For many years here at Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre, we've been expressing
real concern about the way in which our young children are being sexualised at school through
the relationships and health and sex education programmes. They've had various changes across
the years, but what we've seen is what I would describe as the erosion of the protection
of our children at primary school age. And the latest in a whole line of those cases
and for which we've got the lesson plan here is again another Church of England school,
the Swanton Morley Primary School in Durham in Norfolk. We've seen an absolutely shocking
lesson plan that got introduced into the school without the parents' knowledge. Children as
young as seven were being introduced to this material. So let's take a look at the material
that's being introduced into this school by Educator Solutions here into a Church of
England school in Norfolk. The lesson aim, for instance, it says this, pupils realise
the nature and consequences of discrimination so it's always framed in the language of discrimination,
equality, diversity. Remember this is down for children as young as seven. And indeed
there are other lessons that go down to children as young as four, but I'm looking at the lesson
plan for children aged between seven and eleven. In this lesson aim we're going to look at
the nature and consequences of discrimination including the use of prejudice-based language.
The learning outcomes are to show the children the correct terms to describe gender and sexuality.
I know that treating someone as wrong or less than because of their gender or sexuality
can constitute homophobic, biphobic or transphobic bullying. A learning outcome is that the child
has considered appropriate ways to communicate about gender and sexuality. So just imagine
this, with children as young as seven, unless they use the appropriate terms when it comes
to gender and sexuality, they may be considered homophobic, biphobic or transphobic. The lesson
plan is essentially to eliminate homophobic, transphobic, biphobic behaviour by which they
mean they will normalise homosexual activity and gender identity distress, gender identity
confusion. Begin the lesson by explaining that we will be learning about the words that
are used to describe different genders. What is gender? How many genders? And different
sexualities, how many sexualities? Tell peoples that people are romantically attracted to
a range of different types of people. The attraction varies from one person to another.
Some people are attracted to people of a different gender to them, some people are
attracted to people of the same gender as them, and some people are attracted to both.
Remind pupils of the working agreement. This is seven to eleven year olds. You're asking
seven year olds to be reminded of a working agreement. Seven year olds need to be given
order and structure to their day, they need to be taught how to do some maths, they need
to be told to eat their vegetables, no doubt parents will be reminding them about when
to brush their teeth. Do we really think that they can understand working agreements and
concepts such as homophobia, biphobia, transphobia? Then we've got the definition dominoes. Provide
each group with a large sheet of paper, a blue, black and green pen, and ask the pupils
to write down all of the words that they've heard to do with sexuality and gender using
the black pen, and then instruct the pupils to circle the word that they believe to be
acceptable words with the blue pen. So, here are the terms. Gender, whether you describe
yourself as a girl or a boy. Well not so long ago that was just biological sex, boy or girl.
Now it's a social construct. Cisgender, feeling the same gender as the sex you were born.
Being born with a penis and feeling like a boy, being born with a vagina and feeling
like a girl, that's cisgender. Cisgender, feeling the same gender as the sex you were
born, being born with a penis but feeling like a girl, being born with a vagina and
feeling like a boy. This is to our children. Pangender, someone who does not feel like
a boy or a girl. Sex, that gets reduced to the sexual organs you were born with.
Male, penis and testicles, female, vulva and vagina. Now I think that all of this is
much harder than maths to understand. Much harder to understand this than understanding
nouns and verbs and adverbs, which is the kind of thing I was learning at seven to eleven.
And I think that all of this is much harder than maths to understand. Much harder to understand
verbs and adverbs, which is the kind of thing I was learning at seven to eleven. This, a
lot of these things aren't even real. These are social, socially constructed terms that
confuse most adults. In fact, that get quite a lot of adults into trouble just when they
speak the truth about the words. Or if they get confused about the words or accidentally
use the words in a wrong context at work and find themselves in trouble at work. So
there's a reality that lots of adults can't deal with these terms, let alone seven to
eleven year olds. Why? Because these terms actually don't make sense. But it's worse.
A lesson activity here is wedding day. And the teacher is asked to ask the pupils to
remember a wedding. If they've been to a wedding, what was it like and where did it take place
and did they enjoy it? And then to act out a wedding day. And they can choose to be married
to someone of the same sex or the opposite sex. And they even out the ceremony in the
class. So they will say that Michael is invited to the wedding or that Michael takes John
to be the husband. We're talking seven to eleven year olds acting out a wedding day
between a man and a woman, a man and a man or a woman and a woman, but they can choose.
Can you imagine the kind of memories that you're putting into seven year olds and eight
year olds and nine year olds if you're asking them to act out the wedding day? What if Andrea
married Catherine, my best friend, when I was eight years of age? What kind of memory
would that have placed into me? How would I look back on that? How would I feel about
that? How would that have confused me in terms of the truth? Look at these very graphic pictures
that we have for seven to eleven year olds talking about sexual intercourse beginning
with a man and a woman touching one another, touching their bodies and they are naked and
they may touch each other's sexual organs, penis, testicles, vulva, vagina. Then we have
a picture of an erect penis, in fact, entering a vagina. And here we can see a picture of
this. The idea that our primary age children will be looking at these pictures. I'm sorry
to have to show them to you. If I don't want to show them to you, can you imagine how I
feel about them being taught to our children or how parents feel about them being taught
to our children? Worst of all, the parents in this school in Norfolk did not even know
that these were the materials that were being given to their children at school. When they
became aware, then they complained. Are you aware of what your children are being taught?
It is really in black and white. It is a pandemic. It is everywhere. It's in every
school and the teachers are in fear. Teachers are in fear. Parents are in fear. Teachers
can't resist the agenda. They fear for their jobs. Parents are also intimidated and put
in fear. This is why we have to raise up a movement. We have to raise up a movement that
is vocal and visible to speak on behalf of the protection of our children. Children quite
simply should not be exposed to this material. Some MPs are waking up to this. Again, it's
as if people didn't believe that this stuff was actually happening in schools, but it
has been happening for a long time and our schools are currently in the grip of it. So
let's understand what's going on. Let's come together. Let's act and let's raise
up our voices.