Church of England set to issue advice telling teachers to challenge ‘outdated terms’ around biological sex
by Sanchez Manning, Daily Mail:
Critics argue new guidance is pushing gender ideology that a person’s sex is ‘assigned’ at birth.
Church of England advice for teachers has been criticised for pushing the gender ideology that a person’s sex is ‘assigned’ at birth rather than a biological fact.
Guidance set to be issued to thousands of schools states that a transgender man is someone ‘who was assigned female at birth but identifies and lives as a man’, and a transgender woman ‘was assigned male at birth but identifies and lives as a woman’.
The statements are in the document Flourishing For All, which is backed by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and tells teachers to challenge ‘outdated terms’.
About a million children attend 4,630 Anglican schools.
Last night, critics condemned the proposed guidance.
Lucy Marsh, of the Family Education Trust, said: ‘It is extremely concerning that the Church of England does not recognise that biological sex is immutable. Sex is not ‘assigned at birth’, it is determined at conception and recorded at birth. These are biological, unchangeable facts.
‘Coercing staff and children to believe in contested gender ideology as fact is not only wrong, but extremely harmful.’
Read also: New CofE guidance still in thrall to trans ideology by Steve Beegoo, Christian Concern
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