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

[SingleSexSpacesInSchools]

Hello friends.

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

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

I read that in a Cuddles the monkey voice from Orville the duck. Definitely showing my age!

just how I said it in my head...

@SingleSexSpacesInSchoolshave you seen this case? Not identical but has many of the same arguments
Mother sues all-girls school for ‘admitting transgender pupil’

https://www.thetimes.com/article/bff0c621-9e45-44c7-9b37-7d5001d4be35?shareToken=ff82e14a1511fc945114373138f9f4fc

I have but thank you! Very glad this is also going ahead, the more the better, its just a matter of time now

That's an awful story. Which surely is only going to have one result, fortunately. Where the hell are we when councils and schools just ignore the law?

it makes me incredibly sad that cries of ‘TERF’ and ‘Transphobe’ are shouted and written on placards about things like this when the whole point is being missed.

Well done to this mum, and all other parents embroiled in expensive and lengthy court cases.

The other case is quite close to me - there will be a difference in that the MP is Graham Stuart, who is a very good local MP, despite being a Tory 😉. I can’t see him not supporting the mum even further if she needs it.

Beverley is the administrative centre of the East Riding and a decent size market town - this isn’t a case of lack of facilities for boys as the nearby Beverley Grammar is the boys counterpart school, and very old and well regarded. The sixth form is a joint facility for both schools.

No news is still no news sorry everyone - courts are backed up for weeks / months, will update as soon as anything happens.

My daughter did get a few more cards though so that was really nice, I am going to try and take a picture - though the chocolates have been long eaten and she bought a bikini with a voucher as well which I won't share, but it's all been very supportive from everyone thank you :)

I'd got so used to your frequent updates about school emails it feels very strange to have this long period of quiet 😂The Head must be appreciating it, even if panicking about the court case outcome at the same time.

Given the EHRC guidance has been issued at last, surely the authority/ school will back down? Have the lawyers said anything about the impact?

The GLP will ride the train as long as they can, I expect. They don’t seem to care that they frequently lose in court. They still get paid, by their funders at least.

The GLP remind me very much of the SNP.
We're seemingly stuck with them both forever.
The worse they perform at their core tasks, the more they're rewarded by their supporters.
Seemingly happiest clanging around in the noise of their echo chambers.

Even though the school did rely on waiting for the EHRC guidance as a ploy to not take any action, the code doesn’t actually have anything to do with schools so I don’t know

There is a point that maybe the school has to supply compliant toilets for members of the public perhaps when they come in but it doesn’t legally cover pupils

Schools are workplaces so have to supply legally compliant toilets for the staff.

Presumably the clincher will be the KCSIE guidance which is explicit about no mixed sex changing etc?