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@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire A different point. But Waldegrave was said to be chairing the appeal committee. Not only can he not now do that, but he has compromised the independence of any appeal. And I don't see Equalities Act point unless a suggestion that the talk creates a hostile environment. For whom?

@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire Women? That's a real stretch, and indeed absurd. Transexuals? Easier to argue. But since that wasn't the original point of objection, that's a jump from one circus pony to another (all the while pleading confidentiality to avoid explaining), which shows the parti pris

@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire That would explain a lot. The Head's suggestion that if even one person in a protected group found or might find something objectionable (? "hostile") it was banned. The secrecy. Eton knows the public, parents' and boys' reaction if this were found to be about 'transexual rights'

@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire And of course the hunt would be on: 'who?' So the school would be zealous in protecting 'him/her's privacy, while discarding the teacher

@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire But it's still wrong if the teacher was not helped to see how he might edit his message to avoid any imagined liability to the school. And still unreasonable if he was not allowed to put it on his website without any link to the school.

@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire The broader point is: should we be failing to give honest teaching to a whole generation of boys because truth telling might cause offence to a vanishingly small minority who suffer from what is now called a dysphoria?

@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire With all due respect to the boys who wrote a splendid letter to the Provost, the structure and wording suggest to me the helpful editorial hand of a master. We may surmise that a considerable majority of the teaching staff, as well as boys and parents, feel strongly

@hcoj__ @NoNumbersNess @Fox_Claire To conclude: #Eton deserves a whole lot better than this Head Master

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