Members of Parliament (MPs) have debated petitions regarding “LGBT” content in relationships education.
MPs from all parties took part in the debate on 18th March.
The Government responded to the petition in January 2023, but it took over a year for MPS to debate it.
The petitions debated:
MPs debated two petitions—one calling for the removal of “LGBT” content from the Relationships Education curriculum (RE), and the other advocating to retain “LGBT” content in the education system.
This petition to remove “LGBT” content from the RE curriculum garnered more than 249,000 signatures, and states: ‘We believe kids shouldn’t learn about this at an early age. I am sure there are many parents who do not want their or other children taught about LGBT in primary school’.
Meanwhile, the opposing petition with more than 104,000 signatures, argues that children should learn about sodomy at an early age, concluding: ‘Kids should know … Despite what their parents might believe.’
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“Two dads and two mums?”
During the debate, Elliot Colburn, the homosexual MP for Carshalton and Wallington, said; ‘The Government’s RSE guidance of 2019 advises schools to plan a developmental and age-appropriate curriculum. Relationships education is therefore approached in ways that are relevant to the age and maturity of the pupils. For example, teaching about “Families and people who care for me” in primary school can be an opportunity to talk about the fact that some people have “two dads and some have two mums.”
‘Key messages taught throughout relationships education include that people do not have to conform to narrow stereotypes and that discrimination, bullying and prejudice are harmful and wrong. Indeed, that principle is woven throughout the British values element of school teaching,
‘The aim of which is to encourage and foster respect, kindness, equality and inclusion. Those are British values: they are intrinsic to the ethos of most schools, and families are supportive of them.
‘Primary schools are not required to teach sex education or explicitly teach about “LGBT” issues; it is more about families and relationships. Parents also have the right to withdraw their child from the sex education part of RSE up to the age of 16.’
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Protect the innocence of children
Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, said: ‘As the mother of a primary-age schoolchild, I do not want him or other children, straight or gay, to learn about sex full stop. I also do not want young children in primary school to be taught about changing gender.
‘I have no problem with whatever people want to do when they are older—life is short; be happy—but does my hon. Friend agree that we need to protect the innocence of children and their childhood, especially at primary school age?’
Meanwhile, Adam Holloway, Conservative MP for Gravesham, said: ‘Because the long-term emotional consequences of transition are not properly understood, we should be careful about teaching contested concepts to young, impressionable children.
We would not be doing right by the majority of parents if we failed to acknowledge that the idea that sex is ‘assigned at birth’ is not a universally held view, but the complexities of explaining that to children aged 11 or under are pretty obvious.
Read the full transcript of the debate in Hansard here →
Transgender Ideology has ‘no place’
‘I also struggle to see how that issue could be taught honestly and objectively without explaining that there may be other reasons why a person feels uncomfortable about themselves or their body. Teaching that to primary-aged children is clearly hugely problematic.
‘Instinctively, for those reasons, I feel that the complex issue of transgender ideology has no real place on the primary school curriculum.’
MP for Don Valley, Nick Fletcher, said: ‘ Currently, up and down the country, we have schools teaching our children that girls can be boys and boys can be girls. It is hard to believe.
‘If we told our children that two plus two equals five enough times throughout their education, would we be surprised if some — not all but some — started to believe it?’
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Minister for Schools responds
The Minister for Schools, Damian Hinds, said: ‘Guidance is clear that it is for schools to decide at what point in their pupils’ education it is appropriate to cover content related to “LGBT.”
‘That means that primary schools have discretion over whether to discuss sexual orientation or families that have same-sex parents.
‘The RHSE guidance does not provide a definition of what relationships and sex education should include, but it is clear that it should be “tailored to the age and the physical and emotional maturity of the pupils. It should ensure that both boys and girls are prepared for the changes that adolescence brings”.
‘Primary schools that do teach sex education must set out the details of what they will teach in their relationships and sex education policy, on which they must consult in advance with parents.’
‘Secondary schools should provide an equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships, and ensure the content is integrated throughout the relationships and sex education curriculum.’
Can we really ‘trust our teachers’?
Mr Hinds concluded: ‘We trust our teachers to deliver this content in a suitable and age-appropriate way, respecting the beliefs and values of all pupils in the school.’
There is a problem in ‘trusting our teachers’, which the government fails to see. If teachers are not themselves trans ideologues, they are working in an environment which is.
In the latest scandal, a teacher in Nottinghamshire was sacked for refusing to use an eight-year-old’s preferred pronouns and raising safeguarding issues over the child. The tribunal hearing the case has only just recused itself after one of its members was caught insulting Conservatives and saying only atheists should be in public office. Christian Concern are supporting the teacher, known only as ‘Hannah’.
If certain godless MPs and peers have their way, for a teacher, a parent or a church minister to raise such concerns would be against the law. That is why we invite you to sign our petition to protect freedom to speak to, advise and pray with people affected:
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A letter to parents
In October 2023, Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan, wrote to parents regarding their rights to know what children are being taught in schools.
She wrote: ‘You may be aware of concerns about inappropriate materials being used in some cases to teach relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in schools and parents who have had difficulty accessing these materials.
‘This Government is clear that this is not acceptable. You have a fundamental right to know what your children are being taught about healthy relationships, sex and development in school.
‘So, today I have acted by writing to schools, making it clear that as parents you should always be able to see the materials that are being used to teach your children. To place this right beyond any further doubt, my letter clarifies that copyright restrictions do not prevent you from seeing materials that are being used in the classroom.
‘I am clear that schools must share worksheets, presentations, or other content used in lessons with parents when asked to do so. This is regardless of what a school’s contract with the organisation that provided the materials might say.’
Nevertheless, schools can ignore the advice and once more, the Government seem not to be spurred to action to make their advice statutory.
Sodomy part of education?
In March 2023, head of the schools regulator, Ofsted, warned that some sex education lessons are not based on reputable scientific explanations.
Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s boss, told the Telegraph that she had alerted the Government about the lack of limits in the current relationships and sex education (RSE) guidance.
She cautioned that Ofsted currently lacks the authority to penalise schools teaching inappropriate material.
Meanwhile, in some secondary schools, pupils were being taught that there are 100 genders, and ‘gender fluidity’ is presented as fact in some major academy trusts and independent schools.
A dossier of evidence gathered by Conservative MP Miriam Cates was presented to Rishi Sunak, which led to the Prime Minister ordering a review of the Department for Education’s (DfE) RSE guidance. The Bible says children should be taught according to the laws of God:
Deut 11:19 And ye shall teach them (the laws of God) to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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Read and pray
READ: Lev 20:13 Deut 6:6-7; 1 Kings 14:24 ; Isa 28:9b, Isa 28:17; Ezek 16:49; Matt 9:12b; Rom 1:25-27; Eph 5:9; 2 Peter 2:6-10; Jude 7:1;
PRAY: for the repeal of woke laws.
Pray for the Church to wake up and stand up for King Jesus.
Pray for Britain’s education system.
Pray for our leaders to repent and seek the Lord.
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Out on the streets there is total opposition to the RSE agenda. In this respect MP’s and their self-supporting media people are completely out of touch with the voters. One of the easiest ways to do Christian outreach is to get people to listen to you tell them what RSE means for their children then come in with a request that those listening turn to Jesus to be saved, them and their family. Tell them Jesus commanded us to protect the children not teach them immodest ways. You will have many people applauding you.
Church leaders – stop avoiding this issue, make your church a pro-family church and say it out loud.; ‘This church is a pro-family church’.
Spot on. You are living the Gospel and the CV/NCCSS aims and purpose: explaining what the Bible says on this issue.