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Safe Schools Alliance UK vs. transgender people

Safe Schools Alliance UK (SSA UK) is a website of anti-trans activists “concerned that schools are being advised to use policies regarding gender identity that are based on misleading or inaccurate information.”

In 2026, Amnesty International UK named SSA UK to a list of anti-rights organizations engaging in “gender critical” activism. In response, they released a statement and a letter.

Background

Safe Schools Alliance UK created a Twitter account in May 2019. Their website went live in June 2019. They oppose:

  • “The adoption of gender identity ideology in schools and its impact on the lives of children, especially girls.”
  • “The use by schools of RSE [Relationships and Sex Education] materials which sexualise children and promote porn and other harmful sexual practices.”

They call upon the UK Department for Education to:

  • “Remove the reference to ‘gender identity’ as if it were fact from the statutory RSE guidance.”
  • “Remove the requirement to teach gender identity from the primary curriculum.”
  • “Include gender-critical thought and discuss it as part of RSE in the Secondary curriculum.”

People

Most people involved with SSA UK lack the courage of their conviction and operate anonymously or pseudonymously.

  • Tanya Carter: spokesperson
  • Tracy Shaw: spokesperson

Anti-trans activism

In December 2024, SSA UK Tracy Shaw gave a presentation to the Department for Education as part of a 90-minute roundtable discussion by stakeholders, which stated in part:

“No child should be treated as if they are the opposite sex in schools. This guidance is an inadequate response to a systemic safeguarding failure. Safeguarding must be prioritized in law and enforced by this department, which has consistently failed to centre children’s wellbeing. Activists in the civil service, teaching profession, unions, and others are driving policies that undermine safeguarding. Any guidance on this issue needs to use and refer to KCSIE which is the bedrock of safeguarding in schools.  Safeguarding training needs to be improved, audited and approved at government level to ensure everyone is getting the same message. 

The conflation of inclusion and safeguarding in school leadership roles has deepened this failure, as DEI initiatives take precedence over children’s wellbeing. Parental alienation is widespread, perpetuated by weak safeguarding frameworks. The complaints system is not fit for purpose and schools are marking their own homework.  This guidance does little to restore trust or resolve these failures. Only a public inquiry can do that.

Lobby groups have sold politically indoctrinated, damaging and inaccurate education materials to time-poor schools, and we are seeing instances of students who have been groomed by adult activists running LGBT+ lunchtime clubs for vulnerable children with no safeguarding applied. These groups are often focussed solely on gender and push to change school policy, whilst school leaders disregard their safeguarding training and allow them to go ahead unchecked. If this involved any other political issue, Prevent would be invoked, and concerns about radicalisation raised. 

Selected fact sheets by SSA UK

FOI Requests to Schools https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FOI-requests-to-schools.pdf

Advice on social transitioning of trans-identified children https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/22Aug_Advice-note-schools-socially-transitioning.pdf

How to complain to your child’s school https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/How-to-complain-to-your-childs-school.pdf

Parents’ guide to external PSHE / RSE providers (version1) https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Parents-Guide-to-external-PSHE-RSE-providers.pdf

DfE Guidance on RSE curriculum planning in England https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DfE-Guidance-on-RSE-Curriculum-Planning-in-England.pdf

LGBT History Month School Packs 2021 https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LGBT-History-Month-School-Packs-2021-.pdf

Equality Act Protected Characteristics Poster https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Equality-Poster.pdf

Stonewall Home Learning Packs: Notes for Parents https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Stonewall-home-learning-for-parents.pdf

Relationships and Sex Education and the law in England https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RSE-and-the-law-in-England_Covid-2.pdf

Why are SSAUK supporting a legal challenge to Oxfordshire County Council’s Trans Toolkit? https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/trans-toolkit-summary-concerns-flyer-v6.pdf

Equality & Diversity policy ‘red flags’ https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/redflagsa4.pdf

SSAUK Concerns and Aims https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ssa-concernsaims.pdf

Single Sex Toilets and Changing Facilities factsheet https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/singlesextoiletsfactsheet.pdf

Sexism in UK Mixed-Sex Secondary Schools Factsheet https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sexism-in-schools-factsheet-1.pdf

Recommended websites

For parents and young people

Organizations “defending sex-based rights”

Organizations “campaigning against pornography”

  • CEASE UK
  • Click Off
  • Culture Reframed

Documentaries

  • The Trans Train (2019, Sweden)
  • Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk (2018, UK) hosted by Stella O’Malley
  • Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire (2021, India) by Vaishnavi Sundar

Selected posts by SSA UK

Resources

Safe Schools Alliance UK (safeschoolsallianceuk.net)

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