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Originally Posted by Liam-
Here’s the thing, kids should be taught useful life skills, especially as they get older, but they should also be taught about human difference and the acceptance of being different, being nice to people who aren’t the same as you and accepting and loving yourself if you might feel different from everybody else
It doesn’t have to be one or the other
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I agree HOWEVER doing so would involve teaching that
some people believe that gender is on a spectrum, not that gender IS on a spectrum.
Again I find myself comparing it to religion; we teach about Hinduism (etc) in schools, we teach that there are many millions of people who believe in the teachings of those religions... we teach that people should respect each other's beliefs even if we don't believe them ourselves. We don't teach that the elephant-headed gods are real. We don't comment on it either way. And we certainly don't insist that people pretend to believe things that they don't.
We teach the facts; which in this case is that gender is a sociological construct and therefore open to debate. Some people believe gender is on a spectrum, and some don't. That's ALL that schools should be teaching.