A CONTROVERSIAL trans rights group has sparked fury for encouraging more than 300 schools to stop calling pupils “boys and girls”.
Tory MPs let rip at Stonewall for issuing the guidance and even suggested it be “blacklisted” from interfering in education.
Around 300 schools are signed up to the organisation’s “champions scheme” where they receive awards for removing “any unnecessarily gendered language”.
Installing gender neutral toilets and offering similar uniforms for males and females is also encouraged.
Tory MP Sir John Hayes told the Mail on Sunday: “Stonewall sucks ever more from hard-pressed schools, and in doing so seeks to distort the language used by teachers and pupils.
“I would urge all schools to avoid Stonewall like the plague.”
Conservative Nick Fletcher suggested the guidance broke the Education Act’s ban on promoting ideological material in classrooms.
He said: “Is it time for the Government to draw up a blacklist of organisations that ignore these Education Act provisions and who therefore should not be used by our schools?”
A spokesman for Stonewall said: “LGBTQ+ children still face high levels of bullying and significant barriers in education, so it is only right for schools to create an environment where they can grow up supported and safe to learn.”
