I am worried about what Diversity Role models might be teaching. I actually had thought they might be less trans centric than Stonewall as they clearly exist as an alternative. But if you look at their website, they are offering for primary kids:
Workshop Content
‘Our primary school workshops focus on exploring diverse families and teach children about the fundamental similarities that exist between all families, regardless of how they look from the outside. The highlight of this session is a story from one of our LGBT or ally role models who speak about their family. We adapt the workshop for different year groups to ensure they are engaging and age appropriate.
Year 1 and 2 workshops are based around the story And Tango Makes Three which offers an easily accessible narrative alongside beautiful illustrations, to help children understand and celebrate different families.
Years 3 to 6 students will learn definitions for lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual and transgender, as well as how to use these words in the correct context.
Years 5 and 6 students will learn about the impact of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic language and how they can appropriately challenge it.
Primary school workshops are £375 for a half day and £500 for a full day. Workshops last 45-60 minutes and can be adapted to meet your school's needs.’
www.diversityrolemodels.org/education-services/student-workshops-primary
Right so obviously exploring diverse families is important and good to do but, surely that stuff above can only be teaching primary age kids that gender is real, biological sex is changeable, gender is innate and gender is so significant that it is more important than your biological sex if there has been a ‘mix up’ which makes you feel you don’t fit in, for which the explanation can be that you were really born ‘transgender’, that means there must be boy brains and girl brains.
So absolute sexist homophobic dangerous nonsense which encourages kids to worry about things they can’t understand and take medical steps they can’t understand the effects of. And which is obviously flatly contradicting the LGB (ie same-sex attracted people) education they are trying to do in the rest of the workshop..
I would be very happy to be corrected if these are incorrect assumptions I am making.
Does a lesbian like Clare Balding really agree with those ideas?
What about all the young lesbians who desist and detransition and regret these permanent changes they have made to their bodies? or who regret the years of protracted angst they have had, only to finally accept that (despite what celebrated lobby groups and social media celebs are telling them): it isn’t possible to change sex. And never has been.
When all the while they should have been taught from a young age that it’s OK to live how you want, dress how you want, in future you can love and marry another girl and be a mum, that if you are attracted to other girls that’s fine and normal and just called being a lesbian, which is a happy outcome, as would be being bi, gay (if you are a boy), or straight.