🧵A review:

A naive interviewer, getting taken for a ride by motor-mouthing, false premises, reframed questions, expedience with the truth, equivocal answers, weak philosophising, contradictions, self indulgence, attention seeking and feigned centrism…

https://twitter.com/AndrewGold_ok/status/1758205180581965907

But far from the projected impartiality, this was a piece of hard-fought campaigning by Went, ceding the minimum ground to stay ahead of the game; faux brow mansplaining behind the mask of a woman’s prerogative to override a male listener, which Gold too politely accepted.

🚨🧵UPDATE

Some might recall that a short while ago I reported about an FOI, made to the Government Office for Science (GOS), regarding their activities related to Relationships and Sex Education.

You can see the original thread here:

https://x.com/NoSecretLessons/status/1710653848866431231?s=20

The FOI request sought information on why self-styled “Jessica (TRANS INCLUSIVE INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM) Ringrose” of the IoE @UCL was attending a round table at the GOS about RSE, which she posted about on X in very political terms.

@educationgovuk @GillianKeegan @DamianHinds

As the gov makes a big push on ‘Mental Health’ in schools, please consider this study, which reveals the iatrogenic harms caused by over diagnosis and corresponding pharma exploitation of children.

https://twitter.com/jdaviesphd/status/1584609202299076608

Please will our gov be wary of the corrupt or ideologically obsessed ‘progressive’ academic lobbyists, who pathologise boyhood as ‘toxic’ and over emphasise anxiety in girls. We know @educationgovuk is being briefed by them.

🧵Here is a letter by the new Schools Minister @DamianHinds,
who installed the disastrous 2019 RSE Guidance.

It tells you all you need to know about this extremely disappointing appointment…





Hinds blatantly overrode parents’ rights to withdraw from RSE - which is necessary for exercising their human right (ECHR A2P1) to educate their children according to their consciences; ignorantly mandated ‘LGBT’ teaching (inc. targeting it at individual primary school kids 😱)…

🧵🚨👀

A thread on the continuing ideological capture of RSE at government level; the secrecy continues... At the Conservative conference the S of S for Science Innovation and Technology @michelledonelan announced plans to ‘depoliticise science’.
Likewise Health Sec @SteveBarclay announced “@conservatives know what a woman is” and will remove gender neutral language from the NHS.

🧵“it’s a fast-emerging issue” says ⁦@ChildrensComm⁩, who must have been asleep in the meeting I shared with her in Apr22, when mothers briefed her on dodgy RSE + harrowing tales of their kids being transed by schools + soc serv’s against their will. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/1… Specifically, in that meeting 18 months ago, @ChildrensComm was briefed on this story…

capx.co/my-familys-ord…

🧵Thread on the @educationgovuk RSHE Review 🧵

An online conference has been convened by the Westminster Education Forum to discuss “the next steps for RSHE” as part of the RSHE Review, brought forward by @RishiSunak

westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/RSH… The Chair is @LordLucasCD and keynote speakers include:
- Paula Penny, Head of RSHE and Citizenship Policy Unit, DfE
- Dr Polly Haste, Subject Lead for PSHE, RSHE and Citizenship, Ofsted
- Jenny Barksfield, Dep Chief Exec Officer and Principal Subject Specialist, PSHE Association

🚨ICO APPEAL NEWS🚨

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The ruling of my First Tier Tribunal appeal against the ICO decision to keep lesson resources and teachers’ names secret under the FOIA, has been delivered.

The result: I LOST the case.

The full decision can be read here:
…tionrights.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/DBFiles/Decisi… Judge Sophie Buckley ruled that the commercial interest of the external RSE provider to keep their resources secret, outweighs the public interest to know what was taught to the children.

The date for the First Tier Tribunal that seeks to overturn the ICO's decision to maintain secrecy of RSE resources in schools is:

3rd MAY 2023
10am

An update on the campaign - including a huge thank you to all supporters - can be found here:
crowdjustice.com/case/transpare… The update explains that the third party RSE provider that withheld their resources, School of Sexuality Education (SoSE), has joined the Tribunal as a Second Respondent, which gives them the opportunity to provide witness statements.

