LABOUR’S plans to teach schoolboys to respect women and girls has been labelled a “complete distraction” by Tory chief Kemi Badenoch.
PM Sir Keir Starmer’s intervention on pupils in England is aimed at cutting sexual violence by half in the next decade.
But Ms Badenoch said the focus should instead be on more cops on the streets, tackling immigration from cultures that “don’t respect women”, and removing foreign criminals.
She said: “Those are the sorts of things that will make a difference.”
Ms Badenoch said the government’s plans were “just a big mess”.
We revealed earlier this week how dithering ministers are expected to miss their pledge of publishing trans guidance for schools this year.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has failed to release the advice to teachers in her 17 months in the job.
She had promised to review draft guidance issued under the Tories on how schools should approach kids who want to change their gender.
In April Ms Phillipson told MPs she would “publish revised gender-questioning guidance for our schools this year to provide that necessary further clarity”.
But The Sun understands the guidance is unlikely to come before the New Year amid continued haggling over its contents.
Ms Phillipson was not happy with the last government’s version, which said teachers were not obliged to allow a pupil to identify as the opposite sex.
The “gender questioning guidance” said “there is no general duty to allow a child to ‘social transition’” and that parents must be informed.
