Rishi Sunak is expected to delay issuing transgender guidance for schools after the Attorney-General and Government lawyers warned that plans to rule out gender transition would be unlawful. The Times has the story.
A Whitehall source said that No. 10 and Kemi Badenoch, the Women and Equalities Minister, wanted the guidance to be hardened amid pressure from Tory MPs.
The draft guidance stated that children should be allowed to socially transition with the consent of their parents, meaning that they could choose another pronoun or name and wear the uniform of the opposite sex.
But the Government then commissioned legal advice from Victoria Prentis, the Attorney-General, about whether a ban on social transitioning in schools was possible. Last week she concluded that such a move would be unlawful and said that the Government would need to pass new legislation if it wanted to go further.
Sunak had committed himself to publishing the guidance by the end of this week, but the Times has been told that is unlikely given the Attorney-General’s advice. The Prime Minister is concerned about the “long-term implications” of allowing children to socially transition.
A Government source said: “We have consistently said that this is about protecting children, empowering parents, and supporting teachers and school leaders by providing guidance for them to implement. It’s a complex and sensitive area and it’s right we get it right. More information is needed about the long-term implications of allowing a child to act as though they are the opposite sex and the impact that may have on other children too.”
A Whitehall source said that No.10 and Badenoch had put forward a series of proposals to strengthen the guidance. The strongest — and a reflection of the Government’s concerns — was a blanket ban on social transitioning.
Social transitioning describes the process by which transgender children or adults adopt a name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing and haircuts, that match their new gender identity.
Prentis said that a blanket ban would be unlawful because the Equality Act states that gender reassignment is a “protected characteristic”, regardless of age. She gave the same advice when ministers asked whether there could be a ban on social transitioning for primary school children.
Badenoch also wanted to include greater protection for free speech in the guidance, stating explicitly that teachers must not be “compelled” to address children by their chosen pronoun if they had a “good faith” objection.
The Attorney-General and Government lawyers advised ministers to caveat the guidance and state that nobody “should” be compelled unless there was a “particular justification” for doing so. Ministers have raised concerns that the approach could give schools grounds to discipline teachers if they failed to respect a child’s chosen gender.
Badenoch also suggested that doctors must be consulted before allowing children to socially transition as part of a “clinical gateway”. Again the Attorney-General suggested that the guidance would need to say that they “should” be consulted. The Department for Health said that the NHS would not be able to provide enough doctors and clinical support to advise on whether children should be able to socially transition.
Prentis herself is said to favour taking a tougher approach on the guidance, despite giving this unwelcome advice.
Worth reading in full.
Oddly, the advice from the current Attorney-General seems to contradict a speech made by then Attorney General Suella Braverman last year. She said:
The problem is that many schools and teachers believe – incorrectly – that they are under an absolute legal obligation to treat children who are gender questioning according to their preference, in all ways and all respects, from preferred pronouns to use of facilities and competing in sports. All this is sometimes taking place without informing their parents or taking into account the impact on other children. Anyone who questions such an approach is accused of transphobia. In my view, this approach is not supported by the law.
She added: “No child should be made to fear punishment or disadvantage for refusing to adopt a preferred pronoun for a gender questioning child. … The right to freedom of belief, thought, conscience and speech must be protected.”
Ms. Braverman pointed out that schools are wrong to treat children as ‘transgender’, since anyone under the age of 18 cannot obtain a gender recognition certificate. She stated: “Under-18s are unable to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate and schools will generally be dealing with children whose sex for the purposes of the Equality Act is that registered at birth.”
But now it turns out – at least according to the current Attorney-General and “Government lawyers” – that because the Equality Act failed to specify age limits for the “protected characteristic” of “gender reassignment”, it actually is unlawful to forbid social transition of schoolchildren, all the way down to four years-old, and has been since 2010. Who knew?
If this really is the case (why did no one mention it before, and why was Prentis’s predecessor of a different view?) a simple amendment disapplying the Equality Act’s ‘gender reassignment’ provisions for under-18s ought to do it.
Let’s see what the Government comes up with.
Stop Press: Joan Smith in UnHerd has written about the Tory divisions on the issue and which MPs are obstructing the Government’s attempts to stand up for children’s safety and women’s rights on this hot-button topic.
Stop Press 2: Mark Lehain in ConservativeHome says the delays to the guidance are frustrating, but we must take the time to get it right.
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This is excellent from Viktor Orban. Thank the gods for Hungary. They’ve become like the ‘control’ country, as Sweden was during the Scamdemic years. Therefore it would be interesting to get some data from them, such as crime stats, for instance, and compare with other countries in Europe who are being flooded continuously with these migrants from Africa and the Middle East.
