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Children as young as 11 are being asked if they are transgender, non-binary or pansexual in a study part-funded by taxpayers and Andy Burnham’s office.
The #BeeWell survey is a Manchester University project to assess wellbeing in youngsters, covering topics such as mental health, eating habits and engagement with school.
However, the questionnaire distributed to secondary school pupils also asks them about their ‘gender identity’ and sexuality.
[C]ritics fear that it is part of the normalisation of contested gender ideology in schools.
In July, the Government updated its relationships, sex and health education guidance to say schools ‘should not teach as fact that all people have a gender identity’.
Stephanie Davies-Arai, of the campaign group Transgender Trend, said: ‘Inviting children to select the category “girl (including trans girl)” is blatant indoctrination of children to believe the trans-activist propaganda trans women are women.’