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Parents of LGBTQ+ children have descended on Parliament to call on MPs to fight for the rights of their children. Five volunteers from FFLAG — a charity dedicated to supporting families and their LGBTQ+ children —alongside its chair of trustees, Sarah Furley, raised their concerns at a cross-party event hosted by Anna Dixon MP and Nadia Whittome MP on Wednesday (12 February). At the top of the priorities list was the request to scrap two harmful education policies proposed by the Conservative government: the draft guidance for gender-questioning children, published in December 2023, and the proposed changes to relationships, sex, and health education (RSHE), published in May 2024. FFLAG have called the draft guidance on gender questioning children “bad guidance,” noting that its aim to “out” pupils to parents can “destroy trust and can only do harm to both child and parent”. The cross-party event was hosted by Anna Dixon MP and Nadia Whittome MP. The charity believes that the RSHE changes would be “the equivalent of a new Section 28