The same boy harassed an Iranian girl who'd lost half her family in the Revolution.

The hard right have neither sense nor empathy.

The Supreme Court reiterated that Gender Reassignment remains a protected characteristic, and that the protection applies to all transgender people.

The ruling on 'biological sex' was strictly limited to the definition of sex in the EA. The ruling didn't define 'biological'.

However the 'statutory guidance' is challengable on the following grounds:

Misinterpretation of the Supreme Court Ruling

Failure to conduct equality analysis, as required by the PSED

Discrimination of people on the grounds of 'Gender Reassignment' as per the Equality Act

Worse than Section 28. Section 28 only applied to Governing Bodies and not to the teaching profession. But the fear it caused was enough to silence people. This new 'statutory guidance' applies at all levels.

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And now we have this transphobic government guidance continuing that scientifically illiterate, unkind and awful narrative. At what expense? People's lives?

So angry

My response was "Good, thank you" - which got an affirming nod

I'll leave the "went well" to the others. One very experienced Methodist minister (a retired Forces national Chaplain), whose opinion I often value, said it was "suitably uncomfortable".

We had a conversation about Vincent's Starry Night, in which the only building not illuminated is the church

Bona lallies!

Harry RAMADAN's!!!
For that great tradition of fish and chips imported to Britain by Portuguese and Jewish immigrants