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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Gender guidance for English primary school pupils permits use of different pronouns

Teaching unions welcomed the new guidance and stressed the need for clarity over how best to support pupils.
Teaching unions welcomed the new guidance and stressed the need for clarity over how best to support pupils. Photograph: James Jiao/Shutterstock

Primary school-age children who question their gender could be allowed to use different pronouns under long-awaited government guidance on the subject.

The guidance, billed as moving away from a culture-war approach to the subject, has some notable changes compared with a draft produced in 2023 under the Conservatives, which said that primary-aged children “should not have different pronouns to their sex-based pronouns used about them”.

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