Parents’ fury as they claim children as young as seven are being told they can be ‘pangender’ by teachers – while NHS patient form emerges listing 18 genders including ‘two-spirit’
- Parents complained to a Church of England school after seeing lesson plans
- One furious parent branded the teaching materials as ‘age inappropriate’
- Comes as NHS health chiefs came under fire for listing 18 genders on survey
Parents were left outraged after finding out that children as young as seven are being told they can be ‘pangender’ by teachers at a primary school in England.
After seeing their children’s lesson plans, which showed them being taught about contested gender identity beliefs, parents launched complaints to the Church of England school’s leaders.
Pupils at Swanton Morley VC Primary School in Dereham, Norfolk, are also being taught about being ‘born with a vagina’ but ‘feeling like a boy’, a parent claimed.
The controversial teaching material on relationships and sex education was provided to the school by Educator Solutions – a trading arm of Norfolk County Council.
One outraged parent with two children at the school said the material was taught without any consultation with families.
She told The Telegraph it was ‘age inappropriate, partisan, unscientific and dangerous’, adding: ‘I love my children, and I will not allow them to be exposed to radical ideologies at an inappropriate age and in an imbalanced way.
Pupils at Swanton Morley VC Primary School (pictured) in Dereham, Norfolk, are being taught about being ‘pangender’
‘Telling seven-year-old girls they can be born like a girl, but feel like a boy inside, and that there are more than two genders is simply wrong.
‘These aspects of the teaching materials are based on highly contentious and contested views that put great emphasis on emotion and belief rather than biological reality.’
It comes in the wake of the Government launching a review of sex education in schools after evidence was found of age innapropriate content being taught.
A Norfolk County Council spokesperson told the Telegraph: ‘Primary schools are enabled and encouraged to cover LGBT content within RHSE lessons if they consider it age appropriate to do so.
‘What is taught, and how, is ultimately a decision for the school, which has the responsibility of developing a policy and curriculum in consultation with parents, which is compliant with statutory guidance and the Equality Act 2010.
‘We trust and support head teachers to make decisions that are in the best interests of their pupils.’
The controversy in primary schools come as hospital chiefs came under fire for listing 18 gender options on a patient form including ‘two-spirit’ and ‘agender’.
The Sun reports that the survey was given to a woman in her 70s at Darlington Memorial Hospital in County Durham.
She said: ‘I’ve no idea what some of these are — I need to learn.
A survey listing 18 gender options was reportedly given to a woman in her 70s at Darlington Memorial Hospital (pictured) in County Durham
‘It seems like a box-filling exercise, probably from some administrator who should focus on getting waiting lists down.’
The form listed male and female choices as well as 16 others including passing, two-spirit, third gender, agender, bigender, cisgender, gender expression, gender fluid, gender queer and gender variant.
An insider told the publication that it’s a method to offer ‘respect and humility’ to patients.
The NHS has been actively trying to gather information on how patients identify to benefit future healthcare.
