UK media - Schools and "gender identity"

A fictional toddler who changes gender against the wishes of their parents features in a reading list aimed at two to four-year-olds published by the LGBT chari

National library scheme includes a book describing a teenager’s breasts as ‘fatty lumps that need to be gone’

A primary teacher who was sacked after refusing to call an eight-year-old schoolgirl by a boy’s name or use male pronouns is to fight a legal test case.The tea

Maths teacher Kevin Lister, 59, was sacked from a Swindon school after refusing to affirm a pupil’s gender change because he wanted to first obtain the permission of the student’s parents.

The National Education Union (NEU) has withdrawn a positive review of a children’s book that says there are only two genders

Ministers are to review contentious guidelines on how schools should deal with gender identity after settling a court case with parents who had been accused of being “transphobic”. The move could lead to the scrapping of the “Cornwall” transgender policies, which advise that schools create gender-ne

Teachers face “significant challenges” trying to avoid accidentally outing trans children to their parents amid a surge in pupils adopting new gender identities.Staff at Queen Anne High School, in

Suella Braverman, the Government’s chief legal advisor, said schools have a duty of care to offer ‘single-sex toilets’ and hit out at the ‘transitioning of children behind their parents’ backs’.

Attorney General tells teachers that allowing students to ‘socially transition’ without parents’ consent could be a breach of care

The children’s commissioner has told of her shock on learning about the “horrendous” examples of sex education materials used in schools.Dame Rachel de Souza to

Speaking to The Telegraph, some parents said teachers are affirming children’s new transgender identities without consulting them first

Schools do not have to accommodate children who want to change gender, the attorney-general said.Suella Braverman said that schools are under no legal obligatio

A girl who argued that biological sex is real after a talk about transphobia felt forced to leave her school after pupils hounded her for challenging the vie

Parents are suing the Welsh Government over plans to force children to learn about sex and gender. Four mothers of the Public Child Protection Wales organization have started legal action to overturn a proposal to make RSE lessons compulsory.

Much of the criticism of the Scottish government’s determination to legislate to allow people to choose their own sex has focused on the threat to women’s rights

Male pupils at Jedburgh Grammar Campus have been seen “waving sanitary products like flags” inside gender-neutral toilets at the school, it was claimed at a meeting today, (Thursday, November 25).

Girls are refusing to use gender-neutral toilets at Scottish secondary schools amid reports male pupils have been seen “waving sanitary products like flags” and urinating in sanitary bins.A councillor has raised concerns that several female students have gone days without using toilets on campus due

Plaintiffs claim affirmation of students’ gender undermines parents’ role in decision-making

A parent has praised a primary school that was recently embroiled in a row over gender-neutral toilets for accommodating his daughter.

Children’s Commissioner says more research must be done to ensure ‘safeguards’ are in place before legal age to change gender is lowered

Primary pupils will be taught how to use inclusive pronouns as well as the difference between gender and biological sex in a new guide aimed at curbing bullying

A letter explaining the move was sent out to parents this week and some are not happy

New inclusivity guidelines say teachers should not question pupils but instead ask them for their new name and pronouns

Teachers started calling a pupil by a new name without speaking to the parents, their lawyer says.

Culloden Academy pupils return to single sex toilets from today, Monday.

‘Just another step towards girls and women’s safe spaces being eroded.’

Alex Massie: The Scottish government’s guidance to schools on transgender children is based on flawed data

Schools that support a child’s wish to switch gender without informing their parents are potentially breaching the law, according to a respected Scottish lawyer

Mobile phones are as addictive as crack cocaine, a head teacher who intends to ban them in school hours has claimed.Jane Lunnon says that the type of pornographic material and the volume of images

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that hundreds of primaries, secondaries and colleges - both state and private - have paid up to £1,000 each to join the ...

A leading grammar school has been reported to the Department for Education after a newsletter, sent to girls as young as 11, explained how to bind their breasts.Pupils at Nonsuch High School in Cheam

Pupils must not be told they might be a different gender based on personality or clothes