🐱 The Makers Of ‘The Genderbread Person’ Announce New Tool To Teach Kids About Sexuality: ‘The Sexualitree’

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Two activists designed a supplemental learning device called the “Sexualitree” to help students learn about the 45+ components of sexuality, according to a review of the “Sexualitree” website.

The learning tool looks at sexuality on three levels — intimate, relational, and cultural. It includes 45 ways in which individuals reportedly “experience various aspects of sexuality.” Examples include “abortion, fantasy, fetish, masturbation, medical theory, pornography, sex toys, skin hunger,” and more.

Karen Rayne and Sam Killermann, the designers of the “Sexualitree,” created a document for educators to use titled “Using the Sexualitree in the Classroom.” It encourages students to “brainstorm about the ways that their culture tells them sexuality should be” and “brainstorm about the ways that their friends, family, and peers talk about and engage in sexuality.”

Educators are also encouraged to give students notecards and “invite students to decide at which level they think their aspects are most important-relevant to someone’s sexuality.” After students learn about the sexualized tree, educators are called to “turn the dialogue over to the students.”

Questions for students include: “What might this mean to them, to consider sexuality in this way? What can they learn from this as it applies to their personal lives? How might this framework help them in dialogue with their families, friends, and partners?”

Killermann is responsible for the creation of the “Genderbread Person,” a similar learning device that teaches children about the left-wing activist perspective of gender identity and sexuality. Killermann also designed the gender-neutral bathroom signs for gender-neutral restrooms.

The Genderbread Person is reportedly downloaded by “hundreds of millions of people around the world.”


Rayne is a self-described expert in sexuality education, according to the “Sexualitree’s” website.

Nicki Neily, the founder and president of the concerned parent organization Parents Defending Education, told the Daily Caller that she believes this material will be introduced to students who are not “intellectually or emotionally” mature enough to discuss these issues.

“The overview states that ‘there is no minimum level of intimate sexual experience necessary to qualify one as having a legitimate sexuality’ — which many parents would likely contest,” Neily said. “The accompanying advice on ‘using the Sexualitree in the Classroom’ provides guidance on how to introduce this topic to teenagers — underscoring that this lesson encourages the introduction of a number of highly sensitive and personal topics to young people who may or may not be intellectually or emotionally prepared to explore these issues.”
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I don't understand how this chart is supposed to help anyone understand sexuality, particularly the text bubbles on the right explaining what "intercourse" means to them. Placing words like "masturbation" or "fetish" on a chart but resorting to childish terminology like "birds and bees" instead of normal terms for men, women, or relationships is some extra cringe to add to the blatant grooming.
 
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In 2015, Dr. Rayne was the chief editor of How I Got Into Sex…Ed, an anthology of more than sixty-first person essays by sexuality educators. The anthology includes professions brand new to the field to those who are well known and admired, including the former Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders. Her article on adolescents, sexuality, and linguistics was recently published in The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality.

Dr. Rayne has a number of projects she is currently working on. She is finishing two parent-child communication curricula, one for the Unitarian Universalist Association and one in conjunction with the United Nations Population Fund and the Zimbabwean Ministry of Health. The Unitarian Universalist curriculum targets parents of middle school age students while the Zimbabwean curriculum is directed towards families including 10 – 21 year olds. Dr. Rayne’s on-going curricular writing includes co-editing a new lesson manual on educating about sexual orientation, co-authoring three comprehensive sexuality curricula for the organization Girls Inc., and editing a new edition of Streetwise to Sex-wise for educating teens in high-risk environments. Beyond curriculum writing, Dr. Rayne is continuing to partner with Sam Killermann as an educational performer providing support and information for adults in their show S.E.X.: An evening of laughing, learning, and lasciviousness.
When at home in Austin, Texas, Dr. Rayne enjoys time with her two daughters, her wife, and her three dogs. On the rare occasions that she breaks away from working in sexuality education and spending time with her family, Dr. Rayne enjoys country western and swing dancing, traveling, and spending time with friends.
 
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