How is it impinging on your rights?
As has already been explained; it’s a medically correct term, not a politically correct one.
Except it is a common misconception that this is about “pushing” the idea on anyone. Every sex ed lesson I have run that involves gender has the very clear message; you are the one who has a say in your gender.ConfusedLucy:
This.
My 14-year-okd “tomboy” just wants to be herself. She’s a girl and she knows it, though she’s not particularly happy about it. She defies gender stereotypes in so many ways and that’s okay. She is about individual, not defined or constricted by her gender. The problem is that people keep asking her if she’s trans,pushing the idea that if you think how a boy is “supposed” to think and act like a boy is “supposed” to act, then you must really be a boy inside. We can’t just let people be who they are. In the process of trying to normalize this incredibly complex and extremely rare condition, a lot more confusion is occurring.
The terrifying agenda that folks keep speaking of is to combat the bullying that gender noncomforing children face.
You seem to have a very dim view of children’s intellect. Why should a child not be taught to respect other people’s gender?
If it helps many transwomen simply grow breasts via hormones. And I would do so because they want this surgery, because it has been shown to be the best way to help, and it doesn’t (to my mind) harm anyone.
I’m sorry to say it but children question things. Particularly adolescents in terms of sex and gender. The teenage years are a time of exploring how one feels about their gender, how one presents it and what it means to them. Same with sexuality. And no amount of keeping children ignorant will change that. All these lessons seek to do is help children understand that some folks do this and discover they are different; and we should treat them with respect.
I’m afraid I’m not wrong; I have indeed taught gender theory in sex ed classes. I recognise that you disagree with it, but I’m afraid it’s not “wrong”. Children should be inquisitive and should ask questions of everything; if we don’t question we don’t learn.
A large part of the lesson involves an anti-bully section. This helps people with body dysphoria and can combat some of the stress they experience at school greatly. In terms of kindness killing; the sheer amount of trans* people who die, often due to the stress brought on from social non-acceptance rather than just body dysphoria, is terrible and must be combated.
I guess because these people are living in misery, the likes of which most of us will never even have a clue about. At this stage of the game, there is no known or available brain surgery that can correct this problem. Reassignment surgery can and does bring many of them relief of some sort, at least better than nothing. I guess that is why.
Ironically people speaking out against the redefinition ended up contributing to the corpus of Merriam Websters resulting in them updating their definition accordingly. But that’s another story.
Its debatable. The brain is definitely part of the body. Some view the mind as the result of the activity of the brain in the same way they might view running as being from the activity of ones legs (but running is not the same as the legs). Traumatic experiences can leave the brain physically unharmed but be damaging to the mind. The two as re both different and entangled with each other.
I believe I have explained that I don’t think it is “mutilating”. Often times surgeries, which not all trans* people pursue I should add, are the only way we have to deal with the dysphoria. We don’t have drugs or counselling that actually works to solve this. I may have also explained earlier that there is every possibility that the dysphoria is as a result of a biological component in the brain; in which case counseling would never actually solve it.
I am home… it’s the nature of the internet
But joking aside surgery does actively save lives, though sadly not all. The suicide rate among trans* people is high, but surgery does assist. Nor is the LGBT+ community predatory.… okay, so I was going through the thread that I missed and the wheels seem to have come off this conversation while I was away? I’m not sure what happened?
I disagree. I think @Alex337 has posted a lot of solid information and that most of us here can benefit from it. It is always a good thing to gain understanding about the world around you, whether you agree with it or not.
To be frank; what I have seen of the US sex education isn’t terribly good. Many schools refuse to teach about prophylactics, and without that information you’re in a bad position.
So, are you saying LGBT+ folks are Satan? I don’t want to misunderstand.
I’m glad your school is so much more accepting of these students. I work as both a teacher and help out with LGBT+ youth events and I’ve not seen them being treated as “hip”. I have seen them literally beaten up, spat on and taunted. But every environment is different.