If I’m understanding the updated government guidance, then hopefully a lot of the concerns raised by Transgender Trend in 2019 are now going to be addressed, or at least not perpetuated if Mermaids are no longer welcome in schools to deliver ‘training’. This is surely only good news?
www.transgendertrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Safeguarding-Concerns-Transgender-Schools-Guidance.pdf
Transgender Schools Guidance Safeguarding Concerns
The Department for Education has failed in their responsibility to act with due diligence when funding and promoting political transgender pressure groups to schools. The following areas of concern need urgent review to safeguard the rights of all children and to ensure that school is a safe place for all.
Promising confidentiality to a child
Parental Alienation
Promoting use of off label drugs and minimising harms
Erosion of sexual boundaries
The following organisations have been endorsed by the Department for Education (DfE):
Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES). In the publication Equality Act 2010 and Schools (May 2014)1 GIRES is referenced three times, including a link to their website.
Intercom Trust. The same document provides a link to the Cornwall Schools Transgender Guidance written by the Intercom Trust.
Stonewall. Awarded DfE funding in 2015 of £465,594 to "prevent and tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools."
Educate & Celebrate. Awarded DfE funding in 2015 of £214k.
Mermaids. Awarded DfE funding in 2018 of £35k to go into schools and deliver training to teachers.
These organisations are political pressure groups that seek to influence public policy for their own particular cause, i.e. transgender rights. While this is a legitimate aim, the promotion of these groups to schools has raised serious concerns about their negative impact on the safeguarding of children. These groups advocate an adult approach to specific issues such as confidentiality, use of off label drugs, consent and working with parents. These approaches are inappropriate for children, are incompatible with Working Together to Safeguard Children 20182 and Keeping Children Safe in Education 20183, and place children, especially girls and gender non-conforming children, at risk of significant harms.“
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P6 Promoting Off Label Drugs and Minimising Risks
The Mermaids trainer presents reassuring but inaccurate information for teachers, emphasising the positive benefits of puberty-blocking intervention:
"Now puberty blocker medication, or blockers are they are known, they don’t make any changes, so they’re completely reversible. What it does is put a pause button on the pituitary gland and it just freezes puberty where it is. Not growth, just puberty. Take the blockers away and biological puberty will recommence. .. it does provide immense relief from the dysphoria, it also prevents the secondary sex characteristics, meaning there’s less physical intervention in later life if they decide to go down that path."
The trainer goes on to completely minimise the negative effects: "If they are on blockers alone, sometimes they can suffer from a lack of energy and some of our teens have had slight menopausal symptoms at first, but they tend to settle down."
That’s a lot of change, and minimising of lifelong risks for bodies (of prepubescent children 
) that are not wrong 