GCSE pupils taught toilets provided by biological sex is discrimination - according to new GCSE Revision book.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/06/gcse-pupils-taught-its-their-civic-duty-not-to-offend/?mc_cid=6392355406&mc_eid=15dd08d58f

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"The textbook also states that it is “discrimination” to provide lavatories only for men and women and that “human rights come ahead of the right of a country to conduct its own affairs”.
As examples of discrimination, it includes “gender reassignment discrimination, eg toilets provided only for men or women”."

I think it is discriminatory if you don't have some unisex provision, if we are going to say that with single sex toilets transmen have to use the female toilets and transwomen have to use male toilets, everybody should be able to use the toilet with dignity.

Yes, "dignity" is a very important consideration. Nothing undignified at all about these individuals accessing female-only spaces but heaven forfend they should suffer the indignity of having to use male-only spaces.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5521856-5521856-biggus-titus-of-oxford-university

The problem being unisex provision is always going to be inferior to single sex provision in terms of health and safety, because the design is completely private.

I just had a depressing thought. Normally, I buy (and recommend) secondhand books in order to pre-date this ideology. But this textbook is the secondhand book of tomorrow, isn't it? This book is going to be on charity shop shelves in the next few months or so and will stay there for years.😔

Unless action is taken to make transactivism on children illegal, and they are all too weak to do this, it is going to go on and on. It is in all sorts of books.

If we were to play safeguarding and ask a difficult question or two, a good one to the DfE among others might be:

'why might it be that transactivists wish so much to access children and provide them with materials etc? At a time when they are separated from their parents and families? And when there is no one else there attached to the child who is providing balanced wider perspective and critical insight into what is being said to them?'

Perhaps with a bit of sharing some of the specific information in some of activist documentation available on line about exactly why they want to tell things to children when they're separated from their families and adults with more life experience and critical thinking/knowledge of how political lobbyists lacking ethics go after their goals, from any balancing input, or anything that might dilute the success of the messaging they want to implant?

Another might be 'how do children benefit from being exposed to political lobbyists in school, where there is a duty of care and adults inviting those lobbyists in - and setting limits on behaviours and responses - are enabling this one sided, uncontested political downloading/influencing to occur? In a place where children trust the adults and the information they are being given?'

How is this in any way ethical? Acceptable? Respectful to the children and their families? Compatible with safeguarding? Is the only boundary 'do the staff quite like the politics of the people they are exposing the children to and think intentionally taking advantage of their position, the children's vulnerability and their families being excluded is a 'good thing'?

'Would we let the Conservatives or Reform pop in with shiny slogans and spend a couple of hours workshopping with our kids to influence them towards voting as those groups would like? Shall we expose the kids to using Conservative or Reform shiny resources that push the messaging and influence and advertising further into normal, accepted 'this is the way to think and act?'

It is quite fantastically fucked up from multiple angles.

Current GCSE pupils will have started on their syllabus 2 years ago and that will have been written at least 1-2 years ahead of that (so 2022-23).

It's very likely not to be the last syllabus that isn't reflecting the fws judgement. The syllabus will get there but for obvious reasons, the children, parents and teachers aren't fans of a syllabus changing while studying it.

Children, parents and teachers also aren't very keen on legally incorrect materials or transactivists pushing their niche anti social beliefs at other people's children via exam boards.

Can't imagine why 🙄