he IAC adapts and translates into Catalan a guide to work on affective, sexual, and gender diversity in classrooms.

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he Guide to work on affective, sexual, and gender diversity by the IAC has been adapted and translated into Catalan from the guide created and edited by the Steilas trade union from the Basque Country.

16/05/2017

The guide adapted by the IAC observes the Law 11/2014, of 10 October, for guaranteeing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people and eradicating homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.

The guide aims to become a benchmark to guarantee sexual and affective diversity in teaching centres. It is addressed to the educational community —students, teachers, non-teaching staff, families and trade unions— and approaches the issue from a broad perspective, introducing solutions and resources.

Within its pages there are definitions of basic concepts, still unclear for many, such as: lesbians, gays and transgender, transexua, travestite, bisexual, intersexual and queer individuals, as well as gender, heteronorms, LGBTIQ movement, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and biological sex.

It also proposes recommendations for teaching staff to include affective, sexual, and gender diversity within the teaching plans from a transversal perspective. These could include, for example, celebrating designated days such as Family Day by recognising other family models and the International Day against LGBTIQphobia, or by mainstreaming this perspective in their teaching.

Furthermore, it distinguishes between discrimination, violence and bullying based on LGBTIQ and suggests actions to detect them and act in teaching centres or whenever it could affect somebody of the educational community (students, teaching staff and non-teaching staff).

Find the Guide here in PDF.