Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation
Our Diversity is our greatest asset. Listening to "Start Seeing Diversity" helps me recognize ways to reduce bias in young children by illustrating the effort made by one community to create a responsive child care program. Through taking this course and other courses in this program, I have learned that bias, discomfort, and trauma all play an essential role in how children interact with others. As mentioned in the course textbook, sexual orientation is defined through the direction of one's sexual interest: heterosexual (to the opposite sex), homosexual (to the same sex), bisexual (to both sexes), asexual (not attracted to either sex). It also defined that a lesbian is a woman attracted to women, and a gay man is attracted to men (Derman-Sparks & Olsen Edwards, 2010, p. 122). For the parents who oppose the inclusion of books depicting same-sex, the reality is, if you don't, someone else probably will - or already is. And you may not like what they have to sa