Cardiff University has announced that it has cancelled an upcoming event with speaker Dr Kate Godfrey-Faussett, a psychologist who has spoken out against LGBT+ education in schools.
Dr Godfrey-Faussett, who has a great deal of experience working with children and their families, is a leading campaigner in the group Stop RSE, a group that is aiming to remove Relationship and Sex Education from schools, which is set to become compulsory in 2020.
Speaking online Dr Godfrey-Faussett said that many Muslim youths were 'turning to same-sex relationships because they haven't had the guidance'. She also claimed that the new education programme would be a 'queering of the Muslim community', said that LGBT+ education is a 'social engineering programme to corrupt children', and called it 'unethical'.
'This is not education, this is ideological indoctrination that's happening. The aim is to redefine sexuality and gender norms. They are not saying let's break down the family, they're saying 'this is family, mum and mum, dad and dad.'
Dr. Godfrey-Faussett was due to appear at the university to speak about the new RSE curriculum by the Muslim Council of Wales, despite her being investigated by the British Psychology Society for her fitness to practice for advising LGBT+ people to seek therapy for their sexuality.
A spokesperson from Cardiff University released a statement saying, 'Differing and often controversial views can be brought forward, listened to and challenged at universities, however, as this event has not followed our procedure for carrying out relevant due diligence, we have taken the decision not to allow it to go ahead.'
Due to Dr Godfrey-Faussett's repeated public statements against Relationship and Sex Education she was suspended by the British Psychology Society. In a statement made on 2nd April they said, 'Respect, equality, tolerance and a non-judgemental approach are the bedrock of good psychological practice and are the values that we know the vast majority of psychologists embrace day in, day out. As a result of our concerns, we have referred Dr Godfrey-Faussett to her regulator, the HCPC, as we feel her comments have the potential to undermine the public's confidence in the psychology profession. We are also conducting our own investigation which could result in Dr Godfrey-Faussett being removed from our membership.'
Speaking to 5Pillars Dr Godfrey-Faussett claimed that she was at the centre of a 'witch-hunt'.
'Since the attacks began, my employers obviously saw the articles in the Daily Mail and elsewhere and now I have been suspended without pay, which is having a financial impact. I don’t know what the outcome will be, and I will have to wait to see what happens but the way it’s being portrayed in the media is as if I am being hanged, drawn and quartered without trial already.
'The British Psychological Society (BPS) has approached me announcing they are launching an investigation. They wrote to me condemning me for a whole list of things but I still don’t know what I’ve done wrong and they have accused me of things that I haven’t done. The BPS has accused me of attempting to promote conversion therapy which is illegal in this country, but I have never said or made any reference to anything regarding conversion therapy, and I have never said anything discriminatory.
So it feels like a witch hunt is going on and no one has asked for my opinion or what has happened on my side.'
'The mainstream media will say what they want, but I think most of the public know that they just live off lies anyway.'
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