>Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge – and a member of the Commons’ education committee, told a Westminster Hall debate that “extreme and inappropriate” sex education material was being shared with children in schools in England.
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>She said that “despite its intentions”, the new RSE framework had “opened the floodgates to a whole host of external providers who offer sex education materials to schools, and now children are being exposed across the country to a plethora of deeply inappropriate, wildly inaccurate, sexually explicit and damaging materials in the name of sex education”. …
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>([🪞](https://archive.ph/tRFRd))
Limited choice to grab a safe snippet from the article here.
Oh, surprise, she doesn’t like trans folk acknowledged.
I also suspect some of the content re. rough sex is likely designed to educate teens…many of whom would be engaging in such behaviour anyway, educating them to be safe isn’t sexualising children.
> “menstruators and non-menstruators” and said this would lead to confusion for a teenage girl whose periods did not start.
Not a bad point. We can’t explain biology without using male and female as terms. We have to be adult about this.
> that claims that we all have an innate gender
I have a minor quibble about this. I’d prefer to teach that some people have an innate gender. I don’t think we should generalise
She’s a fucking piece of work this one. Going all in on the nazi ‘groomer’ shit basically.
There is a really worrying element of British society that seems to be pushing for an ultra-puritanical approach to sex education in schools, all under the guise that its protecting children from pedophilia.
Kids need to learn about sex. They need to learn about what is happening with their bodies when they approach puberty, they need to learn about what a healthy body looks like as they go through it, and they need to learn how to have safe consensual sex before they start having it.
This the same tory MP that was part of a church actually doing conversion therapy?
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>Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge – and a member of the Commons’ education committee, told a Westminster Hall debate that “extreme and inappropriate” sex education material was being shared with children in schools in England.
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>She said that “despite its intentions”, the new RSE framework had “opened the floodgates to a whole host of external providers who offer sex education materials to schools, and now children are being exposed across the country to a plethora of deeply inappropriate, wildly inaccurate, sexually explicit and damaging materials in the name of sex education”. …
>
>([🪞](https://archive.ph/tRFRd))
Limited choice to grab a safe snippet from the article here.
Oh, surprise, she doesn’t like trans folk acknowledged.
I also suspect some of the content re. rough sex is likely designed to educate teens…many of whom would be engaging in such behaviour anyway, educating them to be safe isn’t sexualising children.
> “menstruators and non-menstruators” and said this would lead to confusion for a teenage girl whose periods did not start.
Not a bad point. We can’t explain biology without using male and female as terms. We have to be adult about this.
> that claims that we all have an innate gender
I have a minor quibble about this. I’d prefer to teach that some people have an innate gender. I don’t think we should generalise
She’s a fucking piece of work this one. Going all in on the nazi ‘groomer’ shit basically.
She wanted to kill off old people ( https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/anger-over-sheffield-mps-offensive-20851048 ), now she wants to protect your children. She’s always thinking of the future.
There is a really worrying element of British society that seems to be pushing for an ultra-puritanical approach to sex education in schools, all under the guise that its protecting children from pedophilia.
Kids need to learn about sex. They need to learn about what is happening with their bodies when they approach puberty, they need to learn about what a healthy body looks like as they go through it, and they need to learn how to have safe consensual sex before they start having it.
This the same tory MP that was part of a church actually doing conversion therapy?