article_snippet.sent: Children as young as three are being asked to sign a contract pledging not to use transphobic language at school.
article_snippet.sent: The infants must also promise to refrain from using homophobic and racist phrases and to be tolerant of people with different sexual orientations and lifestyles.
article_snippet.sent: But parents were dumbfounded when it included a demand not to use 'transphobic language', as it would mean explaining something many three-year-olds are not even aware exists .
article_snippet.sent: It is understood that teachers at Turnham Primary School introduced the document to help stamp out playground prejudice against transgender people and a wide range of disabilities and cultures.
article_snippet.sent: In a list of responsibilities for pupils to sign is a clause which states pupils will be tolerant of ‘sexual orientation or lifestyle and refrain from using racist or homophobic or transphobic language in school’.
article_snippet.sent: My son is meant to pledge not to use “transphobic” language.
article_snippet.sent: transphobic” language to my three-year-old that My son must sign on the dotted line not to do something which My son is not even aware exists when My son can barely hold a crayon?
article_snippet.sent: I agree that teachers need to be made aware of transgender issues as it affects a number of children who suffer in silence, but to make three-year-olds sign up to something they do not even know exists is bonkers.
highlights_snippet.sent: Includes line asking children to 'refrain from using...transphobic language'
  Shocked parents say asking three-year-olds to sign agreement is 'bonkers'
  Chairman of school's governing body apologised for any offence caused .