A parent's view on trans rights in schools
As a parent and as an educator, I have followed the development of the guidance for schools around transgender pupils from both perspectives. As a parent of a transgender child, this has made me think deeply around the rights of the parent to know what is going on with their child. Do I want to know that my child is questioning their gender, using a new name and new pronouns, exploring what it is to be gender non-binary? Yes. Of course I do. However the how and the when of that discussion is of supreme importance. My son came out in his own time. He had been using he-they pronouns for a year...