Posts Tagged ‘Sexual diversity’

30,000 sign petition opposing the teaching of ‘gender diversity’

Monday, March 4th, 2019
gender diversity

More than 30,000 people have signed a Parliamentary petition asking the Ministry of Education to scrap references to gender diversity in the New Zealand teaching curriculum. Stop transgender teaching in New Zealand schools was published on January 29 and has garnered 31,190 signatures as of last Wednesday evening. The petition request: That the House of Representatives urge Read more

Non binary student surprised by school’s supportive stance

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

A 15-year-old Kavanagh College pupil who identifies as neither male nor female has been a “little surprised” at just how supportive the Dunedin Catholic school has been. During the last term of last year Arryn, who identifies as non-binary and asks to be referred to using the pronouns they, their and them instead of he Read more