Tasmanian Students Forced to Chant Gender Propaganda
In a Tasmanian classroom, Year 8 students were made to chant, aloud and in unison, that the sex binary is merely a "suggestion."
A Booklet That Leaves No Room for Dissent
At Montrose Bay High School in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Year 8 students spent Term 2 working through a Health and Physical Education booklet titled "Let's Talk About Sex." A concerned parent photographed its pages and passed them to Women Speak Tasmania, and what the pages show is not a health class. It is a script.
Lesson after lesson, students aren't asked to weigh or evaluate anything. They're told to recite lines. According to the booklet's own instructions, once the teacher has read a passage aloud, "the whole class will then read it aloud together at the same time"; they were marked for pace and expression, as though the goal were to perform rather than understand.
What are 13- and 14-year-olds performing? That biological sex is merely an assigned label handed out at birth, while gender, a spectrum, is the real thing. That the very idea of two sexes is only a suggestion, and that non-binary, cisgender and transgender identities are all equally as valid. By the fourth lesson, sexual inclinations are folded into the same framework, and children are formally assessed on whether they can "identify ways to be an LGBTQIA+ ally." Only once this identity content is finished do students reach the biology of puberty, fertility or contraception.
The Department Insists This Isn't Ideology. The Curriculum Says Otherwise.
Ask Tasmania's Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) whether any of this amounts to teaching children an ideology, and the official answer is no. The Department's own family-facing guidance on Respectful Relationships and Consent Education (RRCE), the statewide framework corresponding to this class, states plainly that the RRCE "does not aim to teach or promote a particular gender ideology." The same document adds, separately, that it does not push children to question their own gender identity or sexual orientation either.
Compare this statement to what Montrose Bay's Year 8 students were actually handed. A worksheet that tells a room of children the sex binary is a suggestion, that requires them to accept non-binary, cisgender and transgender identity as settled categories, and that scores their ability to perform allyship is not a neutral survey of different views in society. It is an ideological framework, taught as fact, while the alternative, that human beings are a sexually dimorphic species, is never mentioned.
That is the sleight of hand sitting at the centre of the RRCE: an official promise of neutrality, that their curriculum material contradicts.
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No Way Out for Parents
A parent who objects to their child being taught this material has strikingly few options. DECYP's own guidance for families is blunt about this: RRCE sits inside the core curriculum, and every student is expected to take part. There is no opt-out clause and no alternative class, only an instruction to raise concerns with the school, and to lodge a formal complaint after the lesson has already occurred.
Compare that to the seriousness of the material. This isn't first aid or road safety, content nobody could reasonably contest. It's a specific, contested position on the nature of sex and gender, delivered to children and then assessed as though it were settled fact. Parents aren’t treated as the primary educators of their children, able to opt out of classes they disagree with, but an obstacle to the state imposing its indoctrination.
This Is Not a Tasmanian Problem — It's a National One
It would be a mistake to read Montrose Bay as one school, or even one state, going too far. The RRCE isn't a Tasmanian invention; every state and territory has folded some version of it into the national curriculum. A Monash University survey has found that most of these programs are not delivered by trained external specialists, but by the school's own classroom staff.
Tasmania is simply the state where a parent happened to photograph the pages. Elsewhere, the same broad model has already caused something worse to happen. In South Australia, a "respectful relationships" session at Renmark High School in 2024, run by an external provider under the same banner, with no teacher in the room, allegedly exposed Year 9 girls to explicit references to bestiality and incest. The state government has since formally admitted in court filings that it breached its duty of care to those students. Different state, different specifics, but the same underlying model: mandatory participation, thin oversight of what's actually being taught to children, and a system built to manage scrutiny after the fact rather than prevent harm before it happens.
A Curriculum Built This Way on Purpose
None of this is a glitch. A framework that mandates participation, denies a genuine opt-out, and hands schools ready-made scripts for children to recite in unison was not created by accident; it was intentionally designed. The students at Montrose Bay weren't let down by one careless teacher or one overzealous school. They were given exactly what the RRCE, as written and delivered nationwide, is designed to produce. Until the framework itself changes, each classroom will be subject to the same gender ideology.
References
1. Chung, F. "'Read it aloud together': Year 8 students made to recite chants affirming LGBTQIA+ 'allyship'." news.com.au, 23 July 2026.
2. "A Look at Montrose Bay High School's 'Let's Talk About Sex' Unit." Women Speak Tasmania, 22 July 2026. https://womenspeaktas.au/2026/07/22/a-look-at-montrose-bay-high-schools-lets-talk-about-sex-unit/
3. Department for Education, Children and Young People (Tasmania). "Respectful Relationships and Consent Education — FAQs for Families and Community." https://publicdocumentcentre.education.tas.gov.au/library/Shared%20Documents/RRCE-Family-and-Community-FAQs.pdf
4. "SA Education Department Admits Breach As Anti-LGBTQIA+ Lawsuit Against School Continues." Star Observer, April 2026. https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/sa-education-department-admits-breach-as-anti-lgbtqia-lawsuit-against-school-continues/241661