He left to go to college so he could start again as a young man in a place where he had no history.

PlymouthMaid1 my daughter teaches at a girls school and a boy applied this year. As far as I know he didn't get a place but his parents felt the school suited for some reason. When she was 11 my daughter wanted to go to a local boys school, she ended up at a mixed sex school but always got on better with the boys.

I assume they can stay. I have a colleague whose CV looks a bit weird as he has XXX school for girls on there....

Girls grammar school local to us has had a couple of transgender pupils, one came back into sixth form as a boy, then more recently there was another lower down the school. One of my DCs has a transgender friend (was 16 when he went public and started living as a boy) and is a happier, more confident individual now, still a bit of a rebel but much less than before. His peers are almost without exception cool with it and it has not been made a thing of at school at all.

The reported instances that I have seen in the media have allowed the student to remain at the school.

I can't tell whether that's because the head doesn't really believe that they have changed their gender / sex, so it's immaterial, or whether they are terrified of being labelled a transphobe