Comment on Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 9 months ago
The new legal analysis by Monaghan was commissioned by a family in Brighton who are arguing that their child’s school helped their child to socially transition without their consent, because it was using the toolkit. The family wrote to the council on Friday threatening possible legal action if it does not withdraw the guidance within two weeks.
The child’s mother, who asked not to be named in order to protect the identity of her child, told the Observer: “Our child was socially transitioned at school by a group of teachers who are quite active in the trans rights arena, despite our child’s complex mental health needs, trauma and autism.”
She said she and her husband “thought we had agreed a unique plan with the head” that the school should support only what she called a “pre-transition phase” until the child left secondary school. Instead, she said, they had been “shocked” to discover the school had supported their child socially transitioning. The family is now estranged from their child.
Seriously? You’re so disgusted by your child identifying as something other than what they were born as that you’ve lost the ability to love and give them affection? The alternative is that you’ve been so shitty to your child as a result of their desire to be different than their birth sex that you’ve driven them away and they’re no longer able to show you love and affection. Either way, you’re the asshole here.
other than what they were born as
assigned at birth; let's not acquiesce some doctor with a crank habit on 2 hours sleep is correct in what they say on government paperwork off a 2 second glance at baby genitals.
Either way, you’re the asshole here.
Big yeah.
In this house we treat medical professionals with respect
In this house we treat medical professionals with respect
In this house we hate cops and a person who participates in condemning someone to a [assigned] "sex at birth" prison is a cop.
I mean, I can change it if it really bothers you that much. I just didn’t want to potentially confuse people by using terms they might not be familiar with. Ironically it seems I might have done that anyway.
To be clear, I’m trans-femme enby, though I’m not exactly in a place right now to be able to medically or socially transition irl. Despite that, people saying “assigned at birth” or “birth sex” or whatever doesn’t really bother me. To me it’s just different ways of saying “this is who they were thought to be until they discovered their true selves”.
I worded it that way because not everyone knows what AGAB, AMAB, and AFAB mean. I agree with your sentiment though.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
You’re reading a lot between the lines there. I would be concerned if I had a child with special needs whom I had discussed a plan with the school but they had just done something else anyway. Are you saying parents shouldn’t be involved with discussions about their childs care? We can’t know all the details here and jumping to conclusions about the parents motivation seems premature here.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I’m not op but absolutely yeah if the kid doesn’t involve their parents it’s for a good reason. They’re not reading very much between the lines, when kids are “estranged” from their parents it’s always the parents’ fault - and even if this particular case was the 0.0001% of times where it wasn’t, that wouldn’t impact what was the right thing for teachers etc to do.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
You might think differently if the estrangement had been driven by the teachers. The article isn’t clear on the timeline. I guess it’s for the courts to rule on now.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I think it’s pretty ridiculous to think that that is remotely likely. Teachers can’t just convince a kid to cut off their parents when there aren’t already extremely serious issues in the home, it’s not realistic.