Sex education guidance for schools still includes Stonewall gender claims

CONTROVERSIAL sex education lessons for young children are still being promoted by the Government despite Rishi Sunak promising a crackdown.

A guide aimed at primary school teachers by lobbying group Stonewall remains among the ‘ suggested resources’ highlighted by the Department for Education.

The document suggests young pupils are taught in English lessons that ‘they’ can be a singular pronoun, while its ‘child-friendly glossary’ includes the claim that everyone is ‘given a gender when they are born’.

Ministers earlier this year ordered a review of the sex education curriculum in England, and just this weekend, as reported in The Mail on Sunday, the PM vowed to protect ‘precious’ children from being exposed to inappropriate material in classes. Last night, Caroline Ffiske, from campaign group Conservatives for Women, said the teaching of ‘this utterly nonsensical and unscientific ideology to young children should be called out for the mendacious travesty it is’.

She added: ‘Think how confusing it must be for a young girl or boy to try to absorb this. It is ideological nonsense and it falls foul of the political neutrality provisions of the Education Act. So why does the Department for Education still link to it?’

The link was included in statutory guidance published in 2019 for schools on relationships and sex education.

This guidance remains online despite recent controversy over what schoolchildren are being taught.

Several Stonewall documents can be accessed via the link, including one that includes ideas for lessons on diverse families for children as

‘Damage is being done’

young as five. Conservative MP Nick Fletcher, who sits on the Commons education committee, said parents should be allowed to withdraw their children from sex education lessons until the review was complete.

‘While we’ve still got people like Stonewall teaching this ideology there’s damage being done,’ he added.