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British Teachers’ Union Pushes LGBT Education for Toddlers [Excerpts]

Britain’s largest teachers’ union thinks toddlers should be included in expanded compulsory LGBT education programs.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) passed a motion Monday calling on British lawmakers to campaign for compulsory sex education classes and the “promotion of LGBT+ matters for all schools from nursery throughout all phases of state education,” according to The Times of London.

The group decried the current “lack of policies which promote LGBT+ within schools,” causing a “significant negative impact” on the well-being of homosexual and transgender students and teachers. Expanding sex and relationship education (SRE) programs would ensure those students “are told explicitly in the law that their lives are important too.”

Current law in Britain requires mandatory SRE classes in council-controlled secondary schools, but not academies and free schools, which make up the majority of secondary schools.

In March, amid pressure to update requirements to better educate children about sexuality and safety in an age of online pornography, cyber bullying, and sexting, Education Secretary Justine Greening announced that all primary and secondary schools would be required to teach children “age-appropriate” SRE classes.

But union delegates want the government to go two steps farther. Their motion says sex education should include the promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues—including safe-sex guidance for gay and lesbian sex for secondary school students—and also require that sex education start at the nursery level with children as young as 2 years old.

“This new legislation has moved us forward, but it is not inclusive,” Annette Pryce, a member of the union’s executive committee and a teacher in Buckinghamshire told The Telegraph, noting that a “right wing, religious lobby” prevented ministers from proposing a more expansive agenda.

Kiri Tunks, the union’s vice president and an East London teacher, said Greening’s announcement was a “victory,” but “there is still a long, long way to go.”

A recent union brochure advocating for transgendered teachers pushes back on the idea that children are too young to cope with the concept: “Children’s literature is full of transformation stories. If a mouse can become a footman and a frog can become a man without traumatizing young minds, then men and women crossing gender roles is a tame idea by comparison.”

(Crossland, “British Teachers’ Union Pushes LGBT Education for Toddlers,” World News Service, 4/24/17).

[TBC: There is no comparison between children’s fairy tales and very real life choices made by people who live in opposition to the order established by our Creator.]