Schools will apparently be issued with guidelines on transgender pupils in March.
They are being drafted by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (ECHR) and are likely to suggest that pupils should be allowed to change gender ‘at any time’, and that parents and pupils should refer to children by their ‘preferred pronoun’. It is reported that cross-dressing should be allowed and that a pupil’s chosen gender may be kept confidential from the child’s parents.
If this goes ahead, it will be from the office of the new Secretary of State for Education, announced on 8 January as Damian Hinds. Educated at a Catholic grammar school, his Commons voting record shows he supported equal marriage laws, but voted against ‘three parent baby’ mitochondrial donation.
