Over the summer, ministers raised the temperature of the national debate, hitting out at ‘woke’ policies. But, as the new school year looms, are fears of a crisis justified?
The Glasgow Pride parade in 2017 on the eve of an announcement about a bill reforming the Gender Recognition Act.The Glasgow Pride parade in 2017 on the eve of an announcement about a bill reforming the Gender Recognition Act.V
Goddard is referring to what many schools up and down the country describe as the apparent politicisation of an increasingly incendiary issue that they are being forced to deal with on a regular basis: gender. Everything from toilets and uniforms to reading material and pupils’ pronouns is the subject of hostile debate in a way not witnessed previously, headteachers say.
The adviser said all the evidence they saw in the department showed that transgender issues were a concern for schools, but apart from some “small isolated situations” where there was a serious problem, schools were “dealing with it themselves like other issues”. “There is no crisis,” the source added.
They were installed before it became commonplace for the rightwing media to expose a school for supposedly being too “woke”, Goddard said. In a community which ranges from “extreme left to extreme right”, some parents inevitably had strong views. “But it’s about listening and being prepared to compromise,” he said.
But a second mother, who feels fearful about her teenage daughter wanting to become a boy, said she was “overjoyed” to hear Braverman “trying to lay out clear rules”. She added: “If you take away party politics, what she said was very sound.”Some education lawyers have disputed the legality of Braverman’s comments, arguing that her advice could leave schools open to discrimination claims.
Several schools are facing anger from parents after announcing that they will have a trousers-only gender-neutral uniform from September. Tiverton High School in Devon has been under attack on social media after therevealed that from September the school would “ditch their skirts” and all pupils would wear trousers or shorts.
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