By Rachel Elgy: rachel@equaliteach.co.uk In March every year, the world celebrates International Women’s Day, recognising the small steps, great leaps and onward journeys towards gender equality, highlighting role models, and renewing commitments to the cause. In our globalised world, movements […]
Gender Identity
11 posts
By Georgina Manning: georgina@equaliteach.co.uk Recently I took my daughter to see ‘In Conversation: Queer Perspectives’ at the National Portrait Gallery. Queer Perspectives is a quarterly event hosted by resident artist Sadie Lee, where she invites guests who identify as LGBTQI […]
By Sheza Afzal: sheza@equaliteach.co.uk Parents are Protesting Recent media attention has highlighted parents’ protests outside schools last term, with the biggest demonstration at Anderton Park primary school in Birmingham. An estimated 200 protesters picketed at the school gates, holding banners and […]
EqualiTeach are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest Educational Resource. Outside the Box supports schools to take a whole school approach to promoting gender equality and tackling sexism and harassment and is available completely free of charge. We […]
he past decade has seen many huge advances in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) equality in the UK...However, the path to equality doesn’t run smooth, and recent events have shown that there is no place for complacency, that victories won are not necessarily assured forever and there is still a long way to go.
By Laura Schrier: lauras@equaliteach.co.uk Every February a wave of pink and red washes over UK commercial districts as shops prepare for Valentine’s day, marketing the perfect gifts for “him” and “her”. But more than just an extra excuse to eat […]
Trans issues have never been more at the forefront of public discussion than over the past month. The government’s consultation into the Gender Recognition Act has just closed and, as the deadline got closer, anti-trans activists stepped up their campaign […]
By Tammy Naidoo: tammy@equaliteach.co.uk The government’s call for evidence as part of their review of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in schools closed earlier this month. The call for evidence has been made to inform the production of statutory guidelines […]
By Tammy Naidoo: tammy@equaliteach.co.uk On Monday 13th November the headlines across the majority of newspapers up and down the country all followed a similar thread. “Let Little Boys Wear Tiaras” and “Boys should be able to wear tutus, tiaras […]
By Kate: kate@equaliteach.co.uk On Thursday 12th January, the BBC aired what they called a ‘balanced documentary’ entitled ‘Transgender Kids: Who knows best?’ According to the BBC website, the programme’s aim was to scrutinise the new ‘gender affirmative approach’ to […]
It is without doubt that we all grow up in a society which, either consciously through our birth certificate or passport documentation, or subconsciously through the marketing of gender-specific toys and clothes, coerces us into identifying strictly as a female […]