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Council is a national "laughing stock" over gender identity question

This article is a bit more objective than The Daily Mail. Really, Scrooster, The Daily Mail?

In an effort to be inclusive and to prevent bullying of the very small percentage of transgender students at the town's schools, the Labour-majority city council went way overboard in its efforts to distinguish them from the rest of the students. If you read the comments after the article, you'll agree that their effort would only make things worse for transgender students.

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THE city council has been labelled a "laughing stock" after sending out forms asking parents which gender their "three-year-old children “most identify with”.

Councillor Dawn Barnett said it had gone too far in trying to be politically correct by urging parents to support their child’s choice of gender identity in a letter confirming primary school places this week.

Labour councillors from Brighton and Hove City Council have hit back at national criticism saying the letter, which asked them to return the form with information about their child, was designed to prevent the small number of trans children at the city’s schools from being bullied.

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