Are you gay, 11-year-old Britons to be asked
March 28th, 2011 - 7:19 pm ICT by IANSLondon, March 28 (IANS) British children as young as 11 will now be asked by the country’s equalities watchdog questions related to their sexual orientation, a media report said.
The children will have to answer a set of questions that would determine whether they were straight, gay or bisexual, according to the Daily Express.
People working in schools, health care and youth services are being advised to set up pilot studies to monitor adolescent sexual orientation and not dismiss gay feelings as a “passing phase”.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission advocates asking children aged 11 because some “question their orientation as early as eight and may begin to identify as LGB (lesbian, gay, bisexual) from early adolescence”.
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