Advice on how to respond to students questioning their birth gender has been updated. Here are the key changes

Ministers have released updated guidance on how schools and colleges in England should respond to students who are questioning their birth gender. How is it different to the previous Department for Education (DfE) guidance, released under the Conservatives in 2023?

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Primary school-age children who question their gender could be allowed to use different pronouns under long-awaited government guidance on the subject.

The guidance, billed as moving away from a culture-war approach to the subject, has some notablechanges compared with a draft produced in 2023 under the Conservatives, which said that primary-aged children “should not have different pronouns to their sex-based pronouns used about them”.