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A small victory- sex ed in Scottish schools

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Hagiography · 03/11/2023 11:26

Last year my DD came home from school having had her first sex ed lesson.

'Some girls don't get periods' she said, cheerfully. 'So I might not get them'.

In Scotland, we can access and read all the materials used for RSHP lessons. And we can feed back.

So, after giving my DD a small follow up lesson to explain that all girls get periods, unless something has gone wrong, I wrote an email to the body that writes the RSHP lessons.

This is more effective than going to the school, who are generally sensible and after all.were only giving the lesson as provided.

I included two references from the NHS that state clearly that girls who don't start menstruating by age 15 need to see a doctor to investigate.

I heard back that they were due to review I summer. This term I checked, and its been changed. The sentence about some girls not having periods has been removed.

This is one way we can counter the insidious creep of gender identity. Sentence by sentence, one email at a time.

I encourage all parents in Scotland to check the RSHP resource when they can. It's a big resource, and needs careful checking, and input from as many parents as possible.

Any incidences of genderwoo, consider how they can be questioned. Look for solid evidence to counter any problematic points, and raise the issue directly with the RSHP site/providers.

The people who write this content are responsive and can, and do listen.

rshp.scot

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Froodwithatowel · 03/11/2023 14:09

Rightsraptor · 03/11/2023 13:46

Yes indeed, well done op. It's great that you can actually see the course material in Scotland.

Did the original erroneous text offer any explanation as to why some girls wouldn't get their period? We knowwhat they meant, of course, but I'm just wondering if they wrote that bald statement and left it at that.

It's an obvious thing to ponder when they write that sort of stuff. I'd always be wondering who won't have periods then? Is there any way of telling who will & who won't? And, as you say, it's especially concerning when there could be a serious underlying medical problem at the root of it.

This.

Once you start to unpick 'well what exactly does this boil down to' it has to be admitted -

we say SOME girls won't - because the 'some' will actually be boys, who wish to maintain an illusion that they are girls.
it's more important to maintain the uninterrupted happiness of this fiction for boys over girls knowing about their bodies and the facts of life.
This means that these sex ed lessons - designed because of the huge issue of little girls terrified and distressed about periods because no one could talk about them - are now more about nice little fictions and boys' happiness (and for the progressive to virtue signal) than about actually addressing this need of ALL girls, because as OP says, any girl who does not have a period needs medical investigation, something is wrong.

And this would be teaching children that boys' feelings and wishes matter and girls' reality, bodies and lives should be subordinated. This cost to girls is worth it, it's binary, it's sex based.

And that would be called Male Supremacism.

As OP says, once you start talking about the Emperor it falls apart, unless you're talking to someone who will not engage their brain beyond shouting 'heretic!' and running away chanting Hail Stonewalls.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 03/11/2023 14:05

Well done!

quantumbutterfly · 03/11/2023 14:03

Good work.

Xiaoxiong · 03/11/2023 13:54

I'm just writing to our school to query the "there are hundreds of genders" being presented to DS1 in PSHE as a fact, rather than as a "some people believe there are hundreds of genders". So I'm heartened to hear about your victory!

Rightsraptor · 03/11/2023 13:46

Yes indeed, well done op. It's great that you can actually see the course material in Scotland.

Did the original erroneous text offer any explanation as to why some girls wouldn't get their period? We knowwhat they meant, of course, but I'm just wondering if they wrote that bald statement and left it at that.

It's an obvious thing to ponder when they write that sort of stuff. I'd always be wondering who won't have periods then? Is there any way of telling who will & who won't? And, as you say, it's especially concerning when there could be a serious underlying medical problem at the root of it.

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Hagiography · 03/11/2023 11:53

Yes, I was pleased. But also surprised at how easy it was. Once the issue had been clearly spelled out, it was fixed.

I think we need to start doing more pointing at the Emperor.

Sometimes these things seem so bloody obvious we think surely we don't have to spell them out. But it's worth trying.

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BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 03/11/2023 11:41

Good result - well done!

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