Teachers Must Involve Parents If Children Say They’re Transgender: UK Education Minister

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Parents must be involved if their children say they are transgender or non-binary in schools, the UK’s Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi told a select committee of lawmakers. Answering questions from the Education Committee on Wednesday, Zahawi said parents must be “front and centre” in safeguarding their children from ideologies that are not age-appropriate, and that the government is working on a new guideline for teachers. Zahawi was asked about a recent YouGov poll in which 79 percent of secondary teachers said their school had at least one pupil on its roll who identifies as transgender or non-binary, and a fifth of the teachers surveyed said they would not normally inform parents if their child adopted a cross-sex identification at school. ...

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