Schools could be advised to provide gender-neutral toilets alongside those for boys and girls and let trans pupils use changing rooms first in new Department for Education guidance

• The Department for Education is considering guidance on trans pupils in school
• Kit Malthouse could issue paper advising gender-neutral toilets should be built
• Another idea could see trans children use changing rooms before same sex kids 

Schools may be told to let trans pupils wear whatever uniforms they like and have their own dedicated toilets under new government proposals.

The suggested measures – among a raft of ideas being considered – also include letting children that do not identify with their biological sex to use changing rooms first.

Department for Education advisers are mulling over the new guidance amid continuing controversy over gender rights and the need for female-only spaces.

Education secretary Kit Malthouse is said to be keen what a source called a ‘common-sense’ system, which would keep both sides of the argument happy.

But the approach appears to be at odds with some of his Cabinet colleagues, particularly Suella Braverman who has spoken before about the importance of single-sex spaces.

A dedicated gender-neutral toilet would mean children biologically born male or female would be mixing in the same areas.

And the notion girls could be told to wait to use their toilets to allow trans youngsters first could also prove problematic for teachers.

Gender neutral toilets like these could soon become the standard in the UK’s school buildings

A source says Education Secretary Kit Malthouse wants ‘common sense approach’ to issue

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has previously tolf of the importance of female only spaces

The DfE will not impose the rules but are expected to set out the guidance before Christmas.

Advice from Dr Hilary Cass – who conducted a review of care for children with gender dysphoria – will also be sought.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission will also be asked its view as well as advice from senior doctors working in the field.

It will also be a test of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s stance over gender rights.

Unisex or gender neutral toilets have become more widespread but are controversial

Because they are for either sexes it means that females no longer have their own spaces

Police force slammed for calling it ‘hateful’ to say transgender paedophile is a man wants to be able to record criminals’ details using gender neutral title ‘Mx’ 

A police force who said it was ‘hateful’ to call a legally-male trans paedophile a man wants a system where criminals can be recorded as no-gender or other identities.

Sussex Police released a humiliating apology last night after it sparked a row defending Sally Anne Dixon, 58, when the sex offender was called a man by women online.

But MailOnline can reveal the under-fire constabulary has loftier plans that would cut out both male and female terminologies.

The police force – which has its own gender identity and expression page – says it wants to go beyond binary options.

Instead it says it is putting into place new crime recording systems that will go beyond the biologically-recognised sexes.

She said earlier this year trans women were not women and stressed caution over children and their biological sex.

The PM remarked: ‘I was very clear under-18s shouldn’t be able to make irreversible decisions about their own future.’

When Nadhim Zahawi was equalities minister he said he believed children should be allowed to be in their new gender in schools – but with safeguarding measure for everyone. 

A senior government source told The Times of the potential new guidance: “This never used to be such a divisive issue: people just accepted trans people and got on with it.

‘It only became an issue once the activists got involved and polarised people. We need to get back to that British fudge that so often works.

“In schools we need to find a compromise that works for all pupils, whether that’s having gender-neutral toilets as well or something else.”

But the plans have been condemned by a number of children and women rights campaigners.

A spokesperson from the Safe Schools Alliance said: ‘We are absolutely appalled at this latest ineptitude from the Department for Education. This is not a “political flashpoint” or a “culture war” this is once again a serious, national failing of safeguarding.

‘Kit Malthouse, as education secretary you need to take a Safeguarding first approach.

‘Not use highly vulnerable children as a political football using soundbites such as ‘common sense’. The Conservative Party have overseen the worst medical, child safeguarding & lobbying scandal, all rolled into one, this country has ever seen.’

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