Parents withdraw four-year-old son from Church of England school's World Book Day in row over 'confusing and harmful gender identity lessons

 Parents withdraw four-year-old son from Church of England school's World Book Day in row over 'confusing and harmful gender identity lessons in text selected for his class'

• Stephen and Joanne Evans removed their son, aged 4, from St Mary's Church of England Primary School in Essex for day over the text used for World Book Day 
• The couple claim My Shadow is Pink promotes the idea of inner gender identity 
• They have written to Church of England's Chief Education Officer over concerns
• School has defended using the book, stating book is about gender stereotyping.

• Concerned parents have withdrawn their four-year-old son from his school's World Book Day, claiming the text students were reading could be 'confusing and harmful' in terms of gender identity. 

  Stephen and Joanne Evans claim the book, My Shadow is Pink, promotes the idea of an inner gender identity and believe it might lead children to think they or others have been born into the wrong body. 

  
  
  
  When the couple heard their child's class would be using the book, written by Scott Stuart, for World Book Day last week, they asked to withdraw him from St Mary's Church of England Primary School in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, for the day. 

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