Gender on School Form

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My daughter starts school in September, today we received the enrollment form and on it it has gender instead of sex. My husband has said I will be "that parent" if I cross it out and put sex. He is worried that she will be there for 7 years of primary and they will always remember what we did on the form.

What would you do?

@FemaleAndLearning exactly. And you wouldn’t ask what religion someone was on a form, or whether they thought they were gay - because it’’s not the school’s business!

Equalities monitoring is different. But again, who on earth thinks gender is a protected characteristic or even an agreed characteristic, is isn’t! Sex, sexuality are protected characteristics but you’d only be asked as part of an anonymous one off form when joining school.

It’s all frankly bonkers.

I do it whenever the format allows it. Gender isn’t real so why are they asking it?

Well done OP! I’m also ‘that parent’ today, having submitted a similarly amended form for my daughter (accompanied by husbandly eye rolls).

I am quite often that parent, but I just own it. I’m not sure the school staff are my biggest fans, and nursery certainly won’t, but this issue is endemic and if we say nothing then it’s assumed that it’s all ok.

I'm that parent too
Nursery asked me to complete a form for an nhs referral and I changed it on there and it went back via nursery.
I also challenged my LEA on the use of gender on primary application forms and then when I said about it on a local radfem fb group, the administrator who had dealt with my query was also on the group and we had a virtual chuckle and high five.

Secondary school had gender - male, female, non binary in their registration form, I was that parent. I emailed them, they checked with the trust and have changed it to male, female and a blank fill your own option in. Said they wanted to be inclusive.

I have emailed the Trust the sex matters template letter as their equality policy says gender.

Be that parent. You won't be the only one.