A Case For LGBT Education In Schools

Protests have broken out across the Europe as the schools move forward with plans to teach students about sexual preferences and gender identities beyond that of cisgender heterosexuals.

The new curriculum will be mandatory beginning in 2020, but many parents are outraged that their children will be taught to view the world through a wider, more diverse lens that accurately reflects society.

The pushback against Parliament to prevent the expanded lessons have been growing more aggressive since they began earlier this year, not just in Europe, but also in the United States, where over 700 children where kept home from school in Rocklin, California last May over the decision by the local Board Of Education to include LGBT history in the curriculum of elementary school studies.

Most LGBT individuals have a similar story. The bullying they’ve experienced as children started in school. It was the first time a great number of us heard anti-gay slurs that other children picked up at home. We were never equipped with the tools for how to deal with such conflicts- we were never educated on our own identities and neither were our attackers, hurling words without comprehending the implications of them.

As a student myself, I was horrifically abused and eventually removed from school at the advisement of the…