Suella Braverman will tell teachers they have no legal duty to let trans pupils switch their uniform
- Suella Braverman on Wednesday will say there is no legal requirement to allow transgender pupils to switch uniform
- Mrs Braverman scrapped diversity and inclusion training in her department
- She feels there is a ‘misapprehension’ that teachers must accommodate pupils
- The Attorney General compared diversity ‘zealots’ to ‘the witchfinders of the Middle Ages’
The Attorney General will this week tell teachers they have no legal requirement to allow transgender pupils to switch school uniform.
Suella Braverman, the Government’s chief legal adviser, will say schools can ignore requests from children who want to change gender about how they wish to be treated.
In a speech on Wednesday, she will say there is no legal obligation to accommodate transgender pupils’ preferred pronouns and no duty to allow children to wear the uniform of a different gender.
Mrs Braverman will warn that it is unlawful for schools to allow children who are a different biological sex to share lavatories. Instead she will say that children who are transitioning should be offered a third alternative to preserve single-sex safe spaces.
Her speech to the Policy Exchange think-tank is a precursor to guidance expected to be published by the Department for Education this autumn.
The Attorney General will tell teachers that there is no legal requirement to allow transgender pupils to switch uniform
A source close to Mrs Braverman told The Sunday Times: ‘She feels some teachers are under the misapprehension that there is a legal obligation to accommodate pupils who want to change their gender.’
The Daily Mail revealed last week that Mrs Braverman has scrapped diversity and inclusion training in her department having discovered that hundreds of her lawyers spent 1,900 hours on the woke lectures last year.
They were being given lectures on ‘microincivilities’ and ‘how to be a straight ally’.
Mrs Braverman branded the diversity industry a ‘new religion’ in which zealots seek to punish unbelievers while others are too scared to speak out.
The Cabinet minister, who stood for the Tory leadership before being knocked out last month, says it is ‘downright dangerous’ for Whitehall lawyers to be taught they cannot challenge anyone who says they have been offended by a particular phrase.
‘This does nothing to create solidarity and support but rather keeps emphasising difference, creating a sense of “other” and pitting different groups against each other,’ she wrote.
The Attorney General compared diversity ‘zealots’ to ‘the witchfinders of the Middle Ages’.
She said some believe in the cause and ‘don the outfit of the inquisitor and never tire of rooting out unbelievers’ but others simply ‘wear the priestly clothes to ward off their rivals’ or ‘nod along and recite the creed because they are too scared to dissent’.
She added: ‘None of these approaches are acceptable in modern Britain.’
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