Children Allowed to Self-Declare Gender at Nearly Half of Schools
Nearly half of secondary schools are allowing children to self-declare their gender without parental consent, an investigation has found. The Telegraph has the story.
Downing Street is being urged to intervene by MPs and peers in light of the findings.
Freedom of Information requests to more than 300 state secondary schools in England have found that 40% are allowing children to self-declare their gender.
The research, by the think tank Policy Exchange, also found that more than 30% of schools are failing to inform their Designated Safeguarding Lead when a child wishes to change gender.
The report claims that the practice of affirming a child’s feelings of “gender distress”, where a child thinks there is a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity, has become “embedded within the classroom, meaning secondary schools are effectively facilitating medical interventions on site”.
Nadhim Zahawi, the former education secretary, said: “This Policy Exchange report marks an important contribution to the growing body of evidence demonstrating that urgent attention needs to be paid to the ways children are being impacted by gender identity beliefs.”
Baroness Morris of Yardley, a former Labour education secretary, said: “Children deserve to be kept safe and action is now urgent.”
According to the report, only 28% of schools said that they would reliably inform a parent as soon as a child disclosed they were questioning their gender.
The investigation also found that 28% of schools do not have single-sex toilets, while at least 19% are not maintaining single-sex changing rooms.
Schools have been waiting for almost a year for new transgender guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) to help them navigate a rise in the number of pupils who say they want to change their gender identity.
Civil servants started working on the guidance last April when Mr Zahawi was in charge of the department. However, work on the guidance has stalled under a succession of new leaders and is now due to be published “later this year”, according to the DfE.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Backbencher-of-the-year Miriam Cates appeared on GB News earlier today to discuss this report. She’s not happy.
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I have never been more glad that my kids attend a single sex school.
Well, until some self-identified member of the opposite sex insist on attending your kids’ school. What then? Do most of the teaching staff at these schools actually believe that putting on a dress makes you a female or are they being bullied by a select few members into conforming/accepting?
me either, though I have to say especially in girls schools there is a certain peer trend of adoptive behaviours, many girls at single sex schools some years ago went through phases of eating disorders, bulimia and Anorexia, this became serious amongst some friends children. I wonder would schools have encouraged such behaviour if there were a anorexia or bulimia pressure groups, would they inform the parents or let the child just starve itself to death, after all where is the difference between that and encouraging a child to “transistion”, its ultimate end is bodilt mutilation. What is wrong with our teachers, don’t they know that puberty and the teen years are challenging psychologically also the peer group and belonging to the group take precedence at this age,so any trend adopted is rapidly spread through the group. Teenagers are confused about their changing bodies, girls the sudden sexualisation etc, this however is not and should not be viewed as an opportunity by malignant forces to encourage a change which will have life long effects. It seems to me that along with this and the teaching of adult sexual activities to primary children would suggest that the Education system is wrife… Read more »
“THEY”are lucky indeed !
Bad headline. I imagine I would have been “allowed to self-declare” my gender at school 20 years ago, in that there were no rules against it. The teachers would probably have ignored me, and my classmates would probably have bullied the hell out of me.
Presumably what the headline is tiptoeing around is that boys/girls who “self-declare” as the other sex are immediately ushered into the girls’/boys’ toilets and changing rooms with the actual girls/boys.
I am going to ask a simple question and hope I won’t have silly knee jerk accusations thrown at me.
If trans ideology is anti woman, why is it spreading so much in schools, an environment in which women are over represented and which is largely dominated by women?
Because the female teachers don’t realise that it’s anti-women. They think it’s about ‘being kind’ to an oppressed minority.
Yeah. The problem is that women aren’t just the useful idiots as you are suggesting. Some of the fiercest promoters of trans ideology are also women. Like Nicola Sturgeon, for example. I trust you don’t think she does that out of kindness towards oppressed minorities.
Is she anti-women?
She’s a fascist – what others want doesn’t matter.
Yes, but is she anti-women?
I’m not surprised I’m not getting any answers to my very simple question.
Just like vaccine advocates don’t want to answer questions about vaccine damage. And mask advocates don’t want to explain why they wear masks when they clearly don’t work. Or climate freaks don’t want to talk about why the Maldives aren’t under water, despite the prediction 20 years ago that they would be by now.
It triggers too much cognitive dissonance.
How can it be that a self proclaimed feminist like Sturgeon is also an aggressive advocate of trans rights? How can it be that in place that is essentially dominated by women – schools – there is an epidemic of transsexuality, not among boys, but among girls.
We ignore these questions at our own peril.
I dunno….it’s like asking why some folk are rabidly in favour of masking or jabbing people.
Most are deluded and are either too stupid to understand the facts or can’t be arsed to listen to the facts.
The others, who do understand but persist in supporting practices that are clearly harmful to vulnerable people….I can only think they are either malevolent or paid.
Well let’s hope the assault on Posie Parker and the various school shooters that were reportedly of the Trans variety wake a few of the dozy numpties up. I mean, they’re doing a grand job of advertising to the world what utter headcases many of them are all on their own, no input from anyone else required.
