Children as young as five will be asked if they identify as a she, he or they as part of new taxpayer funded guidelines rolled out to public libraries across the state.
Library staff are being told to ask children what their preferred pronouns are, avoid “gendered-language” and to offer pronoun badges, pins or lanyards for patrons in a new government funded ‘Rainbow Toolkit’.
Staff at public libraries across Victoria have been given new guidelines on how to be LGBTQIA+ friendly, including adding books on gender diversity to their collections, promoting drag story time events and not assuming the gender or sexuality of children, teenagers and adults.
The ‘Rainbow Toolkit’ was launched by the state government on Friday to celebrate LGBTQIA+ awareness day.
Source: Children to be asked pronouns under new library guidelines
All the efforts to eliminate gender stereotyping eliminated in one unbelievably retrograde demand. Where on earth are the government ‘policy’ makers coming from? The eighteenth century, when for Dr Johnson a woman speaking publicly was akin to ‘a dog standing on its hind legs’? Please. Cannot our children at least be allow to express themselves however they wish, whether boys who want to play with dolls (for example) and remain acknowledged as boys – or girls who want to swing from the branches of trees (for example) and continue to be acknowledged as girls. https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13171&page=1 Pink is Powerful …