New guidance for Church schools
In this section:
- The Church of England’s new policy on “transgender children” unveiled on November 13
- Commendations and explanations from C of E leaders
- A selection of press reports
- Support from some Christians
- Serious criticism from a cross section of commentators
- Petitions encouraging mass opposition to the guidelines
1. Homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying tackled in new guidance for church schools, from the Church of England website: Read here
2. The new guidance, “Valuing All God’s Children”, is explained:
Tackling homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying by Justin Welby, ACNS
Why Our Guidance On Combating Bullying Is Part Of Our Vision For Education by Nigel Genders, Huffington Post
3. Some press reports
Church of England tells primary schools: Let little boys wear tutus and high heels if they want by Harry Farley, Christian Today
Young should not be bullied for exploring their identity, says Church of England, World News
Boys should be free to wear tutus and tiaras, says Church of England by Isabel Bennett, Guardian
Church of England issues transphobic bullying guidance, BBC News
Let boys wear tutus and high heels if they want to, Church of England says, by Olivia Rudgard, Telegraph
Let little boys wear tiaras: Church of England issues new advice to combat transgender bullying for teachers by Steve Doughty, Mailonline
Church of England tells schools to let children ‘explore gender identity’ by Rachel Roberts, Independent
New Church of England guidance says children should be free to explore gender roles, Chronicle Live
4. Some Christians defend the policy:
Why CofE schools are right to stand against LGBT bullying by Peter Ould, Premier
The CofE’s transgender guidance is a good first step, but we must go further by Natalie Collins, Christian Today
Bible backs CofE’s transgender guidance, says senior Anglican theologian by Harry Farley, Christian Today
5. But many more commentators attack the guidelines and those who defend them as at best naïve and at worst abandoning biblical anthropology in order to collude with the powerful proponents of the new gender ideology:
Traditional Christians contribute to society, by Tim Dakin, Fulcrum. [The Bishop of Winchester speaking from within the establishment, goes as far as he can in suggesting problems within Valuing all God’s Children: according to him it does not sufficiently explain the Church’s traditional teaching, and even may imply that this teaching is to blame for bullying behaviour.]
The real problems with ‘Valuing all God’s children’, by Martin Davie
C of E’s new gender policy backs up ‘heresy’ claim, by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream (and is part of a wider problem in the Church of England’s association with schools).
On Tiaras and Tutus, by John Percival, Church Society
Plato and the Church of England: Guidelines for Schools by Rollin Grams
Does no-one in the C of E dare oppose top cleric? By Mark Kellner, Get Religion
If church schools won’t fight the cult of gender ideology, who will? By Brendan O’Neill, Catholic Herald
Melanie Phillips writes in the Times: ‘ The Church of England is sowing the seeds of its own destruction’; re- Lorna Ashworth, Gavin Ashenden and Joshua Sutcliffe. – Gavin Ashenden
Homophobic bullying and CofE schools by Phill Sacre
I’m not surprised the absurd Church of England says boys can wear tiaras to school. All common sense has been lost in the gender debate by A N Wilson, Mailonline
Questioning gender fluidity is the new blasphemy by Brendan O’Neill, Spectator
Faith schools fall to the transgender zealots by Caroline Farrow, TCW
Can we care and say ‘no’ to a request? by Ian Paul, Psephizo
Also: Say NO to the Church of England’s transgender Trojan horse: PETITION from CitizenGo: “..the document is nothing short of a Trojan Horse – it is a wholesale, entirely uncritical, endorsement of transgender ideology.”
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