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Jan 16, 2024 · This is a short guide on how to support a trans or gender-questioning student in a school or college environment. Hopefully this information will help you to respond to the needs of a trans or gender-questioning child with professional confidence.
Aug 26, 2022 · It provides and extends significant theoretical and empirical insights into the recalcitrant and systemic barriers that continue to impact teachers in schools in their capacity to support trans students and, more broadly, what this means for enacting gender and racial justice in schools.
- Wayne Martino
Oct 19, 2020 · In this article, we reflect on the limits of an individualist approach to supporting transgender affirmative education and policy mobilisation in schools that requires the embodied presence and visibility of the transgender student as a basis for ensuring their recognisability.
- Wayne Martino, Jenny Kassen, Kenan Omercajic
- 2020
- Consultation on Draft Guidance
- Equality Act 2010 in Schools
- Guidance in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
In December 2023, the Department for Education published a consultation on draft non-statutory guidance for schools and colleges in England on children questioning their gender. The government has said that while this guidance is in place to help teachers, parents’ views should be at the centreof the decisions schools make about their child. The co...
In England, Wales and Scotland, the Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination relating to gender reassignment. The Department for Education (DfE) guidance on the Equality Actsays protections apply to those who are undergoing, have undergone, or are proposing to undergo, a process (or part of a process) of reassigning their sex by changing physiolo...
As schools policy is a devolved issue, this briefing focuses on the position in England, but some information is included on relevant policies and pupil experiences in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Guidance has been published on support for transgender pupils in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and is currently being developed in Wales. In 2...
- Philip Loft, Robert Long
- 2021
Jan 26, 2024 · We will continue to support the rights and dignity of our transgender students and will continue in our efforts to ensure our schools are a place of safety, acceptance, and learning for all. Dr. Jason Fine, Superintendent
With schools and students working together, we can create better environments for these students – ones that at many schools barely exist at all – and empower LGBT+ people as never before. Joel Groves, who is transgender, explains why schools play such an important role in allowing pupils to be themselves…
Dec 19, 2023 · Reaffirms single-sex schools' right to refuse to admit pupils of the opposite sex, even if they are questioning their gender. Says primary school aged children (aged 11 and under) should not have...
