In this @EstynHMI report, we're not clear how gender stereotypes are challenged while at the same time internalisation of gender stereotypes ("gender identity") is celebrated as a child's real authentic self. #CheckYourSchools #LGBT https://www.estyn.gov.wales/thematic-report/celebrating-diversity-and-promoting-inclusion-good-practice-supporting-lesbian-gay

It doesn't make sense to teach children 'it's absolutely fine for a boy to play with dolls and enjoy dressing up in princess costumes' but at the same time if he 'feels like' a girl he really is a girl. His whole culture is telling him only girls play with dolls. He is a child.

The report references a child's 'gender change' in Year 5 of primary school, as if it's possible to simply switch your sex over to the opposite sex. Children learn that boys and girls are not stable categories but shifting ideas - that can only be defined by gendered stereotypes.

To teach children that they can just change from boy to girl or girl to boy based on how they feel would have been unthinkable in schools less than a decade ago. Was the idea ever scrutinised? Does calling a child 'transgender' change biological reality? Is this safe practice?

The @EstynHMI report acts as if all this is completely unremarkable. But it's a recent experiment and the word 'transgender' covers that up. We analysed all the Stonewall guides recommended in this report and we don't think they represent 'best practice'. https://www.transgendertrend.com/product/stonewall-schools-guidance-a-critical-review/