Not discussing normal everyday parts of life can only end badly in shame, confusion and recriminations.
I don't know if perfect is the right word given how crap a lot of teachers are ...
I can't be certain as you were there and I wasn't but it isn't a controversial suggestion that children have an awarenwss of sexyality and gender identity even if they can't articulate it or even conciously think about it. I'd guess those who don't feel part of the mainstream, those who would be particularly helped by knowing there is a wide range of normal, would notice their sexuality/gender identity more.
That is too late. Those who need this information will already be feeling unnecesary shame and confusion.
What's so surprising? Physiologically speaking, boys before puberty have very low levels of testosterone so they have no sexual drive.
Children aren't alone. When I started getting such thoughts most of my friends were too and we would talk about who we liked. I didn't have severe guilt since I knew others had same thoughts.
Sure, why not? I think it's far too early for kids to make definitive decisions but no reason they shouldn't be aware it's a thing.
When was the last time you observed a lesson and assessed it against the teaching standards? Genuinely curious.
So again, if you are so tolerant with being gay and you don't have a problem with it. If there is a spectrum as @shamans says and this spectrum it could go gay. What would be the problem that the education would "trick" a kid go gay even if he/she was going to be straight? what would matter if he/she would find love anyway and be happy with his/her choice (let suppose it is a choice also)? because if he/she would not be happy, he/she would not be brainwashed and eventually go to his/her "right" inside being.
Kids don't think it is a big deal unless parents make it a big deal.
Balanced evidence based information isn't brainwashing.
And so liberalism continues down a rabbit hole of no objective mortality to god knows where.
What is more damaging to a child, being told people can sometimes be born into the wrong bodies, or telling children (as religious schools and churches do) that if you commit sin or any other number of things that you are potentially facing a lifetime of hell and torture?
My believe is that you can't be brainswashed to be gay. But that is irrelevant with the question and irrelevant on what any education at any age can accomplish or not
The gay wouldn't matter specifically. The turning anyone to or from any sexual orientation or identity by brainwashing does.
A society that doesn't think gay people will burn for all eternity in hell perhaps?
Of course. Why not?
why if they would be equally happy?
I wouldn't purely because a child going through their own mental development at this stage is complicated enough without throwing in the grenade of what if you're actually a boy/girl. It's just ridiculous to throw in an adults morality and views on equalities onto a kid that age. Just let them develop and support them.
I have yet to find a man who has an arse as nice as some women.
Gay, straight or anything else should be something to be happy about. Brainwashing someone to be something they aren't is incredibly unlikely to cause happiness.
But the search continues?
What grenade? And what has being transgender got to do with morality? Kids will only give a shit if they are trained to do so by adults and society.
Yes I would like my children to grow up knowing the truth, not having things hidden from them and running the possibility of them feeling ashamed of who they are because ignorant parents stuck in the last decade want to maintain the status quo that's responsible for a not insignificant portion of teenage suicides. As if your personal thoughts and opinions have any bearing on their lives and how they feel.
Just like people hide their racism and belief of cultural superiority.
It isn’t a competition. Both can exist.
Final point on this topic. Nothing wrong from a moral or romantic perspective, but there are some negatives and downsides they will endure such as not being able to naturally conceive children with the one they love or higher risk of HIV (for a male).
Literally nobody has said that.
Like I said that is your racial superiority complex coming through. You think it’s ‘better’ - personally speaking I think both are wrong and manipulative. I wouldn’t want either teaching my child as they’re both preaching and pushing agendas.
It's shameful that you think that being a "super liberal" is anyway comparable to stonings of homosexuals in many of the countries.
I think banning homosexuality, even punishing people for it, is objectively worse than being very liberal about it. If that means I have a superiority complex, I'd put it on my resume and brag about it.
If it’s a superiority complex to believe that gay people shouldn’t be put to death by the state for being gay then so be it.
Well yes in the overall context of course being liberal is better but we are purely discussing the education of young children only.
If you're going to use the extremes as examples at least do it fairly. On the one side it would be people who want homosexuality to be illegal, or worse.
