Berita dari: The China Post
9 Juli 2011: Asosiasi Orangtua Gay dan Lesbian Taiwan mendukung keputusan Menteri Pendidikan Taiwan yang akan memasukkan pendidikan homoseksual dalam kurikulum SD dan SMP di bulan September 2011 mendatang. Dukungan ini mengalir setelah keputusan tersebut dikritik oleh para ahli hukum beserta gerakan guru/orangtua yang mengatakan bahwa tindakan tersebut tidak cocok diberikan kepada anak-anak.
“Aku percaya sangat penting bagi sekolah-sekolah untuk memberikan pengetahuan dan ajaran kepada generasi selanjutnya agar mereka mengenal kesamaan gender saat mereka masih muda. Ketiadaan pengertian kepada orang yang memiliki orientasi seksual yang berbeda inilah yang melahirkan diskriminasi,” demikian pendapat seorang ibu, anggota organisasi Loving Parent of LGBT di Taiwan.
Sebagai seorang ibu dari anak lesbian, dia mengenang saat anak perempuannya menjadi korban olok-olok dan ejekan (bullying) karena orientasi seksualnya sejak SD. Di benua Asia, Taiwan adalah salah satu negara mapan gay-friendly yang memberikan perhatian penuh kepada warganegaranya yang memiliki orientasi seksual sesama jenis.
Berita selengkapnya:
By: Joseph Yeh
A local gay and lesbian parents association yesterday voiced its support of the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s decision to include homosexual issues on curriculums for local elementary and junior high schools.
Their support came after the policy to be launched in August was criticized by some lawmakers and parent and teacher groups who jointly accused the move as inappropriate for children at a young age.
“I believe it is necessary for schools to teach our younger generation to understand gender equality as early as possible, since it is because of a lack of understanding between people of different sexual orientations that causes discrimination,” said one mother, surnamed Kuo, a member of the newly-founded Loving Parents of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender), Taiwan.
As a mother of a lesbian daughter, Kuo recalled that her daughter had been a victim of bullying for her sexual orientation since elementary school.
She therefore backs up the MOE’s decision to put gay and lesbian issues in textbooks, saying the move will be able to teach students to respect and accept people of different sexuality.
Accompanied by opposition lawmakers during a press conference yesterday, Kuo also noted that according to survey, about one-tenth of all Taiwanese people are homosexuals, which equals to around 2.3 million in the country.
The huge number constituting a great portion of the total population makes understanding these people an issue of primary importance for all, she noted.
Wang Ming-chih, a counseling psychologist at National Taipei University of Education, who joined Kuo in the press conference, noted that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the psychiatric manual as early as 1973.
The APA also states that sexual orientation is not a conscious choice that can be voluntarily changed, he said. But many Taiwanese still fail to understand the point, he noted.
They jointly urged the public to support the educational policy, which can promote social harmony and further dialogues between people with different sexual preferences.
@SepociKopi, 2011
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Apa ya jadinya kalau pendidikan mengenai keberagaman seksualitas diaplikasikan di Indonesia? Apa mungkin? Apa mungkin juga dilakukan di Bali?
Tapi, jika Taiwan dengan budaya Asia nya yang juga kental saja bisa, why can't Indonesia?
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