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Titular Archbishop of Selsey
PSHEbrighton petition BHCC to stop teaching kids they can change sex!
PLEASE NOTE: change.org have taken down our petition claiming breach of their “community values”… We’ve replied with a legal letter and hope to have the petition restored soon… PLEASE WATCH THIS SPACE!
Why this petition matters
We love our city. Brighton & Hove is renowned for its spirit of freedom, openness, and tolerance. Our city has always stood for equality and truth. Which is why we are shocked that our city council seems intent on encouraging children to believe that they can change sex.
Under the Equality Act 2010, sex and gender reassignment are both distinct protected characteristics and that the law allows for reasonable sex-based exemptions and segregation (e.g. in sport, toilets, changing facilities, sleeping accommodation) to be based on natal sex. Gender identity does not, as a concept, exist in law.
Schools should have regard to the DfE’s statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ 2023 as well as wider duties under the Children’s Acts of 1989 and 2004. Schools should consider, always, what is in the best interests of the child and child safeguarding is paramount. Lying to children (about sex), keeping secrets and waiving rules that exist for their protection is not consistent with the best interest of the child. One school in Brighton has already conceded that they have not acted in the best interest of the child by supporting and facilitating a young girl to bind her breasts without informing her parents. There are specific side effects associated with breast binders experienced by 97% of those who used them. This includes chest pain, shortness of breath and scarring (Full article: Health impact of chest binding among transgender adults: a community-engaged, cross-sectional study (tandfonline.com). The school has acknowledged use of breast binders by children can be extremely dangerous and this information should not have been withheld from the child’s parents.
Parents should not generally be excluded from information about their child. Whilst schools need to deal with the psychological distress of a gender-distressed child, this cannot override the school’s obligations to all children and to maintain safeguarding. Schools that facilitate children and young people’s participation in sports, or access to toilets or sleeping accommodation on residential trips based on declared gender rather than natal sex, can put all children, particularly girls, at risk.
Under the Education Act of 1996, political indoctrination is strictly prohibited. Schools can and should teach content related to politically contested matters but by law they must do so in a balanced way and not privilege on particular agenda, e.g., an adherence to gender ideology (gender critical belief is an opposing view and case law has established that these beliefs are protected philosophical beliefs). This alone should be grounds to take a close look at third party provider content, e.g., prepared by Stonewall, Mermaids, and local bodies such as Allsorts Youth Project, to ensure that they are not promoting a political or ideological agenda against both balance and evidence. Sex is part of this and must be based on scientific fact and evidence. Gender should also be part of this and be taught as any other belief that it is contested, and some people believe in it and may make bodily modifications and others do not believe in it. Any curriculum that discusses gender should also reference detransition too.
Brighton and Hove City Council, without proper debate or consultation, has adopted a single ideological belief and promotes this through the publication of its Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit which promotes gender ideology as if it were settled science and is at odds with the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People, commissioned by NHS England. Schools in Brighton and Hove are socially transitioning children (changing their name and pronouns), sometimes without informing parents. Independent Review states
“…it is important to view it [social transition] as an active intervention because it may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning. There are different views on the benefits versus the harms of early social transition. Whatever position one takes, it is important to acknowledge that it is not a neutral act, and better information is needed about outcomes.”
Therefore, teachers do not have the requisite qualifications or experience to be making such decisions about the psychological health and wellbeing of children.
We are calling on BHCC to:
- Recommend that schools are transparent about what they are teaching across all subjects pertaining to Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) and Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) and inform and involve parents.
- Recommend that schools end the practice known as ‘social transitioning’(changing a child’s name and pronouns), recognising that such undertaking are beyond the proficiency of teachers and school pastoral staff.
- Show us it has evidence that, as a public authority, the actions it has encouraged in schools are lawful in relation to Section 11 Children Act 2004; the Education Act 1996 (s406/7); s.10 Equality Act 2010 and compliant with DfE guidance on political impartiality in schools.
- Commission an independent inquiry that reviews parent complaints concerning the content and delivery of PSHE and RSE in schools and including the placing of children, without those parents knowledge, on a pathway to social and medical transition.
Our children should be taught in a politically neutral sphere, in which they learn how to think, as opposed to what to think. They should NOT be presented with ‘gender identity’ ideology as though it were fact, and no school should ever nurture or encourage social and medical transitioning.
This petition was created by parents and other citizens of Brighton and Hove who recently formed PSHEBrighton.org. If you share our concerns, please get in touch through our contact page on: www.pshebrighton.org
Please sign the petition and share widely! https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-council-teaching-kids-they-can-change-sex
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The following by Clare Page at @NoSecretLessons on the X platform.
A thread on the continuing ideological capture of RSE at government level; the secrecy continues…
At the Conservative conference the S of S for Science Innovation and Technology @michelledonelan
announced plans to ‘depoliticise science’. Likewise Health Sec @SteveBarclay announced “@conservatives
know what a woman is” and will remove gender neutral language from the NHS.
