Now to respond to this
YABVU. I am also a secondary school science teacher. I think it's totally immoral to push your political or religious opinions onto impressionable pupils who look up to you. Scans have shown differences in the brains of transpeople, it's a scientific fact. I am stunned that you equated teaching this to the nazis. Your intolerance disgusts me, if you were my colleague, I'd make a complaint about you to SLT.
It is not a political or religious opinion, that males can't change into females, it is a pretty unequivocal scientific fact. The fact that the LAW says they can, doesn't make it scientifically true.
You are completely wrong about brain scans, take a look at the history of this hypothesis for yourself.
IMPARTIAL scientists researching this originally thought there might be some truth in it, researched it further and disproved it.
DISPROVED IT!!!!
however, the original preliminary research has been seized on and almost sanctified, and further very dodgy studies have claimed to back it up, but not studies with impartial scientists, or any scientific rigour.
why would I not beleive it, if it were true?
I am a scientist, I follow modern research in all sorts of areas, I see ideas suggested, grown, developed, investigated, proved or disproved all the time. I've seen that happen with the idea of the transexual brain.
Like all other scientists, when the first preliminary evidence came out, I thought, O, interesting..... then when it was disproved I accepted it had been disproved, like many other interesting scientific ideas before it.
i don't want to be rude, but if you are a scientist yourself, you are the one imposing religious and political opinions, not me, I am teaching science.
And yes I know there are people who would report me, and one day probably will do, I am fully prepared for that, but I won't change what I am teaching.
It IS comparable to nazi race science, where a scientist could be sacked, or worse, for not teaching the new, legal, but scientifically incorrect "science"