LGBT News Senate subcommittee moves plan forward to restrict LGBTQ concepts in schools

One quote from the article that stands out -

"Young children do not have the capacity to understand or process these complex issues" - according to one of the anti-LGBT activists.

Really ? Let's look at the facts: the proposed Iowa bill bans discussion of any LGBT topic between kindergarden and Grade 8.

Personally, I already knew with 100% certainty that I was homosexual by Grade 5, because I was repelled by female anatomy and erotically obsessed with naked men. I had pleasurable oral sex with my first partner by Grade 6 (another kid at school, who was equally aware of his own homosexuality).

And from conversations I heard among my fellow students as early as Grade 5 - they left no doubt about what children are thinking or asking about at the cusp of puberty.

And this was at the end of the 1970s, when (1) what we called "gay liberation" was only just getting started and (2) the Internet did not exist.

Fast forward to 2023, when any child with access to a TV can see soft porn, and any child with a smartphone can view hardcore porn.

If kids today aren't educated about sexuality in school, what kind of information will they be relying on instead ? (Since it obviously won't be coming from the dinner table, let alone from church.)

I'm not defending the excesses of wokism, which can go to absurd extremes. But these puritanical, delusional parents are condemning their own kids to even more ignorance and dysfunction.

 

Heck I wish we had LGBT studies when I was in school

 

Maybe you don't want to reply which is fine, but what are you talking about? Some examples would be great.

 

I casually typed "the excesses of wokism" - I know this opens the door to inflammatory discussion. Probably not necessary here because I think we're all on the same page when it comes to LGBT+ human rights across the board.

But I already stepped my foot in it - my bad - so I should own it ... I was thinking of proposals, for example, that *basic mathematics instruction* should be policed for possible racism. Or that professors of biological sciences with sterling records shouldn't be hired because they didn't submit an adequate "land acknowledgment" statement (perhaps they're just not fluent in social-sciences jargon?). This is where I start to see shades of 1960s Maoism and fanatical religious orthodoxy.

 

I’m not in America but most of the schools in my country are Catholic and we were taught nothing about LGBT+ topics. I think the fact that gay wasn’t even mentioned was the reason it took me a while to figure out I was gay. Even the kindergarten kids can understand that some boys date other boys and some girls date other girls. They could also be taught that some people are born in the wrong body. I don’t think young kids need a lot of LGBT+ education but some should be provided because some of those kids will be LGBT+. I always knew that male anatomy grosses me out but I didn’t think I was a lesbian. It never occurred to me. Then came the epiphany that I was crushing on girls and always had been. I discovered lesbian fiction and then this site. I think kids can understand that LGBT+ people exist, the adults are the problem. It’s not indoctrination but introduction in to the idea that people can be different than you but still people.