Sex and gender equality in schools in Rome, the online petition makes a “bang”
Mandatory introduction of sex education in high schools in Rome and throughout the Lazio Region, establishing a day dedicated to sexual and emotional education, as well as establishing a permanent online space curated by psychologists, educators and sexologists accessible to students, families and professors : are the proposals launched by three activists, through a collection of signatures on Change.org.
The initiative has met with some success to date, with almost 34,000 subscribers. The goal, as Flavia Restivo (militant of young democrats and candidate for the municipality in the Pd list last October) tells us is even more ambitious: “We would like to reach 100,000 by March – she explains – because then we will deliver the petition to the Campidoglio and to the Region , where, however, we have already found some attention towards us “.
Restivo launched the signature collection together with Isabella Borrelli (Lgbtq + activist and also a candidate for the municipality with Roma Futura) and Andrea Giorgini (“he was my right hand man during the electoral campaign”). “The impact of our initiative – continues Flavia, 27 – was immediately positive, we continued to talk about it in these two months and we found great support from the national institute of sexologists and in the world of psychologists linked to sexual education and We are in an era that is perhaps more open to these issues, we breathe a new air after the pandemic “.
“From the introduction from a younger age, we would like a gender consciousness from the binary one that we have differently taught – he continues -, each one his own identity and each one can accept himself for what he is. If it were for me the affective introduction and equality gender should already happen from the elements, because in high school it is almost late, but I understand that you have to proceed gradually. In my school only once in five years an expert to explain something to us, but it was at the levels of banana and condom, we took it all with irony and little seriousness “.