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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | message |
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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. |
2026-07-09 11:18:49 +02:00 | Vicky | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-07-09 11:15:28 +02:00 | Natalie | No I do not | All of the above | This is totally inappropriate. Kids just need to be kids! Let them figure out who they are and guide them along the way, but there is no need to put this into their young impressionable minds. |
2026-07-09 11:13:59 +02:00 | Dudley | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-07-08 19:54:42 +02:00 | Talja | No I do not | All of the above | A primary and pre-primary school is not the appointment place to infuse transgender ideologies. Furthermore, if public schools are forced to be neutral in terms of religious ideologies why is transgender ideologies encouraged, facilitated, resources used to train teachers ? |
2026-07-08 19:54:40 +02:00 | Talja | No I do not | All of the above | A primary and pre-primary school is not the appointment place to infuse transgender ideologies. Furthermore, if public schools are forced to be neutral in terms of religious ideologies why is transgender ideologies encouraged, facilitated, resources used to train teachers ? |
2026-07-07 15:13:36 +02:00 | Armand | No I do not | All of the above | There are only 2 genders. Don't try and confuse children. |
2026-07-07 07:30:17 +02:00 | Andria | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | |
2026-07-06 19:57:26 +02:00 | M | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | This is absolutely DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!! This is child abuse. Talking to someone about sex in the workplace is sexual harassment, but somehow it's okay to teach children something that is absolutely horrid???? |
2026-07-03 14:26:35 +02:00 | Ian | No I do not | Other | This is money wasted, there are only two sexes, male and female. Any man who wants to wear a dress and make up is free to do so, it does not make him a female though. This idea was rejected in the UK as criminals were going to court dressed as women in order to be sent to a woman's prison. These "trans" people were sex offenders so got access to women potential victims. Please lets not waste our tax Rand on this ridiculous idea. |
2026-06-30 22:07:41 +02:00 | Cornelia | No I do not | All of the above | Gender ideology is in direct opposition to ALL traditional religions, and research has shown that gender ideology has a negative impact on the family structure at large. Proliferating this worldview is the last thing that should be done- especially considering how this is a form of cultural Marxism that has originated in Europe, is being funded by Europe and has to be sold in order for people to believe in it! This is just another form of colonialism. Africa values the family- this would be highly counter- productive. |
2026-06-30 22:07:40 +02:00 | Cornelia | No I do not | All of the above | Gender ideology is in direct opposition to ALL traditional religions, and research has shown that gender ideology has a negative impact on the family structure at large. Proliferating this worldview is the last thing that should be done- especially considering how this is a form of cultural Marxism that has originated in Europe, is being funded by Europe and has to be sold in order for people to believe in it! This is just another form of colonialism. Africa values the family- this would be highly counter- productive. |
2026-06-23 15:59:34 +02:00 | Johan | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | This toolkit undermines the right and say of parents. This also goes against our religious beliefs |
2026-06-23 09:45:39 +02:00 | Trevor | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | |
2026-06-23 09:45:38 +02:00 | Trevor | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | |
2026-06-22 13:53:49 +02:00 | Hanli | No I do not | Undermining of religious/spiritual values | |
2026-06-22 12:24:19 +02:00 | Inge | No I do not | All of the above | The very basis for this is absolutely ridiculous. What does a 0-9 year old child know of gender identity?! I am completely against introducing this to my children. |
2026-06-22 12:14:19 +02:00 | Ashleigh | No I do not | DBE’s refusal to establish a Family Values Unit | Biologically you cannot argue that there are only 2 genders. Psychology training would be better use for the money as that is where the issue lies |
2026-06-17 18:10:31 +02:00 | Kurt | No I do not | All of the above | Leave the children alone! Why can't they enjoy their youth? You will destroy their innocence, and you will further compound the problems of this country filled with broken people. You have no right or place to teach this to the most vulnerable people in society. A natural, biologically born male is male, and a natural, biologically born female is female. Do not glorify mental illness! |
2026-06-15 16:35:48 +02:00 | Rachel | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-06-14 14:28:01 +02:00 | Martine | No I do not | All of the above | Children before the age of 14 are too young to be influenced by these topics, and most parents wouldn’t agree to government or political influence at such a young age. |
2026-06-14 13:39:53 +02:00 | Melissa | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-06-14 13:36:03 +02:00 | Avril | No I do not | All of the above | I don’t support this at all. As a a teacher or a parent. This is not a teachers place |
2026-06-14 12:32:18 +02:00 | Ashley | No I do not | All of the above | No to all of this. There is right and there is wrong. Children should not be brainwashed with this rubbish. There are more important things that children should be taught. Like manners, self-discipline, how to make money, financial literacy, the laws, their rights etc. Useful things, not this rubbish as it adds zero value to the betterment or improvement of communities and the lives of individuals. |
2026-06-12 10:27:56 +02:00 | Glenn | No I do not | All of the above | This is total government overreach,the spreading of woke propganda,which takes away the parental rights and will only lead to a broken society. |
2026-06-11 22:22:48 +02:00 | Birke | No I do not | Undermining of religious/spiritual values | |
2026-06-11 13:16:32 +02:00 | rynhard | No I do not | All of the above | This crap has no place in our schools. We will not stand by while you try to poison our children's minds with this nonsense. |
2026-06-10 01:14:14 +02:00 | Angelique | No I do not | All of the above | It's a failed and perverted system which after the rest of the world rejected, South Africa picks up the half-eaten leftovers and tries to implement. Why does the government want small children to be made aware of extreme perversion and inappropriate sexual content before they can walk? 0-9!! What must babies do with pronouns and LGBTQIA stuff- are you out of your mind! Get your hands off our children and stop with these alleged paedo groomer tendencies! It is against every child's right to protection and usurps the parental rights and is unconstitutional in it's neglect to have public consultation and goes against our freedom of religion as it opposes religious values which prohibit this sin. We are the child rape capital of the world! Open your eyes and your arms and SAVE the children, do something to help this paedo epidemic in our country, not make it worse! |
2026-06-08 07:47:58 +02:00 | Marcus | No I do not | All of the above | |
2026-06-04 21:19:44 +02:00 | Kerstin | No I do not | Undermining of parental rights and family values | |
2026-06-04 19:19:58 +02:00 | Carol | No I do not | All of the above | There are only 2 genders and do not agree that children should be exposed to this kind of teaching ie. Transgender at such a young age and create confusion in terms of the gender identity |