Don’t Tell The Parents: Former Teacher on Concerns About Official Schools Guidance

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www.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/dont-tell-the-parents-official-guidance-to-teachers-of-trans-children/amp/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=061018_Weekly_Highlights_40_NONSUBS&utm_campaign=Weekly_Highlights&__twitter_impression=true

”Something is off here. Teachers are being asked to put ideology before evidence and to exclude parents from serious welfare decisions about their own children”

I am really glad this is being written about in the mainstream media now. It needs some serious scrutiny, and parents need to know what is going on.

www.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/dont-tell-the-parents-official-guidance-to-teachers-of-trans-children/amp/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=061018_Weekly_Highlights_40_NONSUBS&utm_campaign=Weekly_Highlights&__twitter_impression=true

Great article.
It needs to be written on every public building in letters 20 foot high - only the courts can remove parental responsibility from parents . Not schools, not individual teachers, not charities, not trans people, not well meaning woke folk - nobody has that right without legal oversight and due process.

Now - where are the NSPCC on this (as they should know the law) ?

Another great Spectator article.

Like the ones by James Kirkup, it sets the issues out very clearly. I'm adding it to my information pack to send to people who I think might be receptive.

My young teen daughter first started thinking she was a boy after attending a school presentation about transgender children. After she told her teachers they changed her name and referred to her by masculine pronouns. The school did not inform me or my husband. After we withdrew her from this school, I later discovered that she had shared a room with the boys on an overnight school trip

Bloody hell. I almost don't have the words. This is happening more and more.

Where are the adults? The medics? The people in charge, ffs.

only the courts can remove parental responsibility from parents

YES YES YES

All of this guidance completely ignores the Children Act and the legal obligation conferred by PR. As such, almost certainly unlawful.

How can a charity that doesn't even know PR exists be given public funds to tell orgs and institutions to ignore it?

Datun That is mind-blowing in it's irresponsibility. I also don't have the words to convey the utter recklessness of that decision.

A ‘formerly transgender’ American teen told me that when the majority of her all-female class identified as male, she decided to join in. It was only when exposed to ‘packers’ (for stuffing crotches) and ‘binders’ (for hiding breasts) at a conference that she decided it wasn’t for her. Stories like this further complicate the debate.

The majority of the class?!

It also makes me mad when people claim it's complicated.

It's extensive, but it's not complicated.

When you decide that sex doesn't matter and that anyone can be any sex, it's not a complicated concept. But the ramifications and implications are never-ending.

Saying it's complex makes people doubt their own reaction.