Scots teachers will strike for another 16 days over pay and conditions, it has been announced.
06.11.2022 - 08:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Teachers have been ordered not to tell parents if their under-age children are identifying as a different gender. Staff at a West Dunbartonshire high school received an email from the head teacher warning them they should not be divulging the information even about 12-year-olds.
Pupils can ask staff to address them by a new name and pronouns, meaning youngsters born female will be referred to as “he” or “him” and vice-versa, while also taking on a new name. But as a result of controversial Scottish Government guidance many local authorities actively conceal the information from parents if the child doesn’t want them to know as the guidance states transgender is “not a child protection or wellbeing issue”.
A Sunday Mail investigation has found serious variations in how the policy is applied across the country. And teachers who spoke anonymously to us have raised concerns. One said: “There are some classes with several children as young as 12 who have said they want to be known by a new name and pronouns. It is an issue affecting an increasingly large number of young people.
“An email was sent out before parents’ night making clear the information was not to be given to the guardians of at least one S1 pupil as they didn’t want them to know. These are 12-year-olds, not even teenagers, some of whom can be struggling in a variety of ways. Many staff are concerned that this is not the correct course of action.”
Another said: “We are in a very strange position where a 16-year-old child in S5 who wants to change their Higher subjects can’t do so without parental consent but a 12-year-old in S1 can change their gender and the information will be actively concealed from their parents.
“If something was to happen to one of these
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