On Monday came reports that Liz Truss, the equalities minister, is urging all government departments to quit the scheme. When the EHRC left last month, the watchdog said its decision was based on cost but it was announced just days after Stonewall and other LGBTQ+ groups had used an open letter to explain their “frustration and disappointment” at the EHRC’s “recent record on LGBTQ+ people’s rights and trans people’s rights specifically”.
The letter was a response to the EHRC defending gender-critical beliefs and suggesting that they are “protected beliefs” under the Equality Act, a position the signatories said was a “kick in the teeth to trans people”.
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A spokesperson for Ofted said: Primary schools that are meeting the Department for Education’s statutory requirements for teaching RSHE, including on the protected characteristics, but are not explicitly teaching about gender reassignment, can still be judged outstanding. As set out in our guidance, if a school requests that inspectors do not speak to pupils about a topic that the school reasonably believes is sensitive for its pupils, inspectors will not ask pupils questions about it.
The gay rights charity was previously under fire for suggesting organisations should replace mother with parent who gave birth
The issue comes a day after it was revealed hundreds of organisations wanting to be included on Stonewall s equality leaderboard were told they should replace the term mother with parent who has given birth .
The controversial group has issued various guidance to employers wanting to make its Workplace Equality Index, which has attracted more than 500 applications in the last year.