Diversity Role Models Charity

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My daughters school have emailed to say that the Diversity Role Models Charity will be coming into her school to deliver some sessions on 'creating empathy and inclusion in the next generation' A quick look at their website suggests that they will concentrate on homophobia, biphobia and transphobia with a 'be kind' message.

Has anyone else come across this charity? I'm interested to understand what they will be promoting. I can ask the school for more details of course but wondered if anyone else had any previous experience with them.

Their marketing manager (bog standard woman) once accused a transsexual of a transphobic hate crime. The trial was halted by the judge as ‘no case to answer’.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6764763/amp/Britains-transgender-hate-crime-trial-halted-one-day.html

This lot are about as diverse as a pair of arse cheeks, imo.

https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/about-us/meet-the-team

Safe Schools Alliance & Transgender Trend have exposed how unsuitable these adult activists are to work with children in schools.
The SSA information highlights how DRM's online presence renders them unsuitable to be working with children & clarifies how this breaches DfE guidelines. They openly promote mixed sex changing, showers etc and got into hot water during lockdown for promoting the dodgy "‘love has no age’ and ‘love has no age limit’" paedophile associated slogans in an Asda funded home learning pack.

https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Parents-Guide-to-external-PSHE-RSE-providers.pdf

They make a good living out of children in schools but are unfortunately are a queer theory activist group so not politically impartial

https://www.transgendertrend.com/diversity-role-models-conformity-new-ideology/

Lots of information in the links to use in asking the school why they are outsourcing their inclusion work to an adult group like this.

I’m fairly sure this is the organisation which wrote a schools toolkit for Asda which had to be withdrawn or amended because they “accidentally” promoted paedophilia

Yes it was. Perhaps show the school this correspondence and ask about their safeguarding due diligence

I don’t know. But where any state school spends money/time to seek to prevent discrimination against LGBTQIA people, the school must also spend an equal amount of money/time attempting to prevent discrimination against the other protected characteristics INCLUDING SEX and race etc, or the school has committed discrimination and is in breach of the Equality Act.

It is not lawful for schools to interpret “diversity” as “LGBTQIA”.

It is not lawful, or truthful, for female children to be taught that the Equality Act means that they must ‘be kind’ and give up their privacy, dignity, safe spaces and sports to any male who demands that they do so.

I would be straight on the school saying that you note that they are doing an assembly on rights and Diversity, that you think this is great but you are aware that this is only legal if the school spends an equal amount of time educating children about the rights of other protected characteristic groups and ask if they will be doing eg separate assemblies on the rights of the disabled, minority races, women’s rights, protected philosophical belief groups such as gender critical thought and religion etc, or if all of those topics will be included and given an equal amount of time in this session.

God no this lot are the ones that have the mermaids activist mimmy birthingperson working for them

there isn’t a barge pole long enough in the world!

Kate Hutchinson (Education Manager - who works in schools) is a transwoman who was part of the expert panel in the development of the LGBTQ Action Plan for Wales. The plan hopes to make it much easier for people to change gender in Wales which critics say 'would trample over women's rights' (BBC coverage).

Helen Islan is mimmymum. Former Mermaid, and totally barking, in my opinion. As above, took a trans woman to court for "transphobia" but it was thrown out.

Good lord, I cannot believe this woman is still working in the field. That's frightening.

If it were me I would be asking to see the materials and asking if I could attend and record and ask questions.

Hhhhmmmm, this is (unfortunately) even worse than I had suspected. Any other tips on how to approach the school with this would be gratefully received.

I would probably start out by asking if there is a similar org that talks about inclusion based on all the EQ10 characteristics, so not just LGB & T but religion and philosophical belief, disability, age & race too (maternity less relevant to non-employers).

After all, what children and teens really need help with navigating is the areas where one characteristic impacts another (eg religion and sexual orientation) and inclusivity for disabled pupils is part of everyone’s school day, whereas who you eventually grow up marry is irrelevant in the classroom (besides the reassurance that both same sex and opposite sex marriage is equal under U.K. law).

Bringing outsiders in to lecture on one topical issue is needlessly alienating for children who get opposite messaging at home (WTF does a child with an emergent same sex attraction from an orthodox religious family do with a load of ‘Yay, rainbows, everybody celebrate queer people!’ messaging?
It certainly doesn’t help them navigate their home life and the mixed messages from home and school may even contribute to poor mental health, whereas ‘all these characteristics are protected but sometimes they impact each other’ along with ‘being different to your peers or your family when you are a child/teen can be hard but it gets better/easier when you are an adult’ is both realistic and hopeful.

Do you have an update for us? I appreciate this is an old post but this 'educational charity ' have just come across my radar.

@SarahJane03 I contacted the school and raised my concerns - not just about this particular group but also because only one protected characteristic was being given air-time. The school did decide to go ahead and I was told that I could withdraw my daughter if we wanted to. Instead we asked that my daughter attend and confirmed that she could ask any relevant questions (respectfully) without fear of reprimand.

The session was hosted by a transwomen who was very obviously male and insisted upon the teens using 'she / her' pronouns. My daughter asked several pointed questions, as did others. The class was apparently quite hostile and the session ended early. I'm not really sure what the point of it was other than to encourage the kids to 'be kind'. I'm fortunate that my daughter is quite confident to speak up and offer a different view point - and there were other kids doing the same.

Interestingly, the school do not appear to have had this particular group back in for any further sessions.

Well done to you and your daughter - and to all of the other children challenging this organisation. They have no business being in schools and gaslighting children that sex change is possible and a desirable action for children and young people.

Why schools repeatedly breach their requirement to be politically impartial by bringing in trans activist groups like this I have no idea? Hopefully the targeting children and schools grift is coming to an end for these groups as the harm they're inflicting becomes more evident.

Well done for raising a terfy teen with guts and boundaries, @FanFckingTastic ! You love to see it.

Brilliant, OP. So proud of your daughter and others who are pushing back against the Be Kind bullshit narrative.