One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has accused Australian schools of ‘feeding innocent kids lies’ about gender and has blamed the lessons for confusing her grandson.
‘Innocent kids are being fed lies in classrooms, lies about their bodies, their identity, and their families,’ Ms Hanson said.
‘Children as young as four are being told they can choose whether they’re a boy or a girl. That biology doesn’t matter. That parents are wrong, and feelings are truth,’ she said.
Ms Hanson said her seven-year-old grandson had been left unsettled by lessons.
‘My seven-year-old grandson recently came home from school and asked his mother, “Where’s your penis?” – “What do you mean?” she asked, reminding him that she is female and females do not have a penis.
‘My grandson then asked his mother where his vagina was. Troubled, my daughter asked him where these questions were coming from and why. “From school,” he said.
‘He said, “School told me that you can choose if you want to be a boy or a girl,” and then added that he wanted to know when he gets to choose.
‘Let’s think about that for a second. He wanted to know when he gets to choose. All his life up to the age of seven years, he’s been told he’s a boy.
Pauline Hanson claims schools are confusing children about gender, citing her grandson’s classroom experience
Hanson slammed gender education programs, calling them ‘perverse rubbish’ taught to young children.
‘He was reared as a boy, he looks like his father and his brother, he knows he’s not like his mother, and now he gets to choose.
‘Now he knows he’s a boy – his parents told him that – because biological sex can’t change because of words or an operation. I wonder if the school is also teaching him, if he then says he has a vagina, how he has a baby.’
She argued that ‘this isn’t education’ but ‘ideological indoctrination, smuggled into schools under ‘inclusion’ programs and hidden from parents.’
‘I want to give some examples to parents of what is being taught to their children.
She claimed schools were teaching that a person’s gender couldn’t be determined by their genitals, that someone could be born male but feel like a girl inside, and that the sex assigned at birth could change.
‘These are just a few examples of the perverse rubbish our children and grandchildren as young as four are being taught at schools in Australia.
‘Schools and departments call it “sexual education”. It is part of the Australian national curriculum, promoting diversity and inclusion.
The Victorian curriculum teaches that gender is shaped by social and cultural factors, a concept included in the Health and Physical Education curriculum under Relationships and Sexuality.
Tasmania’s Growing Up Program covers identity, respectful language, growth and change, wellbeing, and respectful relationships – helping children understand themselves, respect diversity, and develop healthy relationship skills.
In NSW, the Safe Schools program was ended in 2017 after opponents criticised it for teaching that gender and sexuality are fluid, that heterosexuality is not the norm, and that sex is arbitrarily assigned by a doctor at birth.
Pauline Hanson and her grandson as a baby. Ms Hanson said homeschooling is rising as parents lose trust in the education system
‘It is all the same: transgender ideology which is pressuring our children and causing great distress and long-term harm,’ Ms Hanson said.
‘In many cases, no prior consent or permission is obtained from parents to teach this curriculum, and in some cases parents are denied access to or visibility of the content when requested.
‘Let’s be honest: the goal is to separate children from their families, from biological truth, and from anything solid enough to push back. If they can confuse them young, they can control them for life.’
The outspoken senator also lashed out at the Liberal Party, accusing it of inaction.
‘And where is the so-called opposition? The Liberals know it’s happening. They’ve seen the curriculum. They’ve seen the consequences. But they’re too weak, too captured, and too gutless to act,’ she said.
Ms Hanson insisted One Nation was the only party ‘willing to stand up and say enough.’
‘We’ve been raising the alarm for years, and we will not stop. Because you can’t fix this by hoping. You fix it by fighting. And One Nation is the only party fighting to protect your kids from this madness.
‘Our schools are being perverted into turning our kids into fodder for gender clinics where they are drugged and butchered.’
She said many families no longer trust the education system and are choosing homeschooling as their only option.
In Queensland, the number of homeschooled children increased by 229 per cent between 2009 and 2014, Ms Hanson claimed.
