PROCNA2018
Full Member
To be clear I am not piling on or anything just offering my opinion.
Children must be allowed to be children.
Their innocence is being constantly undermined in a world with readily available porn and adults using their personal experiences to drive agendas in government, all governments, to indoctrinate and drive points home.
My eldest son has just finished primary.
This year and last he was given a dvd and lessons on puberty, reproduction and relationships. I can remember none of that happening for me til 2nd year of secondary school for reproduction and relationships was an Religion class possibly in 3rd year. And that is a positive. I didn't understand what gay was in context in 4th class and answered a question with the "wrong " answer which prompted a really bad time for me.
Because children are exposed to designed and proportionate education in 5th and 6th they get a basic knowledge which prompts question their parents should answer.
However, gender identity, self identification and trans are complex concepts that you really need to understand your own place in the world to be able to wrap your head around. You certainly should not be trying to understand them while just trying to internalise your body changes and puberty.
Now that said, while I think no one under the age of 16 or 18 should be even entertained for gender reassignment, it is apparently entirely possible to feel you're in the wrong body from a young age. I don't know how you would go about it but in the same way as gay relationships are explained with a proportionality in 5th and 6th, then that concept of feeling different in any way, could also be explainer, if for no other reason than to prevent the anguish and potential bullying or etc that children are subject to precisely because they simply can't comprehend what's what.
The last few pages seem to have been more about trans rights and supporting their recognition and existence than primary school education.
I don't think anyone is denying trans rights.
But in my opinion, children must be allowed to be children. They are growing up in a world which is increasingly harder to navigate than it was when i was small. Responsible parenting coupled with appropriate and specially designed educational packaged SHOULD be able to provide a base knowledge. There are adults who can't understand gender fluidity and trans, we shouldn't expect 12 year old to and to drive it into primary schools as an ideological issue, not saying this is Matlocks position, is adults pushing their political opinions and agendas into places that are not appropriate, just to prove a point without considering children's maturity, their development and the things they go through as it is, growing up in 2022.
Just my opinion.
Children must be allowed to be children.
Their innocence is being constantly undermined in a world with readily available porn and adults using their personal experiences to drive agendas in government, all governments, to indoctrinate and drive points home.
My eldest son has just finished primary.
This year and last he was given a dvd and lessons on puberty, reproduction and relationships. I can remember none of that happening for me til 2nd year of secondary school for reproduction and relationships was an Religion class possibly in 3rd year. And that is a positive. I didn't understand what gay was in context in 4th class and answered a question with the "wrong " answer which prompted a really bad time for me.
Because children are exposed to designed and proportionate education in 5th and 6th they get a basic knowledge which prompts question their parents should answer.
However, gender identity, self identification and trans are complex concepts that you really need to understand your own place in the world to be able to wrap your head around. You certainly should not be trying to understand them while just trying to internalise your body changes and puberty.
Now that said, while I think no one under the age of 16 or 18 should be even entertained for gender reassignment, it is apparently entirely possible to feel you're in the wrong body from a young age. I don't know how you would go about it but in the same way as gay relationships are explained with a proportionality in 5th and 6th, then that concept of feeling different in any way, could also be explainer, if for no other reason than to prevent the anguish and potential bullying or etc that children are subject to precisely because they simply can't comprehend what's what.
The last few pages seem to have been more about trans rights and supporting their recognition and existence than primary school education.
I don't think anyone is denying trans rights.
But in my opinion, children must be allowed to be children. They are growing up in a world which is increasingly harder to navigate than it was when i was small. Responsible parenting coupled with appropriate and specially designed educational packaged SHOULD be able to provide a base knowledge. There are adults who can't understand gender fluidity and trans, we shouldn't expect 12 year old to and to drive it into primary schools as an ideological issue, not saying this is Matlocks position, is adults pushing their political opinions and agendas into places that are not appropriate, just to prove a point without considering children's maturity, their development and the things they go through as it is, growing up in 2022.
Just my opinion.
