Mixed sex changing rooms in a Brighton secondary school - part 3 - we're really cooking now

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Hello friends.

I'll let the press do the talking...

https://www.gbnews.com/news/trans-school-court-changing-rooms

So a month then, before we hear a defence. Can barely wait.

This is not a request or an ask for anything at all, but, many people have asked me how they could pass on thanks or encouragement to my daughter, obviously the anonymity issue rather gets in the way but the legal firm above have a physical address

Conrathe Gardner
167-169 Great Portland St, London W1W 5PF

and email [email protected] if you did want to.

Again not a request of any kind, I do share the encouragements from here with her as screen shots, in fact I might make a little album of them all, and everything is really appreciated, you'd think from the mainstream media nobody gives a damn about this, take one step into communication run by actual people, it's suddenly a very different picture.

Thanks so much for all the encouragement over the last 18 months!

Thank you OP for doing what so many parents have wanted to do, but been unable to do, for a myriad of reasons.

So proud of your daughter. What she's doing is not easy, but she definitely has a lot of support! She is very brave.

I am not surprised the EASS are now looking closely at this. I think you are right it has been kicked up the chain. I expect they are now very interested in the outcome of your case because it will impact the advice EHRC give.

There are no guarantees but if, as you should, you get a judgement in your favour I expect the EHRC will jump on it and issue further guidance.

Edited to add - patience and a dogged determination are needed. Thankfully you seem to have both.

Thank you! Very timely - DD has made a little something for your daughter. Will get it sent next week. Thanks so much to you both xx

Thank you for the update OP and keep going. Best wishes to your daughter.

I show my daughter as many of these as I can but she was especially surprised and pleased to read this one, thank you.

It’s a just a small thing - a little bag charm to ward off bad vibes 😊 how should we label it so they know it’s for you

It's the thought & consideration that counts more than anything at all :)

Your daughter has an amazing dad

How very dare you, over a week later and it’s shot up, by, drumroll please, <turns and faces the digital board displaying the new total> £31!

Such a rush of generosity and faith 😂

It's not going well, is it?! Looks like they're going to have to lower their fees somewhat.

For comparison, we made more on the children's 10p sweetie tombola at our last school fete

Did anyone else see the £20.70 donation from Sophie and immediately think of Sparkles? The circle jerk grift continues…

No updates on the legal case just yet, few weeks to go I believe.

However my daughter and I are going somewhere brilliant and meeting important supportive people next week, I can't shed any details, yet again, sorry to tease, but I think it will be a valuable boost to my daughters confidence in all this (it's not wavering at all) and frankly makes me feel good as well :)

AND there is a care package of cards etc. arriving from the Solicitors as they have bundled it all together, very much looking forward to that, I will share pictures if appropriate

Not to mention another voucher which if my daughter can be organised enough, she might use and wear the clothes next week - huge thanks to the donor and EVERYONE who has, just blown away I really am.

From the originally linked 'news' article:

Her father said he raised concerns repeatedly with the school but claims his complaints were ignored, adding: “The school hasn’t told parents or pupils this is even happening, let alone asked permission. And I know girls at the school are taught that they should accept trans-identifying boys as girls without question."

And that last sentence,the one I've highlighted, is the true psychology at work here; a rabid anti-trans ideological stance that means the father is incapable of taking an inclusive, rational stance. It's little wonder the school has dismissed the hateful rantings of these parents as 'vexatious'.

That's an awful lot of words to describe basic reality. You must be exhausted.

Credit where it's due; some words were big ones and correct spelling too.

We're not covering the meaning of "rational" until next term.

But you didn't join the thread in good faith? So I don't think it's fair to expect much more than sarcasm as a response.

I'd be, genuinely, delighted for you to prove me wrong.

You are once again, mistaken.

My post is very, very clear. What you actually mean to say is "But you didn't join the thread to nod along with the rest of us".

I stand by my observation of the quote from the article; the final line, and the last two words especially, give an extremely clear indication of the psychological obsession at work here.

Understanding that humans don't change sex and declining to pretend that they do is hate/an ad hominem attack and at the same time failure to grasp non-existent evidence.

Noted 😁

"rabid anti-trans ideological stance"
"hateful rantings"

If this is what you say about a group of parents who believe in single-sex spaces for their children, what language do you use to describe the minority of people out there who truly wish trans people actual, physical harm? I mean the genuine bigots who would swearily abuse trans people in person, and commit acts of violence against them? The ones who argue they should be forbidden any kind of recognition or support?

Because if you use those words for people using the word "boy" as the only way to emphasise that trans girls bodies are different to those of their daughters (which they are, of course, or why would they be trans girls?)...

...You've nothing left for the others. Nothing left to describe the kind of attitudes the Jews faced in Nazi Germany, or Uighur Muslims encounter in China, or the thinking that led to the brutal murder of 8000 men and boys in the Bosnian genocide. Don't these groups deserve the language necessary to describe the horrors they've faced? The above suggests that even "boy" is forbidden them by your standards, or at best reduced to meaning something different to how they would use it. Would you call surviving Bosniaks bigotted simply for using a word lets them verbalise their own understanding of what happened back then?

Hyperbole like yours is both ridiculous and dangerous.

Please don't degrade our language in this way.

It leave people unable to recognise or describe actual prejudice in its very worst forms.