THE IDEA THAT secondary schoolchildren are being turned into homosexuals by health and family life education (HFLE) programmes is a case of misunderstanding what sexual education is.
That’s the response from Barbados Youth Development Council (BYDC) president Roshanna Trim to the current public discussion on the issue. She spoke during a special meeting and by-election held by the council at the Ministry of Youth in Haggatt Hall, St Michael, yesterday.
Trim was reacting to comments by HIV/AIDS counsellor Ambrose Carter about the programme.
“It’s really a reluctance to educate ourselves that creates these misconceptions. . . . We really need to address them. We need to have an open mind and address these things with a 21st century mindset and not with a 19th century mindset that was hidden in all of this talk of things being of a taboo nature.
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