Kemi Badenoch letter to OFSTED re Rye college

[LurkingInTheAtrium]

Key paragraphs:

"As you will be aware, the UK courts have ruled that gender critical beliefs – the belief that sex is biological and immutable, that people cannot change their sex and that sex is distinct from gender-identity – are classed as a philosophical belief worthy of respect in a democratic society and are therefore a protected characteristic under section 10 of the Equality Act 2010. Through her behaviour, including her assertion that the pupils’ beliefs were ‘despicable’, my view is that the teacher was not acting in a way consistent with the Equality Act’s requirements upon schools, nor in accordance with Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework’s requirements to promote respect for the different protected characteristics as defined in law.

In addition, by apparently teaching contested political beliefs as fact – including that there are ‘lots of genders’ or that ‘gender is not linked to the parts that you were born with’ – beliefs which are both politically controversial and have no scientific basis – it appears to me that the teacher was in breach of the political impartiality requirements set out in Articles 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996."

Go Kemi!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-from-minister-for-women-and-equalities-to-the-ofsted-chief-inspector?

Yes governors are ordinary people - some of whom work for captured orgs and believe what they’ve been told in EDI training.

Yes, exactly - lots of governors tend to be lawyers, accountants and managers in corporates.

Two thirds of governors are employed (as opposed to self-employed or not employed) so most governors are potentially being trained on this stuff through their day jobs anyway.

So when they come across the same Stonewall-style training they've had in work at the school they're governing, it doesn't seem at all odd to them as their employers have already told them "it's just the right thing to do" to support gender ideology.

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