The Conservative Party Government of the UK is in its sunset days. We can see that and we can feel that. The Tories dire situation has not been created by the vicissitudes of politics but by their own actions and in some cases lack of action. I now despise what the Tories have become but that doesn’t mean that I welcome the sort of far left and Islamist tinged future under the Labour party. Britons are in the invidious position of having both main parties, the ones with the resources to win elections, promote policies that are of little or no benefit to the broad majority of the general public.

However occasionally, just occasionally, the Tories get something right and they manage to produce a policy that is like a diamond island in sea of rotting, reeking drek. I’m talking about the new school sex education rules. They are, I admit quite proscriptive in some areas, but they need to be. This is because Britain’s schools, teachers, the rest of the educational establishment and dubious charities like Stonewall, have shown that they cannot be trusted to provide to children sex and relationship education that is not overly ideological and which neither offends parents nor feeds kids into the hands of the Gender Mengeles.

As you can see from the Sky News report below which is apparently based on leaks, there are now going to be specific ages that each subject within sex ed can be taught and gender ideology is only going to be mentioned in secondary schools as a ‘contested ideology’. As is usual policy for this blog the original text from Sky News is in italics whereas my comments are in plain text.

Sky News said:

Teachers in English schools will not be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender identity, according to reports.

Good not before time. For too long gender identity ideologues have had freedom to spout whatever bollocks they wanted to to school children.

Age limits are also set to be imposed for the first time on when children can be taught sex education.

If there had not been numerous allegations of age inappropriate sex education teaching and gender identity bullshit being fed to children in schools then I doubt that the government would have had to go in heavy with the age restrictions.

The Times reports that education ministers will warn schools in England today that gender identity is “highly contested” and that teaching the issue could have “damaging implications”.

If asked, school staff should teach the “biological facts” about sex, the government will say, The Times adds.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has become concerned gender identity is becoming “embedded” in schools as an uncontested fact, the newspaper says.

The gender bullshit has indeed become embedded in our schools and I’m pleased to see that the focus in sex education is going to shift back to prioritising biological facts and realities.

Under other proposals, schools will be told not to teach children any form of sex education until year 5, when pupils are aged nine.

I really don’t have much of a problem with this particular age restriction. Kids below that age do not need to know the mechanics of sex. All they need to know is how to safeguard themselves from wrong’uns. The only caveat I have on this particular restriction is that with good diet and better living conditions the onset of menstruation in girls is younger than it once was and girls need to be prepared for what is going to happen to their bodies in the age range of ten to 14. But any sensible caring parents of girls are going to make sure that their daughters know this stuff from long before it becomes an issue that needs to be taught in schools.

The plans will also rule out any explicit conversations about sex until the age of 13, The Times report also says.

I don’t have a problem with this age limit either. It’s a return to the situation that existed in some areas of the UK in the late 1970’s when sex education was given at the end of the old second year and the beginning of the old third year of secondary school. This is Year 8 to Year 9 in modern parlance.

Thirteen would also be the age threshold for pupils to be taught about contraception, sexually transmitted infections, and abortion.

Again this is a fairly appropriate age for this to be taught to most children.

The new guidance is reportedly part of the government’s response to concerns children are receiving age-inappropriate relationships, sex and health education (RSHE).

Schools will reportedly be required to provide parents with samples of the material their children will be taught.

This is something I absolutely agree with. There have been too many cases over the last few years where parents have been denied by schools access to see what their children are being taught about sex and relationships. Schools have tried every trick in the book to deny parents access to teaching materials even going so far as to invoke copyright laws and rules to prevent parents seeing what is being taught.

RSHE became compulsory in all English schools in September 2020.

I think that making this subject compulsory robbed parents of choice and put the schools in charge of this very sensitive area of teaching and sidelined parents and their views.

The existing guidance outlines broad lesson modules, stating primary school children should be taught about alternative types of families and healthy relationships.

Secondary-school-aged children are taught more complex topics, including puberty, sexual relationships, consent, unsafe relationships, and online harms.

It’s clear to me from following this subject as an interested party, a father, that the previous guidelines as outlined in the Sky article in the above two sentences are exceedingly vague. Because they are vague they provide entry points for various entities that don’t have the best interests of our children at heart but who instead want to promote their own ideology to children. Teachers who are not confident about creating lesson plans to cover these issues end up subcontracting the teaching to groups, such as Stonewall and many of the LGBT education entities with the result that total bollocks such as a person can change their sex, gets injected into the classroom environment.

I must admit that I’m pleasantly surprised by the government’s action on this issue. A properly structured sex education curriculum which is also accessible and checkable by parents is long overdue. The only thing that bothers me is why on earth was not this action taken much earlier in the Tories 14 year period of government? It was clear from about 2012/2013 onwards that the cult of trans and those groups who have a questionable attitude to child safeguarding were gaining influence in the education system. Why on earth was not action taken in this area much earlier? Why wasn’t a proper age appropriate and age defined sex education system put in place prior to the time when sex education in schools was made compulsory?

Yet again in school sex education we have a situation that could have been better managed by the Tories but which was instead left to fester in the hands of sometimes grubby and dodgy activists. I shudder to think about how many children and young people have had their lives adversely affected or ruined by being fed piss poor or false information in sex education lessons, information that was only beneficial to the likes of the gender identity cult or left wing educationalists and not Britain’s children.

I broadly agree with the new sex education rules but it exasperates me to think that these rules should and could have been brought in much earlier than they have been.