Headteachers should intervene to stop children identifying as cats, horses, moons or other 'neo genders', Downing Street has said.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that it is not right for children to be influenced by the 'personal views' of teachers when it comes to transgender issues.
No 10 has waded into the debate after it emerged that schools are allowing children to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs and that teachers are 'failing to question them'.
There was widespread outrage earlier this week when The Telegraph revealed a 13-year-old girl at Rye College in East Sussex had been branded 'despicable' by her teacher for rejecting her classmate's claim that she identified as a cat.
Now further stories are emerging of pupils who identify as animals with very human characteristics - often known as 'furries'.
At a state secondary school in Wales, one student is said to 'meow' when asked questions by a teacher, rather than answering in English.
In other schools, one apparently insists on being addressed as a dinosaur, one claims to identify as a horse while another is said to wear a cape and demands to be acknowledged as a moon.
