Trans pupils: summary of legal rights

Understand your legal responsibilities around supporting transgender pupils in your school and learn how to make informed decisions around the arrangements you put in place.

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on 29 May 2025
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Contents
  1. Seek legal advice on any challenging decisions you make 
  2. Understand your legal responsibilities 
  3. What this means in practice

This is a complex and evolving topic, and our understanding is developing all the time. 

While we can't advise on individual cases, within this article we've set out the essential rules to follow and some considerations to bear in mind. For guidance on a more complex situation, seek legal guidance (see more below).

Seek legal advice on any challenging decisions you make 

The legal rights of transgender pupils are particularly complex – current legislation doesn't provide specifics about what you must and must not do, and is still developing through the courts.

This is because every pupil is different – 'trans pupils' aren't