Right-wing Tory MPs lobbied for 'blanket ban' on children identifying as transgender in schools

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Right-wing Tory MPs lobbied for 'blanket ban' on children identifying as transgender in schools
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Miriam Cates and Nick Fletcher are understood to have warned officials it was ‘wrong’ to allow pupils to choose their own gender 🔴 Exclusive from poppyeh

: “I don’t think guidance for schools should say that girls should be allowed to identify as boys and boys should be allowed to identify as girls, I think it’s a safeguarding risk.

“But I will not be happy if the guidance says that children can change gender, even it it’s with parental consent,” Ms Cates added. “I don’t want to see schools socially transitioning children and I’ll absolutely speak out about it if that’s what it says. I’ll absolutely take part in the consultation.”: “The truth is that we can’t change sex. It’s wrong for adults to collude in misleading any child in any way at all that they can, including the use of new pronouns.

, with Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders , saying earlier this year that it would provide teachers with concrete advice on a complex issue. Charities have raised concerns that this effectively amounts to “outing” children that could lead to dangerous situations among some families.: “We are very concerned about the potential for this guidance to include measures that may put some trans and non-binary young people in danger.

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