Sex education
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Anonymous
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Is sex education part of the curriculum at private schools? If so, what is covered?
Are gender identity topics discussed? |
Anonymous
| Varies at each school. Be specific or what you’re looking for. |
Anonymous
Gender Id and orientation topics are covered annually in social studies and identity projects. First sex Ed is still in 5th grade, kind of late imo for puberty and reproduction to be covered. High school has 1 or 2 long sex Ed units covering hetero and homo sex, communications, and health risks, as a unit of PE. |
Anonymous
Well a 5th grader at my sons school was she and is now just the first letter of their birth name and uses the, their pronouns. I think they were born unassigned. |
Anonymous
| My daughter was taught Theology of the Body in 8th grade. There is no discussion of gender identity. This is why we pay for private. |
Anonymous
Born unassigned? By whom, their progressive parents? Or they hear about the Choose your Own Adventure identity label curriculum every year in lower school, got an iPad and iPhone as a 9yo, found some awesome internet influences and new friend group, and it looked good to change gender identities. Why not!?! |
Anonymous
| My 6th grader's health class included sex ed, discussion about puberty, drugs, and peer pressure, and talk about identity formation in general, including gender and sexuality. |
Anonymous
lmao why not Geology of the body? |
Anonymous
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This is what our school sent on their curriculum
https://advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NSES-2020-web.pdf |
Anonymous
Def did not cover reproduction in 2nd grade. Probably better if they did since kids think Jazz Jennings can birth a baby since Jazz feels like a girl on the inside. |
Anonymous
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Our school offers the Our Whole Lives curriculum. "Our Whole Lives helps participants make informed and responsible decisions about their relationships, sexual health and behavior. With a holistic approach, Our Whole Lives provides accurate, developmentally appropriate information about a range of topics, including relationships, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, sexual health, and cultural influences on sexuality."
https://www.uua.org/re/owl |
Anonymous
If gender is ambiguous at birth it is becoming best practice to wait and see rather than make a choice that could be a poor one. There are genetic males with female looking genitalia and vice versa. There are people born with no gonads, or other abnormalities. Truly, gender isn’t as cut and dry medically as you think it is. |
Anonymous
Parent of a child with genital differences chiming in to say, Not only is there a great deal of variability that mostly goes unacknowledged, but it's soooo good for our kids' self-esteem when there IS some acknowledgement in a sex ed course. And, it'll make it easier for my kid when he starts dating if whoever he dates is aware that variation exists and is normal. Not that everything has to be all about my child, but... I appreciate those moments when it sort of is, for his sake. |
Anonymous
| If you think you are going to hide this information from your child in this day and age, you are not going to succeed. Your kid will go to school with gender non-gender conforming kids whether your kid goes to public or private school. It really does not matter much if the school includes the topic in the official curriculum, your child will find out about this cultural shift sooner than you imagine. If you think finding out about gender identity will make your child doubt their gender identity, then you should ask yourself: did finding out about gay people make you doubt your own sexuality? If the answer is yes, you may have found the root of your unease (and it’s not about your kid at all). If you think people grown up secure in their gender identity only because no other possibility is tolerated or acknowledged, that’s a pretty bleak and impoverished view of what you hope for for your child. We talked about gender fluidity and gender binary from a very young age and read books about it etc. we made a point to talk about gendered expectations and to model defying gender roles. Our child is now an adolescent and emphatically confident in their (assigned at birth, consistent with birth certificate) gender. Honestly, the kids most likely to be drawn to gender “rebellion” for its own sake (to the extent that ever happens outside of the context of genuine gender fluidity and dysphoria, which is probably never) are likely to be kids whose parents were regressive and tried to eliminate the option and hide the information from them. That fearful and mega-controlling-of-information approach tends to backfire, whatever the context. |
Anonymous
If sex of an infant is “ambiguous” at birth it is indeed because of physical abnormalities. And rare. And has nothing to do with the manufactured gender dysphoria trends of today’s UMC white adolescents and teens. |