DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Lack of trans guidance is failing our schools trends now
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When parents send their children to school, they should have the utmost confidence that they will be safe.
They place implicit trust in teachers to act in loco parentis – to care for all pupils as if they were their own offspring.
But a damning report today by the Policy Exchange think-tank reveals in a troubling number of cases, this is not happening.
Many secondary schools, fuelled by an ideologically driven gender zealotry, stand accused of jeopardising children's welfare by flagrantly breaking safeguarding rules.
Alarmingly, seven in ten schools said that if a child announced they were trans, their parents would not be informed.
Many secondary schools, fuelled by an ideologically driven gender zealotry, stand accused of jeopardising children's welfare by flagrantly breaking safeguarding rules (file photo)
It is difficult to think of a worse abrogation of responsibility. This not only breaks the sacred bond between parent and child, but if a teacher without psychological expertise encourages social transitioning, it risks putting a pupil on a path to irreversible medical treatment they may later regret.
It is also deeply worrying that so many schools have axed single-sex toilets and changing rooms. Whatever transgender ideologues say, this puts girls in greater danger from predatory male pupils.
Teachers who question this bizarre gender dogma, often pushed by the Stonewall pressure group, run into terrible trouble – facing reprimand or worse.
When guidance for schools on trans pupils is so badly needed, it is unforgivable that Education Secretary Gillian Keegan is
