Concerned parents take Welsh government to court to stop ‘extreme ideology’ gender identity and sex education being taught to children as young as three
by Jonathan Rose, Mailonline:
Parents have taken the Welsh government to court to stop gender identity and sex being taught to children aged three to 11 in primary schools.
Campaigners against the new Relationships and Sexuality Education curriculum, which is due to begin next week, are seeking a High Court injunction to prevent the policy.
They want a temporary ban until a judicial review to the curriculum is heard later this year, or an opt-out for parents to remove their children from the mandatory classes.
The legal challenge has been brought by Public Child Protection Wales who say the curriculum is inappropriate for primary age children.
Paul Diamond, representing the claimants, acknowledged the seeking of an injunction at the eleventh hour was an ‘uphill task’ but was ‘one of those exceptional cases’.
‘It cannot be more important, and the issues cannot be more fundamental to our society involving the rights of families, the rights of children and the rights of fundamental liberties under the common law,’ he told the High Court.
Mr Diamond said the claimants, who were not identified in court, are four mothers and one father and were ‘fighting for their children as any parent would’.
‘They feel weak, powerless and believe it is a David versus Goliath conflict, but children are often their only legacy in life,’ he said.
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