Gênero e sexualidade em discussão em Santa Maria: uma análise dos embates sobre gênero na educação escolar

Abstract

This text aims to demonstrate the importance of the debate on gender and sexuality at school. Based on a documentary review, proposals for legal changes and educational initiatives will analyze, focused on human rights issues; that involve the approach of gender and sexuality, considering the national political scenario, in view of the advances and legal historical setbacks that have occurred in the context of human rights policies. This is a qualitative research, based on documental analysis; having as a local cut, the present study is directed to how gender equality and sexuality was approached in the city of Santa Maria in 2020, more specifically in the second semester. Data were obtained from a set of news, papers and official documents published, such as in Diário de Santa Maria online local newspaper, news sites of private companies and the official page of the city of Santa Maria/RS, as well as the social networks of some candidates, in the period from september to november 2020. This period in which organized groups opposed to sexual and gender rights policies gained greater prominence, inciting interpretations contrary to what they called "gender ideology", during the election to the command of the city of Santa Maria, and being also, campaign agenda of some candidates who ran for a seat in the City Hall.