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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Dalton

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Parents should be consulted when children question gender identity schools told | History Defined

The Department for Education has set out proposals in legally binding guidelines on how schools should support any children questioning their gender - (Getty)

Parents should be involved in the “vast majority” of cases where a child questions their gender, new government guidance for teachers says.

Schools should seek parents’ views unless there is any genuine safeguarding reason not to, as well as always considering any clinical advice families have received, it also states.

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