Parents For Education

Standing for science, reality and reason across school policy and education settings.

[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

Schools *must* proactively engage and consult with parents when they develop and review their RSHE policy The new guidance will be in force from September so email your child's school today to find out what they are doing.

[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

As teachers and governors start the work of drafting new RSE policies and consulting with parents in advance of next academic year, we hope they recognise the significant changes they will need to make regarding any content on gender identity.

[Legal Feminist @legalfeminist]

A Scottish primary school broke the law by failing to provide single-sex toilets: DE and FG v West Lothian Council.

[Safe Schools Alliance @SafeSchools_UK]

**** Action needed ****

We are again receiving complaints about @DiversityRM indoctrinating children in schools. They are not a benign group, they are an offshoot of @stonewalluk with a highly contentious political agenda.

You can see the type of #safeguarding failures with their schools materials on the hashtag #SchoolsDiversityWeek.

If they are in your child’s school you must request materials & make a formal complaint. It is important that you do this not only to protect your own children but also others. Legal action can be taken against schools who are breaching section 406 & 407 of the 1996 Education Act & indoctrinating children.

Our guide to making a complaint can be found here:

https://t.co/syx8oiNyV0

Do not tolerate this in schools. Do not accept being brushed off by schools that this is about kindness & inclusion. It is not. Do not accept being told you are bigoted or called any isms or phobias by the school. You are not. Many of the people who have been campaigning against these damaging & dangerous materials for years are themselves lesbian or gay & cover the full political spectrum.

#RestoreSafeguarding #Edutwitter #WomenEd

[Matthew 'Call Me Swishmale' Greenfield @MatthewGreenf11]

"A child who experiences acute discomfort with the expectations and associations of their sex is not thereby demonstrating the presence of an innate cross sex identity; they are demonstrating the power of gender schemas and the distress that schema conflict can produce....

[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

The rise in figures here is sad and disappointing. If schools were doing more to teach children the facts about sex being immutable and reassure that lack of adherence to stereotypes is perfectly normal then maybe children would not feel in need of counselling on this theme.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

A charity’s counselling sessions for gender-questioning children rose by a fifth in the past year, figures reveal

Childline delivered 476 counselling sessions relating to gender dysphoria in the year to March, up by 20 per cent from 396 in the previous 12 months 👇
https://t.co/nYocEpYKqY

[Kevin Lister @KevsTribulation]

My case management hearing against the DBS for putting me on the Children's Barred List for not following New College Swindon’s Gender Reassignment Policy is on the 23rd July.

A number of people have asked for the grounds following the permissions hearing, however they are subject to an anonymity order.

I understand some journalists have made an application to the Upper Tribunal for their release, so watch this space for updates.

[marcus evans @marcuse99903226]

The BBC’s failure to cover the GIDS scandal has been a serious dereliction of its public duty.

After resigning as a governor of the Tavistock, I was involved behind the scenes in the 2019 Panorama programme on GIDS. The producer warned me I might be disappointed the programme would expose only one part of the scandal, not the whole story. That warning told me everything I needed to know about the BBC’s problem with impartiality on this issue.

When Sue Evans and Keira Bell won the first judicial review, there was no serious follow-up from the BBC News, Woman’s Hour, or other major outlets. Nor was there adequate coverage of one of the most important findings of the Cass Review: the poor quality of the evidence base behind medical interventions for children and adolescents with gender distress.

Instead, the BBC repeatedly broadcast positive stories about transition while failing to investigate the harms, uncertainties, and institutional failures surrounding this field. Sue and I have seen some of the casualties. Parents have been badly let down by professional bodies that lacked the courage or independence to challenge the affirmative model none of which received the scrutiny a public broadcaster exists to provide.

With honourable exceptions in Newsnight and the Today programme, the BBC has failed young people, failed parents, and failed in its most basic public duty.

[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

Useful mini-thread below on why schools must not use
"LGBTQ+":

- #KCSIE does not use it, deliberately.
- it's political activism, going against Education Act
- it's force teams sexuality with gender reassignment and other poorly defined identities. This is homophobic.

[WRN Norfolk @WRNNorfolk]

Schools are responsible for what they teach. They must not use LGBTQ+. Force teaming sexuality with gender reassignment is homophobic activism. SLTs are responsible for the third party materials they bring into school - and must remove the political activism.

@NorfolkCC @NorfolkSLA @WomensRightsNet @SafeSchools_UK @Transgendertrd

[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

Schools should not use "LGBTQ+".

It is an acronym used by activists who do not understand safeguarding.

It is not age appropriate for primary schools. It is a politicised umbrella term and is unhelpful to the distinct LGB and TQ+. The distinction is now formally acknowledged:

[LesbianLabour @LesbianLabour]

The Government published the EHRC Guidance today & we spotted this little nugget
2.96 Gender reassignment is a separate protected characteristic & unrelated to sexual orientation, despite often being grouped together (for example under the acronym LGBTQ+ people)
Time to separate

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

Good to have it clarified that women taking their young children into swimming pool changing-rooms is not the same as allowing adult males in.

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

Parents must be alert to this happening. Make sure you see your child's school RSHE policy in September and challenge anything that presents 'gender identity' as fact 👇

[SEEN in Publishing @SEENPublishing]

This is an important thread. The new RSHE guidance which is statutory comes into effect from Sept 2026. Some providers are already advocating unlawful policies...Everyone who is in education and indeed educational publishing needs to understand what is lawful and what is not.

[Safe Schools Alliance @SafeSchools_UK]

The @educationgovuk @bphillipsonMP & @UKLabour are just embarrassing themselves & the country at this stage.

This is a wholly unserious way to treat the important subject of education & the terrible state it is currently in.

This is out of touch & insulting to parents, teachers & children.

#RestoreSafeguarding

[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

@tes @NGAMedia @NEUnion @DanielKebedeNEU @CSTvoice @ASCL_UK @ISBL_news @NAHTnews

Schools are being misled and let down by @thekeysl

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[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

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New statutory RSHE guidance issued by @educationuk comes into force for all schools from Sept 2026. This includes a requirement on schools to consult with parents on new policies.

A template policy from @thekeysl is being used to flout the DfE guidance...

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[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

We also urge parents to be involved in the consultation process and review policies carefully.

Schools that treat gender identity theory as fact will be in breach of the law and will face complaints from parents and other concerned parties.

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[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

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New statutory RSHE guidance issued by @educationuk comes into force for all schools from Sept 2026. This includes a requirement on schools to consult with parents on new policies.

A template policy from @thekeysl is being used to flout the DfE guidance...

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[Parents For Education @ParentsForED]

We call on @thekeysl to urgently amend their template and to issue a correction to schools that this sentence breaches statutory guidance and must not be used in policies.

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