”During his speech at the third annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, Hungary, Orbán described five methods of oppression being deployed by liberals to silence the opposition, with the Hungarian prime minister noting that some of the most advanced forms of oppression, including court action and intelligence service spying, are already being deployed against conservatives across the West.
The first step Orbán describes is liberal actions designed to change the meaning of words and phrases in order to mislead the people, with the issue of migration being the most substantial example of this trend.
“The first step of progressive liberals, their oppression, is to make normal mean the exact opposite. War is peace. That is what progressives still say today. The Peace Facility. That’s the name of the Brussels financial fund from which the most destructive weapons are sent to the front. Migration is a resource, they say, while crime is rising, the threat of terror is increasing and trust is being drained from our societies,” said Orbán.
Orban noted that Hungary has been able to withstand this sea change, making it a “unique location in all of Europe.”
“It is the fact that, while the whole of Europe is being swamped by an ocean of progressive liberalism, a conservative island has survived (in Hungary), an Island of Deference, defying the liberal tide, the Brussels blast, and the Washington hurricane. Not only defying but surviving, even thriving, even succeeding, even triumphing and triumphing again and again.”
The second step on the path to liberals maintaining power is to invert everything that is normal, including sexuality, education, family life, love of country, and ethnic homogeneity.
“The second step is to start spreading this inverted normality by state means. Anyone who thinks otherwise is problematic. There is something wrong with that. Anyone who disagrees is either ignorant or insane. The perception must be that listening to them would lead to some fatal disaster,” said Orbán.
This method helps tear families apart, mock cultural and national traditions, and normalize behavior that up until just a few decades ago was considered beyond the pale, Orbán told the conference, adding that liberal subversion had led to “crashing birthrates, soaring divorces, broken families, and a failing education system that focuses more on ideology than academic greatness.”
“All of this is fertile breeding ground for left-wing parties to thrive and paint conservatives and the right as “backward” and deserving of political suppression and even outright violence,” he said.”
https://rmx.news/article/hungarys-pm-orban-at-cpac-the-5-methods-of-oppression-liberals-are-using-against-conservatives/
Poland was also doing Ok then somehow the devious EU managed to shoehorn their wonderful conscript Tusk onto them ! Within days he was busy destabilising the Polish constitution !!..
That’s what I don’t understand. It’s like asking Gordon Brown to come back to sell off the Gold Reserves for tuppence again.
And so it continues…Jesus wept. They’re going to completely ‘wokeify’ the Olympics aren’t they? I wonder how many MtF trans athletes we’ll see competing in the women’s events versus FtM competing in the men’s. Will there be any trans athletes at all? Well, as long as they can thwart any of the planned terrorist attacks for the duration of the games I’m sure it’ll all turn out right in the end;
”The upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris will feature a “Pride House” to promote LGBT ideology and “celebrate” homosexual and gender-confused athletes, as well as their supporters.
Paris 2024 Executive Team President Tony Estanguet announced on May 17 of last year, the so-called “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia,” that the games would host the “Pride House.”
“We are convinced that sport changes lives, and that it is also a formidable tool for changing mentalities and contributing to the fight against discrimination,” he remarked, euphemistically referring to opposition to homosexuality and transgenderism.
Estanguet, a former slalom canoeist, has also stated that pro-LGBT athletes will have “plenty of opportunities” to display their beliefs this summer, a signal that rainbow flags may be more prominent at this year’s competition than in the past.
This year’s games have been billed as the first “gender equal” Olympics. What that means is that men and women will have 50-50 representation in competition. Said another way, there will be the same number of male athletes as there are female athletes.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/paris-olympics-pride-house-homosexual-gender/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa
Fatima Sweetbread the famous pentuptathalete back in the day went to the doctors worried about excess bodily hair growth , the doc asked “ which area is concerning you the most ?” answer was “ it’s down here round by my bollocks “
Covid Boosters Massive Cancer Deaths Study – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Thursday Morning Norreys Drive & Shoppenhangers Rd Maidenhead
Vaccines, autism and an epidemic of official lies
conservativewoman.co.uk/vaccines-autism-and-an-epidemic-of-official-lies/
Sally Beck
“Look at me, look at me, look at me, me, me!
Every day, every day, look at me, me, me!
Not my sign, not my sign, look at me, me, me!
Every day, every day, look at me, me, me!”
I dont understand what point you are trying to make? Should no-one be allowed to protest or to demonstrate?
Are you against the point they are trying to make?
Not at all. Everyone who visits this website agrees with all their signs, and their attempts to awaken and inform passing motorists are commendable.
As I’ve said previously, I am against these two women using this website to publish a photo of themselves every single day, preaching to the choir, virtue-signalling, and one of them has even stood with legs splayed wide in a disgusting pose and invitations to join them, making sure to publish their exact location every day, as if mistaking this website as a dating app for seniors.
