New secondary school has a "Queer Club", would you potentially be concerned about this and what questions or steps would you take?

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Hello everyone,

Leafing through the new school materials I have in preparation for my child to attend in September, I was looking for information on the basketball club (which, to my disappointment, is only a 20-minute session once a week). However, I also found information about a “Queer Club,” which meets for 35 minutes weekly. There were no further details provided about this club, though I have asked the school for some.

Now, I, as I’m sure some of you, have concerns about the way queer and trans ideology has been taught in schools over the past 5-8 years. This includes the celebration, self-diagnosis, transitioning, and medicalisation aspects.

At the same time, I want to clarify that I am completely supportive of same-sex attracted, non-stereotypical children and am entirely opposed to rigid gender norms.

What concerns, if any, would you have about this club? What questions would you be asking the school to ensure it is safe and fit for purpose?

I’m looking for some guidance on how to approach this with the school and to make sure our children are in a supportive and safe environment.

Thank you for your insights!

Our school has one. It's a safe space. A girl committed suicide due to worry about being gay previously.

Thanks for teaching me how to parent.
luckily the school is good and excellent on every rating and has had a recent inspection and it’s not an academy.

it is however ideologically captured, from the cleaners to the headmaster and so I am very worried about this club given that I have an autistic child who has been taught by captured teachers that his feelings of being different mean he’s trans, not gay and autistic. You’d be worried.

If your son is autistic and gay he is extremely vulnerable to activist teachers.

I take it you are in touch with: pshebrighton.org/ ?

Come straight out with it. Write to the HT and warn him not to let the school trans your child?

You need to be ready OP.

My DD said “I feel like a boy” after a friend of a friend said similar. She was only about 7 so it was a much similar conversation but I lovingly and gently told her that she was a girl, every cell of her body was a girl’s, and having funny feelings didn’t make her a boy. Thankfully it passed.

We are also a Catholic family and I genuinely think that having the element of “God made me a girl” was helpful: sorry OT.

Thank you so much, yes I am, luckily, a real life saver, much appreciated.

Update: Still have to put together the full email, lots of things to consider, not sure how hard to go (answer, not, softly works better I know but still)