Explicit Sex Taught to Children in UK Schools

 

According to a front page article published yesterday (Friday 10 March 2023) in The Daily Telegraph, one of UK’s top three best known quality national newspapers published in London, explicit sex lessons are being taught to underage kids in UK schools. The image of the front page is the best that I could find on the Internet. Click to enlarge. What follows is a shorter extract from the article. The full article can be seen on the newspaper’s website:

Ofsted chief warning over explicit sex lessons

Alarm at current guidance which places ‘no limits’ on what can be taught to children

The Daily Telegraph, 10 Mar 2023

By Louisa Clarence-smith, Education Editor

CHILDREN are being given sex education lessons that have “no basis in any reputable scientific biological explanation”, the head of Ofsted has warned.

Pupils in some secondary schools have been told there are 100 genders, and in major academy trusts and independent schools children are taught gender fluidity as fact, an investigation by The Daily Telegraph has found.

Amanda Spielman, chief inspector of Ofsted, told this newspaper she has warned the Government that the relationships and sex education (RSE) guidance places no limit on what can be taught. She claimed that Ofsted is powerless to sanction schools teaching inappropriate material.

She made the intervention after The Telegraph revealed widespread evidence of “age-inappropriate” sex education materials in schools.

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Pupils in Years 7 and 8 at schools overseen by the Kemnal Academies Trust, one of the largest in the South and East of England, have been taught using a diagram of a “gender unicorn”, showing sliding scales of male, female and other identities, alongside spectrums of gender expression and sex assigned at birth.

Ms Spielman said: “[There] are materials being used which have no basis in any reputable scientific, biological explanation or any properly grounded understanding of human relationships.”

Controversial teaching resources also include children as young as 12 being asked how they “feel” about oral and anal sex, and primary school teaching resources on masturbation.

The Government’s RSE guidance, drawn up in 2019 in consultation with the LGBT+ charity Stonewall, specified that “gender identity” should be taught in schools.

Ms Spielman said: “The way the Department for Education guidance is drafted sets clear minimum expectations but no maximum.”

This means that Ofsted has “no reference point” to say that a school is “doing too much”, she said.

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Last month, the Isle of Man Government suspended all sex education lessons on the island and launched an independent inquiry after parents reported that a drag queen had told 11-year-olds there are 73 genders, while others in the same year group were taught about oral and anal sex, and sexchange operations.

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Ms Spielman said that parents “must be able to see materials” taught in RSE lessons. Schools have blocked parents from seeing resources because of threats of copyright breaches from third-party resource providers.

Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, said on Wednesday that schools “should ensure they’re making content available to parents if requested”. However, campaign groups and MPS say the onus should be on schools to make materials publicly available to parents.

Ms Spielman echoed concerns of Mrs Cates that some sex education materials “could fall foul” of schools’ legal duty to maintain political impartiality. She also said that sex education has become “so complicated and so contested” that teachers need “absolute clarity on what schools can do and when”.

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. . . Mrs Cates has warned that the teaching of radical gender ideology in schools could be contributing to a rise in the number of children seeking medical intervention, including puberty blockers and hormone treatment.