So - I posted in another thread about my friend's daughter who got a place at a girls' secondary school but aged 11 decided she was a boy.
She did a year of home ed as it was too late to find a place at another school (and she has ASD and anxiety and and) and then aged 12 decided she was a girl again and now goes to (I think) a coed school.
Now I think her decision not to go to the girls' school was motivated by not feeling like she'd fit in rather than the school telling her she couldn't go BUT
Given that sex is (still) a legally protected category
And that children cannot (yet) decide to change even their gender, legally
She was still a girl, legally and biologically
So as the girls' school accepts legal girls and biological girls (the same thing for under 16s) they would still have had to accept her, wouldn't they?
BUT given that she herself decided she didn't want to go to a girls' school, as a boy
IS IT THEREFORE TRUE (yes I have a point here) that girls who don't want to leave their girls' schools would be LESS likely to decide they are TIF?
This friend is not local but our local girls' selective school has a reputation for being very geeky and for slightly child-like and not-very-social girls thriving there. Meaning that it might be very comfortable for a girl with ASD who feels she doesn't fit in (and also for a girl who is coming round to the idea that she finds girls attractive).
Note we also have a local boys' selective school and I know they have Stonewall material in the school (have been there for events) but also I have no idea if they would continue to allow a TIM to attend - if the school has swallowed the Stonewall Kool-aid and thinks that such a boy is now a girl.