In Wales, a contentious debate is boiling over around the nature and scope of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). For Kimberley Isherwood, it began with a 2020 news story “Parents in Wales won't be able to take their kids out of classes about sex education and religion anymore” that sparked concern among parents and educators alike. As a criminologist specialising in child sex abuse, Kimberley found herself at the centre of this storm, questioning the implications of teaching sexuality to children as young as 3 years.
Groups internationally, like Isherwoods’ Public Child Protection Wales are seeing the same concerning trends, and dealing with families in distress due to the sexualised content and gender ideology coming through the education system.
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CSE comes from international non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
Kimberley references the INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL GUIDANCE ON SEXUALITY EDUCATION: AN EVIDENCE-INFORMED APPROACH: a publication by the United Nations/UNESCO/World Health Organisation/UNAIDS, being used in many countries around the world, (including New Zealand) to guide their local CSE curricula.
How society became inverted
The sheer SIZE of the issues that impacts families as a result of this global push for CSE is that there isn’t any one place to point at, to roll it back to. No one seems able or willing to take responsibility for it.
It’s an avalanche of policies, processes, resources, legislation and lobbyists. Versus families.
The above video demonstrates the diagram below (developed by Penny Marie from Let Kids Be Kids NZ as an explainer of what she has found in her research to-date) and Kimberley’s situation in Wales.
Parents have no rights, but children have sexual rights??
Kimberley explains, with examples from Welsh court rulings, that parents have no rights, and children are handed the rights. Sexual rights, bodily and reproductive rights. See The Human Rights of Children. The policies relating to children’s rights go back to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
While they might sound lovely on first read, what many don’t realise is that basing child policy on the UNCRC REMOVES PARENTAL RIGHTS. Read about children’s rights in Wales and New Zealand.
Then comes highly sexualised and ideological education content.
What happens when parents can’t protect their own children from the assault of early sexual material at school? Who should get to decide what is appropriate for a child? Parent? Or the state? Because currently it is the state. Parents who push back are finding this out.
Theories underpinning Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
The theories underpinning CSE are dark and troubling. Every parent with children in school should look into these theories:
1. Sexual From Birth
This theory, based on Dr. Alfred Kinsey's controversial research, claims that humans are inherently sexual from birth. The ethical concerns surrounding the methods and conclusions of this research raise significant questions about its validity and appropriateness in educational settings.
2. Gender Theory
Dr. John Money (born in New Zealand) theory that gender is a social construct is exemplified by the tragic case of David Reimer. The attempt to raise David as a girl after a medical mishap highlights the potential dangers and ethical dilemmas of applying such theories without comprehensive understanding and consent.
3. Queer Theory
While "queer" has been reclaimed as a progressive term, the theory's challenge to traditional binaries, including those between adults and children, is deeply controversial. Queer theory is essentially the challenge to all societal norms and binaries (IE men/women, young/old etc).
See more about ‘queering’ in a previous Substack from Let Kids Be Kids, and in this Welsh resource.
The Queering Of New Zealand Children Via The Education System
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