Teachers have the right to ask pupils to call them ‘Mx’ instead of Mr, Mrs or Miss, Bridget Phillipson has said.
The Education Secretary said teachers can ‘request’ that children call them by the gender-neutral honorific instead of traditional titles.
Women’s rights groups criticised Ms Phillipson for bringing a ‘contested ideology’ into classrooms and said children should only be taught the fact of biological sex.
On whether teachers be referred to as Mx - a gender-neutral honorific used by people who do not identify as either male or female - Ms Phillipson said they ‘can make that request’.
She told LBC: ‘But of course, what we'll be looking at is making sure that people are able to exercise their views on this topic too.
