Rev. John Parker claimed that when a child wanted to transition there were no policies in place to tell other parents beforehand and that it happened without question.
The head teacher had informed governors in March 2019 that a parent of the child wanted no prior information about the situation to be provided to other parents at the school until the day the child announced the transition. The school isn’t being named to protect the anonymity of the child.
The child then announced their transition to their class.
The vicar has raised concerns that there was little discussion about the implications of this or the school’s policy on gender toilets, changing rooms and accommodation on trips.
The child’s identity was not revealed to the governors and head teacher is said to have dismissed concerns from the governors, saying the Department for Education and the local Church of England diocesan education authority had advised that the school was obliged under equality laws to implement the policy.
Rev John Parker had previously left the Church of England for similar reasons.
In his resignation letter to the Bishop he wrote that he feared that children were being ‘sacrificed on the altar of trans ideology’.
He said of the school’s handling of the transition: “There wasn’t the opportunity for disagreement, we could communicate with parents, we couldn’t discuss this as…
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