Denying pupils can change sex may be breaking law, teachers warned
by Hayley Dixon, Telegraph:
Bath and Wells Multi-Academy Trust told staff that children who are unhappy sharing changing rooms with trans classmates should be moved.
A group of Church of England schools told teachers that they would probably be breaking the law if they said a person cannot change their biological sex.
The Bath and Wells Multi Academy Trust, which runs 42 primary schools, said defining sex as immutable was “damaging” and likely to breach the Equality Act, despite legal rulings to the contrary.
The trust’s policy on transgender pupils also stated that girls who did not want to share changing rooms with boys who identified as trans should be moved to a different facility.
It comes after The Telegraph revealed that up to three quarters of schools are misrepresenting equality laws.
An analysis of more than 600 policies showed teachers are being told to transition children as young as four without their parents’ knowledge and to allow them to sleep in dormitories and use toilets that match their “gender identity”.
Many policies remain in place despite long-awaited draft government guidance published in December which states that schools should not accept all requests to social transition and should involve parents in any decision that is made.
Next week, the Cass review into gender identity services for children, which has promised to consider the “important role of schools”, is expected to be published. The interim report warned that changing a child’s name and pronouns is “not a neutral act”.
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