Schools must provide changing rooms for pupils based on sex at birth
by Oliver Wright and Stephen Swinford, The Times:
Schools will no longer automatically be breaking the law if they refuse to refer to children by their chosen name or gender, Britain’s equalities watchdog has ruled.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission previously said that failing to refer to a female pupil by their “adopted male name” and call them a boy would be “direct” discrimination.
However it has now deleted the guidance following complaints by campaigners. It has also said that schools are legally obliged to provide separate changing rooms for boys and girls based on the sex of their birth.
The new interpretation of the law has been shared with ministers and is likely to form a key part of long-awaited new guidelines for schools on how to treat transgender pupils.
Schools will no longer automatically be breaking the law if they refuse to refer to children by their chosen name or gender, Britain’s equalities watchdog has ruled.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission previously said that failing to refer to a female pupil by their “adopted male name” and call them a boy would be “direct” discrimination.
However it has now deleted the guidance following complaints by campaigners. It has also said that schools are legally obliged to provide separate changing rooms for boys and girls based on the sex of their birth.
The new interpretation of the law has been shared with ministers and is likely to form a key part of long-awaited new guidelines for schools on how to treat transgender pupils.
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