Jesus
Generelo
Writer Sunday, July 30, 2006
... Proposal to treat homosexuality in education. "
"25 questions about the direction sexual teaching guide for teachers, counselors and trainers published by the Child Protection Agency of Madrid written by Jesus Generelo of COGAM Education Commission (Lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Madrid ) is a unit that aims to fill a gap in the field today in English education.
... and to respect diversity there is nothing like forgetting the prejudices and truly know what the differences. We therefore designed this guide teachers in 25 clear and simple questions with precise answers in colloquial language.
then transcribe some of the questions phone:
1. What is Homosexuality?
is the sexual orientation of people who are emotionally and sexually attracted to persons of the same gender. Men who are attracted to other men are known as gays and women who are attracted to other women are called lesbians. People who are attracted to both sexes are bisexual. These categories, like any classification of human beings, are not absolute.
gay and lesbian orientation should not be confused with the transsexualism, processor, or transvestism. Transsexual is a person who has the body of a different genre to genre psychological. Transformer is the person doing shows in which she dresses in the clothes of another gender. Transvestite is a person who enjoys dressing in clothes of the opposite gender. Both transsexuals and transvestites processors or may be male or female, heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. We must always distinguish between gender, sexual orientation and sexual practice.
2. "Who are the gay and lesbian teens?
are, therefore, adolescents who are attracted to persons of the same sex. When they discover or intuit that attraction tend to hide for fear of scorn and discrimination. Therefore, any student or student of any school may be hiding their gay or lesbian orientation. These teens often live the discovery of his sexual orientation with feelings of loneliness, anxiety and fear. It is very common not to have to talk to. They need support and a climate of confidence to strengthen self-esteem that are often badly damaged.
3. Why are there different sexual orientations?
There are different theories of a very diverse: psychological, endocrine, neuroanatomical, genetic ... None has been scientifically proven conclusively. The truth is that sexual orientation is not chosen by the individual, is not modifiable and, of course, is contagious. Is an orientation of the person, one way to be total. The natural thing for gays and lesbians is being gay and lesbians as for heterosexual orientation is heterosexual. Asking people to behave in ways contrary to their nature, ie, sexual orientation, seriously endangers the health and psychological balance of those people.
4. How does one become a lesbian or gay?
sexual orientation is involuntary. Although there are people who discover their gay or lesbian orientation at different stages of their lives, most will begin to do so in the preteen and develops in adolescence. This is not a finding of one day to another, but a process of knowledge that often develops in the following stages: feeling of difference, surprise at the difference, making social contact, acceptance of one's orientation. Of course, these stages are an abstraction that does not always correspond to particular cases.
Not all people who are attracted to same-sex individuals eventually developing a lesbian or gay identity. Not all those with homosexual practices are necessarily gay or lesbian. There are those who recognized as lesbian or gay before having any sexual relationship.
5. What is Homophobia?
Homophobia is the name given to the conduct of condemnation and rejection of homosexuality or gays and lesbians. Some psychologists regard it as irrational and persistent fear of homosexuals. Homophobia can have many faces: direct violence, institutional, social, etc. In schools are common jokes about sexual orientation, the terms "queer" "fag" or "dyke" used as insults ... This use of violent language to young gay and lesbian listeners. Warns them to express their orientation, shatters their self-esteem and makes them live in fear of being rejected.
6. How do you convey the homophobia and heterosexism?
homophobia and heterosexism are transmitted more often in an extremely subtle, often without anyone noticing, more on what lies in what is said. In our society, the only models that are transmitted are heterosexual, are not just references to homosexual affection models to help young lesbians and gays to set a healthy identity. Adolescents perceive an oppressive silence around homosexuality. Silence means a strong feeling of loneliness for lesbians and gays.
constantly speaks without considering the possibility of lesbian Gay and present, who are possibly suffering to a joke that ridicules or with the assumption that rules apply to all heterosexual. This is called the universal assumption of heterosexuality.
7. How do they live lesbians and gays?
Contrary to the stereotypes we've all heard, there are no specific professions lesbians and gays. There are people gay and lesbian orientation in all social fields in all classes in all societies and has been in all ages. There are many ways of being gay or lesbian as individuals who live this guidance. Some prefer to live in neighborhoods more or less considered "gay" others away from them, many living in large cities, many other small towns. Are not always recognizable by their appearance or their "boom." The student can look more feminine a lesbian and the best student athlete may be gay.
8. How do you distinguish, then, lesbians and gays?
There is nothing to distinguish them from others. So many people talk about lesbians and gays as if they could be ahead. The pen, both male and female, does not belong to the gay or lesbian orientation. Not all gays are mannered and not all lesbians are truckers. But all / as deserving the same respect.
9. What are the main problems facing a lesbian or a gay teen?
Lesbians and gay teens are immersed in a world that denies its reality. What they feel inside no reflection or relating to the information they receive from abroad. Not only offered no positive role models, but they fear look for fear of falling under the stigma of "sissy" or "dyke" in school. They fear rejection by family and friends who could deprive them of emotional support (and economic) that all people need. They also fear rejection at school, where nothing makes them assume that there are going to find a haven in which to talk someone who understands and accepts them.
A peculiarity of lesbians and gays that unlike other marginalized minorities is that they receive information from early childhood on the identity of their subculture and his group through the family and immediate environment. In the case of lesbians and gays does not happen. The silence about their reality is so oppressive both inside and outside the family.
10. Are gays more likely to get AIDS or other diseases?
No, preventive measures in unsafe sex are the same for everyone. But in the treatment of safe sex is one of the moments that most clearly can emphasize the existence of various sexual situations. Sex education should be done as precisely and unambiguously as possible. Furthermore, low self-esteem of young gay men may experience yes you can take to initiate sexual intercourse regardless of the necessary prophylactic measures.
