Delegates at a UK Teachers union conference called on its members to promote LGBT+ issues, including transsexuality, to children from nursery school on. They also urged the Government to include LGBT+ issues in mandatory sex education classes, and to extend the requirement for those classes from State schools to all private schools including faith-based schools.

The teachers passed a motion which called on members to “campaign to ensure a comprehensive age-appropriate content including promotion of LGBT+ matters for all schools from nursery throughout all phases of state education”.

Annette Pryce, a member of the NUT executive committee and teacher in Buckinghamshire, added that the “right wing, religious lobby” had prevented ministers from proposing a more “inclusive” agenda for sex education classes to include teaching about LGBT+ issues.

Kiri Tunks, a teacher in East London and the NUT’s vice president, said that the opt-out available to faith schools and parents is a “dangerous loophole” which will “leave many young people ignorant and vulnerable”.

The Church of England announced that they support the introduction of statutory sex education in schools, but  Andrea Williams, chief executive at Christian Concern, said that teaching SRE to young children would be “devastating” and risks “robbing them of their innocence”.