Who’s running the show on trans and gender? Elected ministers? Or an activist civil service? A publication put out by the Department for Education (DfE) – Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) – suggests it may be the latter.
Schools and colleges rely on this document to keep children safe. But, while the 2023 version contains a few updates, there are none regarding the safeguarding issue everyone has been talking about: children who want to change their gender. So why has the department chosen to turn a blind eye to the concerned parents, teachers and schools desperate for guidance?
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan must answer some difficult questions. Why did she sign off on this guidance? What was in the submission presented to her? Did officials even consider whether gender, trans and RSHE (relationships, sex and health education) issues should be addressed? If not, it cannot be because they were unaware of the issues, for the evidence has been covered over and again by every media outlet – and by Parliament – in recent months.
Over 60 per cent of schools are failing to inform parents when a child discloses that they want to change their gender, according to a survey
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