style=”padding-left: 40px”>Hopefully this new DfE guidance – a long-overdue wake-up call – will end the confusion and help teachers and pupils find some much-needed clarity. Barbie and GI Joe need to be shown the door, and they should take gender identity with them. Its definition is underpinned by sexist stereotypes: dress, speech, and mannerisms. Children must not be taught that their bodies might be wrong and in need of changing. It's a pity that this even needs to be said.
Indeed. No one is "born in the wrong body". It's a claim which never made any sense anyway – quite apart from the psychological havoc it can play with suggestible children and adolescents.
Update: more here on how Mermaids is now back-pedaling.
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