Age-appropriate sex education set to be enforced by Sunak administration

"Mr Sunak also intends to look to review the Equality Act to make it clear that sex means biological sex rather than gender.

This would mean that biological males cannot compete in women’s sport and other single-sex facilities such as changing rooms and women’s refuges will be protected.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, there is a current related petition:
Update the Equality Act to make clear the characteristic “sex” is biological sex

If it gets 100,000 signatures it will be debated and surely help.

Remove references to 'gender identity' from relationships education guidance
(You can search this)

This is more information.

^Since 2020 the DfE has published guidance for relationships and sex education. This says "Pupils should be taught the facts and the law about sex, sexuality, sexual health and gender identity in an age-appropriate and inclusive way".
Gender identity is a social construct, and not recognised in law.^

There's no evidence that we're born with a ‘gender identity’, and we do not believe that schools should be teaching children about this concept. We also believe that teaching school children about gender identity is inconsistent with the Education Act (section 406), which prohibits 'political indoctrination'. The Government should remove all references to 'gender identity' from guidance on relationships and sex education.

Remove references to 'gender identity' from relationships education guidance

If you put this into your search it should come up on petition.parliament.uk

Link to the thread on the petition on removing gender identity ideology from schools.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/petitions_noticeboard/4585082-rse-content-on-gender-vs-sex

@MNHQ petitions are a bastard to find. Classified! Surely there's a more sensible place to put them.....Gardening?

Given the subject of this thread, it is worth remembering this petition which is moving very slowly..So far it has not even reached 5000.

It is as l if people don’t realise how much ‘gender identity’ ideology is being introduced to children from a young age.

If you tell children ‘Some people have a gender identity different from their sex” that implies their body may be incongruous. It also pimpliest that if they are not conforming to usual boy and girl stereotypes they might have a different gender identity.. This is nonsense and the start of brainwashing in the ideology.

Remove references to 'gender identity' from relationships education guidance

Since 2020 the DfE has published guidance for relationships and sex education. This says "Pupils should be taught the facts and the law about sex, sexuality, sexual health and gender identity in an age-appropriate and inclusive way". Gender identity is a social construct, and not recognised in law. …..(More on the site)

From the comments.

Welsh Government have published something called the AGENDA pack, for primary schools (children aged 7-11 years old), to support RSE. It says that 'gender identity' is a person's 'inner sense of self', and that children's feelings about gender identity 'start early, around the age of 2-3'. This is an extraordinarily contentious statement, offered up as fact. So the claims that Welsh Govt do not teach very small children about gender identity is simply not true. The AGENDA pack tells schools that every child has a 'gender identity' which they can have 'feelings' about before they start school.

Teaching preschoolers that there's no such thing as sex, and they mustn't identify if someone is a male.

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/high-court-sex-education-wales-25517931#comments-wrapper

Reading this it seems the Welsh government think the Welsh people are too dumb to understand what it's aims are so pointless trying to explain anything to them.

Patriarchal or supremely arrogant

The more you look at the GRA and the debates at the time, the more it seems logical Labour will not budge on it or on single sex spaces. It is a mess that needs post-legislative scrutiny. They won't want to get into examining it as regards success/failure because it leads directly back to them.

How in the hell did the GRA get through with such dodgy secret stuff. The mind boggles.

While nobody's allowed to ask to see a GRC, though, they ARE allowed to ask for a birth certificate (in situations such as refuges, job applications etc for example). So it would be possible to exclude self-ID transwomen on that basis, as theirs will say "male", while allowing those with a GRC, whose birth cert. will say "female". Not much use for toilets, changing rooms etc. though of course, as you can't really demand to see a birth cert then.

The difficulty then is that when you want to use the EqA exemptions to exclude ALL males, even those with a GRC, it's very difficult to prove that a TW with a GRC is not eligible, as they can wave their "female" birth certificate, but can't be required to state whether they have a GRC (which would mean they are not actually female). So even though it may seem pretty obvious to an observer that they are male, there's no legitimate way of proving this to justify excluding them from the space or position - on paper they are the same as an actual woman. So this is one of the main issues with making GRCs available to a much wider group than before.

