Adult gender clinics
by Shelley Charlesworth Are the current adult gender clinics serving their patients well? Are their links with trans activist groups influencing treatments? More detransitioners are now coming forward to say…
The Rainbow Flag Award
The Rainbow Flag Award scheme is an alternative version of the Stonewall School Champions scheme. Their teaching is a prime example of the overtly political material referenced in the recently…
Just Like Us factsheet
The Department for Education recently tweeted their support for an organisation called Just Like Us. https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/1406970692940218368 Examination of this group's resources reveals that they are not compatible with the DfE's…
Is gender identity conversion therapy practiced in the UK today?
by Shelley Charlesworth This post poses the question: Is Gender Identity Conversion Therapy practiced in the UK today? It looks at the background to calls for a legal ban on…
Educate & Celebrate – smashing heteronormativity in the classroom
This is Elly Barnes, CEO of the LGBT organisation Educate & Celebrate, in her own words: “we’re trying to smash heteronormativity … not everyone identifies as heterosexual or as male…
The Proud Trust : Nothing to be Proud of
by Shelley Charlesworth The Manchester based Proud Trust could be a case study in how the trans issue has increasingly come to dominate many groups which were originally set up…
Diversity Role Models – or role models of conformity to a new ideology?
Diversity Role Models is a high profile LGBT charity providing training in schools, just one of many LGBT charities and organisations whose materials have moved away from the LGB in…
Do children need Stonewall’s LGBT inclusive teaching in primary schools?
Stonewall recently launched an LGBT inclusive curriculum guide for primary schools, supported by the Government Equalities Office and Pearson. Here we analyse that guide. Do children need Stonewall's LGBT inclusive…
No Outsiders : Queering the Primary Classroom
Our thanks to Shelley Charlesworth for her investigation into the origins of the No Outsiders programme and for this excellent analysis of its materials and message to primary age children.…