by Neil O’Brien, Substack
Many people will remember sex education in school with a cringe.
But sex education in schools today is more than cringe. We’ve drifted into a position where there are too many examples of sex education which, instead of providing neutral information, promotes, pushes and celebrates a set of ideas with bad real-world consequences.
While there is perfectly good sex and relationships education happening in many schools, there is too much that is not.
Take just one idea to start with.
In recent years sex education in many schools has deliberately told kids that they may have somehow been “born in the wrong body”. In so doing, schools have amplified and given official confirmation to bad ideas that kids are exposed to on social media.
What has been the result of encouraging such ideas? In 2009 the NHS’s gender identity development service (Gids) saw fewer than 50 children a year. By 2021-22 it was more than 5,000.