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Evening Standard
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Anna Davis

Parents ‘concerned’ about 18-year-old trans woman in boarding house with teenage girls

Boarding schools are the ‘ideal environment for grooming’, a new report from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has found (David Jones/PA) (Picture: PA Wire)

Parents of teenage girls at a boarding school are worried that an 18-year-old transwoman is sharing the same boarding house as their daughters, MPs heard on Tuesday.

Caroline Johnson, MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, said she has been contacted by parents in the past week who are “concerned” about the situation at the independent school, which was not named.

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