Civil service lawyers have been accused of trying to scupper Kemi Badenoch’s schools trans guidance following a leak which claimed the guidance has a “high risk of successful legal challenge”. The Mail has the story.
Civil service lawyers have been accused of trying to thwart ministers by raising objections to new guidance on transgender pupils.
A leak has revealed the Department for Education’s legal team claimed key parts of the long-awaited document for teachers on ‘gender-questioning children’ would be overturned in court.
They even stated that stopping primary school children from adopting new pronouns had a “high risk of successful legal challenge”.
The clash is the latest in a series between the Whitehall ‘Blob’ and the Government, which has seen frustrated ministers claiming their policies have been blocked by activist civil servants.
Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, who drove through the new guidance, has previously told how officials tried to stop her banning gender-neutral toilets and advised her against meeting a young woman who regretted transitioning.
A Government source said: “This guidance is legally robust. Yet the very fact that someone, presumably in the Department for Education, has felt the need to leak this legal advice, shows the battle that Kemi Badenoch had to fight to shift the institutional assumptions and get this guidance to where it is today.”
Worth reading in full.
Separately, and perhaps surprisingly, Labour’s Education Spokesman Bridget Phillipson welcomed the guidance, saying: “School leaders have been telling me they wanted to see greater clarity on how they should approach what is a very sensitive and, at times, difficult issue.”
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