To keep some protections in place
It’s odd how this is framed. The Guardian tells us:
Teachers in England will not be made to automatically “out” pupils who come to them with questions over gender identity, despite a push from Conservative rightwingers for a blanket approach, government guidance due to be published this week will say.
Schools will be expected to inform parents if children tell staff that they want to take any steps towards transitioning, but they will not have to flag conversations if children are just asking general questions, or in the event of safeguarding issues.
The decision to keep some protections in place so that children are not automatically outed is likely to frustrate some on the Tory right who have been pushing for parents to be told in all circumstances.
“The decision to keep some protections in place” – that is, “protections” meaning protections for secrecy, not protections for children. The Guardian is assuming that gender ideology needs and deserves protection from adults who understand that people can’t change sex. The Guardian is assuming that we should all be anxiously shielding gender ideology from questions, as opposed to shielding children from destructive gender ideology.
Remember when feminism got the same kind of anxious protective care? No, neither do I.
There’s no evidence that the Tories wanted such an extreme policy that parents would be told even if a child asks general questions about gender ideology. They’ve made it clear they want as few children as possible to transition, but that’s not the same thing as wanting as little discussion as possible about the whole topic. That’s an addled interpretation, and it’s typical of the Guardian, isn’t it.
This just looks like the Guardianistas are embarassed and trying to save face. The Tories have introduced a policy that is plainly sensible, which will probably receive broad public support, and the Graunsters are starting to realize they look like fools for having opposed it, so they have to convince their readers it was their sensible policy all along, and that the evil Tories had wanted something much more sinister.
It’s so childish. They’re going to act like sore losers for a very long time.
Well the whole ideology / activism / movement / struggle is so childish, so everything it touches becomes childish.