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汇泽:请客观公正对待反欺凌法案
本帖最后由 BL666 于 2012-6-3 15:59 编辑
13号法案确实没有要在学校设同性恋教育课程的字眼,但是该法案打着反欺凌的旗号,要在学生从小开始接受同性、异性、双性、乃至变性的知识是显而易见的,这也就是反对者许多都不是宗教人士的原因。现在的学校的对同性恋的欺凌有多少?是非常严重?还是凤毛麟角?自由党没有任何数据来说明。既然要制定法案反同性恋欺凌,就应向公众交代该问题的严重性,何必语焉不详。事实上在十来岁的孩子中根本不存在同性恋,因而也无所谓欺凌了。自由党硬要向孩子们塞上反欺凌课程,其实也就是要借机普及性异化知识。这并非是件对社会负责任的事。
辣翻天 发表于 2012-6-3 15:37
Summit urges family and school support for LGBTQ youth
Published On Fri Jun 01 2012
Ottawa city councillor Allan Hubley poses with his son Jamie in this family photo. The 15-year-old took his own life, in part because of bullying, Hubley says.
A summit on suicides among queer youth has called for a national prevention strategy that addresses such risk factors as school bullying and boosts community support for groups like gay-straight alliances.
The two-day conference at Ryerson University, which wrapped up Thursday, was prompted by last year’s high-profile suicide of gay Ottawa teen Jamie Hubley, 15, who took his own life after having been bullied throughout elementary school and into high school.
The summit, attended by experts from across North America, was held amid a heated debate in Ontario over the recognition of gay-straight alliances or anti-homophobia clubs in the province’s proposed anti-bullying bill.
“Our school systems remain frozen in time and other forms of public policy stay silent. Everyone is so fearful of backlash from homophobes that we end up failing children and youth in the most profound way,” said panelist Tracey Peter, a University of Manitoba sociology professor.
“Life for many LGBQT youth in Canada is not good at all. It is far, far from good. And telling them ‘It gets better’ is not an adequate response to their situation. It was simply not enough for youth like Jamie Hubley.”
Peter’s own research on queer youth suicides, rare in the field, paints a grim picture of the lives of the society’s sexual minorities.
Her survey of 1,205 first-year University of Manitoba students found 26.2 per cent of queer students had made suicide attempts compared with just 3.5 per cent among their straight peers.
“Put it another way, LGBTQ students were 7.5 times more likely to report a previous suicide attempt,” noted Peter, co-author of the yet-to-be published paper “You Can’t Break…When You’re Already Broken” with University of Winnipeg education professor Catherine Taylor.
Elizabeth Saewyc, the Canadian Institute for Health Research’s chair in adolescent health, said there’s a lack of research on suicides among queer youth.
While queer and straight youth face similar risk factors, the former suffer additional hardship from discrimination based on sexual orientation, as well as what Saewyc called “family-rejecting response.”
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