Press Coverage - Gender Identity in Schools
This post includes links to a selection of relevant press coverage about gender identity in schools. These links are included without comment and are not endorsed by Tribunal Tweets. This is a sample of coverage only - it is not comprehensive. Please DM our main Twitter account to submit coverage from an established news outlet. Any paywalled article must be archived.
Articles organised by publication date (may be approximate if articles have been updated) with most recent first.
14 Dec 2022
The Times - Church primary school ‘taught LGBT ideology’
10 Dec 2022
Christian Institute - Education Secretary called to address ‘indoctrination’ in schools
8 Dec 2022
Children and young people now - DFE TO CONSULT ON GENDER IDENTITY GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOLS IN 2023
7 Dec 2022
Kent online - Keegan calls for ‘big dose of transparency’ when teaching contested issues
Evening Standard - Transgender guidance for schools delayed until next year
4 Dec 2022
Daily Record- Man who 'deeply regrets' sex change op brands new ScotGov schools trans policy 'immensely cruel'
22 Nov 2022
The Times - ‘Shameful’ Robison ‘doodled during gender reform debate’
Belfast Telegraph - Schools ‘urgently’ need guidance on gender ‘minefield’, says Ofsted chief
Wales Online - Schools need 'urgent' help to handle gender 'minefield' says Ofsted chief
18 Nov 2022
The Times - Glasgow venue Civic House cancels booking for Education Not Indoctrination conference
17 Nov 2022
The Times - Gender ideology a hindrance if a pupil identifies as trans
ITV - Parents launch legal challenge over Welsh schools’ new relationships and sex education curriculum
The Economist - Britain changes tack in its treatment of trans-identifying children
16 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022
Cymru online - Protesters gather as Welsh Government taken to court over compulsory sex education
The Telegraph - Sex education for three-year-olds in Wales branded 'extreme and unbalanced’
14 Nov 2022
The Critic - The making of an illusion
Cymru online - Parents to go court on Tuesday over Wales’ compulsory sex education curriculum
11 Nov 2022
Schools Week - Guidance on supporting trans children in schools: 7 key findings
Scottish Daily Express - Scottish Government 'indoctrinating schoolchildren' with regressive ideas, claims academic conference
9 Nov 2022
BBC - Councillor threatened over sex education changes
7 Nov 2022
The Times - Schools ‘safer than home’ for pupils to explore gender, says Glasgow trans councillor
6 Nov 2022
Daily Record - Scots teachers banned from telling parents if their kids have changed gender in school
4 Nov 2022
The Christian Institute - The Scottish Govt is ignoring the harm its gender self-ID plan will do to kids
1 Nov 2022
The Times - Campaigners seek review of schools’ gender policies
Scottish Daily Express - SNP trans policy turning youth into 'Chairman Mao's Young Army' as teacher makes 'indoctrination' claim
31 Oct 2022
The Christian Post - Teacher fired after opposing school's trans affirmation policies can’t seek judicial review: judge
Church Times - C of E schools guidance defended against gender-transition criticism
29 Oct 2022
Leicester Live - Transgender Catholic teacher bridges the gap between the LGBT community and religion
28 Oct 2022
Church Times - Teacher in trans row at C of E school loses appeal
27 Oct 2022
Educate & Celebrate - Trustees of Educate & Celebrate remove Jordan Gray as a patron
The Telegraph - Age-appropriate sex education set to be enforced by Sunak administration
Birmingham Mail - Midlands teacher who refused to call transgender pupil boy's name appeals sacking
Stoke-on-Trent Live - Teacher who refused to call trans pupil by his name appeals against sacking
26 Oct 2022
MSN - Teacher who refused to call trans pupil by his name appeals against sacking
BBC - Sacked teacher loses legal bid in transgender pupil case
Wales Online - Teacher fired for refusing to call transgender pupil boy's name goes to court
Christian Institute - NHS England: ‘Gender-confusion in children may be a phase’
The Times - Youth charity reported over breast binders advice
Daily Mail - Scottish schools told to reject English guidance for trans children
25 Oct 2022
The Times - Most trans children just going through a phase, advises NHS
Yorkshire Live - Teacher sacked after refusing to call transgender pupil, 8, a boy's name takes case to High Court
Express - NHS says most children who identify as transgender are going through a phase
Christian Institute - ‘Gender ideology damages schools children’ say detransitioners
24 Oct 2022
Daily Mail - Children who think they're trans are probably just going through a 'phase', NHS says
Yahoo News - NHS Warns Most Trans-Identifying Children Going Through ‘Transient Phase
ITV - Sacked teacher takes school and council to court over transgender pupil's name row
SEGM - The NHS Ends the "Gender-Affirmative Care Model" for Youth in England
23 Oct 2022
The Telegraph - Most children who think they’re transgender are just going through a ‘phase’, says NHS
21 Oct 2022
Christian Institute - ‘Are you pansexual?’: Parents quizzed on their sexual orientation and ‘gender identity’ by private school
