I am struggling to decide about what I want to write in my research essay, I have a couple options, but I am not sure how to make it all into one cohesive essay or if all of my topics would work better separately.
A list of my ideas are
- breaking down the binary in schools-
- importance of gender neutral bathrooms, trans students allowed to use whatever bathroom/ changing room they wish
- health class/ teacher professional development lessons on the gender and sexuality spectrums, starting children younger so can make smarter decisions, feel more comfortable with themselves
- understanding of masculinity, its consequences, and how to reverse toxic masculinity in young men for teachers and staff- combat education gap in STEM
- reversing/ preventing gender socialization in children
- Importance of LGBTQ+ education in history and english classes
- Importance of inclusive LGBTQ+ sex education
Since all of these topics are school related and share the same theme of gender (and sexuality) inclusivity, I thought many would flow well together, but I do not want to overdo it and get on a soapbox and not do each specific topic the justice it deserves.
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I think you should focus on how the various aspects of LGBTQ+ identities are taught, focus on either education or lack of education for LGBTQ+students or how LGBTQ+ history is taught, so either the third and seventh topics or the sixth topic, I think those will be easiest to clearly argue
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These topics could all make for a really insightful paper. I think a broader idea you could consider is how our views about gender/sexuality are presented to us and how our views on these topics change as we grow up and go through different stages of our lives.
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I agree with your peers here–there’s something really cool you could do with how gender and sexual identity are presented, framed and taught in American education, since there’s a lot of erasure in classes like sex ed, history, and English, where students are presented with models of how they can *be* in society.
(Example: most English textbooks do a really bad job explaining how super-duper bi Shakespeare was or that the most famous speech Queen Elizabeth made was basically her giving a motivational pre-battle speech but also coming out as NB and nobody noticed.)
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