After a heated debate between evangelicals, Catholics, councilors and LGBT activists at the Guarulhos City Council, books that combat prejudice against LGBT people and gender issues are beginning to be distributed in schools.
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According to Folha de São Paulo this Friday (29), it was necessary for civil guards to intervene so that the groups did not "get away with it" over the project that will guide teachers in the coming years.
Among the books is "Menina Não Entra", by Editora do Brasil, which talks about a girl who, after being excluded by boys for a long time, manages to play football and is successful on the team. The publisher declares that the characters "realize that they were completely wrong and that prejudice leads to no victory, on or off the field."
For conservatives, this is a "gender ideology" in schools that aims to relativize relationships and identities for 11-year-old children. "I'm not homophobic, but this ideology can lead children to think they can be a boy with a boy, a girl with a girl, three together, then it becomes trivial," he declared. Romildo Santos (PSDB), president of the Chamber’s Human Rights Commission.
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The city's teacher and educational coordinator Silvia Moraes declared that the approach did not come to "destroy families", as conservatives say, but to "work with a policy of eradicating violence against homosexuals, against women".
Moacir de Souza, municipal secretary of Education, says that the books have already started to be distributed in 139 schools and that they aim to educate children against gender prejudice and homophobia.
