Gender guidance for English primary school pupils permits use of different pronouns

DfE guidance urges teachers to respond to social transition requests ‘with caution’ and includes Cass report findingsPrimary school-age children who question their gender could be allowed to use different pronouns under long-awaited government guidance on the subject.The guidance, billed as moving away from a culture-war approach to the subject, has some notable changes compared with a draft produced in 2023 under the Conservatives, which said that primary-aged children “should not have different pronouns to their sex-based pronouns used about them”. Continue reading...