THREE Cabinet ministers are facing court action over allegations that British kids are being indoctrinated by woke activists at school.
Two parents and maths teacher Kevin Lister are seeking a High Court ruling that trans campaigners are “running riot” promoting gender identity ideology in classrooms, in breach of the law.
GettyThree cabinet ministers faced court action today over allegations that British kids are being indoctrinated by woke activists at school.[/caption]
Political indoctrination is banned under the Education Act.
The Bad Law Project, which is supporting the court action, has argued gender ideology is a political matter.
Mr Lister – who was sacked for using the wrong pronouns on a pupil – wants a judicial review of alleged failures to uphold the law by Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, Women and Equalities Secretary Kemi Badenoch and Attorney General Victoria Prentis.
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Gordon Davies, the lead solicitor in the case, said: “The law is quite clear – political indoctrination in schools is illegal and must not be tolerated by ministers, officials and headteachers.
“The Education Department has admitted that gender identity ideology is a politically contentious matter on which views differ widely.
“Yet it continues to ignore its own laws and to allow trans activists a free hand to encourage impressionable – and in some cases vulnerable – teenagers to change gender as a first step towards the drastic end point of changing their biological sex.”
Mr Lister said: “My 20 years of teaching A-level came to an abrupt end when I was sacked and marched off the premises for refusing to call a girl a boy.
“The Education Department can waffle on endlessly about their meaningless guidance to schools – in practice schools and their trans activists allies are being allowed to run riot.”
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