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Children who identify as animals and walk on all fours should be shown “empathy”, according to guidance funded by the Home Office. The Children’s Society, a child abuse prevention charity, produced a guide to assess the risk of online exploitation among children who identify as transgender or non-binary, as well as “subcultures” including “furries” and “therians”. “Furries” are described as people interested in media featuring walking and talking animals. The charity said that nearly one in eight furries also self-identify as transgender and non-binary, more than 20 times higher than those not identifying as furries.
The guidance comes as the prime minister appointed Ashley Dalton as health minister to replace Andrew Gwynne after he was sacked over racist and sexist comments. Dalton faced criticism last year after MailOnline reported that she believed people should be able to self-identify as llamas if they wished. When asked on X whether someone should be taken seriously if they decided they were a llama, she reportedly replied: “Yes. And treat you with dignity and respect.”
The guidance was produced under the Children’s Society’s prevention programme, commissioned and funded by the Home Office. Public servants were warned that it “is absolutely vital that you use the right pronouns”, but the guidance admitted “there are so many pronouns that we cannot capture a full reflection of them in this document”.