Labour’s schools trans policy is pretty sensible
While it is easy to criticise this guidance as ‘choose your gender; choose your pronouns’, that’s not what the draft document says.
Why this trans person is troubled by a conversion therapy ban
Yes, we should sympathise with those – now elderly people – who were subjected to abuses in the 1960s and 1970s. But government ministers should also be concerned about the children of today. We can’t change the past, but we can certainly avoid making the same mistakes today
A four-day week won’t save teachers from burnout
The workload needs to be cut, not squeezed into fewer days. Only then will teachers be able to find the time to do the job properly.
Why are we testing puberty blockers on children again?
Doctors are not gods, they are fallible human beings like the rest of us. The medics at King’s College need to be reined in before they cause any adverse effects in their patients, anticipated or otherwise.
There’s no easy way to manage single-sex spaces
Previous generations of human beings never needed paperwork to distinguish men from women. Nor did they need any knowledge of gender identity or chromosomes. They used their common sense
Why has Martine Croxall been censured by the BBC?
Even after the Cass Review and the Supreme Court judgment, the language police have not yet gone away
Where’s the money for Labour’s triple science plan?
Schools are so hard up that they cannot afford to pay for supply teachers to stand in so that their teachers can be trained to teach physics properly.
LGB International: The schism in the rainbow
If the ‘diversity’ in ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ is worthy of the word, it must include diversity of opinion and diversity of organisation. LGB International has a place among campaigning groups. Let’s welcome them.
LGB International : le schisme dans la galaxie arc-en-ciel quivient de loin
Si la « diversité » dans « Égalité, diversité et inclusion » doit être prise au sérieux, alors elle doit aussi englober autant la diversité des opinions individuelles que celle des organisations. LGB International a toute sa place parmi les groupes militants. Souhaitons-lui la bienvenue.
Should teachers be allowed to work from home?
If Daniel Kebede had his way, every teacher would also become part-time from a timetabling perspective
Graham Linehan arrested for tweets
Freedom of expression must include the freedom to offend, or it is nothing of the sort.
Polémique à Londres après l’arrestation d’un humoristeirlandais pour des tweets antitransgenres
Sans liberté d’offenser, il n’y a tout simplement pas de liberté d’expression.
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Debbie Hayton
Physics teacher and trade unionist, originally from the north of England.
As a trans person I have written extensively about what it means to be trans, and how trans people can be accommodated in society without compromising the rights of other vulnerable groups.
Bylines in The Spectator, Unherd, The Times, Daily Mail, Morning Star, Economist, Quillette and elsewhere.
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