Suella Braverman is right about trans ideology in schools
by Frank Furedi, spiked:
We are plunging younger generations into an identity crisis.
Suella Braverman, attorney general for England and Wales, should be commended. In an interview for The Times on Friday, she had the courage to say what so many of her parliamentary colleagues have been reluctant to – namely, that schools should not pander to the demands of children who believe themselves to be trans.
She told The Times that schools are under no legal obligation to address children by a new pronoun or allow them to wear the school uniform of a different gender. And she pointed out that girls’ toilets and changing rooms have special legal protections as safe spaces.
Braverman’s willingness to publicly resist the onward march of the trans lobby was refreshing. It marks her out as one of the few brave voices in this debate. Too many politicians either embrace trans ideology, as Labour leader Keir Starmer has done, or they equivocate over it. Last month, for example, education secretary Nadhim Zahawi argued that schools should accommodate trans children, and allow male-born pupils to use girls’ toilets and changing rooms when they are not being used by others.
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