Parents have lost a legal battle against teaching young children about gender identity and gender in primary schools across Wales.
Activists launched a judicial review in the High Court against the Welsh Government’s new Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum.
Launched in September, it provides for compulsory teaching of these subjects for pupils aged seven and over.
Ms Justice Steyn dismissed the legal challenge.
It follows a two-day legal hearing in November at the Civil Justice Center in Cardiff.
The plaintiffs were five parents of school-age children living in Wales who, for religious and/or philosophical reasons, opposed their children being taught these subjects.
The verdict was: “Teaching should be religiously neutral, but need not be value-neutral.”
It referred to sex education, which is intended to promote “tolerance between people regardless of their sexual orientation and identity” and to enable children to deal critically with social influences.
The court found that the introduction of mandatory RSE was “the result of a process of careful consideration”.
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