🐱 Mandatory transgender issue classes?

http://asiancorrespondent.com/13536...oduces-mandatory-class-on-transgender-issues/

AS the academic school year gets into full swing in Thailand, Thammasat, one of the country’s most prestigious and progressive universities is making a Social Life Skills class mandatory for its incoming freshman. This new course aims to ensure students have the skills to lead a successful life and covers a wide range of subjects, including music, art, sports and a three hour session on sex, where part of the focus is on gender identity.

Kritipat Chotidhanitsakul (Jimmy) has been invited to sensitize students about transgender issues and by the end of the school year is expected to have lectured to 8,000 students. This is the first time Thammasat has made such a topic mandatory for new students.

 

[KingCasio]

This is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard, and I am completly sad it is seriously being considered.

 

[Splendid]

Bait line. Everyone below is taking the bait.
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[CatParty]

The problem is that the class is mandatory when it should be issues and etiquette that should be taught by the parents.

 

[MrTroll]

[insert really lazy joke about thai dickgirls]

 

[Pickle Inspector]

The problem is that the class is mandatory when it should be issues and etiquette that should be taught by the parents.

It also says this is for university freshmen so they probably already know what a transgendered person is.

 

[Abethedemon]

 

[Pikimon]

 

[nad7155]

NO.

 

[Dudeofteenage]

They should have a mandatory class about how trannies are fags. Null could teach it.

 

[Marvin]

http://asiancorrespondent.com/13536...oduces-mandatory-class-on-transgender-issues/

Huh. He passes very effectively.

Also, this is just a "Social Life Skills" class with some tranny shit thrown in? Uninteresting.

 

[Pikonic]

Kinda makes sense. I mean, it is Thailand.

 

[Cosmos]

I don't understand why gender identity is being blown up as this hugely important issue. I mean, less than 1% (more like >0.5%) of the human population even questions their gender.

 

[Dudeofteenage]

I don't understand why gender identity is being blown up as this hugely important issue. I mean, less than 1% (more like >0.5%) of the human population even questions their gender.

Well, transgender issues cover 'part' of a three hour unit in a full-year course. I dunno how many hours the average Thai student spends in class a year, but if it's more than 200 hours (or roughly six a week) then this course is covering less than 0.5% of their time.

I think a lot of people are jumping straight to MANDATORY TRANSGENDER EDUCATION and missing out on how tiny a segment of their time it is. Not to mention as somebody else pointed out, this is Thailand, which for whatever reason has a lot more transgender people per capita than probably anywhere else.

 

[Cosmos]

Well, transgender issues cover 'part' of a three hour unit in a full-year course. I dunno how many hours the average Thai student spends in class a year, but if it's more than 200 hours (or roughly six a week) then this course is covering less than 0.5% of their time.

I think a lot of people are jumping straight to MANDATORY TRANSGENDER EDUCATION and missing out on how tiny a segment of their time it is. Not to mention as somebody else pointed out, this is Thailand, which for whatever reason has a lot more transgender people per capita than probably anywhere else.

Ah, I misread that part. That's certainly a lot better than what I assumed.