The news that schools in Lancashire are handing out an NHS survey to Year Six pupils that asks questions such as: 'Do you feel the same inside as the gender you were born with?’ (tick 'boy', 'girl' or 'other') has reignited a controversy around teaching transgender issues in schools.

Is it an attempt to indoctrinate our little darlings into the very worst of lefty snowflake identity politics? Of course not. It is a box in a questionnaire, not a legally binding document. That gets signed far earlier, with far less evidence and precisely zero input from the child in question. The pearl-clutchers worrying about their son or daughter labelling themselves for life at the age of 10, via one quick scribble of a biro, had no problem labelling them at birth.

The majority of children worrying about homework, playground politics and moving to secondary school are unlikely to give it much thought. Yet, for a child who knows they are a different gender - or perhaps no gender at all - this could be a lifeline. But somehow we’ve started peddling the line that the worst thing that can happen to a child is if he or she starts to question their gender.