The Times headline – Don’t teach children about changing gender, schools told:
Schools must not teach children that they can change their gender identity and should avoid “explicit” conversations about sex until they reach the age of 13, the government is to say.
Ministers will warn schools on Thursday that gender identity is a highly contested area and that teaching children about it could have damaging implications. Staff will be explicitly told to avoid proactively teaching children about gender identity. If asked, they should teach “biological” facts about sex.
Good news, you'd think.
The BBC headline has a different focus: Plan to ban sex education for children under nine.
Schools in England will be banned from teaching sex education to children under nine, under new government guidance to be published on Thursday.
The BBC has not seen the new guidelines but a government source said they included plans to ban any children being taught about gender identity.
If asked, teachers will have to be clear gender ideology is contested.
But…and there lots of buts..
But headteachers have told the BBC that there is no evidence of a widespread problem….
Pepe Di'Iasio, headteacher at a school in Rotherham, told Today that he believes pupils are being used "as a political football".
Teachers "want well informed and evidence-based decisions", he said, and not "politicised" guidance.
Not so keen at the BBC then. "A political football"…
Also.
BBC not even attempting impartiality here https://t.co/gkTvSbi0pd
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