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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping

Gillian Keegan urged to not let culture wars weaken sex education

A pupil listens to a teacher in class.
A review into sex education in English state schools comes after a Tory MP said some classes were ‘age-inappropriate, extreme, sexualising and inaccurate’. Photograph: Bsip Sa/Alamy

Dozens of organisations and charities have written to the education secretary, amid fears that sex education in England may become a casualty of the culture wars.

More than 50 organisations concerned with education and tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) have written to Gillian Keegan to urge her to resist the “politicisation” of sex education, following a row in which Conservative backbench MPs claimed that children were being taught “graphic lessons on oral sex, how to choke your partner safely, and 72 genders”.

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