Teacher prompt: “Assumptions about different sexual orientations or
What can be done to change or challenge them?”
(老师:对于不同的性取向。。。你能做什么来改变或挑战他们)
Students: “We can understand people’s sexual orientations better, for example, by reading books that describe various types of families and relationships. Not everyone has a mother and a father – someone might have two mothers or two fathers (or just one parent or a grandparent, a caregiver, or a guardian). We need to make sure that we don’t assume that all couples are of the opposite sex, and show this by the words we use. For example, we could use a word like ‘partner’ instead of ‘husband’ or ‘wife’. ”
(学生:通过阅读描述不同类型的家庭和关系的书籍,我们可以更好的理解人们不同的性取向。不是每个人有一个妈妈和一个爸爸 - 有些人也许有两个妈妈或两个爸爸(或其他)。我们需要确定不要假设所有的伴侣是异性,并且用我们使用的词语表达出来。例如,我们使用伴侣来代替‘丈夫’或‘妻子’。)