adding that where the school does support social transition, they "might consider discussing options with pupils and staff such as using names instead of pronouns," giving room for teachers to refuse to go along with that support.
Specifically including provisions that allow authority figures to misgender students is not only disrespectful and psychologically damaging to those students, but also encourages their peers to misgender them as well.
The way I read it is they are banning overt misgendering, but are not requiring the correct pronouns either. So transphobic faculty will have to carefully arrange their sentences to avoid pronouns entirely, instead always referring to each student by their name each time
Sounds like a lot more work than just using the right pronouns but I guess if you’re caught up in some manipulative hateful religion this is the type of backflip you need to do sometimes
Even if it's not overt, it would be clear to everyone in a classroom if the only transgender student in that class were the only one not being addressed using pronouns by the teacher, something that would normalize their own rejection of their classmate's gender identity.
They're literally degendering and dehumanizing them as a punishment.
"You don't want to be the gender we demand? Fine. No gender for you."
We can tell when you are doing this. It's just as hurtful as actual misgendering. It may infact be worse, cause it's clearly done with intent.
Seriously, they'll do anything but just minding their own business and being respectful. Transphobes are the most obsessive cruel idiots on the planet
We're going to Keep kids SAFE by ~~PROSECUTING Epstein Billionaires!~~ Making it ILLEGAL for Trans kids to go Potty!
-The UK!
What an awful thing to do to children. What the fuck is wrong with these people?
So, the only legal thing schools can do now is officially make every bathroom unisex. Everything else is directly harming trans kids.
That's the point, harming kids
UK education, finally teaching the truth, that the British state is a tyrannical bully that doesn't give a fuck about the public, full of old fucks who's best contribution for Britain will be their funeral.
Speaking to QueerAF Dr Natacha Kennedy, lecturer in Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London said “The government's new schools guidance is not about protecting trans children, it institutionalises the practices that research shows causes them harm. In my view the government's schools guidance constitutes a form of ‘Ambient Conversion Therapy’ by embedding systemic pressures that will undermine trans children's identities and wellbeing 24/7. It will increase minority stress and make their lives much harder.”
Beating down on kids. And they wonder why some of us chose not to have children.
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