Circular asking for LGBTQIA+ pupils’ database thrown out after complaints
A form parents had to sign asked them to indicate whether their child was lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or intersex
17 November 2022 - 21:25
A senior official in the Gauteng education department was forced to hastily withdraw a circular asking schools to compile a database of LGBTQIA+ pupils after being slammed by parents and the DA...
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