This is just getting over the top stupid.

Oh my goodness. Kids look to adults to teach them about life, not confuse the heck out of them. All this offering of possible/maybe/just in case/perhaps is NOT covering all bases and providing justification or reasoning to their perfectly normal confusion & curiosity about life it’s taking away their identify by saying you may or may not be who you are and what you were born as (and all the variations of that). :,(

I’m not sure why they would tell boys that. I get the transgender thing but surely it’s not appropriate to tell boys they could get periods. Confusing to say the least.

Ridiculously confusing & totally unnecessary at this age.

Sex education lessons in which pupils as young as eight will be told ‘all genders’ have periods are absolutely confusing I think.

I don’t see anything wrong with boys learning about periods. But for transgender kids maybe leave it up to their parents and mental health professionals to go into detail about what will specifically happen to them.

This is taking things way too far!

I’m confused. What is going on with the world??? Why??

This is utterly ridiculous, messing with childrens’ heads, in this case is the said adults fault.

I really think the focus should be on empowering and teaching all children about the different reproductive systems and helping those with female biology (regardless of the gender label) experience a more comfortable and shameless time with menstruation. Parents as much as possible should be involved with the process and it shouldn’t be the schools responsibility entirely. Children should be left to be children… lets stop with the self limiting labels.

This is just stupid! Only women have periods or people who have those body parts. It is just going too far!

AGAIN – R u serious. Get over the Gender Neutral debate. Girls are Girls and Boys are boys stop trying to confuse our poor children

I think the fact they are talking about it is great, makes it become more acceptable and not so taboo, but don’t say all genders. What are you thinking?!?! If you have a vagina, you will get your period. The percentage of trans etc at the age of 8 is so small it wont apply to most of the schools, so why make it a problem!

The world has gone mad. This is not something that should be talked about to children so young.

I don’t agree with this. It’s way too confronting and confusing for such little kids.

Well this information is confusing!! I am not sure I agree with this.

This is information overload for 8 year old’s of either sex. Very few children menstruate by the time they are 10 – and I agree that a baby brought up as a boy but who appeared to doctors at the time of birth to be a girl may menstruate the opposite will not happen and would confuse the baby brought up as a girl who is still a boy. Boy this confuses me writing it and I am a mature adult. Can’t imagine an 8 year old understanding it.

When the world goes crazy!

I hope parents have the option whether or not their child is given sex education at school. In the 1980s the pupils hadn’t even been at school for one full term and it was more graphic than was understood by the average 5 y.o. girl. It included how a baby was actually born and that it came out head first.
Now in the 2010s some schools use DVDs and some pupils can’t understand all of it and get quite distressed. Parents should be allowed to borrow the DVDs and watch them with their daughter or son so they can pause it if questions are asked.

This must confuse some people. I know the world is changing and we must change with it. Still think some of these things should be discussed later on maybe at 10, 11 or older.