“You can be” Activity

Goals

Educate to diversity and social justice
Value diversity to make a more inclusive society
Uncover oppression mechanisms to better fight them.

Brief description of the issue

Children who don’t embrace stereotypes associated with their gender experience more bullying. It is particularly the case with boys performing behaviours traditionally associated with girls: they are more at risk of being rejected or targeted by homophobic insults. Transgressions of gender roles are very poorly tolerated among boys, particularly at a time when we are witnessing a resurgence of masculinist and misogynistic comments online and in public spaces.

This activity has been developed by the LGBT Family Coalition. It targets gender stereotypes to limit bullying based on them experienced by children who go against them. Here are all the documents you need to facilitate this activity in your own classroom:

Documents