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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026-07-22 10:33:53 +02:00 | Arran | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | I am writing to express my vehement and unequivocal opposition to the implementation of the “ECE Toolkit” (Gender-Responsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education) in South African pre-primary and primary schools, as it represents an unacceptable state overreach that severely undermines parental rights and foundational family values. The family is the bedrock of our society, and parents possess the inherent, primary right and responsibility to guide the moral, spiritual, and social upbringing of their children. By training educators to introduce highly contested concepts, such as gender fluidity, pronoun selection, and subjective gender identity, to impressionable children between the ages of 0 and 9 without explicit parental knowledge or consent, the Department of Basic Education is dangerously overstepping its boundaries and breaking the vital trust between parents and early learning centers. Furthermore, imposing this singular, imported ideological worldview treats traditional family structures as problems to be solved, risking profound psychological confusion in young children and actively sowing division by framing foundational family structure as "harmful stereotypes." It is entirely unacceptable that a program carrying such massive social implications was rolled out without broad, transparent, and meaningful public consultation from the outset. Therefore, I demand the immediate suspension of the ECE Toolkit across all provinces and a steadfast commitment from the DBE to respect the separation of state and family by keeping early childhood classrooms as places of age-appropriate learning rather than laboratories for social engineering of unproven gender ideology. |
2026-07-22 08:16:23 +02:00 | Ronel | No I do not | Undermining of religious/spiritual values | Parental rights, family and spiritual values will be totally ignored. These are the mainstays of a healthy society. |
2026-07-18 21:36:29 +02:00 | Clive | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-07-18 19:32:45 +02:00 | Carol | No I do not | All of the above | Undermining of parental rights and family values. Causing confusion in children |
2026-07-15 15:51:22 +02:00 | Lee | No I do not | All of the above | Educate our children, give them the ability to contribute to the future. Gender confusion training has no place in the education realm and should be left to the parents to consider. |
2026-07-15 07:42:54 +02:00 | Daniele | No I do not | Undermining of religious/spiritual values | |
2026-07-14 08:21:06 +02:00 | Thys | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | Stick your woke bullshit up your nose |
2026-07-12 23:17:44 +02:00 | PIETER | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-07-10 06:43:25 +02:00 | Lindy | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | |
2026-07-09 12:36:50 +02:00 | David | No I do not | All of the above | I strongly oppose the ECE Toolkit, a gender ideology programme introduced covertly for teachers & children. Public participation must occur & be considered. Promoting transgender ideology to ages 0-9 is wrong & harmful. Gender ideology treats dysphoria as identity rather than body dysmorphia needing proper mental health treatment. Affirming these delusions leads to sterility, sexual dysfunction, bone density loss, heart complications, increased cancer risks, chronic pain, & profound lifelong regret that shatters young lives & entire families. It fails vulnerable children by pushing experimental paths instead of compassionate care for underlying issues like trauma or disorders. Ages 0-9 are far too young & absurd for exposure. Children at this stage lack any cognitive or emotional maturity to grasp complex gender concepts or consent to related ideas. They deserve a normal childhood focused on play, learning basic biology, & developing a healthy sense of self, not confusion spread through social contagion or premature medicalization that exploits their innocence & sows seeds of psychological trauma lasting decades. Detransitioners like Chloe Cole, who now mourns her changed body & lost future after young transition, & Keira Bell, whose case highlighted rushed interventions causing deep suffering, powerfully expose the real harms including lost fertility, physical mutilation, emotional grief, & stolen childhoods. Their brave testimonies reveal the heavy human cost ignored by proponents. Doctors like Miriam Grossman have spoken out strongly against rushing children into transitions without thoroughly addressing mental health roots first. Whistleblowers from hospitals have exposed secret programmes pushing these interventions on minors with little evidence of long term benefit & clear risks of irreversible damage. We must heed these warnings from experts who prioritize do no harm. We owe it to them to choose evidence, caution, & true care over ideology. |