School uniform should not present a problem for transitioning students, and they should expect to follow the dress code for their acquired gender.
Trans teachers should be free to use toilets appropriate to their acquired gender from the date they transition.
^^ From 2017 NASUWT 'Trans Equality in Schools and Colleges
Advice and Guidance for Teachers and Leaders'
14 October 2016 Kent Online
Transgender pupil Lily Madigan, from Chatham, wins apology from St Simon Stock Catholic School in Maidstone over uniform row'
(extract)
"A Maidstone school has apologised after sending a transgender pupil home for wearing the wrong uniform and preventing her from using the girls’ toilets and changing rooms.
Brave Lily Madigan, formerly Liam, came out in the new year.
The 18-year-old turned up for the first time at St Simon Stock Catholic School dressed in girls’ attire.
She said: “I decided to come in dressed in the girls’ dress code, which basically meant I was wearing a top instead of a shirt.
“It made me feel so happy, until I was sent home.”
Ms Madigan, who is from Chatham, was also told she could not use girls’ bathrooms or changing rooms." (continues)
www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/schools-apology-to-transgender-pupil-104081/
Ella Whelan for Spiked
22nd November 2017
'Lily Madigan is not a woman'
(extract)
"More recently, Madigan hit the headlines after arguing that Anne Ruzylo, a Labour Party women’s officer in a different constituency, should be sacked for being ‘transphobic’. Ruzylo, a lesbian, feminist and trade unionist, had criticised the sanctification of the trans movement. For this, she was labelled a ‘terf’ (trans exclusionary radical feminist) and was harassed by transgender activists online. Eventually, the executive committee of Ruzylo’s local Labour branch resigned in protest at her mistreatment.
So, here we have a trans teen who has previously been part of an effort to undermine a women’s officer’s career now being elected as a women’s officer. Understandably, some are angry about this. How can a teenager who has only recently declared himself to be a woman be eligible as a women’s officer? As Teresa Murray, vice-chairwoman of the executive committee of Rochester and Strood CLP, said: ‘Lily will have to work very hard to convince other people that her very presence there is not going to undermine them.’
The role of a women’s officer is important, feminists argue, because the lived experience a woman is something men cannot understand. Therefore, in order for women to feel politically represented, they must be represented by women." (continues)
www.spiked-online.com/2017/11/22/lily-madigan-is-not-a-woman/#.W8pl-VCBoj5.twitter
Anne Ruzylo WPUK speech
A Woman's Place is on the Platform: 23 November 2017
(transcript)
"The last ten days have been very very bizarre. Im an ordinary women who all my life has all my life looked out for, well not just women but, human beings in general.
Until recently I have never been prevented from doing that
I now find myself silenced because I want to talk about something that affects us all. That is the GRA. But Ive been told it doesnt affect me. It doesnt affect women, it doesnt affect lesbians. Its doesnt affect anybody, 'so why are you talking about it? It only affects people who are transgender.'
I have a very different viewpoint on that.
So repeatedly I have been silenced along with another colleague of mine from the CLP.
Quite an extensive motion.
I have a complaint from an individual by the name of Liliy Madigan who apparently. who said. that even though the picute in the Times newspaper they looked more feminine than me
Having been a gender non conforming woman all my life. Yes sisters! I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Like Linda [Bellos] Ive been misgendered many times. Ive been called sir. It happens on a fairly regular basis and thats just one of those things. Ive tried to break down barriers and boxes and titles and names all my adult life.
So Lily Madigan put in a complaint about me from a different CLP. It was thrown out on that basis.
The rest of my Executive Committe members deemed I had not been transphobic because I was running consciousness-raising sessions with members of my women's forum.
Because a lot of women & men are quite ignorant about what the GRA is actually about.
Doing these consciousness-raising sessions we've established as well that some people think that biology can be changed. That if you take female hormones you will grow a uterus and If you take male hormones you will grow a penis.
Because unfortunately young women & young men are being told that they can change sex and they cant. You can't change sex.
So a lot of the consciousness-raising sessions were about how the GRA with self-identification would affect women & women only spaces."
(continues discussing the 'disasterous' impact of self id in prisons. Anne Ruzylo describes her experience of working in prisons for twenty years & the responsibility she feels to the vulnerable women in prison, many of whom have been abused by men)