That we’re reading this educational policy change in the newspapers and not from a professional teaching group tells you that this is simply a political manoeuvre.

These kids are already watching porn on their phones, you aren’t protecting them from anything by refusing to teach.

Even if this was an actual problem, which it isn’t, this is not the way to deal with it. Children ask all sorts of awkward questions, not answering their question is literally the worst way to deal with it. They’ll just ask the question more loudly in a very clear voice in the middle of a crowded Tesco. It’s best to just answer them and move on.

You can tell no Conservatives ever actually raised their own children.

Screw TERF Island

Section 28 bullshit all over again. It didn’t help anything then, it won’t help anything now, it will just hurt people. Fuck’s sake, what is wrong with this shites?!

Because we all know 12 and 13 year olds never have sex. One study says nearly 3000 of them got pregnant between 2000 and 2007 but clearly immaculate conceptions all round.

Because telling them “I’m not allowed to answer that question.” isn’t going to make them look it up themselves anyway. I mean, you could lie to them, but I can’t imagine that being a popular policy.

Even if the sentiment behind this wasn’t so horrid, this’d still be stupid.

If you’re going that far; just ban gendered pronouns altogether.

Good. Think too many people act like huge hormonal and surgical options are no big deal.

Seen loads of trans people say they always knew. Well they won’t need to be told if they know.

The UK has recently done research on the matter and realised that children were not getting the support required for not transitioning.

Fair. No clue why we should be teaching children stuff like this.