GB News - Senior Tory MP calls for gender-neutral toilets in schools to ensure children are 'supported'
Shropshire Star - Senior Tory says schools should have gender-neutral toilets for trans children
Christian Institute - Boys could wear skirts amid push for ‘compromise’ on trans schools guidance
Belfast Telegraph - Senior Tory says schools should have gender-neutral toilets for trans children
Hull Live - Top Tory wants schools to have gender-neutral toilets for trans children
Pink News - Senior Tory MP Caroline Nokes calls for gender-neutral toilets in schools to help trans kids
19 Oct 2022
Schools Week - George White: inclusion lead, St Paul's Catholic School
The Christian Post - Detransitioners slam trans agenda in schools: 'Children deserve better'
18 Oct 2022
GB News - Primary school teacher to fight legal case after 'misgendering trans pupil'
The Telegraph - Children buying puberty blockers could be referred to police or social services
17 Oct 2022
VIDEO: Talk TV - Teacher Sacked Over pronoun row
Christian Post - Parents offer advice on fighting back against gender indoctrination as schools become ‘ground zero’
16 Oct 2022
LBC - Schoolteacher 'sacked for misgendering trans pupil'
Christian Concern - Teacher pursues judicial review after sacking for raising safeguarding concerns over child being told they can be ‘born in the wrong body’
The Times - Primary teacher to fight legal case after refusal to call female pupil by boy’s name
15 Oct 2022
The Telegraph - Booklist promoting trans surgery for young teens sparks parental fury
The Telegraph - Doctors are using Tik Tok to promote trans ‘top surgery’ to young people
14 Oct 2022
Reuters - Exclusive: NHS drafts stricter oversight of trans youth care
The Guardian - Young trans people accessing treatment outside NHS may get safeguarding referral
13 Oct 2022
The Critic - Sorry, Mr Reasonable: It’s too late for centrism in the gender wars
Scottish Daily Express - Parents quizzed on their gender and sexuality at top Edinburgh school
The Times - Trans charity under investigation is still giving advice to Scottish pupils
12 Oct 2022
The Telegraph - Private school in Scotland quizzes parents on their sexuality and gender identity
11 Oct 2022
The Telegraph - Transgender schools guidance says discussing women's rights could be offensive
The Sun - TRANS ROW: Tory row explodes over trans advice planned for schools
The Christian Post - Parents demand Church of England schools immediately stop trans policies affecting kids as young as 5
Schools Week - DfE removes trans charity Mermaids from school wellbeing resources
10 Oct 2022
The Times - Ministers seek compromise on transgender advice for schools
The Critic - Children and gender distress
9 Oct 2022
Essex magazine - Parent speaks out after she was barred from seeing school’s sex education material
8 Oct 2022
The Times - Drop ‘illegal’ trans advice to schools, Welby urged
7 Oct 2022
The Telegraph - Parents blocked from checking their child’s trans sex education lessons
6 Oct 2022
Spiked - The crisis in education can’t be ignored forever
2 Oct 2022
Daily Scottish Express - JK Rowling 'cancelled' by kids at ultra-woke Scots school over position on transgender rights
30 Sept 2022
AMAC - Impact of Leftist Ideology on School Children Expands Across the Pond
29 Sept 2022
Eastern Daily Press - Fears over 'saying the wrong thing' hampering sex education in schools
28 Sept 2022
Premier Christian - Thank God for this Christian couple who forced the government to review its transgender policies
Metro - Teachers should support pupils to come out on their own terms
The Epoch Times - UK Teacher Sacked Over Pupil’s Preferred Pronouns Row
27 Sept 2022
Swindon Advertiser - Sacked Swindon teacher speaks out on national TV
Pink News - Maths teacher sacked after refusing to use trans pupil’s preferred name and pronouns
Yahoo News - Sacked Swindon teacher speaks out on national TV
26 Sept 2022
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard - Swindon teacher sacked for 'transphobic' behaviour towards student
25 Sept 2022
VIDEO: Free Speech Nation on GB News - Kevin Lister discusses losing his job as a teacher for not using he/him pronouns
24 Sept 2022
The Times - Parents force review of school trans guidance
Christian Today - Government settles with Christian parents who challenged trans-affirming policies in schools
23 Sept 2022
Express - Teaching union withdraws endorsement of book on gender over trans activist fury
2 Sept 2022
Pink News - Parents lose legal bid to stop gender identity and sex education being taught in Welsh schools
1 Sept 2022
Yahoo News - Parents lose bid to stop mandatory gender and sex education lessons in primary schools
Penarth Times - What will be taught with sex education reforms in Wales
Nation Cymru - Campaigners lose bid to stop gender identity and sex being taught in new curriculum in Wales from next week
BBC - Parents' legal bid to ban sex education in schools fails
(Please note that the last sentence in the BBC report is not correct, in actual fact, the dates of the 15 and 16 November were only arrived at, agreed upon by the parties on 31st August.)
