Scotland Sex ed lesson - How to be a girl

[ScrimpshawTheSecond]

I'm in Scotland. We got sent a link to the P6 (that's Primary 6, 9-11 year olds) sex ed resources today.

This video is recommended as part of the 'transgender' section.

It appears to have been made by an anonymous Canadian mother.

I find it deeply offensive, utterly ridiculous and I can only imagine it would be confusing, upsetting and possibly harmful for any children watching it.

Boys can wear pink without being female. It's so basic!

I will be making a complaint. I signed up for the consultation for these resources, but I can't remember this video being included at the time, or I certainly would have said something then.

Here's the resource page, for anyone who wants to read further.

rshp.scot/second-level/

Unless she means "because the shop said it couldn't be returned" then she's a bit overdramatic, isn't she?

Trust the Catholic when she says she hears whispered Hail Marys

I should never have doubted you, Mother!

I like Dances' suggestion as a pragmatic way to get this creepy culty bollocks away from children.

Did they say that the video was supposed to be shown to children? There's a link to it from the activity plan. It says on there:

Parents/carers who are communicating with teachers/educators about a child who is expressing their wish to be identified as transgender might be interested in this blog with animations, produced by a mother of a transgender child, it tells the story of their experience together

There's nothing about it being used for teaching/indoctrinating children.

Thanks, OldCrone. That's a small relief, then.

We got sent a link to the whole resource, which is mostly (at a quick glance) standard sex ed, bodies, menstruation, pregnancy, etc. Perfectly reasonable. And from when the consultation was done, I don't remember this video.

The thing is, part of me was thinking 'if only they'd include a reasonable, logical, down to earth view' in this section ...

This is not the biology lesson I will be giving my children.

I might let them know about inequality of outcomes when it comes to heart health.

www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2019/september/heart-attack-gender-gap-is-costing-womens-lives

(screenshot from 'Don't give up' vid by the maker of the 'How to be a girl' video.)

www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=qnmydC8EWCg&feature=emb_logo

If it's aimed at adults then what are all the pretendy children's drawings for?

I don't think it's of a suitable standard to be used in school resources, whoever it's aimed at, tbh.

I'd say the only organization it might be well suited for would be the Scientologists.

That has made me feel really angry and really sad.

I am FUMING 😠😠😠😠

My daughter has been getting in bed with me throughout through the pandemic. Soz husband but she is a sensitive soul.

The first thing she said to me when we woke up 'i really want to fight for the rights of women in America for proper maternity leave and I also want to fight for the rights that people under 18 don't get puberty blockers'

She is 11 and in primary school.

I can only hope I haven't forced her decisions, which my DH is always telling me off for, but I have allowed her to come to an informed decision after giving all the facts.

And YES boys can wear skirts and girls can wear pants.

Gender constructs need fucking destroying. And my daughter realises that. At the grand old age of 11

I had a look at the sex Ed guidance on the resource link and in the FAQ section it states:
Q: Do girls get erections?
A: Girls don’t get erections because they don’t have penises.
So that's reassuring at least.

This is incredibly creepy. It also uses the TRA trick of comparing GNC women to individuals who aren't women, by listing 'girls with penises' alongside girls who have short hair or are plumbers. No, these are not equivalent statements. (And 'girls' generally can't be plumbers anyway. Women can, of course.)

Between the ages of about three and five I insisted that I wasn't a girl but a certain animal. I used to daydream about super-intelligent versions of this animal arriving from another planet and taking me back to their homeworld with them, where I was really from. I'm glad that my parents didn't agree that I was an animal or an alien! It scares me that if I were a child now and I picked 'boy' instead, I could be told that the stuff in my imagination was reality. I was actually a little autistic girl who didn't feel like she fit in on this planet so made up stories about a better one.