[Defeated]Repeal: “LGBTIQA Inclusiveness In Schools Act”

[Markanite]

Repeal: “LGBTIQA Inclusiveness In Schools Act”

A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.

Category: Repeal

Resolution: GA#603

Proposed by: Wallenburg

General Assembly Resolution #603 “LGBTIQA Inclusiveness in Schools Act” (Category: Education and Creativity; Area of Effect: Educational) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Recognizing the capacity of international legislation to establish in law the rights of gender and sexual minorities, such as through GAR #91 "A Convention on Gender", GAR #457 "Defending The Rights Of Sexual And Gender Minorities", GAR #467 "Affordable Transgender Hormone Therapy", GAR #542 "Gay Panic Defense Ban", GAR #559 "End Conversion Therapy", GAR #571 "Access to Transgender Hormone Therapy", GAR #578 "Transgender Self-Determination", and many other resolutions which do so as a secondary matter or as part of broader anti-discrimination law,

Regretting the unfortunate side effects of overlooked flaws within the target's text,

The World Assembly hereby repeals General Assembly Resolution #603, LGBTIQA Inclusiveness In Schools Act, for the following causes:

The target requires all schools to give their students a broad suite of educational, health, and counseling resources.

Specialized institutions, such as youth performing arts groups, martial arts and military academies, culinary schools, online coding academies, educational tour programs, and junior sports leagues, are each required to implement an educational unit concerning sexual and romantic orientation and gender identity and provide ongoing supporting resources. In total, these requirements may partially or entirely eclipse the specialized function of these institutions, preventing them from serving their primary educational goal and, in many cases, rendering their operations financially untenable as they must fulfill the dual roles of education and gender and sexuality counseling.

Those member states which commonly use distinct institutions for various degrees of childhood education—preschool, primary, secondary, and postsecondary education, for example—must provide redundant education and counseling on matters of sexual and romantic orientation and gender identity, regardless of any utility—or lack thereof—repeated educational material may have.

The target falls back on language often made to excuse the perceived abnormality of gender and sexual minorities, such as the idea that these factors are "beyond their conscious control" or are "natural".

These arguments lack concrete scientific merit across the breadth of World Assembly member states.

This assumes that the morality of gender or sexual characteristics is dependent on their natural status or the inability of an individual to alter these characteristics. It justifies anti-hate law on the basis that individuals belonging to gender or sexual minorities cannot help but belong to those categories, rather than on the basis that hate toward gender and sexual minorities causes undue harm and creates an unsafe and uncivil society. Proper anti-hate law does not buy into the thought processes of the bigots it stands against.

This is the discussion thread. To cast your vote, go HERE

[apatosaurusns]

Hi, this is the author of the target resolution!

While I am obviously biased, here is why people should vote against:

Firstly, prima facie it is important to note that, due to the subject matter, a number of trans- and homo-phobic voices have come out in support of this, and it is best not to give those voices what they crave on these poor grounds.

Secondly, the repeal arguments are highly specious, largely for the reasons neatly summarised by Attempted Socialism on-site. 1a gives a series of examples of non-schools considering that rational member states will interpret the definition of a school to avoid those issues when the definition can be interpreted to refer solely to institutions providing formal learning ("Education." Webster's New World College Dictionary, 3rd ed., 1996, p. 432.. 2b is a very strange point considering that, on even a very basic skim of the preamble, the target does "justif[y] anti-hate law ... on the basis that hate towards gender and sexual minorities causes undue harm and creates an unsafe and uncivil society". 2a and 1b are the only remotely valid repeal points, but that isn't worth (1) giving homo- and trans-phobes what they want (2) specious claims that make up most of this repeal being kept in the books of the WA forever (as repeals obviously cannot be repealed).

[Astrobolt]

No replacement means against.

[Vivolkha]

This is one of the weirdest proposals I've read in general, in that every argument given for the repeal of the target resolution can be read as an argument against the repeal itself. The reasoning behind this one is downright bizarre.

[Markanite]

"Repeal "LGBTIQA Inclusiveness in Schools Act"" was defeated 12,209 votes to 4,063.