Social transition in schools, teacher training, PSHE classes, transgender policies

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…
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Do children need Stonewall’s LGBT inclusive teaching in primary schools?
The contributor of these notes is a language teacher and department chair in a secondary school. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in both the UK and international school…
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What Questions Should a School be Asking about Mermaids Training for Teachers?
The Scottish government has taken the welcome step of having a rethink on many areas concerning changes to the GRA. The LGBT Youth transgender schools guidance has now been withdrawn…
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What does Scotland’s U-Turn on Transgender Schools Guidance Mean for England and Wales?
Gendered Intelligence co-hosted a teacher training session at the Hayward Gallery last night for teachers of primary, secondary and higher education. The aim of the training was to "explore ways…
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Gendered Intelligence Training Session for Teachers at ‘Kiss My Genders’
Maya Forstater is (amongst other things!), a mother and an Assistant Cub Scout Leader. This article is her personal opinion and is not a comment on behalf of the Scout…
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The Scout Association’s New Transgender Guidance is a Big Step Forward
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.…
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No Outsiders : Queering the Primary Classroom
Mike Goodman (a pseudonym) is a music teacher who makes his living by teaching, playing and writing and arranging music. He has thirty years' experience teaching in schools and is…
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The New Fundamentalism in the Classroom
The RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) Government consultation gives everyone the chance to air their views on what is taught to primary and secondary age children on the subject of…
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RSE Government Consultation
Women's Minister Victoria Atkins recently expressed concerns about the number of teenagers seeking life-changing medical interventions. Penny Mordaunt, Minister for Women & Equalities, has now ordered an investigation into the exponential…
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Back To School With Stonewall
We have written posts (here and here) about the content of transgender schools toolkits which are being adopted as guidance on the recommendation of local councils throughout the UK. Many of…
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Parent Power and Our Schools Resource Pack