Schools in England will be told not to teach sex education to children under the age of nine, under Government proposals. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said that the updated guidance ensures that parents know what their children are being taught at school, and that children will only learn age-appropriate content. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We're updating the relationship health, sex and health education guidance. It's guidance that was
00:05introduced in 2019. It was made statutory in 2020. There was a review to see how it'd been embedded
00:10in 21. Lots of teachers and headteachers were saying that we hadn't made clear enough age
00:15appropriateness and could we give more clarity on that. And lots of parents as well getting in
00:19touch saying they wanted to make sure that they had access to the materials. That wasn't clear in
00:23the guidance either. We do need to do things and we have to take some leadership positions to help
00:28support teachers and to help make sure parents are very clear about what rights they have as well to
00:33get access to materials and be able to see what their children are being taught. They're the first
00:37educators of their children. Gender reassignment as a protected characteristic absolutely should
00:43be taught. The fact that adults can change their gender when they're older, they can reassign that
00:49and they can go through a process, that's a protected characteristic that can be taught.
00:53It's very different from some of the gender identity ideology which covers things like
00:59you know gender's a spectrum. There can be 70, 80, 90, I don't know how many different identities.
01:06You can be fluid in your identity. No, that is not. That's a contested fact. That is not what
01:10will be being taught in our schools. Biological sex is important and that will be being taught
01:15in our schools.