Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 96583

Relationships and Sex Education: Gender

Tabled: 2 December 2025

Answered: 6 January 2026

Question

Carla Denyer

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason her department’s July 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education notes that schools should not teach as fact that all people have a gender identity; and how schools should follow

Answer

Georgia Gould

The statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance makes it clear that, at secondary school, there should be an equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships when learning about relationships. It strong...

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