Rishi Sunak vows school policies for transgender students
Rishi Sunak has pledged schools will get guidance on policies for transgender students for the summer time.
The Prime Minister interceded after a teaching union told its members were guiding a ‘minefield’ about gender.
Rishi Sunak to guide on transgender students policies:
He was asked regarding a report from a centre-right think tank Policy Exchange which peeked at 154 English secondary academies. It saw only 39 of them reliably informed parents when students identified as trans or questioned their gender.
Eighty-seven schools saw parents were not reliably told, 14 were required to provide more detail, and 14 decided to wait to respond. The report’s authors, composed as part of the think tank’s Biology Matters Project, introduced a Freedom of Information (FOI) bid to 304 of England’s 24,000 secondary schools.
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The schools were picked at random. Any selected certain schools were dismissed from the report as Policy Exchange said, “many of the problems raised do not apply or pertinent” to them.
Schools were questioned about their policies on whether schools would admit to parents as soon as a student ‘comes out’ as transgender or ask their gender to whether kids should play in sports squads that don’t fit their sex registered at birth. Just 154 of 304 schools answered. Not all of the schools replied to all of the questions asked.
The report said some schools felt revealing information to parents regarding whether they questioned their gender identity or voiced a wish to change gender would violate the child’s confidentiality. When asked about the news during a Thursday trip to the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Oxfordshire, Mr Sunak stated he was “very concerned.”
He added, ” Our kids’ safety and well-being are essential. Parents must be able to know what is being taught to their children in school, particularly in these sensitive areas.
