It is very disappointing that this extract from the latest RSE consultation guidance is so inaccurate. See below. A young person can change their gender on their passport at age16 and below that age with parental consent. @GillianKeegan @LGBTCons @carolinenokes @StuartAndrew
Here’s what the passport office says
The solicitor general taking the Equality Act through parliament was very clear gender reassignment to be a spectrum including non-binary and gender fluid people
The EHRC put an enforcement order in place on Jaguar Land Rover for getting this wrong
How can it be wrong to teach what the World Health Organisation say?
How can it be wrong to teach what the Council of Europe describe in their Ministerial Recommendations that our government has signed up to follow? search.coe.int/cm/Pages/resul…
How can it be wrong to teach the anti discrimination Article 14 of the ECHR activated by the Human Rights Act in schools covering gender identity?
How can it be wrong to teach what the FCDO promulgates as its global policy?
How can it be wrong to teach what the Endocrine society say is biological about gender identity? - “There is a durable biological underpinning to gender identity that should be considered in policy determinations.” endocrine.org/advocacy/posit…
How can it be wrong to teach what is discriminatory under international law?
How can it be right to ignore our commitments under the Istanbul Convention?
Also as JUSTICE CHAMBERLAIN concludes the Equality Act gender reassignment does apply to children and also non-binary and gender fluid people para 129 and 133
This is what the Equality Act says
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