Single-sex schools will be allowed to refuse transgender pupils under new education guidelines planned by Rishi Sunak’s government, it has emerged.
Amid fears of legal action from parents, head teachers of all girls’ schools will be told under that the guidance they can reject pupils who are legally male but identify as female.
Boys’ schools will be able to reject applications from trans-identified girls who identify as male, though no pupils would be required to leave a particular school if they began to question their gender identity.
The guidance is being drawn up by education secretary Gillian Keegan and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch, and will apply to both state and independent same-sex schools in England.
A Department for Education (DfE) source told The Telegraph: “Single-sex schools can refuse to admit pupils of the other legal sex regardless of whether the child is questioning their gender.”
