Comprehensive Sex Ed standards & curriculum do not genuinely engage with the question of what information, in what form, is appropriate for children at what developmental stage.
Elected officials, school personnel, therapists, academics, medical professionals all threw away years of slowly built child welfare protections in the name of agreeing with transgender activists. Literally the only question is did someone hear a child say even once they might have gender confusion. That is all it takes to have the requirement to affirm, and affirm without informing parents if someone can claim the child also said they are worried for whatever reason. No guardrails, no assessments, no requirement of qualified personnel reviewing the processes, no monitoring except to ensure the school is affirming.
A civil rights framework that ignores child welfare doesn’t ask basic questions: what is the child’s emotional status, development abilities, intellectual capacities, family life, social life - nothing. Turns out for activists it is not only irrelevant it is biased and harmful to ask any questions.
The positions many activists seem to have embraced include: long agreed upon developmental constraints in sex education must be thrown out because we must acquiesce to the expertise of those with “lived experience”, the only people allowed to speak are the most vulnerable/victimized, any questions or concerns are by definition transphobic and hateful to be shouted down or prosecuted if possible. And finally most mind numbing of all: expressing unwanted opinions is “harm” worthy of undermining free speech, democratic processes, and fines.
I teach my children that adults should not be talking to them about private parts and private topics. A doctor can't, unless we are present. If it happens at school they are to get out of the classroom; if the school has a problem with it they can call us.
Absolutely agree.
Elected officials, school personnel, therapists, academics, medical professionals all threw away years of slowly built child welfare protections in the name of agreeing with transgender activists. Literally the only question is did someone hear a child say even once they might have gender confusion. That is all it takes to have the requirement to affirm, and affirm without informing parents if someone can claim the child also said they are worried for whatever reason. No guardrails, no assessments, no requirement of qualified personnel reviewing the processes, no monitoring except to ensure the school is affirming.
A civil rights framework that ignores child welfare doesn’t ask basic questions: what is the child’s emotional status, development abilities, intellectual capacities, family life, social life - nothing. Turns out for activists it is not only irrelevant it is biased and harmful to ask any questions.
The positions many activists seem to have embraced include: long agreed upon developmental constraints in sex education must be thrown out because we must acquiesce to the expertise of those with “lived experience”, the only people allowed to speak are the most vulnerable/victimized, any questions or concerns are by definition transphobic and hateful to be shouted down or prosecuted if possible. And finally most mind numbing of all: expressing unwanted opinions is “harm” worthy of undermining free speech, democratic processes, and fines.
To Democrats, everything is age-appropriate. For example: "Family-Friendly Drag Queens come to Main Street": https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/family-friendly-drag-queens-come
Those curricula should be banned on national level.
I teach my children that adults should not be talking to them about private parts and private topics. A doctor can't, unless we are present. If it happens at school they are to get out of the classroom; if the school has a problem with it they can call us.
I'm just protecting them against groomers.