LGBTQ Education in schools, thoughts?

[OurGodIsWithUs]

As a science major, I took a genetics class. A question, on the final exam, included

“What can you say about the gender of a child?”
Well, the scientific answer lies in sperm. Some carry X, and others carry Y. That’s 50:50. So, there’s a 1 in 2 chance that it’ll be a and a 1 in 2 chance it’ll be a .

But I spotted answer choice ‘D.’ D said “You don’t. The child will grow up and tell you.” I picked D as my answer and got the question right.

While that might be true, I think it was wrong to be on a final exam, in a SCIENCE CLASS. That topic is to be discussed elsewhere. I think schools ought to preach LGBTQ tolerance, if not acceptance. The latter is too much for some folks to bear. Tolerance is what separates Catholicism from other religions, and will lead to a happier world, imo. The hillsboro baptist “church” is on the other end of the spectrum, shouting “God hates fags!” and “Thank God for dead soldiers,” while calling themselves Christian. Seems like an abuse of the term itself, making people think of christianity as a cult of hate.

Things ought to change.

 

[Mythicalbio]

If you accept the gender/sex distinction, then there is nothing especially tolerant about that answer.

 

[Irishmom2]

think schools ought to preach LGBTQ tolerance, if not acceptance. The latter is too much for some folks to bear.

I would appear that is what they are teaching/preaching. Tolerance is not acceptance. I won’t be rude or yell at people, but I do not need to accept anything in order to tolerate it.

 

[OurGodIsWithUs]

EXACTLY! Well said!

 

[ZemD]

Was this an answer on a high school or college level exam?

 

[pearleaf]

I was under the impression that the gender/sex distinction was fairly standard in academic discussions of gender.

Essentialism seems more ideological, to be honest.

 

[Mythicalbio]

In addition to being obviously false in practice.

 

[TheLittleLady]

In my experience, science determined the sex of a person. Sex is objective. During the ultrasound parents are asked “do you want to know the sex??”.

Gender is a subjective term.

 

[sealabeag]

Did this really happen? Maybe I’m way out of the loop in terms of what’s happening in education systems, but I’m very sceptical that a science test would have such an answer. Was this in the US?

 

[27lw]

Did this really happen? Maybe I’m way out of the loop in terms of what’s happening in education systems, but I’m very sceptical that a science test would have such an answer. Was this in the US?

You are way out of the loop. I am, right now, watching a webinar about “everything you wanted to know about trangender inclusion but were afraid to ask”. In the US. This gender agenda is being pushed in most every school, college, and government workplace.
For instance, here is a course listing from Purdue University (which is rather conservative) for a required “Human Cultures” core curriculum - - Note that Econ is in the same list as “Gender Across Cultures”.

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Course Listing - Office of the Provost - Purdue University

 

[ThinkingSapien]

As a science major, I took a genetics class. A question, on the final exam, included

“What can you say about the gender of a child?”
Well, the scientific answer lies in sperm. Some carry X, and others carry Y. That’s 50:50. So, there’s a 1 in 2 chance that it’ll be a and a 1 in 2 chance it’ll be a .

But I spotted answer choice ‘D.’ D said “You don’t. The child will grow up and tell you.” I picked D as my answer and got the question right.

Kind of interesting that they had that question on there. I would expect a science class to deal with the sex of a child (biological characteristics). Gender identity sounds more like a sociology/psychology topic.

Gender is a subjective term.

Yeah, best I can tell from what I’ve read “gender” wasn’t applied to humans until around the 1970s. It was used by some researcher* that was studying a child that had a horrible accident getting circumcised and was “gendered” as a girl. He used it to refer to the role that someone played in society.

I don’t know why there was a transition from people using the word “gender” as a synonym for “sex.” Or the default interpretation of “sex” becoming “sexual intercourse” instead of referring to biological characteristics. But word usage changes over time…