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NSPCC’s ‘confused’ gender guidance puts children at risk

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IwantToRetire · 15/09/2024 00:42

The NSPCC’s gender guidance is “confused” and potentially putting children at risk by encouraging them to use opposite-sex changing rooms, a charity has warned.

The child protection organisation’s unit for keeping children safe in sport “actively encourages” organisations to put children in harm’s way, the campaign group Sex Matters has claimed.

The group has written the Department for Education (DfE) urging them to force the NSPCC to alter its stance

It follows several scandals over the NSPCC’s approach to trans ideology over recent years.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/14/nspcc-gender-guidance-putting-children-at-risk-says-charity

Full article at https://archive.is/NSLGp

Good that the Telegraph has picked up on this and amplified the work of Sex Matters.

NSPCC’s ‘confused’ gender guidance puts children at risk, warns charity

Advice for opposite-sex changing rooms ‘runs counter to good safeguarding practice’, say campaigners

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/14/nspcc-gender-guidance-putting-children-at-risk-says-charity

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theilltemperedclavecinist · 16/09/2024 10:29

BonfireLady · 16/09/2024 09:39

The spokesman for the NSPCC needs better legal advice. Gender reassignment (not gender identity) is not a protected characteristic in children, because only an adult can change legal sex. (Okay, it's arguable, but they have just recited it without thinking.)

Victoria Prentis confirmed that the PC of gender reassignment does apply to children but when you look at it in context, the same point still applies about the legality of letting boys or girls choose which changing room they use.

The EHRC has clarified that a boy/man who identifies as a girl/woman should be treated no less favourably than a boy/man who doesn't. And obviously vice versa for a girl/woman who identifes as a boy/man. This is because sex is also a PC, so no other PC can "top trump" it.

I can't find an article about Victoria Prentis (and an multitasking) but she overturned what Suella Braverman had previously said about this PC not applying to children, from when SB was the Attorney General. There's definitely a thread on this somewhere. I'll try and find it when I've got more time.

Gutted. Not only wrong, but wrong in agreement with Braverman 🙁. Also, there was a whole earlier thread, on which I posted, so apologies for spreading misinformation. Goldfish memory.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4964500-primary-schools-given-advice-on-children-who-want-to-change-gender-supposedly-now-agreed

Primary schools given advice on children who want to change gender (supposedly now agreed) | Mumsnet

^The government had been planning to introduce an outright ban on social transitioning, under which children can change their names, pronouns and unif...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4964500-primary-schools-given-advice-on-children-who-want-to-change-gender-supposedly-now-agreed

MrsOvertonsWindow · 16/09/2024 10:33

BonfireLady · 16/09/2024 09:39

The spokesman for the NSPCC needs better legal advice. Gender reassignment (not gender identity) is not a protected characteristic in children, because only an adult can change legal sex. (Okay, it's arguable, but they have just recited it without thinking.)

Victoria Prentis confirmed that the PC of gender reassignment does apply to children but when you look at it in context, the same point still applies about the legality of letting boys or girls choose which changing room they use.

The EHRC has clarified that a boy/man who identifies as a girl/woman should be treated no less favourably than a boy/man who doesn't. And obviously vice versa for a girl/woman who identifes as a boy/man. This is because sex is also a PC, so no other PC can "top trump" it.

I can't find an article about Victoria Prentis (and an multitasking) but she overturned what Suella Braverman had previously said about this PC not applying to children, from when SB was the Attorney General. There's definitely a thread on this somewhere. I'll try and find it when I've got more time.

This is an important point and something that the men over keen on transitioning other people's children have been able to exploit. At some stage there needs to be a clarification about age. Can a 3 year old claim the pc of gender reassignment? A 5 year old etc

There's an evident conflict between the requirement for society to safeguard children from harm with all the related legislation and the adult demands to be seen as the opposite sex. Yet - because children's safety comes so low in society's priorities in contrast to a man insisting on access to women's spaces - this has never been challenged.
The immense power this ideology holds over our institutions literally enables the abuse of children of any age by seeing them as mini adults able to consent to changing sex and outside safeguarding legislation.
It needs a legal challenge.

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