Updated relationships, sex and health curriculum guidance

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Updated government guidance, released today!!!

[quote rogdmum]Back in Feb, Memaids were busy telling “me” (thinking I was a 14 year old) that school didn’t need to tell my parents if I wanted to change my name/pronouns etc. I wonder what their chat line would say now...

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Shocking.

Do we think that Benjamin Butterworth read the first line of this tweet and did a huge dramatic gasp whilst uttering 'I find that bigotry'?

@LiterallyProblematic

This is absolutely brilliant. Mermaids are fucked. Surely.

This has very little to do with Mermaids, who don't go into schools and deliver sessions for children.

I imagine he’s still on his fainting couch😆

I'm a lifelong lefty but tbh i'm thinking of throwing in the towel and voting Tory now. It seems to be the only party in which adult human females have any kind of voice or sway.

This has very little to do with Mermaids, who don't go into schools and deliver sessions for children.

Pretty sure schools, once made aware, will also apply those very sensible guidelines to staff training, and to any orgs they refer parents / pupils to for support. They are such basic, common sense guidelines that I'm sure other orgs will also adopt them in some form or another.

This is fucking amazing. The biggest draw to this site is the fem boards. So much is highlighted on here and some days we have a wonderful victory like this.

Wonderful. Brilliant. Amazing. At last, sensible compassionate advice which gives kids a chance to be heard in ways that are safe. Well done DfE.

@LiterallyProblematic

This is absolutely brilliant. Mermaids are fucked. Surely.

Yes... they clearly know they can't go on with advice which contradicts these sane government guidelines for schools, so they're trying to change their position. But the evidence of what they used to say is there so their credibility, such as it was, is hopefully gone.

I wonder what Emma Watson will be making of all this?

And Children in Need...

The Mermaids website was listed as a resource for yr 8 kids to explore as part of the PSHE curriculum last year at my son’s school.

It’s been removed as a resource this year

I thought the same thing Cheese, wonder if any more celebs will start quietly backing away. Or will they support the farcical back peddling that Mermaids have come out with today...

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

And Children in Need...

Oops, I meant big lottery fund.

How long until the 'no one ever said transwomen were actual women' gaslight comes on?

Their ideology is crumbling, and the more they speak the less sense they make.

Without the "born in the wrong body" trope, I'm not sure how Mermaids can really function. They've never really trie to embrace a more complex way of thinking about what they mean by someone being trans.

This has very little to do with Mermaids, who don't go into schools and deliver sessions for children.

My daughter’s Year Head told me to go to Mermaids for “education and support” right after he told me we had no say as parents in her formal transition at school. She was 14.

Do we think that Benjamin Butterworth read the first line of this tweet and did a huge dramatic gasp whilst uttering 'I find that bigotry'?

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

This has very little to do with Mermaids, who don't go into schools and deliver sessions for children.

Pretty sure schools, once made aware, will also apply those very sensible guidelines to staff training, and to any orgs they refer parents / pupils to for support. They are such basic, common sense guidelines that I'm sure other orgs will also adopt them in some form or another.

According to their most recent report Mermaids made just £40,000 providing training sessions to a range of groups last year out of £700,000 total annual income. So they clearly aren't particularly active in that area.

I doubt schools refer to Mermaids very often tbh, and it cuts both ways, these guidelines also pretty much ban groups like Transgender Trend from being active in schools as well.

This is just amazing. Well done to every English woman who wrote a letter or raised their voice 🥃

Bye bye Mermaids 🧨

@rogdmum

This has very little to do with Mermaids, who don't go into schools and deliver sessions for children.

My daughter’s Year Head told me to go to Mermaids for “education and support” right after he told me we had no say as parents in her formal transition at school. She was 14.

@rogdmum

My daughter’s Year Head told me to go to Mermaids for “education and support”

There's nothing in these guidelines to prevent that happening.

And now they never will. Yay!

I doubt schools refer to Mermaids very often

Here's a typical example of 'Transgender guidance for schools'. Mermaids are listed under 'External Support and Resources'.

www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/13620644/schools-transgender_guidance_booklet-2015.pdf

@Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons

This is just amazing. Well done to every English woman who wrote a letter or raised their voice 🥃

Bye bye Mermaids 🧨

Indeed! They are finished.

I doubt schools refer to Mermaids very often tbh

Not good enough. Safeguarding requires detail, precision and informed risk assessment, not guesswork.