Recently the UK Conservative Party, as could depressingly be predicted, decided that they would pander to the LGB and T lobbies and have British schools subject very young children to pro-gay and pro-trans propaganda. The Tories have decided that from 2020, Relationship and Sex Education will be compulsory and with a curriculum that is likely to be very heavily influenced by radical gay left groups such as Stonewall. By caving in to the LGB and T lobbies the Conservative Party has thrown away any vestige that they may once have had about being on the side of the individual or of families.
This is virtue signalling of the very worst kind by a party that has long since abandoned any pretence that they are conserving anything and especially not the right of parents to decide what social ideologies their children are exposed to. In this case we can see that the Tories are even prepared to abandon children to the monstrous child abuse that is ‘paediatric gender transition’ something that should have no place in any state school let alone primary schools. The Tories, in their effort to gain good optics with the Left, have decided to force schools to promote pro-gay and pro-trans propaganda despite many parents having worries about what these RSE lessons may contain.
Because of this policy change by the ‘conservatives’ British parents can now look forward to periods of intense worry about what schools are teaching their children about sex and relationships but may well have less influence than before on what their children are taught. The good news is that we can still withdraw our children from the sex education part of the RSE curriculum (apart from the national curriculum science aspects). The bad news is that it appears that we could, due to the way that LGB and T issues may be mixed with other less objectionable stuff in individual lesson plans, find it more difficult to withdraw our children from the ‘relationships’ part of RSE. This should worry parents who are socially conservative or just want to shield their kids from inappropriately adult subjects, as it is likely to be in the Relationships section of RSE that much of the pro-gay and more dangerously, pro-trans propaganda, is likely to be found.
From what I’ve seen of the draft report on schools RSE, it is in this ‘relationships’ section of the curriculum that outright lies, such as a child can change their gender, is likely to be inserted. The presence in the draft report of suggested resources that include left leaning groups like Stonewall, the Govt’s Equalities Office and the Family Planning Association, but no groups that could provide a counter to the left’s narrative bodes very ill for the future. A fairer approach would be to have the views or Stonewall et al countered by views that either oppose or question the left’s narrative. The list of resources certainly does not seem to contain any that oppose or contradict the current fad for ‘affirmation’ when it comes to children who claim to be the ‘wrong’ gender. Without having resources that challenge the idea that a person can change sex, children are going to be presented with a completely one sided view of the issue of gender and gender dysphoria. I am deeply uncomfortable with what looks like a smorgasbord of the liberal Left groups taking the lead over my child’s education with regards relationships. It’s also alarming that all sex and relationship education is to be in compliance with the 2010 Equalities Act, an act that has done much to entrench left wing identity politics ideas in our society with all the detriment that this has brought to our nation.
This draft report, if implemented in its entirety, is going to further entrench Left wing influence over our children’s moral and ethical education. It is going to make it harder to keep lunatic pro-trans groups like Mermaids out of our schools and make it more difficult for parents to protect their offspring from bad ideologies such as the pseudoscience of transgenderism.
This report is, as David Kurten said in his piece for Conservative Woman, ‘pickled in politically correct ideology’ despite there being many objections from parents to making relationships education compulsory. We parents know that such an open ended subject as ‘relationships’ would be very easy for the Left to corrupt and to use to promote stuff that many parents may not wish to be promoted to their children. This is the State taking over the job of moral upbringing of children from parents and really should be resisted. I suspect that when sex and relationships becomes compulsory and is pushed even more than it is at present then, there will be more than a few parents, myself included, who will be monitoring what is being taught. If the subject matter crosses our moral and ethical lines or if the teaching of this subject becomes overtly one sided then I can see many parents deciding to defy the law on school attendance and removing their children without school authorisation at the times that these Relationship lessons are being taught.
I would urge all readers of this piece to voice their objections to making this left leaning and ideologically driven sex and relationship education scheme compulsory. There is a government consultation on this issue that closes on November 7th 2018 and people should make the effort to object to any attempt by the government to make compulsory the type of sex and relationships curriculum that many parents would object to. Sex and relationships education in schools should always be voluntary, as parents are the first and natural guide for a child in the moral sphere and to make compulsory those subjects, ones that many parents may find objectionable on moral grounds, is the State treating parents like dirt.
This draft guidance and the proposed statutory instrument that would give this guidance legal teeth, is an encroachment by the state on parental rights, put forward at the behest of groups that have particular social and political agendas that may not align with the views held by parents. The making of sex and relationship education compulsory in primary and secondary schools is something that must be resisted otherwise we may find that the 2.3% of the UK population (2% for LGB according to Office of National Statistics and 0.3% T based on a widely cited US survey) that is LGB or T may hold the whip hand over the rest of us and over our children.
I have no issue with people being attracted to the same or both sexes. Similarly I have no issue with sane people over the age of 21 choosing to mutilate themselves to look like the opposite sex, that is their choice and their right to do what they want and live with any consequences. I even don’t care that much if an adult wants to nail their scrotum to a piece of wood for kicks, and have marched in the past to support an adult’s right to do just that, I’m pretty liberal in that way. However, when it comes to what we should be teaching our children then I think we should err on the side of caution. Groups like Stonewall or Mermaids or any of the other similar groups should not be given so much freedom to ply their trade and their narratives in our primary and secondary schools without there being a right for parents to say an emphatic ‘no’ to lessons containing subject matter which may be morally repugnant to them.
It used to be that you could trust the Conservative Party to support or at least pay lip service to the idea of traditional family values and the concept that parents have the absolute right to determine their child’s moral upbringing. Sadly that is not the case now. The Conservative Party has just rolled over for the liberal Left, the gay and the trans lobbies and it is our children who are going to have to pay the price for the Party’s virtue signalling.
