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This sounds like Section 28 all over again.
https://www.twentysixdigital.com/blog/growing-up-silence-short-history-section-28/
Refusing to discuss things in school doesn't protect anyone.
https://www.twentysixdigital.com/blog/growing-up-silence-short-history-section-28/
Refusing to discuss things in school doesn't protect anyone.
I don't advocate schools not discussing these issues, however the methods and ages are sometimes questionable.
And, if considering individual pupils (which to an extent schools can't do, they need to teach in classes/groups), it can perhaps be asserted some pupils would actually be protected if they weren't taught this stuff until an older age. To echo my earlier point, you could have a young boy/girl quite happily going through school, happy in their own body. However, when then taught about LGBTQ issues, for some young kids this could raise more questions and confusion in their young minds than it answers. There are already stories of young people who started to transition and then realised they'd made a mistake.
It's no doubt partly generational (I'm 50) and perhaps on this subject I am more of a traditionalist, however I'll be honest and say I'm pleased when I was going through the school system, classes and teachings around gender and sex were a lot more straightforward. However I acknowledge there were no doubt at least one or two of my fellow pupils that felt as though they didn't fit. So in that sense, inclusion is obviously good. However it doesn't mean everything in this sphere is rosy.
TRAs will tell you that a man can become a woman by uttering the words "I am a woman."
Promoting? I thought it was more saying, "Just as being gay IS NOT abnormal, so it is for anyone who feels they may be transgender and wants to ask questions of themselves about it." Am I wrong?
Agree 100% with your last point.
Would you say that there are many gay and lesbian kids that happened to?
I would say it's possible, just possible (as per my earlier post
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Homosexuality usually isn’t damaging to the individual if they later realise they got it wrong. Detransitioners are a growing occurrence despite the hatred that is often directed at them. At the end of the day the whole community (lgbtq+) etc only represents <5% of the population despite doubling in recent years.
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Should we be educating young children about the ways of the world before their brains are fully developed?
Maybe we should some things & maybe we shouldn't others. Let's just keep it in the back of our minds that there is education & then there is indoctrination. Why can't we just let them discover some things with their own natural curiosity as it matures?
Never tell a child that Santa is not real.
Maybe we should some things & maybe we shouldn't others. Let's just keep it in the back of our minds that there is education & then there is indoctrination. Why can't we just let them discover some things with their own natural curiosity as it matures?
Never tell a child that Santa is not real.
This is possibly so as there are so many disgusting, nasty, sick people attacking people for being different to them. Therefore the actual figures for this group could be much higher.
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not too dissimilar to tarnishing all white people as racist
