“The awards cut across every aspect of the operation of the school...advising teachers to “introduce yourself at the start of the year using your pronouns and encourage students to do the same.”
This is compelled speech. #Teachers contact your unions.
‘in her evidence to @Commonswomequ
earlier this week Stonewall CEO @Nancy_M_K claimed: “one of the things that’s really important to say is that we don’t advocate for the removal of the single sex exemptions.” ‘
“If you are a public body, it will distort your policies & decision-making in ways that will expose you to Judicial Review , & embarrassing & expensive climb-downs of the kind already performed by @OxfordshireCC@cpsuk & @ONS”
“Latest @educationgovuk guidance is...schools should not use or promote groups with extreme views. Far from challenging homophobia in society, Stonewall are driving it; by reinforcing sexist stereotypes & dismantling the meaning of same-sex attraction.”
If your school are using resources from #Stonewall (contrary to latest @educationgovuk guidance) we have template letters to assist in challenging this & getting unsuitable materials withdrawn.
Schools, public bodies & individuals must do their due diligence. Promoting anything with a rainbow flag on without checking its suitability is insulting to many LGB people. This tweet from @GwynneMP will not age well for him or @UKLabour
Did you check what @proud trust promote to schools before tweeting #ProudMP@GwynneMP? Do you think these sex games for 13 year olds are a good use of the #TamponTax? We don’t.
What do you think off this activity? It looks like it was written by @TitaniaMcGrath.
This was funded by @educationgovuk despite being against their own guidelines.
Why are people not speaking out about what is obviously wrong? What will the public inquiry in 20 years time say? Who will be the villains? Who will be the heroes? What excuses will be made by those who didn’t speak out? @DavidLeanLeano@garycliffe1
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Yet more ‘historic’ child #safeguarding failures. But are these historic? Or are the same failings still happening today? Does everybody who has concerns always raise them? Or in another 20 yrs time will we be listening to excuses from people who..
have concerns RIGHT NOW but are failing to raise them? Are we learning our lessons? Are we listening? Or do we continue to vilify those who raise concerns? Do we as adults accept our responsibility to safeguard all children? Do we really understand the mantra ‘You never...
know anyone well enough to say they couldn’t, wouldn’t or didn’t’? Or do we continue to ignore our instincts, excuse friends, family, colleagues, pillars of the community, to the detriment of children? Do we fulfil our duty to #SpeakOut? Or do we continue to allow ourselves...
It is an important case to follow for any #schools & #teachers working with Stonewall. The CPS ‘hate crimes’ schools pack, produced in conjunction with #Stonewall has now been permanently withdrawn, but the judicial review of the relationship between CPS...
Ben Cooper trying to establish communications between individuals at Stonewall & individuals at Garden Court Chambers. Arguing names of individuals is relevant and they put in public domain.
The @CareQualityComm inspection report which found @TaviAndPort#GIDS service to be ‘inadequate’ is a truly shocking read. We are appalled at the spin that this is just about waiting times. It is not. This is a #safeguarding scandal. Full report here:
Questions must be asked (and answered) about why so many children were experiencing distress around gender in the first place. What has gone wrong in our society? Why are we failing to challenge gender stereotypes? What are children looking at online?
The regulatory capture in our society has gone so far that even the @CareQualityComm report into this scandal uses highly contested, ideological language such as ‘assigned sex at birth’. This must stop. Sex is observed at birth, usually by medical professionals.
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We have been sent these screenshots from a Facebook group of teachers unofficially affiliated with a major union.
We are disturbed to see this misinformation and lack of understanding of safeguarding being circulated.
We agree that it is important for school staff to be mindful of any trans-identified student in their care, suffering from mental distress (or any students experiencing mental distress for whatever reason).
We understand that the #KeiraBell case will have caused distress to some, especially given the dangerous narrative being irresponsibly pushed that this will make children suicidal and was an attack on their rights, not an action to safeguard and protect them.