Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Blog 10 - Julia Butera

 Our classroom discussion revolving the video: They, She, He easy as ABC, left me with several after thoughts that I just want to share within my blog. A huge topic with our discussion was how and when sex, gender, and sexual orientation topics should be introduced to children. The video that we watched focuses on kindergarten level students. I'm passionate that these topics shouldn't be sheltered from kindgergarteners, however, there is obviously an appropriate level to how much we should dive into these topics. I definitely think that sex and gender should be introduced too kindergarteners. For example, if students are using the bathroom, the teachers could say "students who are most comfortable using the boys room" versus "boys line up in front of the boys room". Or for another in school example, teachers can teach the students what pronouns are and have the students introduce themselves with what they're most comfortable using. The way that I think about it is that these sex, gender, and sexual orientation topics are uncomfortable for teachers and parents, but when you are introducing the topics to children, a lot of the time they have no prior knowledge. Therefore, approaching the conversations confidently versus beating around the bush of having the conversation with children will normalize this language for future generations. 


I am a ted talk fan, so I found a few ted talks to watch that are related to the discussion our class had. 

Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality 

Love, no matter what

The difference between gender, sex, and sexuality | Gender

1 comment:

  1. Hi Julia, I love the image that you included in this blog! I think that this picture is really useful to help people quickly understand the differences between gender, sex, and sexual orientation, especially for younger people as it is very detailed!

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