Wales will roll out compulsory sex education plans that will “gradually empower learners” from a young age in subjects such as equity, sex, gender, and sexuality, but campaigners are taking the government to the High Court in an attempt to remove its mandatory element.
Kim Isherwood, who chairs the group Public Child Protection Wales, has started a legal case representing 5,000 parents and grandparents to overturn a proposal by the Labour-led administration to make a new standard of Religious and Sex Education (RSE) lessons compulsory.
They say that children as young as three will learn “sensitive and arguably inappropriate topics” such as gender ideology and that parents are being disenfranchised by “being denied their time-honoured right to remove their child from sex education.”…