The Guardian's take:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/sex-education-political-football-childrens-sake-adults-grow-up
... contrary to some early headlines, it’s not quite the new section 28. Teachers won’t actually be banned from covering trans identities full stop: they will be explicitly required to cover the legal process for transitioning and the protection against discrimination equality law gives to people undergoing gender reassignment. But crucially, they will be banned from teaching the broader concept of “gender ideology” – the idea that people have a gender identity that might differ from their biological sex, which underpins trans identities – unless directly asked by pupils, and even then they will have to explain that it’s contested (in other words, that some people don’t believe in it). They’ll be obliged to teach “facts about biological sex” and banned from using materials suggesting that gender lies on a spectrum or is determined by stereotypical interests such as wearing pink or playing with dolls – to the extent, of course, that any school ever did.
Though all this arguably brings schools into line with an outside world where an adult’s right to express gender-critical beliefs in the workplace has been upheld by the courts, it leaves teachers walking a gossamer-thin tightrope.
Should pupils be allowed to insist that boys can’t really become girls? What if there’s a vulnerable trans girl in the class, or trans teacher in the school? At best this will be a task for highly skilled specialists, benefiting from the kind of extra training and support that ministers conspicuously aren’t offering here. Not for the first time, schools are being asked, somehow magically, to resolve an issue that has defeated wider society, or, at the very least, sweep the pieces tidily under the carpet, without the tools to do so.