You know what is shit for children? The female ones?
Being told they have no choice but to undress and shower alongside teenaged males, because the teenaged males want it and have feelings, and the female children's feelings about it don't matter . They are much less important than the male ones, and their bodies are not theirs to control for their own privacy, dignity and comfort, their bodies are something male children have a right to make use of.
That is shit. That is absolutely sickening. That is something that anyone who truly cares about children should be absolutely up in arms about.
We are telling female children that they cannot say no to a male, regardless of how it affects them or makes them feel, if saying no would be unkindly refusing the male an experience and access to them that the male would like.
It actively discriminates against girls who cannot share mixed sex spaces, and have no option but to subject themselves to all the shit and unpleasantness and being scolded for being prejudiced and unkind for not making special males happy over having their own trauma, disability, culture or faith catered for. The male gets included. The male is a magic person who makes the female children's inclusion rights vanish like snow off a hot brick; they're protected under the Equality Act until suddenly..... inclusion is something only for males, not females.
And female children are being told that if they argue about this, if they speak out for their equality of their own feelings and needs and access, their own inclusion, their right to not believe that a male child is something other than a male child who wishes to have a different identity, who does not believe that meeting the diverse needs of male children should remove all inclusion and privacy and dignity from female children who do not consent ?
They're being told the police could be involved.
This creates two castes of children: the ones who get to do whatever they want regardless of impact on others and be the centre of everyone else's service, and the ones who are allowed to do nothing but provide service and shut up or else.
If you're worried about what is shit for children, worry about that and not about whether a teenager is seeing all of this and hating it and wanting her voice to be heard. Against adults telling her to not pick up all that stress which might affect her exams and just submit quietly .
That is shit for children. That is truly shit.