{"id":3640,"date":"2025-08-13T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:03:16","slug":"trans-teachers-can-ask-to-be-called-mx-rather-than-mr-or-mrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3640","title":{"rendered":"Trans teachers can ask to be called Mx rather than Mr or Mrs,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Trans Teachers Can Request Gender-Neutral Title, Says Education Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said transgender teachers \u201ccan make that request\u201d to be called Mx instead of Mr or Mrs if they do not identify as male or female. However, she noted, \u201cit\u2019s not something that they can insist on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phillipson told LBC the government would ensure \u201cpeople are able to exercise their views on this topic too\u201d and would review \u201cpractical guidance that schools need\u201d in light of past legal cases on gender identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prefix Mx is a gender-neutral title. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is preparing updated advice following a Supreme Court ruling that \u201cwoman\u201d and \u201csex\u201d in the Equality Act refer to biological definitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phillipson said guidance would be published after reviewing consultation responses and ensuring alignment with Dr Hilary Cass\u2019s recommendations on gender-questioning children, stressing the need to \u201ctake the time to get this right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans Teachers Can Request Gender-Neutral Title, Says Education Secretary Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said transgender teachers \u201ccan make that request\u201d to be called Mx instead of Mr or Mrs if they do not identify as male or female. However, she noted, \u201cit\u2019s not something that they can insist on.\u201d Phillipson told LBC the government would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}