A LANDMARK legal case against the Welsh Government in 2022 challenged the introduction of mandatory Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in Welsh schools. The claimants, Public Child Protection Wales (PCP), argued that mandatory RSE violated their rights under Article 2 Protocol 1 (A2P1) of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to education in accordance with parents’ religious/philosophical convictions) and Article 9 (freedom of thought and belief).
Although the High Court rejected the claim that Welsh Government’s statutory guidance and educational code had violated the law, PCP’s campaign continues unabated.
This year, their annual conference had an international focus, with guests from as far afield as New Zealand and the United States, largely due to Jana Lunden, the founder of the Natural Women’s Council, who had approached Kim Isherwood, founder of PCP Wales, to join forces. Like PCP, the Natural Women’s Council, a grassroots non-profit organisation in Ireland, is dedicated to protecting the well-being of children, women and families.
Jana Lunden was part of an international project in which PCP were invited to take part towards the end of last year. The project was to reinstate the Bill known as HR4279, introduced in the US in December 1995 asking Congress to determine if sexologist Alfred Kinsey’s reports are the result of any fraud or criminal wrongdoing. A significant amount of legislation and social policy across the world is based upon his work. Kinsey is a highly controversial figure not least because of his ‘Table 34’ in the Sexual Behavior in the Human Male report which documents data on sexual experiences involving children, including cases of sexual contact between adults and minors.
An information pack, put together by Rhonda Miller from Purple for Parents United and Audrey Werner from the Matthew XVIII Group, together with the Bill, was handed to Congress staff and it is now a waiting game for the coalition to see if anything will be done this time round.
Texan Audrey Werner was the conference’s first international speaker of the day. She is the president and founder of the Matthew XVIII Group with a background as a nurse and professional sex educator. Her website states: ‘After 60 plus years of Kinsey’s evolutionist view of the human life and “sexuality” America is measurably not better off since Kinsey entered the Church and American life. Sexual disease and dysfunction are pandemic.’ Audrey informed attendees that Kinsey’s major funder was the Rockefeller Foundation, which many historians have described as practising ‘strategic philanthropy’ – shaping research agendas and public policy according to their debatable worldviews.
Next to speak was independent researcher and CEO of Purple for Parents United Rhonda Miller, an Indiana parent whose mission is to protect children from harmful ideologies and to support parental rights. She has worked closely with legislators, playing a role in efforts to close legal loopholes in Indiana that permitted the distribution of inappropriate materials in schools. Her presentation showed that state public policy and law changes have been based upon Kinsey’s work and that he has been referenced as the sole authority on ‘normal’ behaviour in the Sexual Offences section of the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code 1955.
Following Rhonda, having travelled all the way from New Zealand, was independent investigative reporter Penny Marie Claridge, who founded grassroots organisation Let Kids Be Kids in 2023. It is yet another group advocating for parental authority and openness in education. Penny explained how the term ‘gender’ was popularised by John Money in 1955. Money was responsible for a highly controversial case in the 1960s. For years he reported his case as a successful demonstration that gender identity could be reassigned through socialisation. David Reimer, one of twin boys, lost his penis in a botched medical procedure during infancy. Money advised his parents to raise him as a girl and subsequently he underwent hormone treatment and socialisation as female. However, David constantly rejected the female role and later transitioned back to male in adolescence. As adults, both twins suffered psychological trauma and both died by suicide, two years apart.
Penny explained that the popularisation of the term gender then influenced the 1994 San Francisco Gender Identity Non-discrimination Ordinance, one of the first laws in the world to explicitly protect people based on gender identity. This followed the activist-led International Bill of Gender Rights, a proposed global human rights framework for transgender and ‘gender diverse’ people. It has also influenced the UK’s Gender Recognition Act of 2004.
Next to speak was the aforementioned and inspirational Jana Lunden who asserted that children are being used as ‘change agents for social transformation’. She has campaigned against third parties in schools which encompasses diverse external groups providing, for example, RSE or extracurricular programmes. It also includes groups, including advocacy organisations engaging with schools and inclusion initiatives like the Yellow Flag programme, implemented to promote cultural diversity and combat discrimination.
Interestingly we learned from Jana that former Irish Minister for Justice Helen McEntee is married to a senior executive at the pharmaceutical firm AbbVie, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of so-called ‘puberty blocker’ drugs.
The Natural Women’s Council has a YouTube page entitled ‘Story Time For The Irish Mammy,’ featuring a brilliant but sickening exposé of books found at local libraries which include topics such as ‘What is Fisting?’, ‘Sex Apps’ and ‘Puberty Blockers’.
Next up was the informative Eugene Garvin, also of the Natural Women’s Council, whose presentation, Postmodern Critical Theory: Dismantling Western Society, was eye-opening. It encompassed the work of Michel Foucault, philosopher and social theorist who studied institutions like prisons, schools and hospitals, to show how they subtly control people’s behaviour and feelings. He spoke of CSJ (Critical Social Justice) and how the emphasis upon critical consciousness and social transformation may overlook the importance of foundational skills and knowledge acquisition.
Eugene also touched upon former Soviet journalist and intelligence defector Yuri Bezmenov who argued that societies aren’t destroyed by military attack, but by what he called ‘ideological subversion’. Finally, he produced an excellent infographic showing how democracy has been subverted, so that democratic institutions which we believe we can control or influence (local and central governments) are working with NGOs, mainstream media, large corporates, the legal system and civil service. These, in turn, are being influenced and controlled by a host of supranational organisations from the World Economic Forum to the United Nations and the EU.
When I wrote for TCW about the first annual conference of PCP last year and posted it about it on X, I was encouraged to receive a response from Tory MS (Member of the Senedd) Natasha Asghar who replied that she had enjoyed reading it. This later led to a meeting with Kim Isherwood, with parents and a 14-year-old pupil whose very words to Natasha were: ‘They are teaching me to sin.’ Kim is now lobbying for a ‘RSSE’ curriculum – Relationships and Safe Sex Education within schools.
Nigel Thorne, one of the speakers from the 2025 conference, took part in the panel Q&A session at the end of the conference. He mentioned that the head of the Welsh Gender service is Sophie Quinney, a trans activist who provides training to GPs across Wales.
To end on a positive note, the international coalition travelled to London two days after the conference to meet an MP whose name is being kept quiet for now. The plan is to form a cross-party group and to put forward a Private Member’s Bill, similar to that presented in the US and tailored to the UK. Although these do not routinely succeed into legislation, the hope is that awareness will be raised regarding the origins of Comprehensive Sexuality Education. The bottom line must surely be a shift away from harmful ideology of any sort and a move towards equipping children with essential life skills.
As Jana Lunden noted in her presentation, quoting anthropologist Margaret Mead: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’
