My son’s school insisting he calls NB teacher Mx

[Justme56]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/01/my-sons-school-insisting-he-calls-non-binary-teacher-mx/

‘Confusion about the rights of staff to have their identity recognised, is undermining the rights of children to be protected from dogma’

I’m a teacher and I’d love it if we could switch to gender neutral titles. I get fed up of “are you Miss or Mrs” every time a kid gets a new exercise book. And (where I teach) there’s still a sizeable group who don’t know what Ms means.

I teach secondary science and there are very few circumstances where my sex is relevant. I don’t supervise changing rooms, don’t do duty in the toilet area and I’ve not been on an overnight school trip since pre-Covid. I’ve never known a kid to ask for a specific sex teacher - they’ve invariably asked for a specific person ime.

While I completely agree that sex matters in a variety of situations, I don’t think it matters much at all in the majority of places. And the push to claim it matters hugely in every single aspect of life will ultimately be detrimental to women.

The schools I work in, the social norm is to use Miss or Sir. Teachers also use these terms when in front of each other and pupils ( e.g. to a pupil - ‘did you check with Sir that you could leave the classroom’. To each other ‘Sorry to interrupt Miss, I need to speak to John Smith).

Intead of introducing Mx, why isn’t a universal title introduced that can be applied to all and all 3 be permissible. Pupils and staff can either use Miss or Sir in line with the staffs known sex, and the neutral one if they prefer or the staff specify. If a trans staff member prefers Miss, pupils should be allowed to use Miss or the neutral one.

Whilst a universal label could be used to denote a teacher / adult to replace