Just to confirm from others here, what do you see being the purpose and outcome of this?
I realise this seems like red meat thrown out to people with a particular persuasion on trans issues, but what realistically is it going to achieve? They're kids - rebellious and often nonsensical. The kids who don't care how their parents see them (or know that their parents will accept them as transgender) will still do what they're doing now (which comprises the majority of students, I imagine).
The only observable benefits (in some peoples' eyes) that I can see are:
1). Creating a gender surveillance state propped up by the education system, chiefly to quell the worries of a particular subset of parents, and
2). To instill a form of fear deterrence in trans people who know that they won't be accepted at home.
In other words, all this achieves is making trans people feel intruded upon and scared? I guess that does fit Zahawi's government's MO...
This news becomes particularly insidious if you consider children from abusive backgrounds, where his this policy would effectively void the safeguarding promises given to children who turn out to be trans. If this policy were enacted verbatim I'm every instance, trans children from abusive households won't even feel safe to be themselves at school because they know it's acting as an 'outing' device by the state.
This is brought to you by the same government intending on sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, where they'll be forced to claim asylum from Rwanda instead.
Sounds a bit dodgy to me.