Schools politicising lessons on gender, says Ofsted (Telegraph)

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/06/schools-using-overtly-political-materials-teach-gender-issues/

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Some quotes from Ofsted:

“ Summarising the research findings, Chris Jones, Ofsted’s director of corporate strategy, said that when the Equalities Act was introduced in 2010, it was “contentious from the outset”, particularly in relation to characteristics relating to sex, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.

“The increasing political sensitivities in these areas have made it harder for schools to handle equalities well,” he said.

“For example, school staff can occasionally confuse the legal, the moral and the political, and so (often inadvertently) bring overtly political materials into their curriculum and teaching without acknowledging it as such, despite the statutory requirement of political neutrality.”

“ Mr Jones said that Ofsted’s research was aimed at identifying good practise in teaching some of these “contentious” issues.

He noted that there had been instances where schools and parents did not “see eye-to-eye” on the content and age-appropriateness of curriculum materials used to teach primary school pupils about same-sex relationships.

“There was confusion among schools about what the various pieces of guidance required teachers to teach in relation to LGBT matters in particular,” he said.

“Guidance identifies a minimum requirement, but does not contemplate any ceiling on what can be taught at what age, so there can be pressure to go further, potentially causing conflict with some parents.”

• Stonewall advises school staff that they should avoid dividing learners by gender, whether in the classroom or through uniform, sports activities or other aspects of school life. It suggests instead that children could be divided by “their favourite colour, month of birth or something else”.*

The above stood out to me. Stonewall have so overreached.

www.gov.uk/government/speeches/research-commentary-teaching-about-sex-sexual-orientation-and-gender-reassignment

Link to research on government website from the other board

Stonewall has advised schools that teachers should drop the terms boys and girls in favour of “learners” and mix up the sexes in PE classes.
The LGBT charity is urging teachers to ditch all gendered language and gendered uniforms and suggests that children should compete against the opposite sex in sport.

They really don't care what consequences this would have for young girls safety and morale. I can only assume none of these people have spent any time in a secondary school recently.

The size of some of the boys by the time they are in yr 8/9 is stark compared to the girls.

No school should be signing up to this organisation.

*Stonewall has advised schools that teachers should drop the terms boys and girls in favour of “learners” and mix up the sexes in PE classes.
The LGBT charity is urging teachers to ditch all gendered language and gendered uniforms and suggests that children should compete against the opposite sex in sport.

It's the determined erasure of girls and women as a sex. It's the decoupling of biological sex, from any kind of criteria. especially where that criteria identifies a need for safety, or positive discrimination.

Boys in your showers, boys in your toilets, boys in both groups separated by, er, 'hair colour or gender', winning all the sport.

Do boys dominate in class? Never mind, take a section of boys and put them into every single group in school, so girls never get a look in. And anyway, they're probably not even boys. So it's girls who dominate now too.

Dangerous, regressive, utterly misogynistic.

And completely deliberate.

Dr Susan Matthews, an honorary senior research fellow in creative writing at Roehampton University, analysed a series of books that are being circulated in British schools.

She concluded that children were being put at risk by transgender books in primary schools that “misrepresent” medical knowledge on puberty blockers.

Books and lesson plans that were designed educate pupils about transgender issues “fail child safeguarding and conflict with the law”, she said.

Dr Matthews found that much of the information given about medical transition was “inaccurate”, adding that “potential harms are ignored, glossed over or falsified”.

Thank God this is getting a wider audience.

Good to see Ofsted commenting on the need for schools to remain politically neutral and highlighting that schools are currently using biased materials when teaching gender identity issues. The Times have reported this as well, focusing on the need for schools to recognise sexual abuse and extending statutory safeguarding guidance to sixth forms and colleges:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/339f6456-de83-11eb-ab4e-c25eb6444929?shareToken=c705600d993af592745dac4b4e06ac7f

If boys and girls have mixed sports, then the boys will always win and the girls will get injured and demoralised so will give up. The end to Women's sports by the back door.

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