A primary schoolteacher has lost her job and is facing a raft of investigations from various regulatory bodies for questioning the advice from Stonewall and Mermaids to encourage a ‘gender transition’ of an eight year-old pupil without any medical evidence.
The child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons and is known only as ‘Child X’, believed she was born in a wrong body and wanted to be treated as a boy.
Based on the advice from trans rights organisations such as Mermaids and Stonewall, the council instructed all school staff always to refer to the child by male pronouns and her chosen male name and that she should use boys’ toilets, dressing rooms and dormitories as requested.
The teacher known as ‘Hannah’ (not her real name) invoked the school’s and the council’s whistleblowing procedure to argue that this approach was not based on medical evidence or compliance with the safeguarding procedures and was putting the child’s health and welfare at risk.
Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Hannah relied on several expert reports from scientists and doctors highlighting the dangers of encouraging ‘gender transition’ in young children.
After her concern was brushed aside, Hannah brought a claim for judicial review against the school and the council.
The court ordered that the local council, the school and all its staff must remain anonymous to ensure this does not lead to a jigsaw identification of the child.
In response to Hannah’s legal action, the school summarily dismissed her for divulging confidential information to her lawyers and to the court.
The school reported Hannah to the Information Commissioner for a criminal offence under the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner has concluded there was no evidence of a criminal offence and decided to take no further action.
The school also reported Hannah to the professional regulator, Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA), for an alleged confidentiality breach. The TRA is currently investigating the case. If found guilty of professional misconduct, Hannah may face a lifelong ban from the profession.
Reporting Hannah to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the school sought to bar her from teaching. The DBS, however, has declined to impose a ban pending further enquiries following an investigation.
After a life-long career as a professional teacher, Hannah has been forced to find a job in a sandwich bar.
She has now brought a claim in Employment Tribunal against the school for victimising her for whistleblowing, unfair dismissal and religious discrimination.
She has alleged that the school dismissed her, and reported her to a raft of regulators, for blowing the whistle on the school’s practice which endangered the child’s safety, health and welfare.
The Employment Tribunal is expected to hear the claim in August 2024.
Hannah has this week written to Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, requesting a meeting to discuss her case.
Her case and the TRA investigation come despite a scathing report published last month by think tank Policy Exchange.
The report reveals the disturbing extent of extreme transgender and gender identity ideology in U.K. schools. In the foreword to the report Rosie Duffield MP writes: “A generation of children are being let down, because well-established safeguarding standards are being compromised.”’
The report goes on to say that in relation to sex and gender issues: “Safeguarding principles are being routinely disregarded in many secondary schools, which are neglecting their safeguarding responsibilities in favour of a set of contested beliefs in a way that risk jeopardising child wellbeing and safety.”
Hannah said:
Like all teachers at the school, I owed a safeguarding duty to Child X. From day one I believe that I acted in Child X’s best interests as I had a legitimate belief that the treatment of Child X amounted to a serious safeguarding issue.
I followed all the correct procedures, I backed all of my concerns with expert evidence and believed the action I took was in the public interest.
It is because I care so much about children that I am taking this action. This isn’t about me simply trying to prove that I am right, but about the safety of a seriously distressed child.
I could not participate in causing harm to Child X. The tragic stories of ‘detransitioners’, the Policy Exchange report and clear expert scientific evidence, back and vindicate me.
Teachers are being bullied not to question trans affirming policies when evidence shows that the actual result of the approach is to put the welfare of children at serious risk.
I am determined to pursue justice over how I have been treated, but my number one concern and motivation is to protect this child and other children in this country from harm.
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I feel outraged on Hannah’s behalf and my heart goes out to that child. What 8yr old kid believes they’re in the wrong body? The only way they could feel like that is due to the toxic influence of adults around them. Everything’s back to front now, it’s insane.😣 The predators and sickos are being not only protected but empowered while anyone speaking out against blatant child abuse gets persecuted. How is this ever going to change and society get back to some semblance of normality?
How many laws is this perverted, sick, twisted, Gay-Tranny cult transgressing? How many useless child agencies, teachers, ministries and others in ‘the system’, do nothing ? Why is child abuse, child porn, deviancy, penis-woman porn etc tolerated though they violate existing laws? Then we have the morality or lack of it, within the useless teachers union and in households. We are really one f*ed up society. Sick, stupid supine. Go Hannah go, burn the bastards with truth. Nothing says civ decline like child abuse, mutilation, endless porn and perversion.
Fully support you Mogs.
Sat with my Dad at the moment and he had the BBC on – its the 6 o’clock prog. I never watch MS news. The BBC were in Liverpool promoting the garbage Eurovision. And guess who they were chatting to?
Two drag performers in full slap.
WTF is that about? At 6 o’clock?
Bloody sick.
Shall we place bets on the winners of this year’s Eurovision being trans? You just know it’s going to be full of rainbow flags too don’t you? It wouldn’t surprise me at all if it’s just one giant, elaborate woketard shindig on steroids. I never watch it anyway, although it’s easy to get sucked in to the sheer ‘pantomimeness’ of it all if somebody else has it on in the house. And while we’re at it, shall we bet the UK will place in the bottom 3? LOL The Netherlands didn’t even make it through to the finals but they didn’t have the required level of campness and weren’t sufficiently cringeworthy I don’t think..bit vanilla by today’s standard of entertainment.
The electoral destruction of the Conservative party may be a good start.
Hannah is a victim of appalling mistreatment by a lunatic cult that by any objective measure is dangerous and needs purging from our society (the cult and the views, not the the people, before some professional offence taker loon tries to accuse me of advocating genocide!) The most disgusting thing is that the hearing isn’t to be heard until 2024 – 15 months from now. That’s lawfare, pure and simple.
The lunatic cult has become the State Religion.
Whistleblowers have certain legal protections. By the sounds of it the school are in breach of their own responsibilities in treating safeguarding and whistleblowing activities so if it was me i’d be going full tonto on them for this alone.
Exactly so. Especially as a number of the organisations approached by the school in their witch hunt have told the school to bog off
The perverts have wormed their evil way into every nook and cranny of our society. Its sickening, but they warned us many years ago that they would destroy our societies from within many years ago. They even called themselves the ‘destroyers’ they were that sure of their mission.
Read up on the Frankfurt School and all will make sense. Evil personified doesn’t even get to the outside of what these people were about. Pre war Berlin will give you a clue..
The claim that people have a self that’s different from their physical existence, ie, that the conscious mind is not another physical function of the body, belongs necessarily to the domain of religion, ie, stuff (some) people believe to be true despite there’s no way to determine if it is actually true. Stonemaids and Merwall are religious organizations propagating a modern, pseudo-scientific religion. They’re obviously entitled to do that. But they’re decidedly not entitled to proselytize among elementary school children without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.
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This is just nonsense, when a real fight begins do you really think that people are going to be pre-occupied with pronouns and trasgenderism. It is just that the West, especially England and the United States are so obscenely wealthy that their minds turn to rot. We shall see I don’t think that the Anglo-Saxon countries are going to be quite so wealthy in a few months time.
If teachers can strike for other stuff then why not for this?
Those who disagree with the official ideology get punished.
Goodbye free speech.