It was on the news yesterday that 8 year old kids had been confronted in school with the fact that not all people are the sex they seem to be, advocating different type of sexual predispositions.
A father was interviewed and was upset about it because he thought at a age of 8 you are probably not aware about your own sexuality yet, and confronting kids with this could give them unnecessary doubts about what they are.
I’d have to agree with the father. I’m all for people to choose their sexuality, but they shouldn’t get it pushed on them at a early age. At least wait until they reach puberty.
I don’t have kids of my own.
This is a serious debate.
Must listen to what psychologists, psychiatrists and pediatricians recommend.
Indeed 8 yo sounds like too early. At that age I had just heard words like f*** for the first time and didn’t really understand their meaning.
I don’t know, when i went to school i had to present a consent form from my parents for sexual education. This ok with me. They are laws and censorship for media for reason to protect our children. When i would have children TV and internet would be very restricted, but they would have all the freedom doing recreational sports till they mature enough and out of puberty.
Straight people will ask their 4 year old daughter if her new friend Tommy is her boyfriend, and they will call their toddler boys perverts for putting their hands on a boob, but god forbid someone tells a middle schooler it’s okay for boys to like boys instead of girls…
I highly doubt they discussed sexuality in the sexual sense.
I’m more inclined to believe they discussed romantic attraction.
Romantic attraction just gets mislabeled as sexuality by laymen.
If an eight year old kid thinks he’s a homosexual, I’m fairly sure his thoughts are about having a boyfriend, not buttsex.
I think they it was mostly about what sex you feel like. Like if you are a boy you might feel like a girl inside, or (I don’t know what you call it in English) when you feel you are not either a boy or a girl. Sorry for not mentioning this in first post.
I just think it’s way too early to influence kids about stuff like that. As long as society is open to different sexualities it will become clear to them in time.
Consent form is a good idea. Not all parents want to raise their kids with those notions so young.
I don’t have children nor will I ever so maybe I shouldn’t weigh in, but in a hypothetical situation where I have kids I (a non-binary person) would tell them about everything as soon as they were old enough to ask about it. With the exception of the act of sex. They wouldn’t get that talk until middle school age.
All in all, I have to agree with @Pikasaur on this one. People tend to demonize and exclude the LGBT experience but have no issues with talking about straight/cis experiences. Think Disney prince kissing the sleeping beauty awake. Like what? If that were two dudes everyone would be up in arms about it.
That said, I would never impose that on someone else’s children. Especially not at 8 years old.
They should hear about it definitely that away it’s not so weird to them, the more weird they think it is the more likely they are to reject the idea and be against it and may even start feeling they are better than trans kids or someone that had a different sexuality than them.
Well if my kids got a johnson ill tell him hes a man. If they have lady parts ill tell them there a woman. Then when there 18 they can decide what they want.
My parents never taught me anything about sex until age 22 when I started dating. My father told me don’t get loose for any women who open her legs for you lol My mother told me to be aware of girls that get pregnant fast in the relationship lol
Yeah i agree here. I have had kids of many ages, and i have nieces and nephews. Pretty much every kid i know goes through a gender exploration phase nowadays. It is really no different than having a goth phase, or dressing up like a firefighter.
Some of those kids end up deciding they like being their birth gender. Some decide they like being another gender.
Having seen a whole spectrum of kids raised in a variety of ways, i can say the kids with the worst grasp on gender/sexuality are the ones who didn’t learn they had options until much later in life. Those kids are the ones who end up hating their bodies. Those kids end up being more insistent on surgery/medical transition. Kids who were raised with the idea that gender is optional tend to be fine with their bodies as they grow.
I mean, if a 5 year old girl wants to cut her hair short and use the nickname Steve, that’s not much different than if a 5 year old girl gets obsessed with American Girl dolls and tells everyone her name is Felicity.
In school when I was 12y.o. we used to play the bottle game in class and kiss or touch each other. Then the teacher said he will snitch us to our parents lol