Opting out of trans and LGB lessons

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My daughter is objecting to her school making her do LGBT sessions this month. She does not want to go to school for that week. She doesn't see why she has to learn about it, believes you can love whoever you want to love, be whoever you want to be but that you can't change sex.
Can see object or rather me on her behalf? Or maybe a better question is how I can get her to make the most of these sessions.

Me too! I was notorious as a child for railing against infairness and people telling lies. I would go ballistic and throw a fit (when I was very little). I had a very strong sense of fairness and honesty.

I had a very strong sense of fairness and honesty.

YY as a child I also railed and challenged but I'd been encouraged to ask 'why?', think for myself find out the answers.

I was a terrible child for having facts and arguments. My poor parents. It comes from being the smallest in a large family!

CAHMS gate keeper said she couldn't be on the spectrum as has friends and can't have ADD as can recall a sequence of numbers They said she didn't require their services. She is very much like me and after reading up on her traits I realised that they explained my entire childhood so I'm probably ASD/ADD. Her sister has lots of traits too but in different ways. Scatterbrain who struggles with relationships and sensory overload vs deeply focused obsessive, struggles to control emotions and has food texture and texture issues.

That CAHMS person is an idiot that clearly knows nothing about how autism presents in girls. How irritating. My DD hasa diagnosis. She has plenty of friends, she just doesn’t have them come over very often at all. She is highly intelligent, high functioning, and can easily recall numbers etc and got an A* in Maths. The person who said that to you hasn’t got a clue about autism.

That's exactly what I thought. I was really angry. School are keeping an eye and I'm just trying to help her as much as I can.

Yup - I’m no expert but we did study spectrum when I did psychology as it whatbrheybjace said isn’t true (and my DB - spectrum - is highly numerate and had loads of friends growing up)

whatbrheybjace ‘Just isn’t true’ 🙄

He was an odious man. Very unprofessional.

Oh a creepy one eh?

I disliked him on sight. In fact he said a proper assessment was necessary due to her liking school, having friends and erm, reciting a 5 digit number sequence. I was so angry. I'd gone armed with a long list of difficulties she has but he wasn't interested.

Ask where he got his training (and try not to tell him to ask for a refund)

It annoys me that LGB and T are lumped together in this kind of thing. As I have no issues at all with my kids being taught about same sex relationships and such, but I massively object to them basically being told that which stereotypes they follow dictates their sex, and its easy to just take a few tablets and become the opposite sex

DSDs school didn't even tell us this kind of thing was on, seemed to be some kind of talk by mermaids or some other such lobby group. She came back baffled of quite why they wee being taught lies.

And as for Q (and all the rest). How does that fit into LGB? In fact surely it should be L&G - you sleep with men, you sleep with women (or both).

Is there a K for Kink? S&M for, well S&M, F for furries etc etc etc. It’s gone beyond sexual preference to sexual preference 😉

Have you not see the barely concealed paedophilia groups on twitter trying to insert themselves into the debate?

My point is how far do they go to make sure nobody is left out of their inclusivity discussions? Where do they draw the line? My examples were extreme but furries are a thing as pp pointed out. That's not illegal so what is if someone is into that? Are they welcomed into the inclusivity club?

Oh dear, day one did not go well. Being asked three times if she's gay or lesbian. She's very uncomfortable. She can't really explain why.

They asked a 12 year old girl what her sexuality was? 3 times? Oh I would rage hell down on anyone that pressured my child like that. Complain immediately.

It was other students in older years not teachers. Sorry should have made that clear. I'm still not impressed though. The main focus of lessons was respect which is fine but then students asking is not respectful is it??

At 12 I was very immature and would have cried and run away if I’d been asked in a group! My sister is gay and we were bullied as a result so it wouldn’t have been great to do that.

It is not their business, they really should’ve be asking directly and ITS NOT THEIR BUSINESS. Outing 12 year olds for God’s sake? Yes some will guess that they are gay, some may wonder, some won’t have a clue what the hell they are talking about. You just can’t ask a child to label themselves in such terms. It’s not fair and is really bullying.