Right of Reply to Dr. Geewananda Gunawardana: Sri Lanka will not allow western failed experiments to be repackaged for Our Children
Dr. Geewananda Gunawardana’s recent article “Religious barriers to information” attempts to paint Sri Lankan religious leaders, parents, and child-protection advocates as “ignorant,” “fear-driven,” and “obstacles to progress.”
No, Dr. Gunawardana.
The barrier is not religion.
The barrier is Sri Lanka’s refusal to accept failed Western social experiments repackaged as “education.” now being exported to developing nations after collapsing in their own countries.
Before lecturing Sri Lankan society, readers deserve to know who is speaking and whose interests he represents.
- Dr. Gunawardana’s Big Pharma link cannot be ignored
Dr. Gunawardana hides a critical fact from the public.
According to his professional profile on LinkedIn/ResearchGate, Dr. Gunawardana previously worked at Array BioPharma, a U.S. pharmaceutical company later acquired by Pfizer. This context is relevant for understanding his perspective on child sexuality and gender issues.
Array BioPharma, is a U.S. pharmaceutical company later acquired by Pfizer, the same Pfizer that:
- is one of the world’s largest corporate funders of LGBTQIA activism, DEI ideology, and school-based SOGI programming
- funds multiple Western NGOs that export CSE/SOGI to developing countries
- produces a pipeline of hormonal interventions, including drugs being repurposed worldwide for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone protocols
These are not accusations — these are documented facts.
Dr. Gunawardana’s professional background includes employment at Array BioPharma, a U.S. pharmaceutical company later acquired by Pfizer, which is relevant context for understanding his perspective on child sexuality and gender issues.
So when a scientist with direct professional lineage to a Pfizer-acquired company pushes Sri Lanka to embrace:
- CSE-SOGI-DEI ideology
- childhood gender identity theory
- removal of “religious barriers”
- sexuality content for minors
Sri Lankans are entitled to ask:
Readers may question whether this is public health guidance or promotion of imported ideological models
- Dr. Gunawardena accuses Sri Lanka’s Religions of “Blocking Information” — But ignores the real Global Block
The article falsely claims that:
- “Sri Lankan religious leaders block children from vital information.”
- This is dishonest.
- Religious leaders are blocking only one thing:
the entry of Western ideological products disguised as “education.”
Dr. Gunawardena conveniently fails to mention that even the West have rejected the very ideas he wants Sri Lanka to adopt.
Let us remind Dr. Gunawardena
The West has already reversed the same experiments he promotes
- UK:Tavistock shut down; puberty blockers banned; Cass Report exposed unethical experimentation on children.
- Sweden:Gender-affirming care for minors stopped; labelled “unsafe.”
- Finland:Reversal; mental health first, hormones restricted.
- France:Leading paediatricians warn gender ideology is “an ideological capture of medicine.”
- US:More than 25 states banned gender ideology in schools and banned child hormones.
- Norway:Official medical board declared childhood transitioning lacks evidence.
These are the very models he cites as “progressive.”
If the countries that invented these systems are abandoning them, why must Sri Lanka import them?
Yet this is what Dr. Gunawardana is promoting.
Why?
Even the LGB community are now coming out against the TQIA+++ community and a global trend is unfolding.
- Misrepresenting CSE and SOGI as “basic sex education” is dishonest
Dr. Gunawardana;s article claims CSE is simply: “information children need.”
Dr. Gunawardena confuses:
- Traditional, age-appropriate sex educationalready taught in schools (which every society supports)
with - UNESCO/UNFPA-style CSE, which introduces:
- sexual pleasure to minors
- gender identity ideology
- questioning of biological sex
- material not aligned with Sri Lankan constitution, penal code, culture, or religion
- removal of parental authority
- isolating the child away from parents, family
- discouraging marriage & having children
- normalization of “multiple gender identities”
- no parent raises a child to think they are an animal & behave as such!
- no parent wants their grown up son to think he’s a baby & wish to wear diapers. This is why upto 1990 even WHO considered homosexuality a mental disorder & the classification was removed only due to activist & funding pressure not based on any science.
Sri Lanka already teaches age-appropriate sex education.
What we reject is:
ideological content imported under false labels.
Sri Lanka does not have a wave of ‘transgender children.’
We have tomboys and tomgirls, as every society has had for generations.
Children who prefer certain clothes or hobbies do not suddenly become candidates for identity conversion.
International evidence shows over 80% of minors with gender confusion naturally outgrow it after puberty.
Neurology also confirms that the human brain — especially the part responsible for judgement and understanding long-term consequences — does not fully mature until about age 25.
