Fr. Mark Hodges
LONDON, England, November 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Anglicans have newly revised directives for schools and teachers regarding gender.
In honor of anti-bullying week, the updated instructional “Valuing All God’s Children,” which was released in 2014 to instruct against “homophobia,” now includes “biphobia” and “transphobia” in nursery schools and primary schools.
Preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary school children should be encouraged to explore their gender identity, according to the Church of England. The little ones should feel uninhibited to “try out the many cloaks of identity” and “explore the possibilities of who they might be.”
Teachers in the church’s 4,700 schools throughout the U.K. are advised not to enable children to “conform” to traditional male/female “stereotypes.” Young children “are in a ‘trying on’ stage of life … so no labels need to be fixed,” the church document states.
“Pupils need to be able to play with the many cloaks of identity (sometimes quite literally with the dressing-up box),” the English church now teaches. “Children should be at liberty to explore the possibilities of who they might be without judgment or derision.”
Practically speaking, the ecclesial guidelines say boys “may choose the tutu, princess’
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