This ‘charity’ is delivering sex education in schools…

I don't understand why all the imagery except the one picture of the condom is of vaginas/women's contraceptives. I mean I might be reading too much into this put is this page taking the piss?

Having read the website thoroughly, I am now very concerned. I hope other parents will question it too.

I think of their website, amongst all the playdoh vulvas, they said they were suitable for kids 10-13 years, I couldn't find whose advice was sought to ensure the family sex show (ffs....so close) was okay for 5+. I know the answer.

Due to misconceptions surrounding sex and gender we often automatically assume that if you’re a woman you must have a vagina. However, genitalia is not an indicator of gender and assuming so erases the existence of intersex people, trans and non-binary people

WRT the first sentence: yes, adult human females as a class do have a vagina. So not a misconception.

But as for the second sentence, I agree. I am female (so as an adult human call myself a woman), and my vagina is not an indicator of my ‘gender’. It is an indicator of my sex. I have no relationship with ‘gender’.

Bold fail…..

We’re at the stage where we need one of those giant pinboards, map pins and string. There’s an incredible amount of overlap and back-scratching between all of these captured organisations. What a tangled mess!

Someone good at this sort of thing needs to set up a Trello board, if they’re still going. Only half-joking here…

I am at the point where I don't want to see outside "charities" coming into my kid's schools to talk about anything. There have been a few that were good, though mainly individuals rather than groups. But most have been a waste of time, and some are totally inappropriate.

@Organictangerine
Thank you. I am very surprised to see a Girls Day School Trust school there. How could they use this?!

It provides a full list of schools and organisations it is involved with.

I couldn’t find the list, OP. How do you find it?

It ought to be illegal to have anything like this in schools.

Yes they used to be Sexplain. I used to think they were good but they are steeped in Queer theory. IMHO you can't teach sex Ed effectively while maintaining that men can have vaginas and women can have penises.

Sorry, random letters there. Sexplain

It’s difficult to know - they only registered as a charity in 2020 & they only have 3 trustees which given the size they seem to be is a bit odd

I think they had a previous incarnation as Sexplain.nI was doing a bit of digging around to get more info on The Family Sex Show

Is there another organisation providing sex ed that doesn't do pronouns and comply with Stonewall's rules?
For anyone working in sex ed, speaking out would require a lot of courage. And possibly a legal team.

I find a good yard stick is the volume of exclamation marks.

I’m not certain of that given the demographic of the team.

Exactly - it’s one big pot of pronoun soup. I’m not having these fantasists teach my kids that biological sex is a “myth”. It’s perfectly possible to teach sex ed, consent, etc without all this bollocks.

Also, how can they claim to be “trauma-informed” if they’re complicit in the erasure of single-sex safe spaces FFS? I honestly despair.

Sounds like there needs to be a reminder that sex Ed is not mainly about teaching children about the act itself but everything around it: consent, pleasure, pain, pregnancy and disease.
The act itself is easy enough to get your head around (eventually - no idea how the human race has survived to date) but the rest of it does need to be learned.

It shouldn't become soft porn or a kink class! Or indulge teenage exploration to the extent it forgets to prepare them for the real consequences.

If they're child centred, understand about age appropriateness (especially in relation to porn), the rights of children from all protected groups, have rigorous safeguarding policies and have shared all their materials in advance with the school as well as complying with everything in the DfE guidance, there'll be no problems.
Their association with the safeguarding breaching performance for 5 years old plus children, where performers discuss sex and undress in front of unknown children raises concerns about their safeguarding knowledge and judgement. However, asking the school to confirm that they've checked their credibility and followed the DfE guidelines as detailed above should hopefully reassure.