Can anyone explain LGBT etc stuff and political impartiality to me?

[Ukelady]

Please can someone explain or link to me somewhere which tells me about political impartiality and LGBT stuff?
So far I understand that schools for example have a legal obligation to be politically impartial. But also that LGBT education is compulsory? Is the LGBT stuff political too? Please help!

Schools are meant to be politically impartial but recent governments have allowed Stonewall and other queer theory activist groups to go into schools and peddle "gender identity woo woo' at children. Parents and other responsible adults are fighting back and already they've been forbidden for pushing the "born in the wrong body" tropes.

The guidelines for sex and relationship education quite rightly specify that children should be taught in an age appropriate way about different relationships - heterosexual, homosexual and at the appropriate time gender identity. Some schools do this well as a matter of course. Sadly others have allowed the queer theory lot far too much influence and there's a battle to return schools to their previous politically neutral position with children being protected from extreme views about queer theory / sexual politics until they're of an age to understand and navigate them.

That's a bit simplistic but hope it helps.

There's something of a deeper problem in terms of institutions like schools which are meant to be politically neutral, if they are going to teach on anything that is controversial at all. Someone has to decide, what are normative British values?

Because an education system that was really neutral would almost certainly have to avoid saying much of anything about many topics that touch on things like sexual ethics, religious questions, etc. The wider the span of viewpoints that are common in the population, the more things that would be potentially controversial.

There is also a tension in that there is a strong desire to look for significant diversity in things like culture and religion - which almost always means diversity in belief systems too, while also wanting to use places like schools as ways to incalculate certain values. I think your question about whether lgbtq+ is "politics" finds itself in the middle of that problem.

There's been a consensus in Education about core British values for years:

Democracy.
Rule of law.
Individual liberty.
Mutual respect.
Tolerance.

Schools have had guidance on them since 2014 with Ofsted monitoring them as part of their inspection regime.

Perhaps but I think it's pretty clear that now there is a significant conundrum. You wouldn't have bodies of parents protesting about what their kids are learning at school - in the name of tolerance - if there wasn't.