Scotland Sex ed lesson - How to be a girl

This is incredibly creepy. It also uses the TRA trick of comparing GNC women to individuals who aren't women, by listing 'girls with penises' alongside girls who have short hair or are plumbers. No, these are not equivalent statements. (And 'girls' generally can't be plumbers anyway. Women can, of course.)

Between the ages of about three and five I insisted that I wasn't a girl but a certain animal. I used to daydream about super-intelligent versions of this animal arriving from another planet and taking me back to their homeworld with them, where I was really from. I'm glad that my parents didn't agree that I was an animal or an alien! It scares me that if I were a child now and I picked 'boy' instead, I could be told that the stuff in my imagination was reality. I was actually a little autistic girl who didn't feel like she fit in on this planet so made up stories about a better one.

I had a look at the sex Ed guidance on the resource link and in the FAQ section it states:
Q: Do girls get erections?
A: Girls don’t get erections because they don’t have penises.
So that's reassuring at least.

My daughter has been getting in bed with me throughout through the pandemic. Soz husband but she is a sensitive soul.

The first thing she said to me when we woke up 'i really want to fight for the rights of women in America for proper maternity leave and I also want to fight for the rights that people under 18 don't get puberty blockers'

She is 11 and in primary school.

I can only hope I haven't forced her decisions, which my DH is always telling me off for, but I have allowed her to come to an informed decision after giving all the facts.

And YES boys can wear skirts and girls can wear pants.

Gender constructs need fucking destroying. And my daughter realises that. At the grand old age of 11

That has made me feel really angry and really sad.

I am FUMING 😠😠😠😠

I'd say the only organization it might be well suited for would be the Scientologists.

If it's aimed at adults then what are all the pretendy children's drawings for?

Did they say that the video was supposed to be shown to children? There's a link to it from the activity plan. It says on there:

Parents/carers who are communicating with teachers/educators about a child who is expressing their wish to be identified as transgender might be interested in this blog with animations, produced by a mother of a transgender child, it tells the story of their experience together

There's nothing about it being used for teaching/indoctrinating children.

I like Dances' suggestion as a pragmatic way to get this creepy culty bollocks away from children.

Unless she means "because the shop said it couldn't be returned" then she's a bit overdramatic, isn't she?

Seriously? With all that Hail Mary shit going on in it? I do think Scotland's serious Sectarian issues might well be the solution to this.

Get this in the Old firm football boards. This going on in schools? Both sides will kick it to the kerb

It's setting people's hair on edge because it's designed to mess with your head. The weird music, the whispering in the background, the pretend children's drawings, the whole thing is an attempt to discombobulate the viewer so their perspective can be manipulated. It's creepy as fuck.

@ScrimpshawTheSecond thanks. I have a p6 and I'm very concerned about this video.

That video really is disturbing, it's like some sort of LSD induced cult recruitment propaganda. Children are often convinced of things that are absolutely false, because their brains aren't finished developing yet and they have very little life experience. I guess it's good the kid didn't spend a year insisting that they were a dog or a horse or something, who knows what insane shit the mother would have done then.

Trust the Catholic when she says she hears whispered Hail Marys

How did this make its way into the curriculum? Spooky weird claptrap. The bit about deciding who gets to be a girl would have made my 10 year old self very anxious. Even then I understood about safe spaces for women only, which are being eroded through abuse of the ability to self-select gender.

Seriously - the first couple of minutes of the video have a backing track of a group of female voices repeating the Hail Mary over and over. Adding that to the later plinky plonky music and the disturbing stuff about the little boy who never existed, why in the name of sanity would anyone be showing this to kids?

Yes, the content is ridiculous nonsense, but the tone of the whole thing makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and I've no reason to find the Hail Mary sinister in and of itself.

No idea whether this is real or not, but handing a 3 year old that much power is setting them up for a fall.

I don’t understand why the mother didn’t want the child to name themselves Rainbow, I thought kids had the capacity to make life long decisions...

Also, the video reminded me of salad fingers (shudder).