Below is a link to the new CPS LGBT hate crime guidance for schools. Please read - particularly p25, 33 and the examples they give. This is really worrying as it will potentially criminalize girls and boys who want / try to uphold their single sex based legal rights to single sex dormitories, toilets, changing rooms. It argues that other forms of bullying, such as racism, anti Semitism, Islamophobia, because of a disability of a child is not as important or serious.
Safe Schools Alliance and Fair Cop are concerned about some of the content of this guidance:
It creates a hierarchy of rights.
It blurs the distinction between hate crime, which is defined in law, and ‘hate incidents’, which are not.
It seeks to create a fear among children of being criminalised for asserting sex-based rights or discussing biological reality.
It suggests that any child who states a preference for single-sex spaces is committing a hate incident, and possibly a hate crime.
It suggests that wearing slogans or sharing information with others that recognises biological facts may be treated as a hate crime or incident.
It promotes the ideology of political lobby groups Stonewall and Gendered Intelligence, which have no known qualifications to advise on child safeguarding.
We are asking parents, teachers, governors, and anyone else who is concerned about this guidance to write to the CPS/MP etc to complain"