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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Catherine Lough

Children’s Minister says trans pupils in single-sex spaces is a ‘minefield’

PA Wire

The issue of including pupils identifying as transgender in single-sex spaces has been described as a “minefield” by a Government minister.

In an inquiry from the Commons’ education select committee into Government support for children in children’s homes, Will Quince, Minister for Children and Families, said he would “probably wouldn’t be overly happy” for his daughters to share a boarding house with a pupil identifying as a trans girl.

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