Welsh Schools Let Children ‘Socially Transition’ Without Telling Parents, Report Finds

Welsh schools are putting children “at risk” and exposing themselves to legal action by allowing children to identify as the opposite gender to their sex without informing their parents, research from a campaign group has found. Merched Cymru submitted a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to schools and found they had “widely varying approaches” in how they dealt with the increasing number of children who are questioning their gender identity, and were often using toolkits from transgender lobbying organisations such as Stonewall. Their report revealed just 28 percent of schools that responded said they would automatically inform parents if their child wished to socially transition, whereas 38 percent said they would not automatically do so, and 29 percent said they would inform parents only with the consent of the child....