A father is pleading with the Chief Education Officer of the Church of England to intervene in the inappropriate and explicit gender and sex education lessons at his child’s religious school.
The parent, who chose to remain unidentified, appealed to the Rev. Nigel Genders after claiming his child’s school in Norfolk is teaching students as young as seven years old that they can be born in the wrong body.
According to the Christian Post, the school is suggesting that “people can be born a boy but feel like a girl, while others might identify as ‘pangender’ — someone who does not feel like a boy or a girl.”
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Rev. Genders said it was the individuals’ school decision to include relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) policy and lesson materials, not the Church of England’s (CofE).
“I see that you have taken your concerns to the school, which is entirely the right and appropriate thing to do. The RSHE policy and decisions about the resources used to deliver it are the responsibility of the school in consultation with parents, having due regard to any advice from the Diocesan Board of Education,” Genders said in response to the concerned father.
He continued, “Given that schools are seeking to do the very best for children as they grow in maturity and mindful of the high-profile focus on this area in the media and elsewhere, it will be very helpful to have new guidance from the government on how these contested issues are handled within educational settings. We expect this guidance very soon.”
The parent has since removed his two young children from the school after expressing disappointment at the Church of England’s blatant passing of responsibility to the headteachers.
“Teaching 7- to 8-year-old children that they can choose their gender (boy, girl, or not sure), and that they are only born ‘like’ a boy or ‘like’ a girl, but that it is how they feel inside that counts, is a highly contested and dangerous concept that is not grounded in established science,” he said.
He continued: “Furthermore, passing the buck of responsibility entirely to the headteachers, and waiting on updated guidance from the CofE is totally inadequate. Action is needed now to protect children. Are CofE schools that push this dangerous content CofE in name only?”
Christian Legal Centre Chief Executive Andrea Williams said that “Thousands of children are being indoctrinated with extreme gender ideology without the knowledge of their parents. The government needs to allow parents to withdraw children from relationships and sex education until the gender and political ideology has been rooted out of these lessons.”
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