Tory MPs demand PM blocks 'inappropriate' sex education lessons

2023-03-08

Dozens of Tory MPs demand Rishi Sunak blocks ‘inappropriate’ sex education lessons that teach primary school pupils as young as 10 about masturbation and gender ideology while older children learn about ‘extreme and dangerous’ kinks

MPs against ‘inaccurate, sexualising, graphic and age-inappropriate’ teaching
Miriam Cates, the Penistone and Stocksbridge MP, organised the letter

Rishi Sunak is under pressure from scores of backbenchers over ‘inappropriate’ sex education lessons that are teaching primary-age pupils about masturbation and gender identity.

Almost 50 Tory MPs are demanding intervention over teaching they say is ‘inaccurate, sexualising, graphic and age-inappropriate’.

Miriam Cates, the Penistone and Stocksbridge MP who organised the letter, last week presented the Prime Minister with a dossier of parents’ concerns about what their children are being taught.

It included primary school children being taught about masturbation, while 12-year-olds are asked how they felt about oral and anal sex and those aged 13 being told about gender fluidity.

Ms Cates, who is a practising Christian, wrote: ‘Children are being taught about extreme and dangerous sex acts, encouraged to share intimate details about sexual desires with classmates and teachers, and even primary school children are being indoctrinated with radical and unevidenced ideologies about sex and gender.

Miriam Cates, the Penistone and Stocksbridge MP who organised the letter, last week presented the Prime Minister with a dossier of parents’ concerns about what their children are being taught.

Almost 50 Tory MPs are demanding intervention over teaching they say is ‘inaccurate, sexualising, graphic and age-inappropriate’.

The letter has been backed by figures including Priti Patel, the former home secretary, Simon Clarke, the former levelling up secretary, and former education ministers Andrea Jenkyns, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Jonathan Gullis and Kelly Tolhurst.

‘Many of the resources used would make adults deeply uncomfortable, especially if they were expected to view them in their place of work.

‘It is unconscionable that our children are being forced to engage with such disturbing materials in school…

‘It is of course incredibly important that children are taught about tolerance and discrimination and are expected to treat everyone with dignity and respect.

But exposing children to explicit materials and radical ideologies is not a victory for equality; it is a catastrophe for safeguarding. We cannot allow it to continue.’

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