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Parents It’s Time to Wake Up

Sex education experts? Tabby Besley (InsideOut) and Tracey Clelland (Beyond The Birds and Bees) were interviewed, along with Penny Marie from Let Kids Be Kids, on 1News recently about the RSE refresh.

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Let Kids Be Kids and Penny Marie

The education system is no longer just teaching our kids the basics of biology in sex ed – it’s pushing a radical agenda under the guise of “sexuality education”. As Penny Marie highlights in her latest YouTube video, this isn’t about empowering kids; it’s about destabilising their identities and sidelining parents.

Penny’s video exposes how organizations like InsideOut, backed by hefty funding, have embedded gender ideology into schools. And are pushing their community to send feedback in to the RSE consultation, to keep ‘trans’ content in sex ed.

From InsideOut resources encouraging kids to transition without parental knowledge to an app developed by Tracey Clelland, university ‘expert’ Beyond the Birds and Bees – developed for 12-year-olds with graphic sexual content – these groups are bypassing parents and sexualising our children.

This isn’t education; it’s indoctrination

Comedian Tyler Fisher’s clip in the video nails it: The confusion around gender and identity is absurd, yet it’s being normalised in classrooms.

Meanwhile, advocates like Tabby Besley and Tracy Clelland claim kids need this, ignoring the parents who are horrified. The Ministry of Education even endorses these materials, while mainstream media celebrates pride parades and marginalizes commonsense voices.

Parents, Grandparents - get your voices heard

The feedback for the new Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) framework closes this Friday, May 9, 2025. This is our chance to push back. Penny urges every parent (and grandparent and teen) to submit feedback and demand that sex ed stays focused on biology, not ideology. We’re not transphobic – we just want kids to be kids, free from ideological agendas.

What You Can Do

  1. Submit Feedback: Visit the Ministry of Education’s consultation page before 9 May and tell them to keep gender ideology out of schools.
  2. Check Out Penny’s Video: Watch the full YouTube for the unfiltered truth.
  3. Share the video and this Substack with others.
  4. Use Our Resources: Head to letkidsbekids.nz for templates to opt out of sex ed, assert parental authority, and/or challenge pride events at your school.
  5. Talk to Your Kids: Remind them daily that they are perfect as they are. Counter the love-bombing from activist groups with your unconditional love.

We’re up against well-funded lobbyists, but parents are the backbone of this country. Let’s stand together to protect our children from being pawns in a cultural battle. Share this post, talk to other parents, and let’s make our voices louder than the activists’. Because when it comes to our kids, we don’t back down.

This article was originally published by Let Kids Be Kids.

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