Gillian Keegan has not met any LGBT+ groups to discuss the government’s planned transgender guidance, despite claiming that delays to its release would allow her to consult stakeholders.
Schools minister Nick Gibb made the admission after Labour MP Nadia Whittome asked how many of the organisations the education secretary had spoken to about the planned guidance over the last year.
Keegan stated in July that the publication of the long-awaited advice had been pushed back to give the government “more time” to “speak to teachers, parents, lawyers and other stakeholders”.
She stressed that the move would ensure the advice issued to schools and colleges “meets the high expectations that these groups rightly have for it”.
