In Florida, state governor Ron DeSantis passed the Parental Rights in Education Act – a bill that prohibits teaching sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools from kindergarten through third grade. The law prohibits classroom discussions in grades K-3 about gender orientation and sexual identity. This is called “don’t talk gays” law. The law also prohibits these lessons for older students, unless they are “age-appropriate or developmental”.
Florida law believes that parents should have a say in what their children learn in schools. The governor declares that he and his administration are committed to protecting the rights of parents. The governor believes the government should never take the place of a parent. The thinking here is that people are naturally classified as black or white people, boys or girls. Many African traditions resemble the religious, political and social reasons of the conservative republican; as a result, girls should think and act biologically like mothers, and boys should think and act like fathers.
The Florida governor, like American conservative policymakers, believes that sexually explicit and age inappropriate material should not be taught in classrooms. A simple approach that resembles traditional African religious and social reasoning.
In conservative states such as Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, according to African conservative reasoning, a child’s gender at birth should be an emphasis on sexual orientation rather than sexual orientation, which addresses issues such as same-sex attraction. Changing sexual or gender identities is not part of the conservative argument as understood by African religious conservatives and American conservative religious groups.
In a recent public decency law case, Florida Governor DeSantis filed a complaint against the bar for having children at a “specialist drug show”. A drag queen is someone (usually a man) who acts in a feminine way, and a drag king is someone (usually a woman) who is male.
At a bar in Miami in Florida called R House, an exposed drag queen as depicted in the viral video, she held hands with a little girl as he led her around the neighborhood. The DeSantis administration, as part of their complaints against Miami’s R House, Wynwood bar, allowed children to participate in a pornographic show, an experience that African traditions and many laws will prohibit and prohibit.
This will be seen as a worrying trend in African society, as in US conservative states when it comes to sexualizing these young people. Many parents and cultures in Africa will agree with the Governor of Florida about exposing their children to inappropriate sexual content as they see it as inappropriate.
In some parts of America, especially among progressives or liberals, topics like “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” are just fine, but in traditional African environments like conservative American territories, teaching gender ideology to children in primary schools is All right. depraved to the minds of children.
Adult-child sex and same-sex relationships are considered gross by religious conservatives in the United States, and such behavior is frowned upon in many African countries as a violation of traditional religious norms and values.
In America, there are tensions between conservatives and liberals over so-called “gender-specific childcare”. It is about some American rules and laws that require biological males who identify as females to have access to feminine bathrooms and dormitories, and minors should receive prescribed puberty blocking drugs or hormone replacement therapy, undergo surgery to get rid of physical signs of their biological sex, such as breasts or facial hair, and undergo therapy that will make them comfortable with a gender they identify with other than their biological gender.
State surgeon general and health care administrators such as Nigerian-born Dr. Joseph Ladapo of Florida have questioned the science behind gender-affirmative care because the scientific evidence to support gender-affirmative care is “extremely weak.” Current professional organization standards, according to Dr. Ladapo and others, seem to follow the preferred pattern of political thought rather than the highest level of universally accepted medical science, and children should be protected from policy-based medicine.
In traditional African culture, known for its strong religious conservatism, this kind of sexual discussion around children will be seen as uncomfortable and even taboo within traditional African religion and customs.
Many conservative Republican states such as Florida have enacted laws requiring women and girls to play “biological sex” sports teams on birth certificates, and those who see themselves as female, such as transgender men, should be banned from competing against biological females. Many rulers would not enact such laws in Africa because they would naturally view such competition in women’s sports tournaments as unreasonable, forbidden, selfish, fraudulent, and fundamentally unfair. Many Africans would be surprised to learn that in America, biological males are allowed to compete with biological females in sports such as weightlifting, athletics, and marathon running – and they win immediately because American conservative politics have a biological and physical advantage. This belief of conservative members of the Republican Party, often referred to as the GOP (short for “Great Old Party”), will be in line with beliefs about men and women in African culture and traditions.
Child sexual abuse and same-sex marriage in African culture are not considered an alternative to heterosexual male-female relationships. In some African cultures, same-sex marriages occur among women not because of sexual orientation in terms of attraction, not as norms, values and patterns of behavior, but for the procreation and continuity of the family line, which happens through one of the women suffering from infertility, which is usually not married to a man or is of the royal family, and the man has agreed to fertilize a fertile woman.
There are so many progressive things from America to Africa. The mentality, practices and subjectivity of such social movements may conflict with African religious and traditional practices, as well as with conservative practices and republican politics.
As a professional psychologist, I affirm the position of the American Psychological Association that we should not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, disability, weight, height, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. While
As one of the African traditional nativity scenes, I have my own values and personal standards. In my professional work I do not allow the influence of African cultural norms, because I do not discriminate any person and I treat everyone with sensitivity, respect and equality, regardless of how they perceive themselves.
Africa, especially Nigeria, should be careful in accepting all kinds of social products from America as imports into Africa. Nigeria, as Africa’s most populous society, should be especially careful. Regardless of whether someone is American or not, most people will agree with an American of African descent who once said this about the sexualization of young children by adults such as drag queens, men who dress in women’s clothes and perform in front of an audience kids.
“They are not qualified to have children. They should take their children. because it is child abuse. Violence against children is placing a half-naked adult in a room with a young child and asking them to read a book. It is child abuse. “Candace Owens
For the purposes of notation about dressing up, there are special occasions in the Esan tradition in Nigeria where married women dress in men’s clothes, usually their husbands. A special ceremony is called Ukpukpe and involves dressing up in honor of a woman born in a certain village who is dying (they call her “okwan”). These women are the wives of the same peasants while visiting the marriage house of the dead (Okwiana), where they are showered with gifts, money and food, as well as singing and dancing. This type of special dressing has nothing to do with certain customs in the Western world, where some people, due to their transgender identity, engage in cross-dressing of people whose gender identification and expression differs from that assigned to them at birth.
Born in Uromi, Edo, Nigeria, John Egbeazien Oshodi, his father served in the police force for 37 years, is an American police / prison scientist and forensic / clinical / legal psychologist. Government consultant in forensic clinical psychology services for adults and children in the US; Principal educator and clinician at the Transatlantic Enrichment and Refresher Institute, an online center for personal, professional, and career development throughout life. He is the former Interim Dean / Assistant at Broward College, Florida. Founder of the Dr. John Egbeazien Oshodi, Center for Psychological Health and Behavioral Change in Africa Psychology as associate professor. He is currently Professor of Virtual Behavioral Leadership at ISCOM University in the Republic of Benin. Founder of the proposed Transatlantic Open University Egbeazien (TEU) Values and Ethics, a digital project of Truth, Ethics and Openness. He has written over forty publications and scholarly works, at least 200 public articles on African topics, and various books. Specializes in psychoprescriptive writings on African institutional and governmental issues.
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