News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Civil service lawyers have been accused of trying to scupper Kemi Badenoch's schools trans guidance following a leak which claimed the guidance has a "high risk of successful legal challenge".
Schools will be told to presume that a child cannot change gender and that social transitioning should be "extremely rare" in the Government’s first guidance for teachers on trans issues.
Children in the UK are reportedly facing confusion and potential consequences for 'accidentally misgendering' others as a result of frequent gender identity questioning by their teachers.
A Cabinet split has emerged on trans policy after it emerged Kemi Badenoch does not believe a law change is required to ban children changing gender in schools while others, including the Attorney General, believe it is.
Devon has gone full eco-warrior with a new 'Net Zero Visions Curriculum' for students aged five to 16, including passing around an 'Earth egg' and teaching whale songs in music lessons.
Five girls have petitioned the PM to keep single-sex toilets in schools, citing girls' safety. The letter to Mr. Sunak follows a petition by one of them, gathering nearly 12,000 signatures to protect such spaces.
Grandad’s Pride, a children’s book with depictions of men in leather bondage gear and a trans man with ‘top-surgery’ scars, has sparked outrage with parents after it was handed out to pupils at a pre-school in Hull.
'Genderbread man' and 'Gender Galaxy' are just some of the sex education materials being used by Swindon Borough Council to teach children as young as 11.
The Government is due to issue new guidance on how schools should manage trans pupils -- schools must inform parents if children start transitioning and teachers won't have to use their preferred gender pronouns.
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