@WarriorN
The thing is at girl guides if you've discussed Aces, what else will be discussed? (Clearly not lesbians.
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Especially given that Gg don't have clear understandings of boundaries around being single sex.
You would not say to someone who says they are gay at 20 that well, it changes daily, why label yourself?
That's is subtly different. Many teens actually don't feel like being sexually active. This is quite normal. And are more than likely going to become so as they get older. but the key point is all the other sexuality labels and the way they lead into confused boundaries.
If it really were as described by your daughter's experience, not an huge issue, except it's clearly not ( as in link in op) and again, therefore what on Earth is the relevance in Gg?
I can see it in a way at school, with current reams of identities and sexualities it inoculates against all the pan sexuals etc. But it's a shame normal young teens have been made to feel unusual and thus need a label.
As said, young people such as Jazz Jennings have unfortunately become asexual by force following botched surgeries, botched due to the effects of puberty blockers. (Jazz's own surgeon has now said pb's for children are not appropriate.)
It’s not different from telling someone they might not be gay because it is not ‘not feeling like being sexually active’; I don’t feel like being sexually active but I know if I feel attracted to someone or have sexual feelings. I didn’t feel like being sexually active as a teenager, but I did ‘get’ heterosexuality (being straight) and associated feelings.
The thing is, one can have a perfectly legitimate and valid discussion about whether it is appropriate in GG to bring in, or the medicalisation of young people resulting in lack of sexual feeling, without making unfounded comments about asexuality being a result of trauma, hormone imbalance, a phase, just a label, that asexuals are the office weirdo, sad spinster, cold fish, not really asexual because other people call themselves asexual and have sex (these examples were just the first and last page of this thread). That is what I was responding to.
My DD has a large friendship group of both sexes, she would not stick out in a crowd in anyway, in fact she would hate to stick out. You wouldn’t know if she didn’t tell you (and she is not likely to do that). I don’t even know if she would be upset by these kind of comments, or just accept that understanding of asexuality is in its infancy as very under-researched and not culturally normal. She understands that. But she would have appreciated it being acknowledged as a possibility growing up, in the examples I gave upthread. That is all I am saying.
She did not go to GG but she went to various other activities where I think it would have been bizarre to bring sexuality into it, but SRE and certain contexts in high school, and indeed beyond, recognition of asexuality would be appropriate and helpful.