From the Times – ‘Cool’ Brighton school reconsiders trans changing room policy:
A Brighton school once hailed by Tatler as the “coolest” in the city has overhauled its transgender changing room policy following legal action.
Dorothy Stringer High School was named in the high-society magazine’s guide to Britain’s top state secondary schools in 2017, and was lauded for its “liberal vibe”.
In keeping with its progressive reputation, a year later the school revealed in its “equality information report” that it seemed to have a high number of transgender pupils.
A school in Brighton with a “liberal vibe” had a high number of transgender pupils? Who could have guessed? It’s almost like it’s not so much a matter of children with “gender dysphoria”, but a social contagion among the progressive classes.
However, eight years on, with many public bodies amending their policies on transgender issues following last year’s Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender, Dorothy Stringer has changed its approach.
In September the secondary school changed its policy of considering requests by trans pupils to use opposite-sex facilities on a case-by-case basis.
The change came after a High Court action launched by a father and his teenage daughter who claimed that the school was allowing biological males who identify as female to use girls’ facilities on a case by case basis….
The father who brought the legal claim said: “Girls should not have to find out by accident that a biological boy may be using their changing room, and my daughter’s privacy, dignity and safety should never have required a protracted legal battle.
“We trusted Dorothy Stringer to protect her. Instead, our family paid in time, money and emotional strain to secure protections she should have been able to take for granted.
“Having a policy which allowed biological males into girls’ changing rooms without telling pupils or parents was a profound betrayal of trust, affecting thousands of female pupils at this school alone.
“Changing the policies now does not erase that betrayal.”
The teenage claimant commented: “This has taught me to think twice about teachers and schools who I used to trust.
“It’s taken so long just to keep boys out of my changing room. Why aren’t girls’ voices heard?”
Because gender ideology is driven by men. At bottom it’s a fundamentally misogynist movement.
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