Sep 8, 2012

SEXUALITY EDUCATION BOOK REVISED IN CHINA: Mothers of LGBTs protest sexuality education textbook in Hangzhou



¨Following complaints from 18 mothers of gay children and gay groups over a sexuality education booklet targeted at parents of teenagers that describes homosexuality as a type of "sexual deviance", the publisher has agreed to revise the sections about homosexuality in its second edition.¨

¨Families of gay men and women in China have protested a sex education booklet given to parents of teenagers that describes homosexuality as a type of "sexual deviance", the China Daily reported today.

The affected pages (in Chinese) can be read on Aibai.com.About 50,000 copies of Parents, Please Walk Your Children Through Puberty is believed to have been distributed in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, since last year.

Jointly published by the Hangzhou Institute for Educational Research and Northeast Normal University Press, the booked has been designed to aid parents whose children are going through adolescence...¨ please read it all, HERE

·  Thanks to Fridae Asia, sidebar
·  Thanks to LGBT Mothers of Hangzhou, Zhejiang

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