Legislation to bypass Equality Act unlikely to make it into King’s Speech, says government source
Rishi Sunak is considering abandoning plans to ban children from changing gender at schools, The Telegraph understands.
The Prime Minister has vowed to take action to curb so-called social transitioning, where children who say they are trans demand to be referred to by a different pronoun and wear the uniform of the opposite sex.
Attorney General Victoria Prentis told the Prime Minister in July that a law was needed to ban social transitioning, because otherwise it could contravene the Equality Act.
But he is understood to have backed away from bringing in a law to enforce the new rules as he is concerned about party differences being exposed in the Commons in the run-up to an election.