Name: TED】林賽-阿梅爾。為什麼孩子們需要學習性別和性的知識(Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer) (【TED】Lindsay Amer: Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality (Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:20:57.000Z
Duration: 7 min 48 s

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Carol Wang

（唱歌）身為同性戀沒有關係，

Doesn't matter if you're a boy, girl or somewhere in between,

不論你是男孩、女孩， 或兩者之間，都無所謂，

Gay（同性戀）也代表「快樂」。

Opening a performance with lyrics like "It's OK to be gay"

在一間滿是成人的房間中表演，

but it's entirely different for a roomful of kindergartners.

以「身為同性戀沒有關係」的 歌詞開場是一回事；

What you've just heard is the theme song for my web series "Queer Kid Stuff,"

但在滿是幼稚園小朋友的房間中 又完全是另一回事了。

where I make LGBTQ+ and social justice videos for all ages.

你們剛剛聽到的是我的 《酷兒孩子網路劇》的主題曲，

And when I say all ages, I mean literal babies

這個網路劇是我針對各年齡層 製作的 LGBTQ+ 及社會正義影片。

我說的各年齡層，真的是從嬰兒

"Whoa, they're talking about gay stuff with kids."

But talking to kids about gay stuff is actually crucial.

「哇，他們在跟孩子 談同性戀的題材。」

The American Academy of Pediatrics has found

但，跟孩子談同性戀的 題材其實很重要。

that children have a solid understanding of their gender identity

This is when children are developing their sense of self.

這個時期就是孩子 發展出自我感的時期。

Now, most parents want their children to become kind, empathetic,

大部分的父母都希望 自己的孩子長大成人後

and exposure to diversity is an important part

能變得仁慈、有同理心、自信，

of that social and emotional development.

and trans kids and kids with trans and nonbinary and queer parents

而且非常規性別的 孩子、變性的孩子，

以及父母是變性、 非二元、酷兒的孩子

In the series, my stuffed bear cohost and I talk about the LGBT community,

在劇中，我的填充熊搭擋 和我會談論 LGBT 族群、

LGBT 行動主義、性別以及代名詞、

我們透過歌曲來處理這些主題，

We approach these ideas, to steal a phrase from an old professor of mine,

我們處理這些想法的方式， 可借用我的一位老教授的說法，

and looking up at the great big world through their tiny little eyes,

taking these seemingly complex ideas and simplifying them --

透過他們小小的眼睛， 向上看向廣大的世界，

Gender is about how we feel and how we express ourselves.

Sexuality is about love and gender and family,

性別的重點是我們對自己的 感受和如何表現自己。

性向的重點則是愛、性別和家庭，

And these are all ideas children can grasp.

In one of my earliest episodes about gender,

這些都是孩子能夠理解的想法。

在我最早期針對性別 所製做的其中一集裡，

to underscore the definition and introduce gender-neutral pronouns

來強調定義， 並介紹中性的代名詞，

I encourage children to think about their own pronouns

如「他們」（英文不分性別）。

我鼓勵孩子們去想想 他們自己的代名詞，

In later episodes, I build on this foundation

and introduce big fancy words like "nonbinary" and "transgender."

後來的幾集就是 繼續發展這個基礎，

並介紹很炫的字詞， 像是「非二元」及「變性」。

who use my videos to explain nonbinary gender to their grandparents.

有些二十多歲的觀眾寫信給我，

But, I get one comment over and over again:

他們用我的影片來向他們的 祖父母解釋非二元性別。

但，我總是不斷得到這種意見：

but only if it actually includes all kids.

但前提是它指的是所有的孩子。

died by suicide after being bullied for being gay.

阿拉巴馬州亨茨維爾的十五歲孩子

因為身為同性戀 被霸凌而輕生自殺。

科羅拉多州丹佛的七歲孩子身上。

有很多這樣的孩子， 將來還會有更多。

are more than three times more likely to attempt suicide

女、男同性戀及雙性戀的 青少年自殺的機率

and transgender teens are almost six times more likely.

According to one study, roughly one third of homeless youth

而變性的青少年自殺率 幾乎要高達六倍。

identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning,

根據一項研究，無家可歸的 青年當中，大約有三分之一

and about four percent of homeless youth identify as transgender,

是女、男同性戀、 雙性戀或性別存疑，

compared with one percent of the general youth population surveyed.

相較之下，被調查的對象中 一般青年人口只佔 1%。

there have been 128 killings of trans people

根據人權戰線（組織）的資料，

And those are the only the reported cases.

And 80 percent of those killings were of trans women of color.

那些殺人案中，有八成受害者 是有色人種的變性女子。

在 YouTube 上大家針對 我的影片留言的意見

I get messages daily telling me I'm a pedophile

and that I should kill myself in a number of increasingly creative ways.

每天我都會收到 罵我戀童癖的訊息，

I once had to put the word "truck" on my block list

說我應該自殺，還幫我 想了很多有創意的死法。

because someone wanted me to get run over by a truck.

我還曾經把「卡車」一詞 放到我的阻擋清單中，

for the less creative and more disturbing Holocaust reference.

「淋浴」和「烤箱」 也都上了名單，

When neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville,

在比較沒創意、比較擾人的 大屠殺訊息中會出現這些詞。

當新納粹主義者行經夏律第鎮，

that the creator of a violent Reddit meme about one of my episodes

TED】林賽-阿梅爾。為什麼孩子們需要學習性別和性的知識(Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer) (【TED】Lindsay Amer: Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality (Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer))

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TED】林賽-阿梅爾。為什麼孩子們需要學習性別和性的知識(Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer) (【TED】Lindsay Amer: Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality (Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality | Lindsay Amer))

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