The school which the Education Secretary chose as the first sixth form college to visit after Labour took power are set to offer transgender children thousands of pounds in grants.
The Sheffield College will trial implementing a ‘gender affirmation fund’, which will allow trans and non-binary students to apply for financial support to buy ‘clothes and make-up’.
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Critics have slammed the trial as ‘extremely concerning’ and demanded further education colleges provide ‘fact-based education’.
The decision by the college in Sheffield follows similar concepts being trialled by universities around the UK.
Lucy Marsh, of the Family Education Trust, said: ‘It is extremely concerning that Sheffield College leaders believe it’s acceptable to create a ‘gender affirming’ fund for students.
‘Most students will be under 18 so they are effectively socially transitioning children, which we know from the Cass Review is ‘not a neutral act’.
‘Instead of giving gender-questioning children and young adults money to present as the opposite sex, the college should be offering them counselling.
‘Further Education colleges are meant to provide fact-based education for their students, not indoctrinate them with contested gender ideology which can lead to a pathway of cross-sex hormone treatment and surgery which causes irreversible harm to their bodies.’
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At the University of Kent, students can get up to £100 to put towards ‘gender-affirming products’ and even ‘minor cosmetic procedures’.
University College London has set aside almost £5,000 to help students buy ‘clothing, beauty products or travel for medical or therapy appointments’.
Earlier this year, the Cass Review, an independent report on gender identity services for children and young people in the NHS, found that there was no good evidence supporting the use of puberty blockers and hormone treatments in trans children.
Dr Hilary Cass warned that gender medicine is ‘built on shaky foundations and largely relies on clinical guidelines that are not backed by science.
She added that ‘there unfortunately is no evidence that gender affirming treatment in its broadest sense, reduces suicide risk.’
Asked what she would say to children and young people, their families and carers, she replies: ‘We need to listen to them. We need to explain the weaknesses of the evidence.
‘But most importantly, we need to find ways to help them feel better about themselves so that they’re not going to be so distressed.’
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The Sheffield College has six campuses across the city and trains more than 13,000 students.
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