The South Australian Department for Education is investigating a presentation delivered to year 9 girls in a regional high school that allegedly referenced bestiality as being accepted by the LGBTQIA+ community.
Female students said teachers at Renmark High School told them to leave their lessons and attend a presentation in a separate classroom.
Student Courtney White, 14, said she felt confused and blindsided by the presentation.
“We had a teacher that told us to grab a chair and sit in front of the board, and then the Headspace people came in and then [the teacher] left, so then we’re sitting in front of a board alone with no teachers, just the Headspace people,” she said.
“The first slide of the PowerPoint on the board was ‘You can see queerly now’ and ‘No point hiding.'”
Fourteen-year-old Emelia Wundenberg said the presenter was graphic when referencing their own sexual preferences and spoke in sexually explicit terms about growing up and being confused about whether they idolised people of the same gender or wanted to be intimate with them.
Students say they were then given an explanation of the initialism LGBTQIA+, with each word and its meaning displayed on the screen.
The students said bestiality was then explained in detail and the presenter seemed to imply it was something practised by people who identified as LGBTQIA+.
“They said [the queer community] just accepts all of it, even though … isn’t it illegal?” Emelia said.
“There was a slide for what the ‘plus’ means, and they just started randomly saying words that no-one knew, like bestiality,” Emelia said.
Source: Bestiality references allegedly made during presentation at Renmark High School – ABC News