As an ace trans woman who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian homeschooling family, thank you for speaking out for us. I can vouch first hand how much abuse me, my sister's, and other kids we grew up around who were homeschooled received as well. I was abused physically, mentally, emotionlly, financially, and sent to conversion therapy. I wasn't allowed to have a social life at many points growing up (and therefore have zero social skills as an adult, which is why I love as a hermit). I can only think of one or maybe two homeschooling families I knew that I couldn't see any evidence of abuse growing up out of the hundreds we met (all of whom were Christian conservative, never met any liberal or secular homeschooled families). Thanks for speaking out about these issues that really don't receive enough attention. Just tired of seeing this issue get overlooked and knowing kids are getting abused right now because no one is willing to even mention what's going on in the homeschool lobby world.
I am sorry for what you went through. This is not an attack on all homeschooling, but the Christian nationalist homeschool movement needs to be highlighted, because so much abuse is there. The fact that the US hasn't signed the U.S. Declaration of Human Rights is astonishing to me. Astonishingly disgusting.
As an ace trans woman who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian homeschooling family, thank you for speaking out for us. I can vouch first hand how much abuse me, my sister's, and other kids we grew up around who were homeschooled received as well. I was abused physically, mentally, emotionlly, financially, and sent to conversion therapy. I wasn't allowed to have a social life at many points growing up (and therefore have zero social skills as an adult, which is why I love as a hermit). I can only think of one or maybe two homeschooling families I knew that I couldn't see any evidence of abuse growing up out of the hundreds we met (all of whom were Christian conservative, never met any liberal or secular homeschooled families). Thanks for speaking out about these issues that really don't receive enough attention. Just tired of seeing this issue get overlooked and knowing kids are getting abused right now because no one is willing to even mention what's going on in the homeschool lobby world.
I am sorry for what you went through. This is not an attack on all homeschooling, but the Christian nationalist homeschool movement needs to be highlighted, because so much abuse is there. The fact that the US hasn't signed the U.S. Declaration of Human Rights is astonishing to me. Astonishingly disgusting.
Think of the children, right?