Scots teachers could be banned from using 'girls and boys' in Tory led constituency

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Teachers in the constituency of Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross face being banned from calling pupils girls or boys under new gender neutral rules.The MSP, whose party have been highly critical of the SNP’s push on gender reform, has been left red-faced after Moray Council confirmed they are planning new guidelines for schools.The Conservative-led local authority - where Ross was previously a councillor - is, so far the one admitting they are considering proposals to ban teachers from referring to pupils by their sex.The plans were discovered by the Sunday Mail in a survey of all 32 local authority areas following private concerns raised by teachers and parents that schools across the country were blocking the use of male and female terms.But Tory council leader for Moray Kathleen Robertson claimed she was unaware of the plans.Douglas Ross said: “These proposals are being looked at by officers and it’s been confirmed to me that councillors have not even been informed about this, let alone taken a decision.“I expect the review of guidance will confirm that teachers and staff should continue to refer to pupils as boys and girls.”Furious opponents of gender neutral policies called for the plans to be axed.Susan Smith from children and women’s right campaign group For Women Scotland said: “No schools should be think they need to protect children from biology.“As the Cass report made clear pandering to this anti-scientific ideology is far more damaging to children.“Guidance for schools needs to be urgently revised, but not in such a way that reinforces this dangerous clap trap.”Ross is the Conservative MP for Moray and is also an MSP for the Highland and Island who served as a councillor in from 2007 to 2016.Most councils