magine a teenage boy, alone with his phone late at night. A message pings in from a pretty stranger, or even from the hacked account of a girl he already knows. Either way, it’s crudely calculated to grab his attention. There will be pictures, tantalising promises of something even more explicit, if he’ll send nudes in response. But if he does, the brutal trap springs shut.
Though all this arguably brings schools into line with an outside world where an adult’s right to express gender-critical beliefs in the workplace has beenShould pupils be allowed to insist that boys can’t really become girls? What if there’s a vulnerable trans girl in the class, or trans teacher in the school? At best this will be a task for highly skilled specialists, benefiting from the kind of extra training and support that ministers conspicuously aren’t offering here.