A 🧵about yesterday's #BBCAntiSocial... and the RSE debate.

https://twitter.com/BBC_CurrAff/status/1636736346638237697

I’ve just listened in detail to this, which included discussion of my ICO Tribunal Appeal case. Amazingly, @adamfleming gave Sophie Whitehead of School of Sexuality Education (SSE) (which is an interested party in the Tribunal) the chance to broadcast inaccurate and negative...

Oh what a mess! So this is what happens when the Govt instructs schools to “take positive action to build a culture” where “gender stereotypes” are “not tolerated”. This flawed and dangerous concept is the cause of destructive over-pathologising of boys. thetimes.co.uk/article/worksh… The utopian idea goes: gender stereotypes are a social construct, therefore they should be destroyed, to permit the full spectrum of gender identity. Hence toxic masculinity is only ever countered with queer intersectional feminism and LGBTQIA+ nonsense…

Thread:
I am grateful that @NickFletcherMP asked the DfE when a promised letter would be forthcoming, to remind schools of their obligation to show parents what they are teaching our children. @NickGibbUK replied...
@GillianKeegan @educationgovuk @SusanAclandHood @CommonsEd I'd like to address a few points in the Minister's reply. Firstly, there should be no need to remind schools about sharing RSE materials fully - they are clearly instructed in the RSE guidance to do so. We should be seeing vigorous enforcement at this stage.

@GillianKeegan⁩ ⁦@SusanAclandHood⁩ ⁦@educationgovuk⁩

…still don’t get it!

They say parents can have a copy of RSE lessons, unless the copyright is being refused by an external RSE provider. In which case…

⁦@CommonsEd⁩ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… …parents can ‘view only on school premises’
Not good enough guys! That means
a) we’re drawn into tacit NDA of commercially secret material
b) our kids were also made party to commercially sensitive material
c) we can’t take the material into a complaint or get advice on it…

Ooohhhh dear. Well this is awkward isn't it! Because Ofsted not only gave 'Best Practice Status' to Educate and Celebrate in 2012 (in an LGBT-focussed inspection see pics), but described them as "innovative and visionary" in 2016 when they gained DfE funding, according to E&C.

https://twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1597607964558467078

Moreover, E&C claimed in Gov Eq Office research that schools which used their programme tended to have better Ofsted results, and I can report that my own daughter's school explained that they employed E&C in order to improve their inclusivity standing with Ofsted...

👀🚩I'm not sure there's a better example than this lesson plan (FOR AGE 12) to show why parents MUST have full access to RSE resources BEFORE they are taught, and why the Ed Sec must step in to halt the radical third sector monopoly on RSE. Please see thread: @GillianKeegan The slides were used in a sex ed lesson for Year 8 (12/13). It tasked kids to list the ways couple express intimacy. The children suggested things like holding hands and sending text message... but the teacher had other ideas and gave them this list:

Let's unravel the School of Sexuality Education's academic background a little further...

(For those who want the detail, read this paper by Prof @JessicaRingrose and @KaitlynRegehr @UCL, it’s a shocker…)

journals.oslomet.no/index.php/rer%… The paper is based on Ringrose and Emma Renold's concept of "'PhEmaterialism' (Feminist Posthuman and New Materialisms in Education) ...a notion that combines explicitly feminist approaches to posthumanism"
[How do parents feel about 'posthumanism' in their kids RSE lessons btw?]

There is a lot of natural outrage about the nature of the RSE materials being prepared for children. I’d like to provide more info about how this happened. Please read/share this thread about how the School of Sexuality Education (SoSE) came to be hosting lesson plans like these: SoSE is not a one-off dodgy charity, it is part of a joined-up academic led movement and it is funded by central government, the Lottery Fund, supported by trustees from the BBC and a Climate Change NGO and sponsored by Lloyds Bank.

Last year, following new RSE Guidance from the DfE, my 15 year old daughter was given a lesson on 'Consent' as part of the PSHE curriculum at Haberdashers' Hatcham College, in London. It was described as a "trusted and high quality session". The lesson was created and delivered by School of Sexuality Education (SoSE), a charity that provided some of the
educational content for the Family Sex Show, advertised for an audience of age 5+. The show was cancelled due to inappropriately sexualising content like this: