Transgender pupils are to be banned from competing in PE lessons against pupils of the opposite biological sex, new Government plans advise. The Mail has the story.
The guidance, which is expected to be released within the next few weeks and will apply to all state and independent single-sex schools in England, aims to protect girls’ safety and ensure fair competition in sport.
The rule will not be in breach of the Equality Act because there are exemptions for competitive sport and schools are allowed to provide same-sex services if “objectively justifiable”.
Schools will also be told to ban transgender children from using toilets or changing rooms for the gender they identify with.
Those who have changed their gender could be provided with alternative facilities where appropriate, the advice is expected to say.
Schools will also be required to tell the child’s parents if they wish to change their gender, wear uniform consigned to the opposite sex or request they be referred to by different pronouns.
Government sources believe that it is unfair to put transgender girls, who were born as a boy, in competition with biological girls.
They used the example of rugby, saying that it would be “dangerous” and “unfair” given the average biological boy’s size and strength.
“Headteachers will be allowed to have mixed PE lessons where that is not such a worry — for example, tennis. But when sport is competitive, or when safety is a concern, girls’ spaces should be protected,” one said according to the Sun.
Latest encouraging sign of pushback against the transgender madness.
Worth reading in full.
Stop press: Parents of trans pupils plan to sue the Government after teachers “kept their children’s gender switches secret”, according to the Mail.
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Off-topic but you’ve got to read this to believe it! Think I had the wrong impression of Spiked..
”It can be tempting to ignore the anti-vax conspiracy theorists – the people who believe the Covid vaccines are killing hundreds of thousands and injuring millions, and that it’s all being covered up by the powers-that-be. After all, these beliefs are mainly confined to a small but vocal fringe. But now that this tendency counts a British MP among its ranks, we cannot afford to let it slide. It is simply too irrational to shrug off – it needs to be challenged head on.
That MP is Andrew Bridgen, the member for North West Leicestershire. This week, we learned that he has been expelled from the Conservative Party for his anti-vax agitation (he was initially suspended back in January).
Bridgen’s backers are outraged by this. They insist that he was merely ‘raising concerns’ about vaccine safety. They say he has been martyred for ‘dar[ing] to criticise the Covid regime’. But this is a rewriting of history. It downplays just how deranged and lurid some of Bridgen’s claims about the vaccines have been. Many of his remarks have been utterly indefensible.
Bridgen tends to cite another set of statistics, from the MHRA’s Yellow Card reporting scheme. When someone experiences an adverse reaction from a vaccine, they can lodge a Yellow Card. By November last year, the MHRA had received and analysed nearly 178,000 such cards for the Pfizer vaccines, 247,000 for the AstraZeneca jab and 47,000 linked to Moderna. These may sound like large numbers, but we shouldn’t forget the size of the vaccinated cohort – the UK has handed out more than 151million doses of vaccine and has double-vaccinated almost nine in 10 residents.
Besides, the overwhelming majority of these reports relate to reactions at the injection site or include things like sore arms, dizziness, nausea, headaches and fatigues. These symptoms are generally not associated with longer-term health issues.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/30/the-delusions-of-andrew-bridgen/
I’m not so surprised. I used to support ‘Spiked’ (financially) but cancelled my regular payment when they published an article which included approval of mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers. I’m being careful in case my memory isn’t reliable, but I’m pretty sure the author of the article was the person whose name most would associate with ‘Spiked’.
Your memory is spot on Deborah.
I had a paid subscription to Spiked for a couple of years up until Brendan O’Neill posted an article vehemently stating that Care Home workers should face mandatory “vaccination.” It was a vile, unintelligent and grotesque piece of writing and I ditched my subscription immediately.
Spiked is lightweight and always careful not to push too far. It’s a bit like Unherd and I have just ditched that subscription after two years.
Yep, unfortunately you have been under the wrong impression with Spiked.
Never mind Mogs – lessons will be learned.
LOL, yes no more visits to that site then. Actually I just followed a link, I never go seek it out. Author of the above article is a right ‘piece of work’ ( the polite version ) though!
Yep!
I keep ‘Spiked’ at a very long arm’s length now.
Short version: Nothing new in here. Just a load of waffle plus repeating the wrong claim
Most infamously, in the tweet that led to his suspension, he claimed that the vaccines were the ‘biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust’. This is not ‘raising concerns’. This is exploiting the mass murder of six million Jews to bolster a blatantly false claim.
Quoting the unnamed cardiologist who stated that was a perfectly predictable PR disaster which first led to Bridgen having the Tory whip removed and then, to its expulsion from the party, or, put into other words, the likes of Spiked are exploiting the mass murder of six million Jews in order to silence a debate about vaccine injuries. That’s a perfectly common establishment tactic because almost 80 years of rabid anti-German propaganda have turned Nazis and Holocaust into memes, originally not silly pictures created by xchan addicts but self-perpetuating tropes, people are wont to come up with unthinkingly all of the time because they’ve seen them repeated on every occasion for so many times.
There’s nothing positive Bridgen could conceivably have accomplished by publishing this quote and the outcome was devastating for both himself and the people on whose behalf he was trying to speak. Real clever plot, eh?
Fraser Myers claims to believe it was.
Yes, good point and I agree. I must say, I’ve thrown the odd ”Nazi” insult around as a likeness to the general attitude and behaviours of many individuals over the last few years. Parallels are indisputable in my opinion. I wonder if Bridgen regrets his quoting the cardiologist on that point or was everything that happened subsequently just an inevitability really, as surely he had a target on his back anyway as soon as he started speaking up. The small handful of others, such as Chope and Kruger, have been a bit more subdued and demonstrated caution in comparison I see. But much like Tucker Carlson, Bridgen has been set free to say just whatever he likes with wild abandon and the establishment’s tyrannical behaviour just gets more attention worldwide as a result. What I like is that TPTB try to censor and silence people but they just have the opposite effect. Win-win.
There may be a positive effect of that in the long run, but for now, the most serious assault on the circled waggons of covaxx gang so far has again been thwarted. And been thwarted in the usual way, by essentially alleging that having been injured by such an injection means that you
a) statistically don’t exist.
b) are just a Nazi, anyway.
I’m obviously oversimplifying this but that’s the general drift of it.
It also makes such defensive lashing-out easier in future: Should another MP pick up this topic, he can be immediately linked to Bridgen and another They’ve blasphemed against our Holocaust! debate kicked off by digging out the same quote. Instead of talking vaccine injuries and their victims, said hypothetical MP will then be forced into a general round of kow-towing in front of the very much moral and virtuous authorities to make it absolutely clear that he not only doesn’t agree with this particular statements but also considers it totally abhorrent etc.
On the plus side, the replies on Twitter to Myers’ article are a delight.
I was thinking of subscribing to Spiked. That has certainly put me off. Maybe it’s just one opinion among many on Spiked? Have there been or will there be articles giving the opposite point of view?
Think I’d give it a wide berth judging by Deborah and Huxley’s posts. I’m sure there’s other outlets that are way more deserving of your money, although my experience of reading Spiked is virtually non-existent.
Don’t bother. If you feel the need to read it do so but I wouldn’t bother subscribing.
Do I detect a modicum of common sense entering the building or is this a belated April Fool by the government?
Smoke and Mirrors- it’s the illusion of pushing back.
As a 17 year old tight-head prop, I would have enjoyed kicking the living shit out of the girls that knocked me back…..