Timeline
Introduction
With the rise of transphobia in both education and society as a whole, it is hard to keep up with what has happened, how we got here and what is happening currently. Balancing the need to stay informed with the urgent responses often required to current events can be difficult. As a result, we have decided to make our archive of website updates publicly available for others to learn from and incorporate into future responses. We hope this resource proves helpful.
2026
Present Day
For current news and actions, check our Act Now page.
July
On the 7th July, the Department for Education released its final draft of 2026's Keeping Children Safe in Education. Read our response here.
May
On the 21st May, Bridget Phillipson laid the EHRC draft Code of Practice in Parliament. Find out more here.
February
The Department for Education opened a consultation on its draft of 2026's Keeping Children Safe in Education, with concerning updates on practice recommendations. More information can be found here.
2025
September
The updated Code of Practice was submitted to Bridget Phillipson (Minister for Women and Equalities). The Keeping Children Safe in Education update for 2025 was released with limited updates to the sections highlighted in our 2024 reporting.
May-June
The EHRC opened its consultation on its updated Code of Practice- a document that aims to cover what the Equality Act 2010 means in precise and technical terms. See here for TransActual's response to the consultation.
April
The Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, "sex" means "biological sex" as recorded on a person's birth certificate. See more here.
2024
September
The Department of Education released the final version of 2024's Keeping Children Safe in Education. This guidance sets out what schools and colleges in England must do to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18. It included several updates that drew from the Cass Review and the draft Gender Questioning Children guidance. Our response can be found here.
May
The Department of Education published its draft statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance and opened a consultation period. See our response here.
The DfE also released its draft of the 2024 update to Keeping Children Safe in Education (see above).
April
The Cass Review of Trans Healthcare published its final report on 10th April, 2024. While this report was about health services, it has since been used to justify decisions about trans and non-binary students in education. Our response can be found here.
January
The Department of Education opened its consultation for the Gender Questioning Children Draft Guidance, released in December 2023. For a compiled version of our work on this, click here.
