We do not understand how they can describe the law in the way they have without seeing it as a creating a significant and urgent risk to trans children and young people.

However, as we say several times in our response, they also have a role in highlighting to the UK Government that the current legal framework requires treating trans children and young people in ways that will put them at risk of violence and abuse and clearly impact on their human rights.

We acknowledge that it is not the EHRC’s role to create the law, but to describe how they believe it works.

While the guidance is primarily focused on informing schools about their duties under the Equality Act, we are also concerned that only following this guidance will lead schools to neglect the human rights of trans pupils, especially those in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

We are already seeing these impacts at schools across Scotland, England and Wales, and fear that this guidance will only make this worse, as it focuses almost entirely on when trans pupils can be excluded and treated differently, and never explains how they can be included and affirmed at school.

As with the EHRC’s Code of Practice, we are very concerned that following this guidance will lead to significant impacts for trans pupils, including on their mental and physical health and their ability to attend school, focus on their learning, and mix with other students.

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The letters will encourage these health boards to see if they could deliver gender affirming care, and/or provide support to people on long waiting lists and offer harm reduction services for those who are self-medicating.