Primary School Children Being "Sexualised" by Lessons on the "300 Flags of Pride"

Primary School Children Being “Sexualised” by Lessons on the “300 Flags of Pride”

Primary school children as young as 11 are being “sexualised” by lessons on 300 different LGBT Pride flags and the sexualities and gender identities behind each of them. The Telegraph has more.

Leaflets handed out at primary schools by the charity Swindon and Wiltshire Pride claim there are more flags representing sexuality and gender identity than there are for countries.

The material, signposted by the local council on social media, goes into detail about a “small selection” of 29 varieties.

It says: “While some might think [300] is too many, it’s all part of a drive to be more inclusive of the expansive breadth of identity within the community.”

Along with the rainbow LGBT Pride flag are a variety of offshoots, from the “intersex-inclusive Pride flag” to the “polyamory Pride flag” and even a black and white “heterosexual flag” for straight people, which it says can include transgender people.

The materials make up part of a free annual support guide produced by the charity, which also points to websites providing advice on controversial practices such as wearing a “binder to reduce apparent size of breasts”, the use of cross-sex hormones in under-18s, and information on “fetish spectrums”.

Parents of children at the primary schools told the Telegraph their concerns had been ignored by the local Labour council. …

One mother, a former teacher, said the guide being given out in primary schools was “really concerning”.

“Obviously the polyamory one, encouraging children to have multiple sex partners, they shouldn’t be sexualising children,” she said. “In the guide itself, under education, it states it is ‘for schools, teachers, and students’.

“A couple of sentences down, for example, it says ‘raise awareness of the lesser known identities across the fetish spectrum’,” she added, saying that was “inappropriate”.

Among the other Pride flags are “genderqueer”, “demiboy” and “demigirl”, “pangender”, “abrosexual” and the “straight ally flag”, which places the rainbow colours in the shape of an ‘A’ on top of the black and white heterosexual flag.

Helen Joyce, the Director of Advocacy at human rights charity Sex Matters, said the flags “draw children in” and “suggest that children need to find themselves on the list”.

“They recruit children into the world of sexual orientation and gender identity, which is inappropriate and unnecessary. Encouraging very young children to wonder about their gender or sexual orientation in this reckless way creates safeguarding risks,” she added.

“Some of these flags promote the false belief that a child can be born in the wrong body, which is deeply unsettling for young people. They should be protected from such misguided and harmful ideas, but instead, adult concepts are being pushed at them, disguised as harmless fun.”