Queering the saints
Let’s visit the LGBT page for St Jude’s Primary School (Church of England of course) in Southwark.
LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. The “plus” represents other sexual identities.
This is primary school, remember. The youngest kids are 5.
In 2018, almost 250,000 people in London identified as Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual and there are now at least 20,000 children growing up in same-sex parent families. Many children will have or know relatives, family friends or neighbours who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Trans.
Notice how the “Trans” bit is added on. Start with LGB, then when they’re not looking add the T.
It is important to us at St Jude’s that we represent different families in our community as we know that children who see their families reflected in class and around the school will grow up to be confident, respectful and successful citizens.
Not if their parents are trans they won’t. Parents of 5-year-olds who claim to be the other sex are bound to be terrible parents, too self-involved and reckless to meet the needs of small children.
Aside from our moral duty, it is also our statutory duty to teach children about different families and relationships and therefore all primary schools in England are expected to teach Relationships Education. In teaching Relationships Education we ensure that the needs of all pupils are appropriately met, and that all pupils understand the importance of equality and respect. We ensure that all of our teaching is sensitive and age appropriate in approach and content.
And we teach small children that people can change sex.
Sorry Saint Jude’s but you can’t do both. It’s neither sensitive nor age appropriate to teach small children that people can change sex.
In order to prepare children for the diverse society they live in and to prevent bullying and discrimination, it is important to talk about difference in general and different families in particular. At St Jude’s, the children learn about and celebrate different family structures primarily through our PSHE scheme of work, science scheme of work and during our celebration of LGBT+ History Month. In addition, our school library and class book corners are stocked with books that represent different family structures and some of the texts we use within our English lessons feature an LGBT character.
What’s an “LGBT character”?
They include a horrible rainbow graphic chart of all the ways they inclooooode LGBT content in their “Progress Curriculum”.
They conclude by saying they are proud of being a Stonewall Champion School.