31 Aug 2022
Wales Online - Parents seek court ban over gender identity being taught in Welsh schools
County Times - Parents seek 11th hour High Court injunction to stop new curriculum in Wales
Rhyl, Prestatyn, Abergele Journal - Public Child Protection Wales criticised over misleading literature
20 Aug 2022
The Guardian - Pronouns, loos and uniforms: how schools became the gender wars frontline
Premier Christian - Trans toddlers…have we lost all sense of reality?
15 Aug 2022
The Week - Where schools stand legally on children’s trans rights
11 Aug 2022
The Spectator - Suella Braverman is right to take on trans teaching in schools
10 Aug 2022
Schools Week - Schools can ignore trans pupils’ gender preference, claims attorney general
27 July 2022
The Spectator - The truth about trans teaching in schools
22 July 2022
Stonewall - Stonewall statement on 22 July tweet on inclusive education
1 July 2022
The Times - ‘Sex positive’ education is harming childre
South Wales Argus - Parents get judicial review in to Welsh sex education reform
30 June 2022
25 June 2022
The Telegraph - Peers seek to avoid school ‘indoctrination’ from hidden diversity materials
20 June 2022
LBC - Parents blocked from viewing school sex education material which 'denies biological sex'
18 June 2022
Wales Online - Campaigners succeed in getting judicial review of compulsory sex education teaching in schools in Wales
The Telegraph - Ofsted cites lack of gender identity lessons as factor in primary school grading
8 June 2022
Wales Online - Campaigners succeed in getting judicial review of compulsory sex education teaching in schools in Wales
7 June 2022
Unherd - I was hounded out of school for ‘transphobia’
30 May 2022
The Guardian - School leaders criticise attorney general’s advice on trans pupils
Christian Today -High Court judge grants judicial review into rollout of RSE in Wales
Premier Christian News - Parents granted judicial review of sex education rollout in Wales
The Epoch Times - High Court Judge Grants Welsh Parents Judicial Review Over Mandatory Relationships and Sexuality Education
BBC - Welsh compulsory sex education plans face legal challenge
27 May 2022
The Guardian - Attorney general says schools do not have to accommodate children’s gender wishes
The Times - Teachers should not pander to trans pupils, says Suella Braverman
25 May 2022
21 May 2022
The Times - Teacher reveals how schools are struggling with trans rights
18 May 2022
The Times - JK Rowling defends girl ‘driven out of school for questioning trans ideology’
14 May 2022
Mail Online - Critics accuse Swindon Mail Online - Council of promoting 'damaging transgender ideology in schools' amid concern over the number of child referrals to sole NHS gender service
11 May 2022
Express - Our primary school kids are being messed up by gender identity lessons
3 May 2022
Local Government Lawyer - Campaigners eye legal challenge against Welsh Government over reforms to sex education
22 April 2022
Abergabenny Chronicle - Parents take Welsh Government to High Court over new sex education lessons
20 April 2022
The Telegraph - Teachers must tell parents if their child comes out as transgender, says Nadhim Zahawi
17 Feb 2022
Pink News - UK High Court to hear anti-trans Christian parents’ challenge against primary schools
15 Feb 2022
LBC - Trans 'ideology' being 'pushed' in schools 'up and down the country', parents tell LBC
Spiked - No, your six-year-old is not ‘transphobic’
Christian Post - Christian parents opposed to school trans pronoun policy granted judicial review in UK
14 Feb 2022
Daily Mail - Parents told their son, 6, may be transphobic over his 'confusion' about boy in dress
15 Oct 2021
Isle of Wight County Press - Isle of Wight couple hope to sue over school transgender issue
14 Oct 2021
Pink News - Christian parents sue government over somebody else’s kid wearing a dress to school
13 Oct 2021
11 Sept 2017
BBC News - Parents remove son from school in pupil gender row