Fury at Harry and Meghan's charity partner the Global Boyhood Initiative trends now
Two London schools have piloted a curriculum about 'challenging limiting gender stereotypes' run by a charity backed by Prince Harry and Meghan, it emerged today.
The Global Boyhood Initiative, which wants boyhood to be 'fluid', has run workshops with staff at Ravenstone School in Balham and Sherwood Primary School, Mitcham.
The organisation 'promotes gender equity by fostering positive masculinity in boys and men' and has warned that the phrase 'boys will be boys' is dangerous.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's organisation Archewell has partnered with the US-based initiative which also accuses parents of 'gendering' unborn children.
But its aims have proven controversial, with one Conservative MP warning that the group was trying to 're-educate small children for reasons of political activism'.
And a family campaign group has slammed the initiative, telling MailOnline: 'Schools should not be lying to children about gender 'not being tied to sex organs'.'
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are partnering with the US-based Global Boyhood Initiative
A Global Boyhood Initiative workshop at Sherwood Primary School in Mitcham last July
Another Global Boyhood Initiative workshop last July, held at Ravenstone School in Balham
The initiative was founded in 2020 by US gender equality group Equimundo and a French anti-women's violence organisation called the Kering Foundation.
It was then piloted at the two UK schools in July last year by a London-based educational group called Lifting Limits which aims to 'challenge gender stereotypes'. The schools were initially not identified, but the organisation then revealed their locations in tweets.
The initiative states that its curriculum for seven to 11-year-olds is about 'about gender equality, developing healthy masculine identities and challenging limiting gender stereotypes'.
Following the pilot, the group said it 'hopes to widen and deepen its work on boyhood across the UK - including promoting the uptake and development of the curriculum nationally'.
A report called 'The State of UK Boys' was written by the group last November, which claimed that families can be gender 'factories' by 'enacting gender roles and identities'.
It said: 'Parents may begin gendering their children even before birth based on the identification of external genitalia in scans, including through elaborate 'gender reveal' parties and a stream of purchases along gender lines.
'While the family is a place of nurturing and support for many children, it can also be where gender and sexuality are regulated and policed.'
But Miriam Cates, the Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, told The Sunday Telegraph: 'Attempting to 're-educate' small children for reasons of political activism is indoctrination and an abuse of the trust that children place in teachers and parents place in schools.
A report called 'The State of UK Boys' was written by the Global Boyhood Initiative last year, which claimed that families can be gender 'factories' by 'enacting gender roles and identities'
'It is also concerning that the Global Boyhood Initiative says they have widened their net to include 'children of all genders', which suggests they hold to an extreme position on gender ideology.'
The group has said the curriculum aims to help children learn about
