Teachers and schoolchildren face the threat of prosecution for refusing to use a pupil’s preferred pronouns under Labour’s conversion therapy ban, a leading law firm has warned.
Schools that follow guidance requiring children to use toilets matching their biological sex could also be accused of ‘abusive conversion practices’ by suppressing their gender identity, lawyers said.
Law firm Irwin Mitchell has warned that Labour’s Conversion Practices Bill – currently at the draft stage – ‘could create particular difficulties for schools and colleges’.
In an analysis of the proposed legislation, the law firm said that because it is so ‘broadly drawn’, it raises difficult questions
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