There’s a big protest being organized across Canada to protest SOGI being taught in schools, and I’m fed up with it. There are so many vulnerable students who need to know that what they’re experiencing is normal, and right-wing extremists are politicizing human rights and spreading manufactured controversy about children being shown pornography in schools.
The linked article is just one of many anti-SOGI protests happening across Canada on Wednesday.
Anyway, the reason I bring it up here is that some of these right-wing anti-SOGI [redacted; unkind] are parents of kids in our kids’ classes, and a couple of them are close friends with my kids.
How do you handle that? Kids shouldn’t be held accountable for their parents’ beliefs. But what about playdates and birthday parties and such? Should we discuss the friendship? It feels wrong to ostracize the child. They deserve to feel safe and have friends.
Also, I’m thinking of taking time off work to counter protest, and making a sign like this one:
Not really related to parenting, but I think it’s important kids feel supported and bigots are told their archaic world views are unwelcome. It’ll be super awkward if a parent I know is standing on the other side of the protest.
Have you seen what people are doing in Belgium for for similar reasons?
These people are sheep. What f-cking Facebook group is spewing garbage that they have decided to make part of their identity?
Sex-ed helps teen make better decisions. Back when I was in school we did the classic stuff: anatomy, reproduction, nasty photos of diseases, putting condoms on wooden dingdongs.
Some parents opposed. Their kids didn’t come to school those days. It was a bad idea for them. Can you guess which young ladies were getting pregnant at 14 and 15? How just 4 or 5 people in my year were able to make so may bad decisions is beyond me.
And teaching about gender identity stuff will not make a teen gay or bi or trans. Ask these people basic math questions, I bet they can’t answer. But, they took math at school and it didn’t make them math geniuses. I am a dude that learned how tampons and other period products worked and the only conclusion we came to at age 13 was that they should be free or cheap as can be.
Let the teachers teach, and make the parents take the class too.
