So it’s happened.
A well meaning colleague has been giving some training today on how to support transgender colleagues. All good.
I wasn’t able to attend (and knew that I would probably explode if they started misquoting the law etc) but a close colleague (who is gay, not that that is hugely relevant) did and reported back.
The training wasn’t full mermaids batshit but was pretty bad (and colleague felt very patronised by some of the lgb stuff - they might use “queer” instead of lgbt which he finds offensive- that was discussed and concerned by some of the trans stuff)
However they are proposing making all of the loos mixed sex. They also were proposing making everyone have their preferred pro nouns on their id badge but thankfully that got dropped. They also said that if someone wanted to use the bathroom of the gender they identified as that was fine and that people could change gender on a whim.
I’m all for supporting transgender colleagues but I need to speak out about the misinformation and most importantly the proposal about the toilets.
I am in a position where I have to protect the organisation legally so I am well placed to object but I want to do it right
I so far am planning on raising that this would break health and safety laws and ask about how this works for people of faith who cannot use mixed sex facilities and how women’s safety and privacy would be protected. We are not a school but do provide education to young people under 18 so I am wondering if it is worth quoting the legislation for schools.
I want to prepare a calm, factual and accurate rebuttal of the proposal and would really appreciate it if you could help me. If anyone could quote any useful legislation, studies, case law or relevant concerns it would be a massive help.
Thank you mumsnet