That will bring education into line with changes in the National Health Service
Yet there are growing concerns that these standards have slipped when it comes to the way biological sex and gender identity are covered in the classroom. On March 30th Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, said he was “very concerned” by reports that some schools were allowing pupils to change their names and pronouns without their parents’ knowledge. New guidelines on how schools should tackle such issues are expected imminently.
Mr Sunak’s comments followed the publication of a report by Policy Exchange, a think-tank, about “gender and safeguarding” in schools. Though the think-tank is centre-right, the report’s foreword was written by Rosie Duffield, a Labour. The report argues that gender ideology—which holds that gender identity is as important as biological sex—has become “embedded” in the school system.
It has done so via the influence of transgender activist organisations, which have long provided lesson plans and resources to schools. Such material is often light on science and heavy on gender stereotypes. Genderbread, a resource used by some schools, defines “man-ness” and “woman-ness” rather than “male” and “female”. This contradicts guidance from theMore worryingly, Policy Exchange says all this has created a “safeguarding blind spot”.
The government’s new guidance is expected to tell schools they must inform parents when pupils suffer gender distress, and must provide single-sex toilets and changing rooms. It is also likely to clarify that single-sex schools are not legally obliged to admit children of the opposite sex. In 2022 the Girls’ Day School Trust, a network of girls’ public schools, was criticised by some politicians and activists when it said it would admit pupils only on the basis of biological sex.
Yet a more straightforwardly scientific approach to sex and gender would bring schools into line with changes in the National Health Service (
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