In this episode, I speak with Dr. Kelly about sex ed in schools in New Zealand. We talk about the issues around sex ed, puberty blockers and sexual education in schools. We also talk about trans children in schools and how the system fails them.
00:00:00.000I know that you're experiencing the exact same things that we are in the school system.
00:00:04.100We have the same horrific stories and testimonies from parents.
00:00:08.280And so how did you get started on this in New Zealand?
00:00:11.780When and when and how did this come about?
00:00:14.140Yeah, well, it's actually thank you for having me on.
00:00:16.360And it's actually really interesting that you asked me that question because I started looking at it in 2022.
00:00:22.760Obviously, I've been looking at the COVID stuff in 2021.
00:00:25.740And then in 2022, we were trying to look at what the changes were coming in in sex education in schools in New Zealand.
00:00:32.620And it wasn't very clear what was coming out.
00:00:34.740But I actually looked to Canada and saw Canada and America, but mostly Canada, to see how bad it was in Canada and to know that it was coming down the pipeline and New Zealand was going to get it.
00:00:48.380And I would say now, so that was 2022, 2023, and now we're in 2025, and New Zealand has caught up with where Canada is at.
00:00:57.420And we currently have the highest number of children on puberty blockers per capita in the world.
00:01:41.460Even if you talk about gay and lesbian identifying children in K to 7, it would be like 0.0001% of the population.
00:01:53.980And generally, it would have been tied to some sort of abuse, whether emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and even, you know, individuals who went into their later teens and into the 20s.
00:02:05.700A lot of these identifying factors had to do with that, and they weren't born in the wrong body or they weren't born that way.
00:02:12.580There was outside influences affecting them.