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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rebecca Black

Education Minister urged to reveal legal advice on removing transgender guidance

The Stormont Education Committee meeting on Wednesday (NI Assembly/PA) -

Northern Ireland’s Education Minister has been pressed to reveal the legal advice he received which led to him ordering the removal of transgender guidance for schools.

Earlier this week Paul Givan said the Education Authority guidance was “unlawful and flawed” following the ruling by the Supreme Court in April that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

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