Gender Policy

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Introduction

IFYE 2025 is committed to ensuring all our IFYE members, guests and volunteers feel safe and secure.

The Equality Act 2010 sets out that we have a legal duty to ensure all our IFYE members, guests, and volunteers do not experience poor treatment, bullying or discrimination and that they have equal opportunities to participate in activities whilst at the IFYE2025 conference. Everyone will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We will endeavour to meet needs where possible and resources permit. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure the inclusion and fair treatment of all our c by endeavouring to fully understand and cater for everyone’s circumstance and needs whilst supporting and respecting all gender identities. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that our customers and staff are protected from discrimination, harassment and victimisation

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Definitions

Gender identity refers to one’s internal knowledge of one’s own gender (knowing you’re a man, woman or neither). This is different from their assigned ‘sex’. We're all assigned a sex at birth (male or female) based on the physical attributes we're born with. A person’s gender identity is separate from their sexual orientation and can currently be defined as, but not exclusive to the following

• Transgender or trans: people whose gender identity is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth. This is used here to cover the wide range of ways in which individuals may choose to express or describe their gender identity.

• Trans boy: a person who was assigned female at birth, but whose gender identity is male

• Trans girl: a person who was assigned male at birth, but whose gender identity is female

• Transitioning: the steps a trans person may take to live in the gender identity with which they identify, such as changing name, pronoun, style of dress, informing friends and family

• Non-binary: people who feel their gender cannot be denied within the margins of gender binary, therefore they do not identify as male or female

• Intersex: a person who may, at birth, have the biological attributes of both sexes or whose biological attributes do no with societal assumptions about what constitutes male or female

• Questioning: someone questioning their gender identity

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Buildings and Facilities

Due to the nature of the buildings provide by the Field Studies Council Residential Centres they have a varied provision of facilities. They provide shared single sex dormitories and bedrooms as well as single sex and unisex toilet and shower facilities. We respect the individual’s choice to use single or unisex facilities and will work with the organisation’s gender or transgender policy.

 

Safeguarding

Gender identity does not in itself constitute a safeguarding risk. However, it becomes an issue if a person who does identify as a different gender is being abused, harassed or discriminated against. Safeguarding issues should be reported to Field Studies Council staff who should follow procedures outlined in Safeguarding OCoP W6.

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Data and GDPR

We request data from those attending the IFYE2025 conference, to enable us to allocate dormitories and bedrooms for everyone at the venue. Attendee details will only be used for the purpose of allocating rooms and only retained for the duration of an active booking.