Dear gender critical people, I understand you are concerned about the safety of women and girls, but please stop misusing the term "safeguarding".
"Safeguarding" does not mean protection of women and girls. It means protection of children and vulnerable adults OF BOTH SEXES.
"Safeguarding" does not mean protection of women and girls. It means protection of children and vulnerable adults OF BOTH SEXES.
The Govt provides detailed policy guidance on safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults. Please read it. Training is also available.
Children: gov.uk/topic/schools-…
Vulnerable adults: gov.uk/government/pub…
Children: gov.uk/topic/schools-…
Vulnerable adults: gov.uk/government/pub…
Safeguarding policies ONLY apply to children and vulnerable adults. They do not apply to adult women unless they are classed as vulnerable adults.
Safeguarding also means protection from all abusers, not just "predatory males". The Govt's statutory safeguarding literature for teachers says that sexual abusers are not necessarily adult males. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… 
I work at a girls' school. Like pretty much all girls' schools now, it admits boys in the sixth form. There are safeguarding issues for both girls and boys. Some issues, such as FGM, are specific to girls. Others, such as sexual abuse, apply to both sexes.
It would be wholly wrong to regard "safeguarding" as applying only to girls, ignoring the needs of boys at the school.
And since girls' schools not only admit boys in the sixth form but have male teachers, I find it hard to see why trans girls should not be admitted to girls' schools. The threat they pose to other girls is surely less than that of male teachers and sixth form boys.
The excerpt from the Govt's safeguarding literature for teachers that I quoted above identifies sexual abuse BY children as a specific safeguarding issue that all staff should be aware of and know the school's policies for dealing with it.
The requirement for all staff to know about peer abuse and the school's policies for dealing with it applies to all schools, not just mixed sex schools.
I can only think that those howling for trans girls to be excluded from girls' schools bcs of "safeguarding" don't know this.
I can only think that those howling for trans girls to be excluded from girls' schools bcs of "safeguarding" don't know this.
It's also not clear to me why safeguarding should be a reason to exclude trans girls from girls' schools, when safeguarding can't be used as an excuse for blanket exclusion of boys and trans girls from mixed-sex schools. Double standards, much?
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