Primary school children in Scotland are taught about menstruation.

Also, unless they told the pupils that those people with uteruses were girls, how would they know which children were going to have periods? Are they meant to guess? Or do they tell them it’s children without penises, as that’s more obvious and then at least, the boys will know it’s not them. The whole thing is ridiculous.

Oh, that is AWFUL! Undermining essential information for girls in order to pander to the stupid trans agenda. At least your daughter came home and talked to you about it. Lots of others would remain in ignorance.

"Hi kids. We really feel we need to tell you about your bodies, but we first need to tell you that we're scared of bodies and biology, we're especially scared of the word 'girls' and girls' bodies, and girls, you need to know that your sex and the words for you are bad and dirty things that shouldn't be mentioned. Learn your place now."

"Why is that, sir?"

"Because men get uppity and pout about reality denying them women's bodies. Men are always, always, much more important than girls. Girls' bodies should always be regarded as just about men, and only important as in how they relate to men. So we're making this the problem of women and girls, and lying to you and ourselves, because we're scared of those men too."

"Isn't this fantastically fucked up, sir?"

"We identify as it being ok, we cling desperately to that belief in the teeth of all reality and evidence, and will be equally desperately consequencing anyone showing critical thinking or asking questions. We'll hopefully all be retired when this really goes tits up so won't have to take responsibility."

Totally agree.

I'm baffled as to why they didn't think it was worth creating a Scottish video for this, and chose to rely on an American one - especially when it has wierd references to terms like "shark month" that I doubt anyone in Scotland has ever actually used!

This normally happens between the ages of 8 and 13, and for some people, even older.

"In fact, for approximately half of all people, it happens when they're so much older than that, that they will actually die of old age before it has even started."

Ridiculous. Do the children know how to check if they are one of those who has a uterus?
If they don't, how will they know if they'll go through the "right" puberty?

Leave the kids to be kids...

Why are they using American cartoons? That quiet surprises me with current Scotgov.
And the people with uterus WTAF?

Even their joke names for periods aren't very Scottish? Other than time of month,
Painters in?

Well, I don't know if this is such bad advice... DDs friend, aged about 8, said she knew how to tell the difference between boys and girls - cut them open and see if they have a uterus. 😂

This is what we get for mess with our language. Confused young girls.
If I was a mother with primary school kids, I would complaining constantly about this and the other stupid nonsense.

Stick to teaching biology and not bull shit.

education has gone to shit

In my experience virtually all primary school teachers would be delighted to be able to teach a sentence as simple and straightforward as that.

that's good to know.

My mum had a philosophy to answer questions as they were asked. And I was told at quite a young age.

She thoroughly enjoys telling me that I was rather worried in case I forgot, and made her promise to remind me when I was 21.

DD asked if DH chased me round the bedroom with a feather.

I told her (truthfully!!!) that no, he didn't.

It is just so unnecessarily complicated - in day to day life, I guarantee that all these children will be using the words “girl” and “boy” in the normal sex-based usage that is part of the English language as it has evolved over millennia.

If this is about communicating clearly to kids, why not use the language that they automatically understand?

Using ”people with a uterus” is idealogically driven. It is not inclusive if it erases the word “girl” and confuses the children.

It doesn’t matter if they have been taught all about the uterus etc, they will not necessarily remember, even plenty of adults are a bit unclear about all this (and colloquially use “womb”).

Talk to children so they understand, or what’s the point?

My god ! My Dd are adults so we thankfully escaped this shit. Parents have no chance do they ?

It's so frustrating.

The concept that women have babies isn't complicated.

If you're trying to discuss menstruation, through a dense layer of all sorts of political ideology, kids will be unclear. It defeats the whole bloody object.

"This happens to girls, this happens to boys."

I bet a simple sentence like that will make the blood run cold of some teachers.

NHS Fife is unhelpful. In their web page on “Talking to children about periods”

www.nhsfife.org/services/all-services/sexual-health/parents-and-carers/talking-to-children-about-periods/

Dr Brito-Mutunayagam explained that regardless of your child's gender, it is important that they have an understanding about periods and what to expect from quite an early age. This helps to manage expectations, foster awareness and to challenge taboos around menstruation. She also advised that discussing periods should not be one big sit down talk at a particular age. Instead parents and carers should start such conversations early and slowly and build on their child’s understanding over time.

There is no mention of girls, female or women. I could read it and deduce that a boy ought to be having periods and if he hadn’t by his mid teens a doctor should be consulted.

Assuming you're roughly ages with me, do you remember "Living and Growing?" The old school videos where sex was shown as a cartoon couple in bed with a feather? I left that lesson none the wiser! 😂

Honestly, it's one of my favourite things to teach because the kids REALLY want to learn! And it's such a leveller in the class because it's going to happen to them all so they're all so invested! I think the idea of reporting concerns to rshp is good. Ultimately we need children to understand what's going on with their physical bodies.

Oy vey

I HATE it when children’s trust in teachers is undermined

how are they expected to learn effectively when some of the stuff their teachers say is obvious bollocks?

they’ve got real, important stuff to learn. We need to stop nutcase ideologues getting in the way