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“Now independent research has shown that the Welsh #RSE Code was influenced by elements of Queer Theory that should concern parents.” @WG_Education @childcomwales @LauraJ4SWEast @MerchedCymru @LGBAllies_Cymru @WRNWales #edutwitter #LGBT safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2022/10/09/wel…

“Queer Theory is an academic field of study that aims to dismantle accepted social norms. This may not seem immediately concerning. However in this field any idea can be – and is – challenged, including the idea that children should not be sexually active.” #CurriculumForWales

“Queer Theory challenges boundaries that are put in place to preserve ‘oppressive’ ideas such as the importance of child safeguarding. This academic discussion is not something that should be allowed to direct the way schools teach children.” #CurriculumForWales #RSE #edutwitter

“@WelshGovernment , led by @WelshLabour & @Plaid_Cymru…has branded concerned parents ‘misguided’ & refuses to consider there may be any basis for legitimate #safeguarding concerns. This research has been carried out by citizens of Wales” #CurriculumForWales #RSE #edutwitter

“This new #RSE Code was chiefly designed by two academics who subscribe to queer theory, EJ Renold and Ester McGeeney. The Code is based on the idea that queer theory should make its way into the classroom as part of the ‘perpetual revolution’.” #CurriculumForWales

“Prior to the final version of the Code, two major preparatory documents were written up to justify their changing of the curriculum content and its title from ‘sex’ to ‘sexuality’. These documents contain no testable hypotheses or evidence-based research.” #CurriculumForWales

“The resources support the idea that children are sexual beings from birth. A tool intended to indicate sexual abuse in minors is used to justify this notion. Any challenge to this is dismissed as ‘protectionist’, homophobic & ‘right wing’.” #CurriculumForWales #SafeguardingFail

“The change in the code from ‘age-appropriateness’ to ‘developmental-appropriateness’, suggests that if children are already sexualised and watching pornography, then they are ready to go further.” #SafeguardingFail #CurriculumForWales #PolicyFail #RSE #CSA #CSE #WomenEd

“The resources make reference to ‘The Good Sex Project’, in which McGeeney cites Gayle Rubin’s ‘Charmed Circle’:.. ‘erotic injustice’ is discussed in relation to the fact that children are prevented from engaging in certain sexual activities such as ‘cross-generational sex’” #RSE

“The #RSE resources are linked to CRUSH & AGENDA which, in turn, link to BISH & The Proud Trust. BISH’s “Planet Porn” resource is currently available for schools to purchase. This presents pornography as economically liberating for women, [&] anti-racist.” #CurriculumForWales

“Where does an approach to seeing children as sexual beings end? The academic Jacob Breslow uses it to argue that sex between adults and children is not intrinsically wrong or bad for the child.” #CurriculumWales #RSE @EstynHMI

“He defines “queer children.” as ones that “display interest in sex generally… in same-sex erotic attachments, or in cross-generational attachments.” Breslow spoke at a conference in 2011 suggesting that paedophiles did not need to gain consent from a child to have sex with “it”

“The curriculum & resources do not recognise basic #safeguarding principles & practice; They reframe indicators of abuse as indicators of sexuality; They frame children’s access to and engagement with pornography as a digital right, rather than a source of serious harm. @EstynHMI

“They indicate a need for “specialist” third parties (i.e. strangers) to discuss sex & sexuality with children; They imply that it may be justifiable for an adult to keep secrets with a child, which goes against fundamental child #safeguarding principles.” @EstynHMI #RSE #WomenEd

“They present children with sexual content & images & encourage them to consider normal developmental behaviour & self-exploration as sexually motivated. This normalises sexual activity for & among children.” @EstynHMI @WG_Education #CurriculumForWales #RSE #SafeguardingFail

“There is a complete lack of reference to male/female, boy/girl & instead reference, only to ‘identities’; Sex is redefined to exclude male & female & instead describe them as genders from a spectrum with which one must identify, separate from sex.” @EstynHMI @WG_Education #RSE

“The Code recommends that #RSE content & approach be left entirely to the discretion & control of #SEN staff. This leaves disabled learners open to ideological teaching by staff who believe they are educating & informing learners. @EstynHMI @childcomwales #CurriculumForWales