Because female teachers (and male teachers) are afraid that if they say anything, they will get into terrible trouble, they’ll be branded “anti trans” and “transphobic”, and risk losing their jobs (during a cost of living crisis) and their lives will never be the same again. A few examples: (1) ‘A maths teacher has been dismissed from a school in Swindon for “transphobic discrimination” after refusing to use a trans student’s correct name and pronouns. A disciplinary hearing last month upheld three complaints of “gross misconduct” against Lister, that he: “subjected gender-transitioning student” to “transphobic discrimination”, “harassment”, and “refused to use” the student’s preferred name and he/him pronouns.’ https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/09/27/teacher-kevin-lister-transphobia-sacked-trans-pronouns/ (2) ‘A teacher is facing disciplinary action at his school after he referred to a transgender pupil as a girl, although the student identifies as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said “Well done girls” when addressing a group including the student. He described it as a “slip of the tongue”, but said he believed biological sex was defined at birth’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-41966554 (3) “A primary school teacher from the East Midlands, who was sacked after refusing to address an eight-year-old transgender pupil as a boy, is taking her… Read more »
I’m glad you’ve given these examples as it demonstrates rhe point I’m making over and over again but I keep getting down votes and accusations of trolling.
Most.of your examples are girls thinking they are boys. Trans insanity is now mostly girls thinking they are boys, not wierdos invading womens toilets.
When are people going to start f**Kong listening. You are.all being conned, misdirected.
This is a huge problem. In schools. It is out of control. And it’s women, not men, women that are driving this.
Women like Sturgeon. I repeat my question. Is Sturgeon a misogynist?
I don’t know what your point is, stewart. Most, but not all, anorexic teenagers are girls rather than boys, maybe because of similar psychological and social reasons as to why most trans teenagers are girls.
My point is why are women promoting an ideology that is, supposedly, anti-women?
Not all women obviously or most women, but I’ve given two examples that can’t be waved away. A prominent individual, Sturgeon, who is a staunch feminist. And a collective, women in schools.
It’s something that needs to be addressed.
And so far all I’m seeing is an attempt to pass transsexualism off as some new form of misogyny perpetrated by male women haters.
I’ve replied to your question, stewart, but my comment is “awaiting for approval”:
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presumably because I’ve included a few links. Here is the beginning of it, containing no links:
Because female teachers (and male teachers) are afraid that if they say anything, they will get into terrible trouble, they’ll be branded “anti trans” and “transphobic”, and risk losing their jobs (during a cost of living crisis) and their lives will never be the same again…
It would be interesting to see how many teachers are radically promoting this and how many are just keeping their heads down and mouths closed as they have a mortgage to pay.
Let’s say it’s a few – which it probably is. We can assume some if not most are women. Are they anti-women?
I’m very curious whether I’m going to get a proper answer to my question or just down ticks from people who presumably don’t like the question.
I suppose any group of women who attack other women for not accepting cross dressing men as women, people who are vilified if they claim that an adult human female is a woman, could legitimately be called ‘anti-women’. It is something that seems to affect a modest number, but with a very wide effect. I don’t think we should fall into the identarian trap of imagining all women think the same about every issue.
What I don’t fully get is why, beyond imagining that they are in someway mentally disturbed, or so captured by ideology that they would rather burn people at the stake than consider a different opinion.
What most people don’t realise and don’t seem to want to hear is that most trans cases these days are girls wanting to become boys, not vice versa.
The news is portraying a distorted picture of the issue, with high profile but minority cases.
Everyone thinks the trans movement is mostly weirdo guys wanting to invade women’s spaces. It’s not. It’s confused girls being encouraged to think they are male.
The news is leading people down a garden path and I don’t quite know why.
I don’t think “Everyone thinks the trans movement is mostly weirdo guys wanting to invade women’s spaces”, at least not all the people who have been following the widely reported stories about the Tavistock Clinic and the charity, Mermaids, which have been widely criticised for encouraging girls to wear “chest binders”.
Not that I’m doubting you but do you have a source for the ‘most trans cases’..?
Perhaps we should remember that there are different kinds of motivations for people to become ‘Trans’, and there is no one right answer to your questions.
Several. But the main source is what I see in schools. Ask any teacher in a mixed school to tell you whether there are more boys or girls claiming a new gender.
I’m married to one, so I am aware of this in schools but not widely. Whats your theory.?
No they are not necessarily “anti women”. They are pro accepting people who are trans and consequently mostly thoughtless about the effects this has on women.
Maybe some. But what about Sturgeon, who is a feminist? You’re not suggesting she is a naive do goder, are you?
Yep. I continue to be very happy we took our two out of school in October 2020.
I’m so glad my two sons are now adults and were not subjected to the levels of Cultural Marxist indoctrination now prevalent in schools.
No wonder home schooling is increasing.
19% of secondary schools don’t have single sex changing rooms? That means the girls in them are surrounded by half naked boys with hard ons. What fucking geniuses rubber stamped that idea?