Parents urge Church of England to scrap transgender guidance for children
from Christian Concern:
Christian parents Nigel and Sally Rowe are calling on the Church of England (CofE) to urgently abandon transgender guidance which says that children as young as five should be affirmed if they want to identify as the opposite gender.
Open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury
In an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Nigel Rowe 49, and his wife Sally, 47 have called on the CofE to urgently revise its ‘Valuing All God’s Children’ (VAGC) guidance which covers 4,700 CofE primary schools.
The letter comes following the Rowes’ legal victory against the Department for Education, which led to a £22,000 settlement for legal costs and a commitment from the government to reform its transgender policies. Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Nigel and Sally Rowe had taken legal action against the DfE after they and their six-year-old son were labelled ‘transphobic’ by a Church of England primary school for refusing to ‘believe’ in transgender affirming policies.
The Rowes make clear in their letter to the Archbishop, that when they raised concern with the CofE’s Portsmouth Diocesan Board of Education in 2017, the VAGC guidance was used to dismiss and shut down their complaints.
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