When the UK’s biggest school debate competition told us to declare our gender pronouns, I knew my team had lost the contest before it had even begun. Hundreds of children are told to do this every year.
Things were already uncomfortable. When I took part in regional rounds for this competition in 2018, run by the prestigious Oxford Union, there was only one other pair of state school students in the room. We
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