Primary school children ‘told they can be pangender’

PRIMARY school children in Norfolk are being taught they can be “pangender”, a parent has claimed.

Parents have complained to a Church of England school’s leaders about lesson plans which they say show pupils as young as seven are being taught about contested gender identity beliefs, including that people can be “pangender” or “cisgender”.

Lessons and materials taught at Swanton Morley VC Primary School in Dereham also teach children about the concept of being “born with a vagina”, but “feeling like a boy”. The relationships and sex education materials were produced by Educator Solutions, a trading arm of Norfolk County Council.

A parent with two children at the school said the teaching materials were introduced without parental consultation. They said: “It is age inappropriate, partisan, unscientific and dangerous. I love my children, and I will not allow them to be exposed to radical ideologies at an inappropriate age and in an imbalanced way.”

They added: “Telling seven-year-old girls that they can be born like a girl, but feel like a boy inside, and that there are more than two genders, is simply wrong. These aspects of the teaching materials are based on highly contentious and contested views that put great emphasis on emotion and belief rather than biological reality.”

A Norfolk County Council spokesman said: “Primary schools are enabled and encouraged to cover LGBT content within RHSE lessons if they consider it age appropriate to do so. What is taught … is ultimately a decision for the school.

“We trust and support head teachers to make decisions that are in the best interests of their pupils.”

The school did not respond to a request for comment.