Organisations write to education secretary before review, saying England’s schools have vital role in tackling misogyny and abuse

Dozens of organisations and charities have written to the education secretary, amid fears that sex education in England may become a casualty of the culture wars.

More than 50 organisations concerned with education and tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) have written to Gillian Keegan to urge her to resist the “politicisation” of sex education, following a row in which Conservative backbench MPs claimed that children were being taught “graphic lessons on oral sex, how to choke your partner safely, and 72 genders”.

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