Diversity Role Models and Stonewall: coming soon to a school near you

[BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth]

I'll be bumping this thread regularly throughout the new school year, as necessary.

Attention all parents with school age children:

As the new RSHE Statutory Guidance 2026 comes into force, here's an organization to watch out for in your child's school.

DIVERSITY ROLE MODELS

https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/
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Background

Stonewall announced a new partnership with Diversity Role Models on 2 June, 2026.
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/news/diversity-role-models-joins-the-stonewall-family-to-expand-support-for-schools-and-young-people-across-the-uk

"Simon Blake OBE, Chief Executive of Stonewall, served as Chair of Diversity Role Models over a decade ago, during the organisation’s early years, and has remained closely connected to its work ever since. [my bold]

A great summary from @MrsOvertonsWindow · 26/03/2024 14:50
Safe Schools Alliance & Transgender Trend have exposed how unsuitable these adult activists are to work with children in schools.

The SSA information highlights how DRM's online presence renders them unsuitable to be working with children & clarifies how this breaches DfE guidelines. They openly promote mixed sex changing, showers etc and got into hot water during lockdown for promoting the dodgy "‘love has no age’ and ‘love has no age limit’" paedophile associated slogans in an Asda funded home learning pack.

https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2020/06/18/love-has-no-age-a-letter-to-asda/

They make a good living out of children in schools but are unfortunately are a queer theory activist group so not politically impartial
^https://www.transgendertrend.com/diversity-role-models-conformity-new-ideology/^
Lots of information in the links to use in asking the school why they are outsourcing their inclusion work to an adult group like this.

MN threads from 2024 and 2020 (some of this is difficult reading!)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5036673-diversity-role-models-charity

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3943889-Asda-partners-with-Diversity-Role-Models-and-gets-angry-response-to-love-has-no-age-limit-message-Edited-by-MNHQ-at-OPS-REQUEST?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3940259-Why-are-ASDA-normalising-paedophilia-and-Child-Abuse?pg=1

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Diversity Role Models were shown to be very clearly " inappropriate" - putting it mildly, and those threads from 2020 and 2024 demonstrate just how bad they were.

Here's a link to Diversity Role Models' Safeguarding Policy, dated approved 31 October 2025, due to be reviewed in October 2026:
https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/media/2274/20251031-safeguarding-and-child-protection-policy.pdf
I have downloaded it in case it disappears.

They are also partnered with Sex Education Forum, and Anti-Bullying Alliance, as well as Stonewall, according to their website.

https://www.sexeducationforum.org.uk/about/partners

Anti-Bullying Alliance

Excellent news. There’s far too much homophobic bullying in schools, and with the far right and their allies (who claim to be left wing whilst fully supporting far right ideology) desperately trying to make it worse, LGBTQ kids need all the support they can get.

How is forcing girls to undress in front of boys supporting girls exactly? It is literally harassment and voyeurism.

Homophobic bullying is indeed unacceptable and I suspect there is more of it in schools than has been reported.

Diversity Role Models, however, has an extremely dodgy past and seems to have no understanding at all of child safeguarding. Not an organization that most parents would be happy to have coming into their children's schools.

I suggest you read the 2020 and 2024 threads posted here if you really want to understand the background.

It appears that Diversity Role Models has been taken over by Stonewall trustees, so we'll see how this pans out.