Children in Harbour Primary School in Newhaven, East Sussex will now have to use ‘gender neutral’ toilets in a bid to prevent ‘transphobia’.
Around 500 pupils, aged 3-11, returned after the summer holidays to find that they have to share facilities with the opposite sex...
Transphobia is a range of antagonistic attitudes and feelings against transsexuality and transsexual or transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender identity. - wikipedia.org
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...the school has defended the move saying that it is about “preventing transphobia”.- christian.org.uk
'... Parents have received this with a shock" and "...are uncomfortable with the decision."
One mother said: "This was just introduced from the start of term and no one told us before. There are seven-year-old girls using the same toilets as 11-year-old boys.
"My daughter has said she doesn't feel comfortable about it. Although we are all up for equality we feel this is not allowing our children to choose. A lot of our children don't want to use toilets of the opposite sex." - netmums.com
"A dilemma facing every gender variant person every day"-sarahlicity.co.uk |
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