11. "Lesbians and gays have children?
can and have, of previous partners, through artificial insemination ... There are many more sons and daughters of lesbian and gay which is generally believed. This creates another problem in schools: the rejection of children living with a lesbian couple or gay.
12. Is homosexuality a disease?
No, no medical association, psychological or psychiatric considered as such. The World Health Organization also withdrew from the list of known diseases.
13. What does it mean for a person to recognize his homosexuality ("coming out" in colloquial terms)?
recognition of his own homosexuality is commonly known as "coming out." It is important for educators to remember and keep in mind that this is a specific experience of lesbians and gays. Heterosexuals should not go through the act of naming themselves because it is assumed to be straight. In that moment of recognition, of "coming out" adolescents need special assistance. This particular rite of passage can be very hard and complicated. Ensuring that young people carry it out in an atmosphere of freedom and confidence to develop their personality and self-esteem without them look damaged by traumatic experiences. It is important to have on hand an address or a phone where they can share views and experiences with experts or professionals with other lesbians or gay.
14. When a third person acknowledges his own homosexuality?
The decision to "come out" should take every person as it deems appropriate, carefully choosing the time and people you can trust. No need to tell everyone. Nobody should force lesbians and gays to be quiet, but not to speak.
15. Who will speak first of their sexual orientation for lesbians and gays?
Each case is different. It is usually a friend a. Girls tend to be more receptive. In schools should have counselors and tutors ready to assist adolescents in this situation. The family is particularly problematic. Often parents also need information and assistance.
16. What parents often react and mothers with a lesbian daughter or gay son?
also depends on the mood and ideology of each parent. However, usually through some common stages: shock, denial, guilt, expression of feelings, making a personal decision. Parents should be clear that there is no fault and workers they did not affect anything in the sexual orientation of their child
17. Is homosexuality a matter purely sexual?
No, at least if we understand sexuality as a dimension of the whole person. It is an emotional issue as a whole, feelings and behaviors. Love is not reserved for heterosexual and homosexual sex.
18. How should I respond to questions about homosexuality?
All issues guidelines lesbian or gay should be treated as open as possible to enable / young people do not have the impression that it is a taboo, something you can not talk.
19. How can combat homophobia and heterosexism from schools? Introducing
respect different sexual orientations and lifestyles that lead as well as information about them in a natural way of teaching. That is, neither more nor less, pointing to the cross LOGSE in Health Education, Sex Education, Education for Peace and Moral and Civic Education. Caring for the vocabulary used and taking into account that in every explanation that is done in a classroom, in front lesbian, gay, or at least, doubts about their sexuality. It has made a major effort to eradicate sexism in the educational system. This effort may also apply to sexual orientation. When you talk to a girl the opportunity to have a partner, for example, do not assume that this will be a boy. Just as you are making a major effort to suppress the sexism of language education can do own to eliminate heterosexism. There are many terms and phrases for everyday use, in fact, convey deep-seated prejudices against homosexuality. Is the fundamental responsibility of educators to eradicate the tradition that so negatively affects many young people.
20. What can you say a / a teenager who feel doubt about their sexual orientation?
First, educators should make an effort to know and understand the particular problems that the youth is living. Never say that the feelings you are experiencing are temporary. In some cases they are, but not others. Should always be clear about their orientation, whatever it is, is valid, natural, respected and protected by law. Also, with any sexual orientation will be able to develop their identity and happiness. Adolescents have the right to explore freely and without fear their own sexual orientation. What, indeed, is passing is the feeling of doubt, fear, anguish and loneliness that are surely suffering. In the hands of their educators is to ensure that those negative feelings go away faster.
Those educators who sit far away and unaware of this reality should know that they have many libraries, data banks and associations in which to learn.
21. How many / os lesbians and gays are there?
The number, in fact, is irrelevant. The rights and respect not only good for the majority. However, more reliable studies speak of between 5 and 10% of the population. Relations of men among themselves or women each have existed in all cultures at all times and in all regions of the planet. Every culture has interpreted them differently, as it has done with sex in general.
is difficult to count gays and lesbians because they are concepts, such as defining all human beings, very slippery. Not all people who have sex with people of the same sex or lesbian feel gays.
22. Why we know more about gays than about lesbians?
Historically, female sexuality has been ignored and neglected. Thus, lesbians live double discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender. If one takes into consideration only a free and independent female sexuality hardly be considered lesbian sexuality. In almost all areas of our society the man has greater visibility and greater economic and social power. A woman has been given private space. This leads to a lesbian extreme invisibility. Do not think of two women living together who are couples, however, lesbians are a very important number.
23. Are lesbian couples and gay split the male and female roles?
No. Each partner is a world where everything is agreed on an equal footing. It is true that any of the partners must assume the role of the opposite sex. The traditional division of gender roles is disappearing as heterosexual couples and, of course, is another of the false stereotypes of lesbian or gay couples.
24. "Homosexuality is encouraged to talk about it?
in any way. In announcing the reality of lesbian and gay stereotypes are removed, eliminating fears and makes life easier for those who suffer because of their sex. During centuries of repression of homosexuality any gay or lesbian has become heterosexual. It may cover sexual orientation, never change it.
Moreover, there is also evidence that prejudice and homophobia in the fall when students personally know a lesbian or a gay. It is therefore very important to the collaboration of the educational community with gay and lesbian associations, which are often volunteers to work with educators and raise awareness of the normality of her life in order to remove esteretipos and prejudices that harm all the world. Taken
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