The Textbook
FULLY ALIVE TEACHES HOMOPHOBIA & TRANSPHOBIA
The Grades 1-8 Fully Alive program (including its textbook and teachers' resource) teaches homophobia and transphobia to students in the Catholic part of Ontario's public education system. In summary, students are taught that sexual love should only occur in a male-female marriage (in which children should only be born or adopted) and that persons should identify by gender with the gender (male or female) attributed to them at birth.
Following are short presentations per grade with a focus on examples of how the Fully Alive textbook teaches homophobia and transphobia to hundreds of thousands of students in Ontario's public education system.
Following are short presentations per grade with a focus on examples of how the Fully Alive textbook teaches homophobia and transphobia to hundreds of thousands of students in Ontario's public education system.
FULLY ALIVE INTENTIONALLY PROMOTES HETERONORMATIVITY & CISNORMATIVITY
The Fully Alive textbook, by intentional design, promotes heteronormativity (that what is normal or expected is to be heterosexual) and cisnormativity (that what is normal or expected is to identity with the male or female gender assigned at birth). This, in and of itself, is harmful to students.
This slideshow illustrates (with an image from each grade, from Grade 1 to Grade 8) heteronormative and cisnormative images in the Fully Alive textbook. (For copyright reasons, only a limited amount of images can be shown here, for fair comment.)
This slideshow illustrates (with an image from each grade, from Grade 1 to Grade 8) heteronormative and cisnormative images in the Fully Alive textbook. (For copyright reasons, only a limited amount of images can be shown here, for fair comment.)