However, I wonder if @michelledonelan realises she needs to start by ‘depoliticising’ her colleagues in the Government Office for Science, which is led by the Chief Medical Office @uksciencechief and advises
@RishiSunak and @cabinetofficeuk? https://gov.uk/government/organisations/government-office-for-science
Because the Government Office for Science just hosted a roundtable event in August about RSE at which the self-styled “Jessica (TRANS INCLUSIVE INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM) Ringrose”, contributed to policy development.
Here is Professor Ringrose’s oh-so-scientific announcement of her involvement in the Government Office for Science roundtable meeting.
Finding Prof. Ringrose’s declaration somewhat lacking in the professional political neutrality one might expect of someone who has advised multiple dept’s of government on how to teach all of our children RSE, a parent made an FOI request about the meeting, as follows:
The Government Office for Science replied that although they *do* hold this information they will WITHHOLD it from the public, because it pertains to the development of government policy and is intended for a future publication.
Whilst it’s not unusual that material pertinent to policy is withheld, it is surprising that the Government Office for Science will not even impart what the meeting was about, who attended, nor any schedule for outcomes.
This is frankly a bizarre level of government secrecy concerning the input of a professor of gender theory who specialises in sex education, not national defence!
Even the professor in question was happy to tweet about her involvement on X – putting her attendance in the public realm already. This suggests that this meeting was not advertised to the participants as a secret, but was kept secret when a parent started asking.
The enquiring parent intends to appeal the FOI decision and ask for at least the basic info about the roundtable, inc. its purpose and attendees – because surely the public is entitled to know who’s influencing policy, even if we’re not able to be privy to the policy development?
Just to remind everyone why this inquiry and the secrecy matters, here is some of Professor Jessica Ringrose’s work, about which she feels she has been wrongly critiqued by ‘all-right & parent rights groups, & gaslit by members of parliament”…
She describes herself as an “intra-activist” + encourages use of TQ+ theory as fact, saying:
“Therefore, the penile-vaginal coupling is to be disrupted as we rethink a vast range of body part relations to one another in RSE also therefore revaluing LGBT+ queer desire as we go.”
“This is not a cis-normative valuation of the essential female body, but rather, valuing of all forms of feminine genitalia – vulvic spaces and openings – refusing a nature/culture divide over what “counts” as a vulva or a clitoris”.
“The Play-doh activity is prefaced with a discussion of the non-binary nature of biological sex (as well as gender and attractions), intersex bodies and genital variation”
Her research also invited children of 12+ to draw erect penises and other sexually explicit material that some of them had be sent on social media, which possibly meets the NSPCC definition of non-contact child abuse, by showing children sexually explicit material:
“Amidst a heightened feeling of “wonder” and intensity in breaking taboos in school (McClure, 2013) the girls set about drawing the dick pics they had received.”
Some of this work was spontaneous, and so might well have been conducted without parental permission.
“It is important to note that the first dick pick drawings did not emerge until our third research school and were experienced by the team as a sort of breakthrough in the fieldwork… From here we gained confidence to prompt other groups to draw any “explicit” content.”
Ringrose and her coauthors also explain they plan to influence RSE in what sound like subversive ways:
e.g “The vulva and clitoris-making reorients biology towards citral validity, subverting heteropatriarchal logics in ways that may be able to be snuck into the curriculum”
And her approach “calls for a form of feminist guerrilla warfare and “injecting viruses” into normative power relationship—and we would add, injecting feminist viruses into the RSE curriculum—in ways that can create new openings for feminine desire and pleasure.”
Given the FOI secrecy about this RSE roundtable and who is shaping the science and education policy, it seems that the Government Office for Science is right on board with this ambition to ‘sneak’ things into our children’s curriculum!
@uksciencechief @michelledonelan to speak frankly – what the heck is this woman doing at the Gov Office for Science? This is not science, this is dangerously ideological bunkum, that should be nowhere near policy making on children’s RSE – especially when arranged in secret.
And lastly, please take note of this recent work by Prof. Ringrose: the offensively titled, ‘The State of UK Boys’…
“Families are prime sites for learning about and enacting gender identities and roles – sometimes even framed as gender and heterosexuality ‘factories'”
“While the family is a place of nurturing and support for many children, it can also be where gender and sexuality are regulated and policed”
“Early childhood spaces are generally much more liberal and open-minded spaces where children can experiment with gender in ways that aren’t policed.”
I think we can see where this is going can’t we? Gender identity is being weaponised as a reason for the state to intervene between parents and their children. This is a horrifying idea, and @uksciencechief
should tell us why she has allowed its author through her door?
Let’s see what the FOI appeal yields…
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When Chloe Cole was only twelve years old, she began taking puberty blockers. Soon after, she socially transitioned to begin presenting as a boy and began taking testosterone. At age fifteen, on the advice of her doctors, she underwent a double mastectomy. By age sixteen, she regretted the decision and “detransitioned.” Having recently appeared on The Jordan B Peterson Podcast, she’s now working to warn others of the harm of this burgeoning industry that preys on the young.