Plan to ban sex education for children under nine – BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69013002
Posted by princessxha
Plan to ban sex education for children under nine – BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69013002
Posted by princessxha
8 Comments
This just screams of “Tories scrambling to save themselves at the ballot box.”
Good, honestly. There’s no reason kids under 9 should be being taught about sex by anyone other than their parents when they choose to. If you, as a parent want to teach them about puberty around that time, go right ahead. Don’t lay that responsibility on a school teacher.
What’s next? The only form of safe sex is abstinence? As a gen Z person who was taught sex ed in year 4, I turned out fine!
> What’s even the point of public education? They’re just going to end up on the dole anyways. Think of the savings! – B.Johnson
Calling it sex education is a stretch it’s more relationships and biology and that’s it
Are they fucking stupid? (why yes, of course they are)
The Netherlands have very low child pregnancy rates, and they start sex ed as young as 4 years old. I’d imagine it would help with calling out sexual abuse as well as children would then be more aware of what’s happening to them and would have a name for it.
My primary school never taught sex ed except for one time where the boys and girls were seperated and we weren’t really shown or told much at all. My secondary school sex ed was mainly consigned to a once yearly showing of a condom being put on a dildo by the instructor. I actually learnt about sex through porn. Sex ed was a massive failure in my experience – most times it was a you shouldn’t be having sex environment – and I left school less than 10 years ago, seems to have only gotten worse since then. Teaching about sex ed shouldn’t be restricted, it should be encouraged and taught a lot more and a hell of a lot better than it currently is.
For a government/party that used to complain about politics supposedly being everywhere in schools, they sure do love being hypocrites on the subject. The banning of talking about gender identity is massively concerning in my opinion and feels like a call back to Section 28.
Are we *really* trying to conflate sex ed, where kids learn about how to prepare for puberty (in my school, including a handy little leaflet on info like the need to wash properly and how to apply deodorant) and the likes of periods, *things that are about to happen to their bodies*, with something scary and perverse? Really? Come the fuck on.
The bit about banning any mention of gender identity is Section 28 all over again
Trans people exist, trans kids exist. They are not contested or dangerous. This is just complete erasure of the subject. Ignoring them won’t make them go away, unless more young suicides is your goal.