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SNP responds to our concern about Dr Colin Morrison

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Rtm12bc · 18/04/2022 12:05

Can anyone more knowledgeable confirm if this is true or not? Or is the video distorting the truth? I can’t quite bring myself to believe this could be true: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kBQkHT5zpc8

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EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 18/04/2022 12:37

I'm fascinated by the irrelevance of women and women's groups opinions in some areas of policy but the essential nature of having a balance of "knowledge and experience" in this sensitive policy arena. Hmm

DomesticatedZombie · 18/04/2022 12:35

His thesis is titled: 'From disability to capability: sex and relationship learning for children and young people with a learning disability'

Yes, that's a link to his thesis, FOJN.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 18/04/2022 12:28

There's a live newspaper piece from March so I have to assume it's the same person.

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/concerns-over-doctor-appointed-scottish-26439239

DomesticatedZombie · 18/04/2022 12:28

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/concerns-over-doctor-appointed-scottish-26439239

'Dr Morrison wrote: "In a world where we see children as vulnerable and in need of protection Jackson argues that sexuality is in itself viewed as a 'threat to their wellbeing”.

"Hawkes agrees, identifying that 'arguably, it is the attitudes to children and sexuality where tensions and anxieties, as well as the contradictions of modernist sexuality, are most evident”.

"She confirms that the 'construction of children as being both asexual and sexually corruptible, both innocent and dangerously impure' means that 'superficially the response to these doubts and fears was the separation of sexuality from childhood, accomplished through what Foucault has called the pedagogisation of children’s sex' and that finally 'the monitoring and controlling of the distressing presence of sexual nature was to be accomplished through the attentions of medical experts, and more indirectly through legal frameworks which distinguished children as a separate social category'.”

It was also pointed out that Dr Morrison wrote about his wish for schools to overrule the opinions of parents and religious views about sex education.

He said: "Practice in Scotland’s schools still appears to be traditional in approach, with worries about socially conservative views from parents or faith groups overtly influencing content rather than a clear commitment from school-based professionals to meeting obligations explicit in sexual rights or more broadly children’s human rights."'

tabbycatstripy · 18/04/2022 12:20

Holy shit, that is appalling.

FOJN · 18/04/2022 12:17

Is this the same Colin Morrison?

theses.gla.ac.uk/2910/1/2011morrisonedd.pdf

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