11-year-old pupils taught about ‘queer identity’ by drag queen

Children in Wales have received lessons from a drag queen who has previously posted on social media about “orgies” and that “love has no age”.

Sab Samuel ‘performs’ as Aida H Dee and runs Drag Queen Story Hour UK, which has sparked outrage at various venues including libraries and Tate Britain.

The Wales-Women’s Rights Network called the event a “safeguarding fail on a spectacular level”.

‘Extremely concerning’

Lewis School Pengam invited Samuel to teach five sessions to 11-year-olds, in which he taught pupils to “understand that queer is an identity”.

Wales’ Shadow Education Minister, Laura Anne Jones MS, said it is “extremely concerning that this is happening in schools in Wales”.

She added: “Our children deserve far better than to have a known highly sexualised and biased individual coming in to indoctrinate them and talk about delicate subjects, such as suicide and sexuality.”

‘Serious safeguarding concerns’

The Christian Institute’s Head of Education, John Denning, said: “Claiming ‘love has no age’ raises serious safeguarding concerns”.

“It is an adaptation of the ‘love has no labels’ slogan used by some to promote the idea that all love is the same, whether it is between heterosexual or homosexual couples.”

Tanya Carter, spokeswoman for the parent and teacher group Safe Schools Alliance, warned: “Schools have a duty to ensure they do not invite in groups and individuals which when children google them, they will encounter unsuitable and adult content”.

Normalising

In February, Tate Britain defied calls to cancel “Drag Queen Story Hour” sessions at the gallery’s Play Studio in London.

Last summer, parents also raised concerns over the “inappropriate” story time sessions for children as young as three planned at more than 60 public libraries around England and Wales.

Outraged parents wrote to their local councils to express their concerns about the “highly sexualised” events.