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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