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RaveKeeping Children Safe in Education early update
This is normally updated every Sept. Due to the election being called gov guidance/regulations/law changes are paused during Purdah (there are some loopholes around this, but for the most part gov business is paused for the election, to stop them pushing through changes only to garner votes basically).
It’s important that they’ve released statutory RSHE guidance prior and updated KCSiE early before all guidance changes are paused.
KCSiE is the gold standard of safeguarding practice within education. It’s the document OFSTED assesses schools safeguarding against. Schools who breach this fail their inspections. It is the document that helps form safeguarding protocols for local authorities. (Along with Working Together to Safeguard Children).
Previously stonewall had campaigned to have a section written on LGBT children, saying that being LGBT was not a safeguarding concern. The update makes it clear that T is now separate to LGB & that schools must regard the Cass review findings when it comes to children who are identifying as T and consider the gender questioning guidance DfE put out for consultation earlier in the year.
This is an important change. It helps any teachers and parents who need to speak up. It also means a Labour gov will be unable to disregard Cass review. It’s interesting that they’ve made the RSHE guidance statutory, KCSiE is obviously statutory, but gender questioning guidance isn’t yet and while the consultation is closed they haven’t updated that before purdah kicks off. It means when Labour get in they either have to show their hand and actively refuse to put it in place, despite KCSiE & RSHE being in line with it and Cass. Or they have to release the consultation findings and follow them/keep gender questioning guidance as it is (or make it statutory like the others). It forces them to either actively opt for gender woo and show their hand. Which means the opposition will be strong and effect in holding them account because Cass, KCSiE and RSHE and we will have all the sunlight. Or Labour will need to get on board fully with Cass & shut down the transcultists in school. Once they make that stance it gives a bench mark for any gender woo decisions and means gc voices in the party will have a clear argument to highlight (they can’t be fully gc in schools and fully not outwith) and Labour GC MPs will have robust support from the opposition on this.
I don’t care that there’s political manoeuvring on that, because KCSiE will protect children. It really matters that they’ve done this before the cut off for the pause on guidance.
It’s a shame, I think, that they don’t mention the safeguarding risk of porn, social contagion and lobby activist grooming- acknowledged by Cass as some of the reasons behind identifying as T- however it’s much better than it was and will be better for kids in practice.
Definitely feminist. Its whole premise is entirely sex-based, no gender woo whatsoever.
In fact, it provided an early mini-peak for me. I read it shortly after it came out, loved it, sought out the author’s Twitter, and was absolutely baffled to see her getting attacked for “not being trans-inclusive.” It made zero sense to me, as up until then, I was still under the impression that everyone acknowledged sex is fixed and gender is a nebulous feeling. That was also my first-ever exposure to the term “TERF.”
Feminist. Lots of great info on the oppression/erasure of women, referring to adult human female women. Biology is a major component.
Yes, indeed. Sex, not just gender, is at the heart of much of what she documents--such as the lack of female crash test dummies. She takes women's lives--including their embodied lives--seriously. That having been said, I have no idea where she stands on trans issues.
She couldn’t possibly have researched and written a whole book on female erasure and exclusion and not think “gender” is total bullshit. The misogyny of males claiming womanhood when they have faced none of the hurdles females have cannot be lost on her.
She opens up a chapter with gender neutral bathrooms and how they just create 2 spaces for men. That section alone reveals what she really thinks imo. It’s probably also a big reason people suspect she’s a terf.
Yeah all that logic, research and the audacity to talk about female anatomy....she must be a terf 😁
I agree. Perhaps the fact she never talks about trans reveals her feelngs.
Definitely feminist! I quote it when I need to demonstrate to people (mostly men) what women are facing, in terms of what is just built into the system. The part about ploughing roads really stuck with me, regarding the unpaid labor of women taking children and elderly relatives to the dr (whereas snow ploughs prioritized the working house husband’s route)
Yes! That and the public transportation routes are things I never even thought of! Also, the part about piano keyboards being designed for men and their larger handspans made me feel so validated about not being able to play certain chords!
Absolutely! Recognizing that sex differences exist and how women have been harmed and even killed because these differences have been ignored is definitely feminist.
I think it's also a great book to help open others' eyes to the misogyny embedded in our societies. Depressing and angering, but absolutely worth the read.
I hope everyone has seen this thread:
Sort of answers the question, really.
I like the book. Some of the chapters are laboured but you kind of expect that in a popular researched book. She centres sex differences and it's a powerful book for highlighting the invisible biases that favour men in the world.
Have you a link for the controversy surrounding the author? I'm a bit nosey.
Oh, the controversy I was referring to was regarding Rebecca Solnit, not Caroline Criado Pérez. As for controversy surrounding Solnit, I believe this thread does a good job at showing that off.
Phew! Thanks. Pérez struck me as a decent sort who discovered the value of a feminist perspective through actual research. I enjoy her newsletters.
I read it a while ago so I can't recall, but if there was any gender nonsense, it was a quick acknowledgement at best before moving on. Definitely feminist, modern classic imo.
Definitely feminist! I love the book.