MCPS Offers Third Gender Classification for All Students

[Anonymous]

I’m sure it’s tough for your spouse, but can you also see that it might be tough for parents of teen girls? Maybe parents of teen and tween girls are not comfortable with the idea of ‘young men who identify themselves as female’ being in the school bathrooms with them?

I have a kid (a daughter so far as we know at this age). I also understand that trans women are 1) women not "men who identify..." and 2) the victims of bathroom related violence, not the perpetrators. Policing who enters what bathroom based on these imaginary fears when actual trans/gender non-conforming kids and adults are suffering from that policing is stupid.

[Anonymous]

Why can't you be both Male and Female at the same time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-offers-new-option-for-classifying-student-gender/

Students can now classify as X instead of being forced to choose Male of Female.

So cool! What a cool progressive school system with really great priorities!

[Anonymous]

non-binary

[Anonymous]

How much are bathrooms?

At my chikd’s school this morning. I saw there are “gender neutral” bathrooms all over. Picturing a male, female, half female/male figures.

How much was this? And why don’t we keep priorities straight?

This money could’ve probably used to train special ed teachers on intervention that help 20% of dyslexic children

Or maybe simply work on a system that will help our children be safe from sexual predators

Or maybe a system that really does background checks

Or simply pay teachers better

1,000 more ways that can help our children’s education

Instead, we’re confusing the rest and taking in a liberal policy that certainly could’ve been handled different

Outside groups setting priorities

[Anonymous]

So much for Prom King and Queen

[Anonymous]

And don’t forget investing on smaller class
Sizes

[Anonymous]

Or perhaps investing the money to avoid this

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/courts/mcps-agrees-to-500000-settlement-in-cloverly-elementary-sexual-abuse-case/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you be both Male and Female at the same time?

You can. It's called a hermaphrodite, or intersex, a medical condition that is extremely rare, but it legitimately exists.
Has nothing to do with chicks wearing oversized flannel shirts and claiming to be male.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So much for Prom King and Queen

Anybody of any gender can be prom king, or prom queen, if that's who the student body chooses.

And if that's who the student body chooses, what's it to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you be both Male and Female at the same time?

You can. It's called a hermaphrodite, or intersex, a medical condition that is extremely rare, but it legitimately exists.
Has nothing to do with chicks wearing oversized flannel shirts and claiming to be male.

Intersex is not a single medical condition, and it's not extremely rare. Here are some estimates of prevalence for different intersex conditions:

Not XX and not XY one in 1,666 births
Klinefelter (XXY) one in 1,000 births
Androgen insensitivity syndrome one in 13,000 births
Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome one in 130,000 births
Classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia one in 13,000 births
Late onset adrenal hyperplasia one in 66 individuals
Vaginal agenesis one in 6,000 births
Ovotestes one in 83,000 births
Idiopathic (no discernable medical cause) one in 110,000 births
Iatrogenic (caused by medical treatment, for instance progestin administered to pregnant mother) no estimate
5 alpha reductase deficiency no estimate
Mixed gonadal dysgenesis no estimate
Complete gonadal dysgenesis one in 150,000 births
Hypospadias (urethral opening in perineum or along penile shaft) one in 2,000 births
Hypospadias (urethral opening between corona and tip of glans penis) one in 770 births
Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births
Total number of people receiving surgery to “normalize” genital appearance one or two in 1,000 births

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much are bathrooms?

At my chikd’s school this morning. I saw there are “gender neutral” bathrooms all over. Picturing a male, female, half female/male figures.

How much was this? And why don’t we keep priorities straight?

This money could’ve probably used to train special ed teachers on intervention that help 20% of dyslexic children

Or maybe simply work on a system that will help our children be safe from sexual predators

Or maybe a system that really does background checks

Or simply pay teachers better

1,000 more ways that can help our children’s education

Instead, we’re confusing the rest and taking in a liberal policy that certainly could’ve been handled different

Outside groups setting priorities

How much was a bathroom sign that had both a little male figure and a little female figure on it? Is that what you're asking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much are bathrooms?

At my chikd’s school this morning. I saw there are “gender neutral” bathrooms all over. Picturing a male, female, half female/male figures.

How much was this? And why don’t we keep priorities straight?

This money could’ve probably used to train special ed teachers on intervention that help 20% of dyslexic children

Or maybe simply work on a system that will help our children be safe from sexual predators

Or maybe a system that really does background checks

Or simply pay teachers better

1,000 more ways that can help our children’s education

Instead, we’re confusing the rest and taking in a liberal policy that certainly could’ve been handled different

Outside groups setting priorities

+1 million

The BOE and MCPS prefer to pander to certain groups because it’s easier than making actual changes that improve the quality of education in the County. It’s gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the letter X offensive, as in x rated movies, not having a meaning in math.

Ha ha.

They should change it to Gender 404.

I see what you did there... lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much are bathrooms?

At my chikd’s school this morning. I saw there are “gender neutral” bathrooms all over. Picturing a male, female, half female/male figures.

How much was this? And why don’t we keep priorities straight?

This money could’ve probably used to train special ed teachers on intervention that help 20% of dyslexic children

Or maybe simply work on a system that will help our children be safe from sexual predators

Or maybe a system that really does background checks

Or simply pay teachers better

1,000 more ways that can help our children’s education

Instead, we’re confusing the rest and taking in a liberal policy that certainly could’ve been handled different

Outside groups setting priorities

+1 million

The BOE and MCPS prefer to pander to certain groups because it’s easier than making actual changes that improve the quality of education in the County. It’s gross.

+1 million