Nearly all Scottish secondary colleges permit youngsters to decide on gender

Nearly all Scottish secondary schools allow children to self-ID and choose their own gender – with a new report warning a policy operating in 95 per cent of colleges may allow students to share toilets. 

Campaign group For Women Scotland claimed that an ‘unscientific contested belief system’ was now ‘deeply embedded’ within schools following controversial SNP government guidance. 

The group discovered nine in 10 Scottish secondary schools taught pupils that humans have a gender identity that might differ from their biological sex, The Telegraph reported. 

In findings based on freedom of information acts, at least 95.4 per cent of schools are operating gender self-ID policies, meaning schools allow the children to choose their own gender. 

It also means biological male pupils are being allowed to take part in female PE classes and share changing rooms and toilets with girls in most secondary schools, the report disclosed. 

Nearly all Scottish secondary schools allow children to self-ID and choose their own gender, an investigation has found (Stock photo) 

Dr Hillary Cass (pictured) said allowing ‘social transitioning’ for young people – treating them as the opposite gender – could  push children down a potentially harmful medical pathway 

In the landmark Cass review, which was published in April this year, Hilary Cass warned of the possible risks of children socially transitioning, claiming it could encourage children down a potentially harmful medical pathway.   

The report found that only 4 per cent of schools always informs parents when their child reveals feeling of ‘gender distress’, while 89 per cent teach humans have a gender identity that might differ from their biological sex. 

Trina Budge, a For Women Scotland director, said: ‘There is a misconception that the occasional headlines in the press about children socially transitioned without parents knowledge or boys causing upset by using the girls’ toilets represent isolated incidents.

‘This report conclusively disproves that theory. Schools, by and large, unquestionably follow [SNP government] advice, even when it is out of date, unlawful and supports an unscientific contested belief system that has more in common with religious studies than it does with biology lessons.’

MailOnline has contacted the Scottish government for comment.