They never seem to bother reading any of the articles or comment on them, but only use this website to glorify themselves. Not just once in a while, but Every…Single…Day. It seems like narcissism and attention-seeking.
If it were two men doing this, people would think it was weird, but women always get a free pass as “Sacred Cows”.
Asylum seekers spooked by Rwanda Bill are pouring into Ireland, says Deputy PM
‘In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven.’
These words were written by Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr. I give his letter, below, in full, for those who haven’t already seen it.
But this news from Ireland certainly seems like ‘little shafts of light from Heaven’ to me
My Dear Reggie,
In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt.
We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.
[Signed]
Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr,
H.M. Ambassador.
6th April 1943
Very Good but HOW are these illegals flooding across from here to Ireland ?? Is the RNLI towing their floaty rubber thingies round to Fishguard & Holyhead so they can make their escape ,
‘….higher than 80%” of people seeking asylum in Ireland entered the country through Northern Ireland, a border crossing that is open as guaranteed under a UK-EU Brexit treaty.’
Probably just taking the bus from over here……
‘Bus services from London to Dublin make it easy and cost effective to reach the Irish capital. Eurolines offers a single direct connection every day of the week, which leaves London Victoria in the early evening. Buses travel overnight, arriving in Dublin 12 hours after departure.’
Fares from £35……..
…and the common travel area agreement which preceded both countries joining the EEC/EU in 1973.
This is becoming all to commoner sight here in the Republic!
https://youtu.be/NyFGxNuw6iY?si=ejUAYUuoTgQpjsD6
At least the Irish are having a go.
True, but I bet the minister for justice and the new pm just call them all faaar right as per usual
Time to reactivate the Irish Republican Army who have always been patriots I believe?
Mustapha Kunt – is that Sadiq Kunt’s real name? It suits him.
“Labour more popular with GB News viewers than Tories” I saw that being broadcast by them yesterday. Probably useful for them in their disputes with Ofcom re how to manage their coverage about elections!
No time for complacency: Dr Meryl Nass & Door to Freedom parse the detail of the latest IHR amendments and find very little change despite MSM claims to the contrary. They still want total control of your country and body.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/door-to-freedom-team-shines-a-light
Very disturbing but no surprise.
Then Resistance is the only answer, just as it was against the nazis.
A recent report from the site of what was Nasser hospital. No, definitely not a genocide.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/i-felt-like-pulling-my-heart-out-of-the-earth-testimonies-from-the-mass-grave-at-nasser-hospital/
What utter fools GB News watchers must be (to be switching over to support Kurt Starmer and Labour). And the next item on Blair…. All the stuff of nightmares! One could despair over these utterly stupid sheep.
“Asylum seekers spooked by Rwanda Bill are pouring into Ireland, says Deputy PM”
Welcome to the New tainted Emerald Isle that’s slowly being usurped from the irish by its own fecking government!
https://youtu.be/NyFGxNuw6iY?si=ejUAYUuoTgQpjsD6
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/25/tony-blair-offers-a-terrifying-glimpse-into-our-future/
David Frost hardly comes out guns blazing in his takedown of Bliar and describing somebody who has clearly given his soul to Satan as a Christian is beyond parody.
‘Given his soul’? He has no soul, but he IS Satan.
There’s a famous photo of him that used to appear on Twitter in which he appeared very demonic indeed. The photographer who took that shot probably plummeted to his death in an out-of-control lift.
“Humza Yousaf on the brink of being ousted as Scotland’s First Minister”
I have an awful feeling that he’s going to do a Klingon like Sunak, glueing himself to his First Minister seat, by doing a deal with his fellow Pakistani Muslim who somehow became leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Maybe they’ll agree to take turns as First Minister, for the sake of establishing The Caliphate North of the Border.
Hope they don’t read Daily Sceptic. They’re both too dumb to come up with that themselves.
“Superb. Try banning this, eKaren”
Absolutely brilliant. True Aussie Patriot Pauline Hanson never giving up, and never giving in!
From the BBC ‘sounds’
The Inquiry: Is climate change impacting chocolate production?
It certainly doesn’t look like it!
To work for the Biased Bollox Collective you have to believe six impossible things before breakfast and be ready to try convincing everyone else of the bollox too.
Is this true https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l0Nt7SIZhVw ? Or is it just crazy, as the heading says? However, it’s possible that O’Leary has got a deal from the UK Gov; we’ll see.
Interesting, especially since Ryanair say they can fit 197 passengers on one flight, and Rwanda has only agreed to take 200 dinghy criminals (per year?), so that means Ryanair can transport the entire lot in one flight, with 3 extra criminals in the luggage compartment.
So, it’s working then?