Gender at a tender age

SIR – I was appalled that a private school for young girls aged four to eight could face closure because it refuses to teach gender reassignment (report, June 26).

Have we gone mad? Peter Floyd North Chailey, East Sussex

SIR – While having no personal prejudice in these matters, can I be forgiven for not understanding Ofsted’s assertion that gender reassignment is an example of “fundamental British values”? Vivian Bush Hessle, East Yorkshire