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Guide to trans children’s rights at school

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The Good Law Project has published legal advice about the rights of trans children in schools.
The guide offers advice for mixed and single sex schools. Picture: Adobe Stock
The guide offers advice for mixed and single sex schools. Picture: Adobe Stock

The advice has been written by Dan Squires QC, a leading education and discrimination law expert, and focuses on the obligations set out in the Equality Act 2010. 

This legislation prohibits schools from discriminating against their pupils, including on the basis of protected characteristics such as ‘sex’ and ‘gender reassignment’, he says.

The protected characteristic of ‘gender reassignment’ includes anyone proposing to undergo, undergoing, or having undergone a process of reassigning their sex, by changing either the physiological or other attributes of sex. It is not confined to people who have undergone surgical transition or who have obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate. 

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