Legal challenge to the transgender schools ‘Toolkit’

Max Wallis writes:  Judicial Review Test-Case

My recently deceased wife Anne Greagsby attended the Vale Council’s scrutiny session 18 months ago to speak along with other women against the Council's new transgender inclusion toolkit.  The Cabinet disregarded them, though promising to review the toolkit after a year.

They had expected religious objectors, but the objectors were well-informed feminists, keen to protect our children from girl/boy stereotypes and insidious ideas like ‘being born in the wrong body’.  Anne objected to male-bodied adolescents using toilet and changing facilities with our girls, contrary to girls' right under the Equality Act to single-sex provision.

The women's opposition deterred Cardiff other nearby Councils except Merthyr Tydfil from copying the Vale, but several English counties have introduced similar toolkits. The Vale's transgender toolkit was heavily criticised on the Transgendertrend website.

An Oxford parent has courageously mounted a legal challenge to the Oxfordshire Trans Inclusion Toolkit.  She has engaged Sinclairslaw and raised over £11 500 crowdfunding, but may need 2 or 3 times more for this test case.

Can I appeal in memory of my Anne and for the sake of her grandchildren for Vale people to donate in support at https://tinyurl.com/crowdjustice-trans-Oxford ?

Our case is these Trans Inclusion Toolkits are unlawful and damaging to children.  We argue the guidance places the rights of trans-identified children above the rights of all other children and staff.  Teachers have to ignore sex-based protections, yet they have a statutory duty to protect children from harm. Teachers are required to set child confidentiality above parental responsibilities and rights, when they should be working with parents in the best interests of children. 

Any parent who doesn’t affirm their child’s chosen gender identity – an ‘identity’ that’s often a passing fancy during puberty changes - may be deemed a safeguarding risk, and referred to social services for causing harm to their child.

It’s been rightly called “pernicious” guidance.  At present, individual schools can choose to resist the Toolkit’s prescriptions, but some are already giving grief, especially to adolescent girls.  Pressure to conform may well come. Please give ‘crowdjustice’ support for the Oxford test case, to win for us in the Vale too. 

   Safe Schools Alliance are backing the case.  Details including a link to the Toolkit and a link to the Solicitors letter can be found here: https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/legal-action/.  SSA will be attending and be ready to discuss the action at the 1st Feb. conference:  https://womansplaceuk.org/conference-womens-liberation-2020/ in London.