Guidance for schools in BBC news

[WallaceinAnderland]

'The legally-binding advice for all schools in England also says there are "no exceptions" for single-sex facilities, including toilets and changing rooms, with single-sex sports also protected.'

Vast Majority of parents should be told if pupils question their gender

This thread has taken a very strange turn😬

I think the guidance is good - it's strange that it allows 'transitioning' ,but you still have to use the same toilet as your fellow 'assigned at births', but at least it is clear about single sex spaces being just that.

This thread has taken a very strange turn😬

I'll get back to my lane 😶

I hope this brings an end to the nonsense that the Dad on here is currently fighting against in the Brighton School that has spectacularly failed to safeguard his daughter and her right to single sex changing at school. Sorry don't have link to his name.

There's always the Capuchin Crypt in Rome, should you fancy more insane things built of skeletons.

They've got a whole Grim Reaper with a scythe built from leg bones and a shoulder blade, iifc

Added to the list! 😂

It's not final it's being consulted on "consultation on Thursday's updated guidance is due to run for 10 weeks." From the BBC.

The thing that everyone appears to be missing is this consultation goes DOWN, not up. Therefore, whatever the "consultation" involves, it's never going to go back to SCOTUK with a "redo this ruling" note.

is this all the original draft guidance?

I’m confused; is this latest consultation based on these, again?

the only difference I can see is that the law has been clarified and I bet GLP outcome is linked

Hello and huge thanks 🙏

It feels a bit ironic that this has come out on the day DD16 has informed me after the fact that she's sent the forms off to change her name with help from school. I fucking hate this ideology 😔

It’s a poisonous. Sending support.

I've been there - well worth a visit!

I can't see anything about pronouns?

Social transition seems to have been reduced to name and uniform change with parental involvement. And pronouns.
Personally I don't think either of these transition for children are a good idea but they don't impact other children.

Pronouns though are asking everyone else to play along and warp their language. No one should be asked to do this.

Unfortunately since she was born in Scotland no signature was required, although they were happy to help if she needed it. But since this is the school that were happy to have her sleep in a room full of 14 year old boys on a school trip (I made damn sure that didn't happen!) nothing they do surprises me. I'm going for a shower and a good cry.

The unsurprising guardian spin on it

www.theguardian.com/education/2026/feb/12/new-gender-guidance-for-uk-primary-school-children-permits-use-of-different-pronouns

There's an interesting section on living in stealth and how those children are at risk.

What do they think this is going to mean for those on the puberty blocker trial then??

It's a weird mix of you can pretend to be a girl and everyone will play along and say you're a girl but we'll also make it clear you are not really a girl.

Meaningless about pronouns unless they are going to police other children's speech. I commented on that aspect in a previous consultation. It's immoral and unworkable. Imagine it in a school with a high % of children with speech and language difficulties or for whom English is not their first language. Nobody can "own" pronouns.

They have been policing it.
Children have been sanctioned for not using preferred pronouns.

It needs to be stopped.

They most definitely have been policing pronouns, DS was pulled up for using the 'wrong' ones for his sister!

Just musing on how we often say that transgenderism is a death cult...

This seems to be saying that this

draft guidance produced in 2023, under the Conservatives, which said that primary-aged children “should not have different pronouns to their sex-based pronouns used about them”.

has been overturned. If so that’s not good for children.