In June this year, the LBTQ+ community celebrated “Pride Month” across different countries. While pride events have been organised in India as well in the past, this year, this global woke menace reached government-funded model schools in Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu goes one step further for creating an inclusive future society!
— Surya 🌈⛰️🏃♂️🚴♂️🌿 (@SuryaCEG) July 4, 2024
At #ChennaiPride, I learned that TN Model Schools across all 38 districts celebrated #PrideMonth by educating the school children about gender & sexuality etc
Thanks to @mkstalin @Anbil_Mahesh 🙏#LGBTQ pic.twitter.com/OS2wMKfXJP
During a pride march, 200 students from Coimbatore Model School in R.S. Puram held rainbow flags to demonstrate their “support” for the LGBTQIA+ community. It is said that these students had discussions on distinct gender identities. In addition, the school held a “gender sensitisation” programme where students taught about Pride Month’s history and the range of genders and sexual orientations that make up the LGBTQIA+ community.
Tamil filmmaker Lenin Bharathi was also present in the march, which started at the school and finished at DB Road Square. A transgender person interacted with the students and answered their questions during the programme.
In addition, Muthamizh Kalaivizhi, the coordinator for holistic development in the State’s model schools, S. Naveenatha Krishnan, the coordinator for the northern zone, and V. Rajendran, the coordinator for Tamil Nadu Model Schools in the western region, were present at the event.
Reportedly, similar pride events were organised across model schools in all 38 districts of Tamil Nadu. Several netizens raised concerns about whether the school authorities sought parental consent before making students a part of such programmes.
How did the state government celebrate LGBTQ pride in 38 district government schools with minor students without parent concerns? They are propagating their agenda on innocent schoolchildren 🤬.#BanLGBTQ #ShameOnYouMKStalin#ResignStalin https://t.co/ilqBQIWrdI pic.twitter.com/owF7Rg6BUO
— முத்து (@Muthuhere3) July 4, 2024
With all due respect to the LGBT community, is this age appropriate to kids ? Let kids be kids and learn age appropriate things .
— poéme (@iamPoeme) July 4, 2024
Why and how is this allowed by the government ? https://t.co/9M3NMXptKi
One X user questioned if the age of those school students was appropriate for such pride programmes.
Sexualising legal minors should be banned. I don’t know what’s @NCPCR_ doing at all. Is this even legal in India? https://t.co/Tuho0IwUDN
— Sheikh Al Madrassi (@chitthavriddhi) July 4, 2024
Meanwhile, others questioned if students are being sexualised in the name of ‘sensitising’ them about gender identities.
