A: Young persons are protected under the Equality Act 2010.
This law prohibits schools from discriminating against a pupil on a series of protected grounds, including sexual orientation (whether bisexual, gay, lesbian or heterosexual) and gender reassignment.
Gender reassignment is considered to be a personal process in which a person expresses their gender in a way that differs from or is inconsistent with the physical sex they were born with. A young person need not have undergone medical treatment for gender reassignment before they are protected under the law; they may instead have expressed to someone that they intend to undergo gender reassignment, or start dressing or behaving according to the gender they identify with.
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