Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      re you saying parents shouldn’t be involved with discussions about their childs care?

      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.

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  • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In this house we treat medical professionals with respect

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I worded it that way because not everyone knows what AGAB, AMAB, and AFAB mean. I agree with your sentiment though.

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• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Equality Act affords protection not only to trans-identified young people, but also to those who are gender-critical.

  It shouldn't, because that second group doesn't deserves rights.

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  • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I appreciate the sentiment, but even those who seek to take everything away from me deserve rights. I hate “gender-critical” shmoes with all my heart, but even they should have rights.

    Now, whether “being allowed to have a say in someone else’s gender” should be a right… Fuck no

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    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hate “gender-critical” shmoes with all my heart, but even they should have rights.

      Not to be "gender critical" they shouldn't.

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