In 2023, the World Health Organisation released their “Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe” which, at the time of writing, can be seen here. (An earlier direct link that was in this article no longer works. If the above link fails to work by the time of publishing, just put in a search engine: ‘WHO Regional Office for Europe and BZgA Standards for Sexuality in Europe’.)

Note that this is a paper on the standards for “sexuality education” in Europe. But the alarming aspect is that government officials seem to blindly follow the suggestions of the WHO to such an extent that they have been lining up to hand over decisions on health and medications — without our permission — to this unelected group, so it is not a far stretch of the imagination to see how this could slip into the NZ curriculum of state-funded schools as well.

Dr Matt Shelton, lawyer Kirstin Murfitt, and Lee Smith, formerly candidates for DemocracyNZ, were also so concerned with what is currently in the NZ curriculum, that they wrote an Open Letter to the Ministry of Education addressing this infiltration, and included important OIA requests. The letter can be seen here. Their Open Letter also details the intentions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisations, ‘International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education’ that highlights that the learning objectives for 5-to 8-year-olds should include the ‘key ideas’, including ­– among others – that it is important to understand the difference between biological sex and gender.