Women’s rights campaigners are pushing for a “Tavistock-style” review of gender identity policies in schools.
Several groups have written to the new education secretary, Gillian Keegan, to ask for a “Cass review for schools”, claiming that some promote the idea that children are born in the wrong body. The Cass review identified failings at Tavistock’s gender identity development service in London, which is now going to close.
Campaign groups, including Sex Matters and Transgender Trend, wrote to Keegan at the end of last week expressing concern at transgender self-identification in schools.
They said: “Please commission an independent expert review of the promotion of gender ideology in schools, and its impact on gender distress and on child safeguarding.
“Parents contact us every week, distraught that a