The battle over parents’ rights in schools
Clare Page is the mother the State keeps saying no to. Since 2021, she has asked to see the slides used to teach sex education to her 15-year-old daughter. Her school said no. The Information Commissioner said no. The First-tier Tribunal said no. The Upper Tribunal said no. She is now preparing her application to the Court of Appeal.
Clare sat down with me this week to explain what is being taught to a generation of British school children, often without their parents’ knowledge. I would urge you to watch the full interview on our YouTube channel.
Clare has just published “The RSHE Indoctrination Machine” with the Women’s Policy Centre, a Freedom of Information study of gender ideology books in British schools. Around 2.8 million children in England have access to school library titles promoting transgender identities, puberty blockers and surgical transition. The Juno Dawson book “What’s The T?” alone is within reach of 660,000 secondary pupils.
The material is not accidental. “Comprehensive sexuality education” is being pushed into Britain, Clare says, “in a way that actually had nothing to do with our ministers, nothing to do with the mandate of the British people”. A handful of companies now dominate the supply of books to libraries, a pattern documented in the Family Education Trust’s 2025 report “Losing Our Libraries”. And many parents are in the dark.
C4M’s argument goes further than a call for transparency. Civil partnership in 2004 gave same-sex couples the legal rights they wanted. Parliament’s redefinition of marriage in 2013 was different. It unpicked the word that, in law and language, tied a child to the two people who made them. Once marriage could mean whatever the State chose to say, motherhood and fatherhood became rewritable too, and parents became role-holders rather than primary authorities. The classroom resources Clare Page cannot see are the logical consequence of that choice.
Clare Page is fighting the symptom. C4M is naming the cause. Recover marriage as the lifelong union of one man and one woman, and you recover the ground on which parents stand.