Church of England guidance for teachers has been slammed for pushing the anti-science idea that a person’s sex is “assigned” at birth rather than a biological fact and telling teachers to challenge “outdated terms”. The Mail has the story.
Guidance set to be issued to thousands of schools states that a transgender man is someone “who was assigned female at birth but identifies and lives as a man”, and a transgender woman “was assigned male at birth but identifies and lives as a woman”.
The statements are in the document ‘Flourishing For All’, which is backed by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and tells teachers to challenge “outdated terms”.
About a million children attend 4,630 Anglican schools.
Last night, critics condemned the proposed guidance.
Lucy Marsh, of the Family Education Trust, said: “It is extremely concerning that the Church of England does not recognise that biological sex is immutable. Sex is not ‘assigned at birth’, it is determined at conception and recorded at birth. These are biological, unchangeable facts. Coercing staff and children to believe in contested gender ideology as fact is not only wrong, but extremely harmful.”
Stephanie Davies-Arai, of Transgender Trend, which challenges trans ideology in schools, said: “Biological reality is not ‘outdated’, and it is worrying that the C of E thinks it is. Knowing that sex can’t be changed is not an old-fashioned idea, but basic reality.”
Marsh and Davies-Arai further point out that the guidelines conflict with the Department for Education’s draft transgender guidance, which says pupils must not be taught about the “concept of gender identity”.
Anyone still under the misapprehension that C of E schools are any kind of refuge from the deluge of woke gobbledegook will not be thinking that now.
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