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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Schools minister ‘wouldn’t be overly happy’ if his daughters boarded with trans pupil

Conservative MP Will Quince.
Conservative MP Will Quince. Photograph: Matt Crossick/Alamy

The children’s minister has told MPs he “probably wouldn’t be overly happy” for his daughters to share a school boarding house with a pupil identifying as transgender.

Will Quince was giving evidence before the Commons education select committee, which heard that schools in England were seeing an increase in the number of children identifying as trans.

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