The past year has been a big one for transgender awareness – vast media attention has included the Louis Theroux TV programme documenting the transition stories of children and young adults, and newspaper articles on issues such as the need in schools for gender-neutral toilets and the GP who prescribed hormone drugs to a 12-year-old. The Tavistock Centre in London reported a doubling of its referrals of patients who ‘feel in the wrong body’, and writer Germaine Greer famously described male-to-female transsexuals as ‘pantomime dames’.
Meanwhile, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ conference expressed its worry at the lack of meaningful discussion and preparedness as more pupils raise issues around their gender identity. Transgender is a current and burgeoning topic affecting children and young people – we are only going to hear more about it, so it is clearly a subject with which all educational practitioners need to engage.
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