Young LGBTIQ+ Victorians have agreed that sex education should be standardised throughout all schools, or taught by a funded external provider, so that everyone is receiving the same up-to-date information.
The 31-page teaching guide also insists that transgender communities only exist to be “provocative” against “traditional frameworks”.
It also leads to positive mental health outcomes for LGBTI students.
Genderqueer advocate Dani Leever on mental health organisation headspace and the safe space it provided them to explore their identity.
Almost one in five gay and bisexual men in Melbourne have experienced it.
“Consideration should be given to the inclusion within curriculums of LGBT specific sexual health issues and the presentation of LGBT relationships without distinction as to their heterosexual counterparts,” the draft report reads.
“I told [the doctor] my sexuality wasn’t just a t-shirt that I’ve put on and her response was, ‘That doesn’t make any sense… I used to treat you when you were little.'”
The Prime Minister said John Howard’s suggestion is not being considered.
“If you are not a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth leftist liberal who wants to pervert the minds of children, you should be able to support this sit-out”
The proposal to focus on function rather than ‘male’ or ‘female’ parts is part of an effort to make classroom sex education more trans-inclusive.
