A book entitled “ Can I tell you about Gender
Diversity” is being introduced into Schools with the support of the Education
Authority. The book promotes the teaching of transgender principles to young
children and the removal of signs outside toilets such as BOYS and GIRLS
to promote the idea that children can use whichever toilet they want.
I have written both to the Prime Minister about this as follows:
Dear Mrs May,
I write to you out of concern that the
Department of Education is promoting within our schools a book called “Can I
tell you about Gender Diversity” by C J Atkinson.
This small, rather non-academic approach to the
sex education of our children is disturbing. I am shocked that the Department
of Education would support and even recommend this books inclusion in the
school curriculum. The book seeks to sexualise all children at an early
age and raises transgender issues in their minds which will, without doubt,
cause them confusion.
The removal of the words “Boys” “Girls” outside
toilets, that children should not be referred to as a boy or girl and the idea
that changes in vocabulary, signage and dress concerning gender should be
changed in our schools in the interest of our children is bizarre. The book
which argues this is poorly written and evidenced and reads as fantasy or
fiction and should not be considered an advisory or academic work.
The sexualisation of children before an
appropriate age is a recent phenomenon in our education system and the approach
this author takes will not help our children become balanced adults. The books
assumptions that its recommendations will help our children is ludicrous and
unfounded. The book contains no academic research to support its strange ideas.
We must not be taken in by the idea that all children are battling with
transgender issues which is the premise of this book.
Parents are responsible to teach their own
children about sexual issues and parents are the only ones who really know how
and when it is appropriate to do so. We must not allow the Department of
Education to remove parental responsibilities and promote the ill-founded ideas
within this book.
As you know The Bible makes it very clear that
parents should teach their children Godly behaviour and that this will stand
them in good stead for the rest of their lives. We are privileged in the UK
to have in you a Prime minister who was raised in a Godly
manner enabling you to lead our nation in a similar way. I am therefore hopeful
that you will advise the Department of Education to withdraw this book from our
schools and stop the teaching of transgender issues to our Children.
Proverbs 22:6 states; “ Start
children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will
not turn from it” Abraham Lincoln stated when referring to this verse of
scripture “There is one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that
is to travel that way yourself”.
We must make to possible for our teachers to
mentor our children in the ways that God intended. This will give our children
the same opportunity you were given and that is to make up their own minds, at
the appropriate age, with the full knowledge of right and wrong.
