Parents need to ‘wake up’ to what their children are being taught in sex education lessons, an ethical think tank is warning.
The Values Foundation (TVF) – which seeks to uphold the ‘centrality of faith and traditional family values in British education’ – was speaking to Evangelicals Now in the same week the government clarified its position on transgender ideology in the classroom.
A spokesperson from the TVF, told en: ‘Parents need to wake up … It’s not a conspiracy theory.’
Campaign groups such as Stonewall, No Outsiders (en January 2020), Jigsaw, and Mermaids (en passim) have been accused of pushing LGB and/or Transgender teaching into primary schools under the guise of ‘relationships’ education. When challenged on some primary content, Jigsaw said ‘sex education … is not statutory’, despite the topics being woven together with relationships teaching in the same lessons in their secretive curriculum1. Adult sex games are promoted in some secondary schools’ RSE lessons by other providers.
The TVF’s warning comes despite new government guidance2 which said: ‘Teachers should not suggest to a child that their non-compliance with gender stereotypes means that either their personality or their body is wrong … materials which suggest … [this] … should not be used and you should not work with external agencies or organisations that produce such material…’ Sources close to government told en that since changes in some civil service positions took place, decisions are ‘all about the child’, rather than pushing a liberal agenda onto schools. Further to this, Ofsted won’t be measuring LGBT teaching in primary schools.
Further documents3 went on to remind schools that they should not push ‘political’ issues in the classroom, and that ‘political issues … may include … equalities issues’.
Mermaids began cleaning up their media posts prior to the government announcement. Measured words replaced ‘wrong body’ language. The list of ‘signs your child is trans’ which included examples like girls playing with cars, and boys liking pink, was removed from the website in a wide-ranging spring clean. In now-deleted tweets, Susie Green, founder of Mermaids, wrote that she was ‘relieved’ to find out that her son wasn’t gay, but was just trans, after she saw him playing with ‘girl’s toys’. She subsequently took her child overseas to have his penis turned into a ‘vagina’, and laughing that the puberty-blocking medication had ‘not left them much to work with’.
Mermaids and Stonewall were also banned from making submissions in the case against the Tavistock Centre brought by a woman who has detransitioned away from identifying as a man. Her radical surgery, and puberty blockers prescribed whilst a child, have left her infertile. If successful, the use of puberty blockers could be banned for all children.
