from The Christian Institute
Child safety and wellbeing continues to be compromised in schools by transgender ideology, a new study has revealed.
An investigation by Policy Exchange found that some secondary schools are still “heavily influenced by gender ideology” and failing gender-confused children and their peers.
The think tank’s report ‘Still Asleep at the Wheel’ is based on 173 responses to Freedom of Information requests sent to a random selection of secondary schools. It is a follow-up to a similar investigation carried out by Policy Exchange in 2023.
Evidence
While noting an improvement between the two studies, researchers reported that, of schools that responded, only 43 per cent reliably inform parents “when a child discloses feelings of gender distress” — up from 28 per cent in 2023.
They also observed that 30 per cent of schools still had no single-sex toilets, and that 27 per cent made no-provision for single-sex changing rooms — although these figures are improvements from 2023, when 60 per cent of schools had no single-sex toilets, and 49 per cent lacked adequate changing facilities.
Information received from schools indicated that almost a quarter continue to “require other children to adopt a transitioning child’s new name and pronouns”. Again, however, this is scaled back significantly on the 69 per cent of schools reporting a similar policy in 2023.