“A school faces a threat of legal action over policies that protect all children – so we’re fighting back.”

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https://goodlaw.social/a8mo

the GLP are sort of the curse of bad luck so let’s see what happens…

well indeed. I genuinely do not know what they would do if a trans identified female insisted on playing on the male rugby team? It's all hidden and case by case and never written down... deliberately

How can they separate for one thing but not another on the grounds of safeguarding?!

That's almost worse because they absolutely KNOW they just don't care!

Schools are supposed to act as a ‘prudent parent’ would whilst children are in their care, according to the DfE. I wonder how many prudent parents would be fine with their daughters changing with boys?

I'm wondering this. If there is boy's football and girls football session on separate pitches, where is the boy-who-wants-to-be-a-girl playing?

The adults in the school may want to run with an unwritten policy but that is the adults choosing to failing to carry out their functions.

Policy cant be hidden away and not written down.

Once the school decide to break the law and allow unlawful mixed sex they must justify why they are breaking the EA10.

Also the board and Head cant decide they can run an undocumented ad hoc decision making process. To do that opena the school up to by anyone and everyone who is inclusively excluded from the provision.

Case by case without a robust preemptive safeguarding framework is the adults in the school choosing to not safeguard.

Sorry, if I've missed this, but is there any legal action on the horizon?

My experience so far has been that at the point where they divide the sexes for PE, there's a 3rd category for kids of both sexes who aren't massively into the school team sports. They do athletics, racquet sports, mixed handball, gym etc

I don't know how common this is, but it's been great for my son who's very fit but would get snapped in half by rugby and isn't into lads bantz.

and yet....

You are right of course on every point. So we shall see what we shall see in the near future.

At my son’s high school they have a school football team and a girls football team. The football team is generally called the boys team but does include one exceptionally good female player ( she plays for an academy) no suggestion she is anything other than a girl whose good at football. I doubt a boy would be allowed in the other team though I don’t think anyone has tried.

Trans was only invented about fifty years ago. For the young it's a delusion. For older males it's a fetish. I don't think we should pander to either in their quest for body modification any more than we should allow bodybuilders to take anabolic steroids in their quest for body modification.

Communal changing rooms separated by sex are normal in the UK both in schools & workplaces. Where do you live?

He's a Canadian living in the UK.

I'm curious how GLP know about the legal action. Have the school told them or has JM seen the press articles and thought he'd just independently set up a new grift?

They stalk MN...

One of the Governors is a solicitor and has a specific interest in supporting trans identified children, so...

Yep.

Thank you for these!

Explains a bit. I've a Canadian friend. I didn't realise until recently how misogynist their culture is. Like, work dos at strip bars is normal. Very much what men say goes.

Oh yay.
Privilege X fundamentalism = danger to everyone

Zealot is the word that springs to my mind

I bet the schools lawyers have learned a lot from these threads. I have given my time and expertise to them by writing the facts on this thread in the hope they can get up to speed which is of course is really safeguarding and commonsense.

Look at the headlines today:
• Serial killer given 40-year sentence for murdering Victoria Hall, 17, as judge says 'you'll die in prison'
• Wife of summer camp abuser calls him 'sadistic, monstrous paedophile' at sentencing hearing. The former vet and teacher has pleaded guilty to 18 charges including sexual assault and child cruelty
• Starmer apology a 'huge step', says Epstein survivor.
• 'PM's error of judgement was an error a lot of people made' - Starmer's biographer
• We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands.

Then reflect why on earth could parents possibly want safeguarding for their children, particularly when it is about girls changing in front of boys??

Apologies cut and pasted bbc hyperlink accidentally and can’t edit it out. That story is horrific and shows why safeguarding should be paramount.

If you’ve always been a girl and then a woman, what exactly were you transitioning from or to?

The best PE lessons I had were when they sorted us by ability (still single-sex) and I didn't have to worry about being with people much better than me. This was done routinely in every other subject but the PE teachers mostly insisted on all abilities playing together for some reason.

I would presume 'biological sex based data' collected from non-trans participants? I would say is surprising that science-focused gender critical beliefs disallow for and/or flat out ignore basic hormonal influence and a biological lack of male adult development. But, allowing such an acknowledgement would make grouping trans women into 'biological men' very difficult.