This means children and teenagers are simply not biologically capable of making irreversible decisions about their bodies. A child who cannot legally drink, vote, drive, or sign a contract cannot consent to puberty blockers, hormones, or lifelong medicalisation.
Even Elon Musk — one of the world’s most influential technologists — publicly revealed that “experts” emotionally manipulated him into believing his son would commit suicide unless he agreed to signing gender transition approval for son.
He later called this a “psychological operation on parents”
— the same pressure tactic now being exported to Sri Lanka.
If this can happen to one of the world’s richest, most informed parents, what chance do ordinary Sri Lankan parents have if CSE/SOGI ideology enters our schools?
This is exactly why Sri Lanka refuses to allow Western psychological manipulation to be packaged as education.
We do not oppose science.
We oppose ideology smuggled into classrooms, disguised as “sex education,” but in reality is “sexuality education” with the ultimate goal of:
- confusing normal children,
- creating an artificial category of “gender nonconforming youth,”
- and pushing them toward lifelong medical pathways profitable to the same global networks.
This distinction — between education and ideological grooming — is precisely what advocates like Dr. Gunawardana deliberately hide from the public.
- Direct Response to Misrepresentations in Article
Dr. Gunawardena’s article claims:
“Religion denies science.”
False.
Religion protects children from pseudoscience and corporate-driven ideology, not from biology.
“Sri Lanka must remove religious filters to progress.”
Progress does not mean importing the West’s regretted mistakes.
“Children need sexuality information early.”
No Sri Lankan parent wants their 8-year-old exposed to SOGI-driven sexual content.
“Religious leaders promote fear.”
They promote caution, which the West now admits it failed to do.
“Children should understand gender as fluid.”
This idea is collapsing worldwide.
It is not science; it is a Western ideological product.
“Sri Lanka must not isolate itself from global norms.”
These so-called norms are being repealed in the very countries that created them.
He accuses religious leaders of creating “barriers” — but in reality, they are the final defence line protecting Sri Lanka’s children from imported ideological colonization.
- Religious Leaders are not the Problem – They are Sri Lanka’s Moral Defence Line
Dr. Gunawardana paints religious groups as “barriers.”
Let us be clear:
- Buddhismemphasizes restraint, discipline, mindfulness, and protection of children.
- Christianityupholds parental guardianship, moral teaching, and timeless natural law.
- Islamcentres family structure, purity, and responsibility.
- Hinduismprotects childhood innocence and duties of parents.
The religions of Sri Lanka have a 5,000-year-old record of safeguarding children and society.
Certain Western ideological experiments, sometimes funded by networks linked to pharmaceutical interests, have documented negative impacts over the past 15 years.
Which track record should we trust?
Those who do undergo medical transitions often later regret it: a growing number of LGBTQIA detransitioners are returning to their faiths, seeking psychological and spiritual healing after the harm caused by rushed, ideologically driven interventions.
- Sri Lankan Children are not Laboratory Rats
Sri Lanka will not be the testing ground on children using:
- puberty blockers
- cross-sex hormones
- Western gender pedagogy
- DEI-based identity politics
- CSE/SOGI curriculum infiltration
- globally funded ideological campaigns
- NGOs trying to access children without parental consent
Sri Lankan children are not the pipeline for future hormonal consumers.
- The Real Question: Why the Desperation to Push CSE/SOGI Into Sri Lanka?
When a Western-linked academic who once worked for a company tied to Pfizer insists that Sri Lankan children must be taught CSE-SOGI and advanced sexuality concepts, the country must ask:
- Who benefits if more children identify as “gender diverse”?
- Who profits when gender-confused youth are placed on lifelong medical pathways?
- Which global corporations fund SOGI and transgender activism?
- Why is Sri Lanka being targeted when the West is already reversing course?
This is not about “religion blocking information.”
This is about Sri Lanka defending itself from ideological colonization.
Follow the money.
The answers are not complicated.
- Message to Dr. Gunawardana:
Sri Lanka will not:
- dilute its culture
- surrender its parental rights
- abandon its religions
- allow ideological grooming
- risk the mental and physical health of children
- become a dumping ground for failed Western social experiments
Just because the West made a mistake does not mean Sri Lanka must cut & paste it.
Sri Lanka Rejects the West’s Failed Models of Child Sexuality Education
Dr. Gunawardana can promote Westernised gender ideology if he wishes.
But he cannot demand that Sri Lanka sacrifice its children’s mental health, cultural identity, or biological reality to satisfy global ideological programs funded by the same pharmaceutical ecosystem he once worked within.
Sri Lanka’s message is simple:
- Your failed Western experiment ends at our borders.
- Our children are not ideological material.
- Sri Lanka will protect them — without apology
Shenali D Waduge
