Foster mum 'reported after questioning school teaching "genderbread"'

Deputy headteacher ‘reported foster mother to social services after she questioned the school’s teaching of ‘the genderbread person’ and a video lecture of a non-binary 12-year-old saying gender is dynamic’

• Foster mother reported after teacher grew ‘concerned’ for children in her care

A deputy headteacher allegedly reported a foster mother to social services after she questioned the school’s teaching of ‘the genderbread person’ as well as a video lecture of a non-binary 12-year-old saying gender is dynamic.

The foster mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was reported after the teacher grew ‘concerned’ for the children who were encountering ‘exceptionally bigoted’ views.

The teacher wrote in a letter seen by the Telegraph that while the children were ‘looked after physically’, there was a danger they could ‘expound similar bigoted viewpoints’ to their mother.

She claims the school has so far stood by the deputy headteacher raising concerns and therefore is seeking an apology.

The foster mother questioned the school’s relationship teaching, which allegedly featured a video lecture by a non-binary 12-year-old who said gender was ‘dynamic’ and toilets were ‘just another way to categorise people’.

The foster mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was reported after the teacher grew ‘concerned’ for the children who were encountering ‘exceptionally bigoted’ views (file image)

Students also reportedly said they were taught about the ‘genderbread person’ in their school.

It is a controversial diagram which defines biological sex as a spectrum with sex ‘assigned’ at birth, something critics have already condemned as ‘unscientific nonsense’. 

This teaching plan was criticised by the mother in a ‘strongly worded’ email saying the school was teaching this ideology as fact and that it should be balanced with critical material, according to the Telegraph

Afterwards, the teacher allegedly sent an email to social services, which said they were concerned about the ‘environment these girls are growing up in’ due to the mother’s views. 

The teacher asked: ‘Do we want children in care who are already traumatised to expound similar bigoted viewpoints?’

According to reports, a meeting took place between social services and members of the school to discuss if the woman was suitable as a foster mother.

She was shocked by this response and told the Telegraph: ‘The fact that I was ever deemed to be a risk to my children, and that… they would meet together to discuss it horrified me and made me feel incredibly vulnerable.

She said she grew to love the children as her own and that is was ‘not OK’ for the teacher to judge or police her ‘tone or thinking’.

‘That’s overstretching her remit, and compelled speech is one of the first steps to fascism,’ she added.

The woman said she could have lost her foster children had it not been for her ‘exemplary’ years as a carer.

In a class action case that is being prepared against the Government, the foster mother is now one of the litigants who claim the ministers have been ‘wilfully neglient’ for allowing material from groups like Stonewall to become the norm in schools. 

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