The Safe Schools Coalition is a disgraceful piece of social engineering promoted and funded, to their shame, by State and Federal Governments.

Under the guise of stamping out all forms of bullying , it focusses on homophobic bullying alone to promote a brazenly aggressive radical agenda.

With a benignly reassuring name and under cover of the sturdy, benevolent-sounding, tax deductible Foundation for Young Australians, Safe Schools Coalition has manipulated language to give ‘safe’ a whole new meaning.

Their triumphant solution for ensuring schools are ‘safe’ is to insist they embrace, a, celebrate and normalise ‘sexual diversity’ in all its multiple forms – except heterosexuality, which is not mentioned.

It’s a clever marketing strategy devised by activist Kevin Jennings in Massachusetts in the 1990s: tapping into values that everyone has in common, a desire for ‘safety’ is universal, and particularly when it comes to children.

Launched with fanfare in Victoria in 2011, still the lead player, other states have joined the call to arms to ‘support gender diversity and sexual diversity in your school’.

This is a big ask, covering as it does, sexual proclivities from transgenderism and genderqueer to cissexism and cisgenders and doubtless others yet unnamed.

‘Non-binary’ comes in useful, meaning those who are not men or women or are both men and women, or who are something else entirely or some combination of these things or some of these things some of the time.

‘Boys’ and ‘girls’ are omitted from Safe Schools’ vocabulary; they are all ‘students’.

‘Language in the gender diverse community is constantly changing’, says Safe Schools and they’re dead right there. The English language is getting a make-over as Safe Schools advocate replacing gender pronouns – he/she – with gender neutral pronouns, such as Xe and Ey.

A web app ‘shows less common pronouns and how to practice (sic) using them’. But it’s ‘crucial’ to get name and pronoun changes right, as ‘misgendering’ – using incorrect pronouns – ‘can make a person feel pretty shit’ and the individual’s decision must be ‘respected’.

Safe Schools is very keen on ‘respect’, but only when endorsing their own points of view.

Everything is fluid, to fit with change, to overturn the old and the conventional; the resulting confusion is not a problem – it’s the aim.

While posters feature an athletic looking adolescent boy in a dress, school uniforms remain a big worry for Safe Schools: they interfere with ‘exploring their own gender identity’. If a child is unsure what this is, they can wear ‘elements of the uniform they feel most comfortable with’. Being personally ‘comfortable’ dictates behaviour in Safe Schools; that others might feel uncomfortable is irrelevant.

Segregated toilets are out; children just use ‘facilities they feel most comfortable using’; sleeping arrangements on school camps are personal choices, depending on what the individual feels ‘most comfortable with’.

This do-what-YOU-like policy is one without boundaries. Authority and discipline have no place in the Safe Schools’ world; disorder becomes anarchy.

In addition ‘to teaching about same-sex attracted , intersex and gender diverse people, histories and events’, teachers are told ‘to integrate gender diversity and sexual diversity across your curriculum’. Maths would be a challenge, but thanks to the largess of government, there’s a plethora of ‘resources’, including staff training to deal with that. All these goodies are, of course, paid for by you and me.

Booklets such as OMG I’m Queer are promoted, while The Gender Fairy is for parents to read to four-year olds; the fairy, we’re told, ‘has a non-binary gender identity’. The co-author likes ‘Roz/they’ as (his?her?) preferred pronoun.

Posters, such as ‘This is a discrimination free zone. Homophobia and transphobia will not be tolerated’ are to ‘raise awareness’ of the issues, while stickers, wrist bands and flags are the promoted ‘merchandise’.

All ‘students’ are encouraged to join sexual diversity groups such as Stand Out, The Queer-Straight Alliance, Queer Muslims in Australia or Minus 18.

All sing from the same song sheet with multiple encouraging ways to get with the action, including celebrating various Days, in and out of school, such as International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Written in appealingly simplistic language, marketed as ‘great’, ‘fantastic’, ‘awesome’, ‘All of Us’ and ‘Safe Schools Do Better’, the program attracts young people who like change and being part of a new, progressive crowd – or who just like an opportunity to flout convention.

School principals, always keen for opportunities to add to their CV and aware of their unions’ and the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association Director, Rob Nairn’s endorsement – or perhaps taking the least line of resistance – are drawn into the net. And it’s all delightfully free! Should schools resist, anti-discrimination laws can be wheeled in.

The Safe Schools Coalition lends itself to ridicule and disbelief; reading its program is entering into the theatre of the absurd. But absurdity is no barrier to implementation and Safe Schools and its cheer squad are deadly serious.

It is a tenacious, manipulative, clever and determined plan to demolish accepted, traditional norms, to create uncertainty and division among children, teachers and parents and in doing so to turn society upside down and remake it in their own image.

And they’re doing it legally through vulnerable, impressionable and immature children.

And with our money.