I don’t think pleasure and desire have any place in a classroom, especially one full of primary school children. That’s one short step away from paedophilia. I have an 11 yo DS. At the moment he thinks the idea of sex is gross, in fact only the other day he told me he was going to stay a virgin. Not quite sure where he got that word from. He certainly doesn’t want to hear about sex at school. And what of the kids who are already curious? When they get home they’ll be straight on their phones or tablets or whatever looking up porn. It’s stupid, irresponsible and dangerous.
I know quite a few lesbian teachers. Acceptance for them is being able to say ‘I’m going to France with my wife over the holidays’ and not be ostracised by the management, other staff, pupils, or their families, or have whispers going around the school and constantly having to rebuff intrusive personal questions. I remember a woman telling me a story about how in her primary school all the teachers had to make a little display about them and their lives. The head told her that she wasn’t allowed to include her wife, while all the heterosexual teachers had pictures of their wives, husbands and partners. What any teacher, gay straight or bi gets up to in bed with their wives husbands or whatever doesn’t belong anywhere near the staff room, let alone a class full of pupils.
Now we’ve dealt with the obvious, consider this: I was never a girly girl, not in the slightest. I always wanted short hair, would kick up a fuss at the hairdressers etc. I had a football stuck to the end of my foot up until the age of about 14. I hated dolls, hated dresses and skirts, hated any makeup, nail varnish and generally all that preening stuff. I wasn’t interested in boys, unlike my sister and all the other girls, instead I wanted to be one of the boys. All my crushes from a young age were on girls and women, although I never admitted it for nearly 20 years. My parents are uneducated, so what the teachers and the school said was gospel. If I’d come home, as I might well have done, telling them I wanted to be a boy, and that I could be a boy, my parents would’ve called the school. The school would’ve then told them wrong body boy brain etc and they might well have swallowed it. Also, despite being aspirational working-class, and keen to get with the times, they were pretty homophobic themselves, hence my internalising my same-sex attraction, so it probably would’ve offered a comfortable, convenient, progressive way out of accepting a lesbian daughter.
So to see PPs accusing other PPs of homophobia, when actually what they’re doing is objecting to potentially lesbian and gay kids, like I was, being tricked into thinking that their thoughts and feelings are because their body is wrong is disingenuous in the extreme. A lot of posters on this board are lesbians ffs, many who were like me as a child and teen, so I bloody well think we know what we’re on about. I get incredibly angry when people go waving homophobia around as a stick to beat others with when they clearly have no idea how much homophobia we still face, or that for ever people have been accusing us of trying to indoctrinate their kids when all we want to do is get on with our lives and have our relationships recognised in an appropriate way, just like everybody else. Talking about pleasure and desire in the classroom, the fucking classroom ffs, is precisely the indoctrination we’ve been accused of, only it’s not the gays doing it, it’s the trans lobby using homosexuality as a shield. It’s fucking shameful, and they know it is, otherwise they would be open about their own agenda, rather than wrapping it up in a cloak of gay rights and using us as human shields.
Oh, and as a final point, sorry for long post, some of these homophobic parents will come from and still have strong ties with countries that would rather trans their gays than allow them to live as themselves, so think on.