The gender agenda

As such, Queensland teachers are told that it is unproductive for boys to be physically assertive, to play contact sports and to do manual studies, as such activities reinforce sexual stereotypes associated with what is termed “biological determinism”.

The PC approach to gender education is to argue that being male or female is socially constructed. As a result, it is possible for teachers and schools to re-educate students away from traditional roles in favour of alternative lifestyles.

The South Australian Education Department also argues that gender is a social construct and not a result of biology.

As stated in the Gender Equity section of the South Australian webpage, "The current construction of the gender order also supports heterosexuality as the norm. Social constructions of advantage and disadvantage are of human making and therefore capable of change."

The belief is that heterosexuality should not be privileged and that generally accepted gender roles reflect inequitable and unjust "dominant power relation[s]" and education must be directed at the "deconstruction and reconstruction" of such roles.

Early last year, Prime Minister Howard suggested that schools might be too politically correct and that parents might find many of the values promoted unacceptable. In relation to the gender agenda, it appears he is correct.