Alunni di quinta e sesta classe per conoscere l’orientamento sessuale nel nuovo curriculum pubblicato oggi

Im sure theyll be shocked to learn that gay people exist 😆

Id say some of their questions and reactions will be gas though 

Better that they learn this in the classroom rather than the usual method of sex education for kids nowadays, which is pornography.

The gobshites on Facebook will somehow have a field day with this.

Good, can’t have kids too old to believe in Santa not knowing that gay people exist. School is about equipping kids with the knowledge to move through the world with confidence, whether that’s the world of work, study or otherwise. Can’t do that if you’re so sheltered that you don’t know what a gay person is

Oh the flag shaggers will flip

As I said to a family member worried about how coming out could be explained to my pre-teens kids – “They watch women’s football and women’s wrestling, they know what lesbians are”

40 years ago we had a lesbian couple on the street. I’d be shocked if it was the first time many of them hear about this. Perfectly reasonable age to teach them about it rather than social media.

and the minds of right wing conservative types will be exploding all across the nation at the idea that their children would learn facts rather than playground rumours and parental bigotry.

5th and 6th class is the right time to learn these things.

It’s good news and I doubt it will shock kids.
I remember I said a dumb comment in front of my 5 year old niece, something along the lines that only men and women can get married.
She corrected me and reminded me gay people exist and can get married.
To her it was normal.

Well, considering I had to learn about sexual orientations and gender differences from the furries, this is a huge step up.

No, really. I didn’t know about any of that stuff until I was 16 because my parents didn’t want to “worry me with it.” I’ve been out as nonbinary for 5 years now. But I feel like time I could have known and understood has been wasted, and I spent most of my teen years in bits over my gender identity not matching my body.

Even though they knew I showed signs of gender nonconforming from the time I was at least 6 if not younger. I got diagnosed with autism as an AFAB in 2007! Back in the days where people stuck their heads in the sand and said autism was only a boy thing. Apparently, I had so many “boy autism” signs that they were forced to diagnose me.

I pretended to be a dog because being called a human girl made my skin crawl for reasons I couldn’t understand or vocalise.

Being called my assigned name made me feel physically ill from around when I was 6.

This wasn’t a newfangled fad that was pushed onto me. It was innate, and I had no way to know what was going on since nobody talked about it for risk of poisoning the youth.

I only learned about different gender and sexualities because I started winding up in furry spaces, and people explained it to me nicely.

I am *so* happy that this is being added to the curriculum because not everyone has safe adults to talk to about this, and the Internet can be a dangerous place.

This would have made a world of difference when I was in school. I wouldn’t have felt dread in my body and hated it if I understood more and could verbalise my feelings. Even if it was as simple as talking about, “some people have two moms or two dads.” It would have been a starting point for discovery.

Not discussing queerness does not erase queer kids. It just puts us at higher risk of being harmed or us harming ourselves and becoming part of a statistic. This is an extremely delicate topic for me, but I am sharing here because being silent does not help.

I was raised with absolutely zero knowledge of queer people until I was 16. My own cousin’s transness was hidden from me until I came out. I’m still nonbinary. We still exist even when you hide our truth from us. We just can’t tell you why it feels wrong.

Kids don’t think anything is ‘not normal’ until people start telling them.

They should learn the way I did on the farm. When you want a baby, you call the man at Dairygold. A day or two later a man in a van traps the woman’s head in a vice, pulls on a comically oversized glove and injects the semen directly into her insides.

Meanwhile in the UK, the new RSE curriculum guidance is for teachers to effectively not talk about the existence of trans people or gender identity in general. It’s no better than section 28. I wish it was different, but here we are I guess.

I’m glad at least some places are making positive progress instead of following America.

Well done to the educators for not caving to the hate mongers. There’s stuff I’m not too keen on on the new curriculum but consent and respect are things kids can’t learn too soon.