Thread by @WRNScotland

🧵The Scottish Gov’s new transgender pupil guidance (Sep 2025) has been published , but it’s flawed
It still promotes gender ideology
It still defies the law
Ignores evidence
Risks child welfare
Ignores Safeguarding
Here’s why it remains a problem.gov.scot/publications/s…

The Guidance does refer to UK Supreme Court (sex = bio sex) but it still lets children and young people self-ID as the opposite "gender" It lets boys use girls’ spaces like changing rooms etc. This violates the Equality Act & girls’ rights to dignity privacy & safety.

There is no evidence for “Transgender" children and young people The guidance assumes they can be “trans” it ignores evidence from the Cass Review which says gender distress in children & young people is often linked to autism trauma etc Labelling children and young people as “trans” risks locking them into a path to medical harm

It still pushes social transition it encourages name/pronoun changes as young as primary school. Cass warned this can cement identity children may outgrow, raising distress & medicalisation risks. Guidance ignores this, still using biased stories like "I Am Jazz" as reference points

It continues to undermine parents It says it involves parents but lets children and young people block info-sharing This pits schools against families, risks labelling parents & could lead to child protection overreach but ultimately it encourages the lack of a safeguarding approach

It creates frees speech & safeguarding risks. It allows staff to hide a child’s sex to avoid “outing.” This clashes with safeguarding & Equality Act transparency. This creates a culture of lies in schools and the wider community and requires everyone to comply. Failure to maintain the lie could lead to sanctions for children parents & teachers

It still relies on biased Sources It relies on groups like Mermaids & LGBT Youth Scotland, with histories of safeguarding issues. It still uses biased stories like I Am Jazz as reference points Ignores Cass’s call for evidence-based approaches. It continues to promote an ideology

This Guidance continues to push unproven affirmation over law, evidence, & children & young people's well-being. It continues to promote confusion, & harm. The guidance should be withdrawn it is not fit for purpose