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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

So where is the new RSHE guidance?

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SchoolGuidanceQ · 16/05/2024 09:43

Obviously after the news yesterday and Gillian Keegan all over breakfast news this morning I thought there’d be a link to the new guidance on the DfE website. I can’t find it. I’ve only found this press release
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/age-limits-introduced-to-protect-children-in-rshe

anyone had better luck? Seems odd no news article aren’t today linking to the draft guidance… thanks

Age limits introduced to protect children in RSHE

New age ratings to be introduced on Relationships, Sex and Health Education content in schools to ensure it is appropriately and sensitively taught.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/age-limits-introduced-to-protect-children-in-rshe

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Thingybob · 16/05/2024 10:01

I don't think the draft guidance is out yet but there is a press release

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/age-limits-introduced-to-protect-children-in-rshe

"Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said:
This updated guidance puts protecting children at its heart, and enshrines parents’ right to know what their children are being taught."

I wonder what or who was at the heart of the previous guidance

Age limits introduced to protect children in RSHE

New age ratings to be introduced on Relationships, Sex and Health Education content in schools to ensure it is appropriately and sensitively taught.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/age-limits-introduced-to-protect-children-in-rshe

SchoolGuidanceQ · 16/05/2024 11:09

Thanks @Thingybob that's the same press release I posted… TTrend on twitter say it’s coming later today

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SchoolGuidanceQ · 16/05/2024 11:10

Thingybob · 16/05/2024 11:09

Amazing, well found, thank you!

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Thingybob · 16/05/2024 11:30

SchoolGuidanceQ · 16/05/2024 11:09

Thanks @Thingybob that's the same press release I posted… TTrend on twitter say it’s coming later today

Sorry I should read posts more thoroughly

theilltemperedclavecinist · 16/05/2024 12:20

They hid that well! No analysis in the msm yet, but give it time.

It looks goodish. Gender reassignment is presented as an adult thing and (separate section) a protected characteristic, so the key messages are there, to treat trans people with respect, and if child is gender-questioning, he is not a freak and he is not alone.

The treatment of gender identity is a bit prolix. TRAs will kick off about it being 'contested', because it is a thing in child development psychology. But what's wrong with saying 'some people want gender reassignment' and leave their motives out of it. Talking at length about an ideology then saying 'not everybody believes in it' seems like a roundabout way of saying nothing.

The thing that worries me most is that children could be left with the impression that true gender reassignment is possible (Keegan on Today seems to think so) and therefore they can choose their own sex as an adult. Primary age children still have an evolving concept of sex (and everything else. Remember, you can persuade a child you gave her more juice by pouring it into a taller, thinner glass.). So this idea needs stamping out early.

What they need to absorb, somehow, is that the technology does not and cannot exist to, say, turn a man into a woman. It's cosmetic surgery. You won't be able to have sex and reproduce like a woman, and people will still be able to tell you aren't one. Still pondering appropriate wording...

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