(LifeSiteNews) — The World Health Organization’s (WHO) sexual education guidelines for Europe have caused an outcry in the U.K. The guidance advocates for sexual education from birth and advises educators to teach infants and toddlers about “early childhood masturbation.”
The 68-page document titled “Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe” states that “it was deliberately decided to call for an approach in which sexuality education starts from birth.”
The WHO document includes a “sexuality education matrix” that provides guidelines for educators on how to “educate” children in different age groups. Some of the instructions that have caused outrage include the following:
- The guidelines advise educators to inform children aged zero to four about “enjoyment and pleasure when touching one’s own body,” and “early childhood masturbation.”
- Four- to six-year-olds should “consolidate their gender identity” and learn about same-sex relationships.
- Children aged from six to nine years old are to be taught about “Sex in the media (including the Internet).”
- For nine to twelve-year-olds the WHO advises educators to enable children to “make a conscious decision to have sexual experiences or not,” wrongly implying that children are able to consent to sex at such a young age.
The controversial document was originally published in 2010, but it recently received media attention after Tory shadow minister for education in Wales, Laura Anne Jones, called on the WHO to “rescind the advice immediately,” adding that the Welsh government should “distance themselves” from the “frankly disturbing” WHO guidelines.
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Jones furthermore stated that “[w]e must stop this pushing of harmful gender ideology into sex education in Wales and the UK, with immediate effect,” according to the British Telegraph.
Tanya Carter from the advocacy group “Safe School Alliance” has called for an “urgent enquiry” into a potential link between the sexual education curriculum in the U.K. and the guidance issued by organizations such as the WHO and UNESCO, according to the Daily Mail.
“We find it extremely concerning that the UN and WHO are promoting an approach that is experimental, unscientific, and appears to be aligned to the work of unethical individuals and organisations, including those promoting the acceptance of paedophilia,” the Safe School Alliance recently said, according to the Daily Mail.
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Catholic activist Alexander Tschugguel told LifeSiteNews that he and the German pro-family organization Demo für Alle already tried to warn people about these WHO guidelines several years ago. Back then, many people simply could not believe that the WHO would publish such a horrendous document, even when they were shown the original source, Tschugguel recalled.
According to the Telegraph, a WHO spokesperson said that the organization “stands by its guidance and it remains accessible,” adding that “[o]ur guidelines reflect established psychological facts about children’s understanding of their bodies and psychosocial development based on decades of research.”
Dutch journalist and author David Sorensen recently published an exposé in which he argues that organizations like the WHO, the U.N., Planned Parenthood, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are using modern sexual education to sexualize children and normalize pedophilia.
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