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I know GLP are up against a very hostile legal context but this is absolutely a depressing read. Highlighting minor ways in which schools can flex that still leave trans kids in a horrendous & harmful position. These flexes are no where near enough to protect trans kids.

I find the implication that these minor flexes are where the fight currently stands absolutely sickening. I'm not doubting the legal interpretation that these minor 'wins' are the best that can be legally 'won' or defended in the current context.

Let's not pretend there is any dignity or safety in these minor tweaks. Let's not pretend that a school avoiding these minor accommodations is what constitutes 'discrimination'. The whole approach is discrimination & abuse by design, even if it is currently 'legal'.

How can we define 'discrimination' by what is defined as discrimination by a utterly biased and abusive legislature. Surely we can do better to call out the harms every time we speak about them.

Where a trans girl is banned from using the girl's bathroom, we should not be labelling it 'discrimination' if she is forced to use the boys and 'less discrimination' or not discrimination if she is 'allowed' to use the disabled or other spaces. Both are discrimination, whatever our laws say

My daughter is currently out of school. Because of hateful discrimination introduced this month by Labour. None of the discrimination she has faced is noted in this post. The discrimination she has faced is almost excused or treated as unavoidable in this take.

GLP, as lawyers, sometimes write as though their audience is lawyers. I'd like GLP guidance to be useful beyond law courts. Discrimination means a different thing to a general public, or teacher, than in a court of law. We need to call out discrimination even where it is not 'illegal'.

Maybe better brains than mine can square the circle of how to get lawyers to talk about discrimination in a way that recognises unjust laws do not define what is and is not discrimination.

The answer cannot, surely, be to tell trans kids that they are not being discriminated against, as long as schools accurately follow deeply discriminatory law or policy.

Agree, I think the concept of legal discrimination (i.e. discrimination that is permitted under the law) vs illegal/unlawful discrimination could be useful here. I get that it might make explaining the legal stuff a little less easy but its got to be better than denying trans kids language right?