Bet it's no coincidence that the Mermaids paedophile / porn / safeguarding scandal has unfolded, along with Educate & Celebrate's dodgy choice of patrons to talk to children at the same time that the Sunak has made this commitment. You don't have to be a social worker to see that self interested adults sharing their personal fascination / experiences about sexual identity with young children is a Savile like disaster waiting to happen.

Plus all the clueless adults running Stonewall / LGBT school groups for mixed age children to discuss sex / sexuality in school & age inappropriate SRE materials from the queer theory groups and the evidence is all there. Finally the press are starting report it. Schools have been protected from much of this scrutiny, but not for much longer - especially now we see who's being invited in to speak to children.

This is a very good point I hadn't thought of.
It doesn't actually matter what she has said before. Only what she listens to & does next. Someone who is not already tied to the gc camp in anyone's mind might be positive. If she is open minded and evidence led.

God I hope he does.

Rishi Sunak is a dad and really likes data.

I'm planning to send him an email with some data/facts on the law in this area. He may not read them, but it might be worth a shot?

And if she starts to drill down into the sexist, porny guff being taught to children in schools, she might change her mind.

There's nothing like reading what adult men are teaching kids about gender ideology and sex education to focus your mind on what is appropriate.

I don't think the ed sec is GC

No, but she seems to care about safeguarding children from what I've seen.

It would also mean clarifying that self-identification for transgender people does not have legal force, meaning transgender women have no legal right to access women-only facilities.

This paragraph suggests that those males who get a GRC will be able to access women-only facilities, by saying only those who self-id have no such right.

The EA does provide for excluding even those with GRCs, so this is actually a bit disappointing. It reads as if neither Sunak nor the journalist is aware of this.

As the GRA includes a privacy clause, that prevents anyone from asking anyone else whether they have a GRC, let alone asking to see it, it does nothing at all for women to say those who do have one can come in, while those who do not can be excluded. Any man can present himself at e.g. a refuge and say he is a woman, and if the refuge has to allow in men with GRCs, they have to let them all in.

It is written by the Chief Political Correspondent, Camilla Turner, and you know what they do - talk to MPs, ministers, press offices, Downing Street all day and sometimes all night.

The very first sentence is indicative of briefing, signalled in that time-honoured phrase: 'The Telegraph understands':

"Rishi Sunak plans to clamp down on inappropriate sex education classes in schools, The Telegraph understands."

That very sentence also has a link to an article all about Miriam Cates's speeches / debates about the nature of what is being taught in schools about sex.

And the article ends with another old media familiar, namely a 'source', but not any old source:

"A Downing Street source said that protecting women and girls is a priority for Mr Sunak’s administration."

There you have it. As David Frost used to say on that television programme: 'The clues are there!'

Highly political this, putting it out in front and against the direct signals coming from the Labour opposition. Also appeals to the party members where popularity has been lukewarm and could do with a boost.

The use of terminology that you highlight is also highly political. I don't mean in this article but the use of words to mean their opposite by a movement or ideology is deliberate and key to achieving its ends. We need to resist this and hold on to meaning instead of obeying the diktats of hostile activists.

Excellent. Thanks for that.

For this reason, it might have been a politically savvy move to appoint someone seen as open-minded as education secretary - not someone who's obviously GC.

Age appropriate sex education was proposed in Florida, but that got re-branded as the "Don't say Gay" bill by activists.

Be very careful how the media and activists try to re-brand this.

My first thought too, you can just imagine the likes of The Guardian and OJ and others, it will be all “Section 28 again.” However, after the recent incidents with Mermaids, I’m slightly hopeful they will think twice.

That would be very welcome

meanwhile Labour have renewed their commitment to throwing child safeguarding away.

I would be worried if they were coming to my school. Some info here from Safe Schools Alliance
safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2022/02/20/the-neu-educate-and-celebrate/