What defines a boy and what defines a girl is the subject of an ongoing argument
struggle within Western civilisation over who is a boy and who is a girl took another small twist in September with the leak of new guidelines for English and Welsh schools regarding transgender pupils. The draft rules, drawn up by the Equality and Human Rights Commission , which enforces non-discrimination laws, are expected to be sent to schools this month.
Yet some women’s organisations argue that the new guidelines uphold trans people’s rights at the expense of those of girls. The legislation that theis bound to uphold is the Equality Act of 2010. Seven of the act’s “protected characteristics” apply in schools: sex, religion, sexual orientation, race, disability, pregnancy and gender reassignment.
Nicola Williams of Fair Play for Women, a rights group, says that whereas transgender children’s interests are consistently protected in the’s guidelines, the rights of girls are not given equal weight. “It must be made explicit that sex and gender identity are different,” she says. “It is especially important for girls to be able to recognise and name the male sex, otherwise the right to assert their boundaries is taken away.
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