Teachers must tell parents if their children declare they are transgender in class, the Education Secretary has said.
Gillian Keegan said she disagreed with the stance taken in some schools where staff 'affirm' a pupil's new name and pronouns in secret.
She promised that the 'common sense' involvement of parents would be included in long-awaited transgender guidance for head teachers, which was first promised five years ago but has yet to materialise.
But she also revealed there will be 'quite a long consultation' on the 'sensitive' rules due to be published before the summer holiday, raising the prospect that it may be many more months before the guidance is in force.
Her comments in an interview with web forum Mumsnet come after a BBC survey found that three-quarters of secondary school teachers said they taught trans or non-binary pupils.
