Wow, most people didn't know it was all about that. I guess this shows why a school voucher, choice based education system would be so cool for our increasingly diverse 21st century society.

yep as the Queensland pollie said its grooming kids for paedophiles.

Tumblr Feminism as public policy, the real world consequences of allowing lunatics to have a say in the administration of first world society can be seen in Sweden and all signs point to that country going up in flames this northern summer.

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The issue is not that "there was such '*a major section' of our school population ... having no genitals", it is that 'a small section' of our school population are intersex, or have gender dysphoria, or are gay or lesbian.

It is somewhat ironic that, after talking about empathy, the author misrepresents reality; to the point of not having any empathy.

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Runner, perhaps you might read all of this -

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/there-is-nothing-dangerous-about-the-safe-schools-coalition-20160224-gn2yrn.html

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Babette, you do yourself a disservice by employing sarcasm so heavily as you do in this travesty of an article. No one is suggesting anyone has no genitals at school, although if you had done your homework before writing your little article you would know that there are a few, thankfully rare, cases of babies born with a mixture of genitals or no discernible sex as such. They are born deformed in the genital area.

The devastated parents and Doctors of these poor babies then have to make the heartbreaking decision of deciding which sex they should surgically make that baby, and sometimes they get it wrong. Your nasty article makes light of the situation these families find themselves in. How cruel is that?

You know as well as I do that this program is designed to alert children to the scientifically proven reality that we do actually have homosexual and transgender people in our community, and that they are real people. Obviously we have no kids at school who have no genitals, but we may well have some kids who had their genitals surgically altered at birth, through no fault of their own, and you make light of that.
Shame on you.

If we ignore this reality, as many sarcastic, ignorant people have tried to do for years, then that is giving kids and some adults a license to bully those who are different in school. I have no problem with State schools disseminating this proven scientific information, and nasty people like this author can send their kiddies to religion based schools to learn about an unscientific, fictitious God or two.

Of course, there is nothing “wrong” in believing in a god. There is no proven God, but belief in him does no harm. But when this belief starts infringing on other people's rights to even exist, it takes this madness too far. It is strange that someone who believes in an all-powerful being who made the world and all within it, would want to judge and mock some of these people for who they are.