MCPS Offers Third Gender Classification for All Students

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't there be boys who feel like they imagine girls feel, and girls who feel like they imagine boys feel? Why can't there be every kind of boy and every kind of girl? Why are boys who feel like girls "really girls"? Why aren't they really boys who don't feel the way society says stereotypical boys feel? I seriously don't get this issue. I don't think it's liberal or accepting to have a boy cut off his penis because he doesn't think he feels like a 'real' boy on the inside. Bizarre.
It's especially nonsensical for children, who are thinking and feeling all kinds of crazy stuff until the dust settles.

I wanted a tail when I was a kid. Should I have demanded I be treated like a monkey?

Good news! There can! And there can ALSO be people who are transgender or non-binary.

You really think there are people who are somehow really girls born in “boy bodies” and vice versa? Really?

Of course! I grew up with one in a very small town, and I'm in my forties.

Or maybe he was an effeminate gay man?

Awesome that there's an anonymous commenter on an Internet message board who thinks they know more about individual people than the individual people themselves.

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Why is it hateful to ask how many students this actually affects? Is this really an issue for a large percentage of students in MCPS?

This particular thing may cost $0, though I doubt it. Must have been some time and energy involved to change all the forms. Plus the teacher trainings that is now involved to make sure teachers are appropriately acknowledging kids who call themselves Gender X.

Should MCPS only do things if they're an issue for a large percentage of students in MCPS?

Well, it is a public school system. With limited funding. And the public school’s mission should really be focused on educating kids. Not on pandering to political pressure.

too late
That ship sailed . . .

too bad it didn't sail right into an iceberg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a school counselor. I have worked with transgender kids. I am convinced that yes, there are boys who are actually girls in terms of their gender identity, and vice versa. There also are boys who are effeminate and don’t fit into any socially acceptable “mold” of a boy, and vice versa. All of this is ok. We all need to challenge stereotypes and allow kids to be who they are. We need all gender bathrooms, we need to teach kids to be inclusive and respectful of everyone, AND we need trained staff who can help kids explore their identity in healthy, safe ways. And that includes teachers who are willing to use kids’ preferred pronouns etc. All the judgment helps no one.

I can say that if we continue to focus on these topics instead of instruction, we'll be graduating X, XX and XY with no skills.

enough already!

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Anonymous wrote:how to participate school competitive sports for "X" ?
would they be discriminated for being "X" either in the male or female teams ? or schools have to create a team with sex X ?

I may be completely wrong, but im guessing most gender neutral kids are not that sporty.

Sporty? I take offense to that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a school counselor. I have worked with transgender kids. I am convinced that yes, there are boys who are actually girls in terms of their gender identity, and vice versa. There also are boys who are effeminate and don’t fit into any socially acceptable “mold” of a boy, and vice versa. All of this is ok. We all need to challenge stereotypes and allow kids to be who they are. We need all gender bathrooms, we need to teach kids to be inclusive and respectful of everyone, AND we need trained staff who can help kids explore their identity in healthy, safe ways. And that includes teachers who are willing to use kids’ preferred pronouns etc. All the judgment helps no one.

I can say that if we continue to focus on these topics instead of instruction, we'll be graduating X, XX and XY with no skills.

enough already!

You're the one focusing on it. If you don't think it should be focused on, all you have to do is stop focusing on it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a school counselor. I have worked with transgender kids. I am convinced that yes, there are boys who are actually girls in terms of their gender identity, and vice versa. There also are boys who are effeminate and don’t fit into any socially acceptable “mold” of a boy, and vice versa. All of this is ok. We all need to challenge stereotypes and allow kids to be who they are. We need all gender bathrooms, we need to teach kids to be inclusive and respectful of everyone, AND we need trained staff who can help kids explore their identity in healthy, safe ways. And that includes teachers who are willing to use kids’ preferred pronouns etc. All the judgment helps no one.

I can say that if we continue to focus on these topics instead of instruction, we'll be graduating X, XX and XY with no skills.

enough already!

You're the one focusing on it. If you don't think it should be focused on, all you have to do is stop focusing on it.

DP

I have tremendous OCD. I focus on things because I have to. This is offensive.

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Anonymous wrote:My question is how many parents asked to have this change?

I know lots of parents have asked for lots of things from MCPS (smaller class sizes, for one!) and those parents are completely dismissed.

How many parents lobbied to have this changed? Maybe if we can get that many parents to lobby for smaller class sizes, then we could get that also?

I can’t believe I’m acknowledging your hateful question, but in the event that you’re not a bigot and rather just an idiot, you should know that adding the option to classify gender X costs $0, and smaller class sizes costs millions.

If you bigots keep supporting morons like Trump and DeVos, then class size is going to increase, not get smaller.

How does supporting Trump lead to larger class sizes? Last I heard, he was trying to build a wall, which in MoCo would lead to smaller class sizes.

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This is not helping the mental illness -- it is pandering to it. If my mental illness makes me say that I am from the planet Zetron beyond Pluto, it does not help me to have the school have a additional category for extraterrestials.

The people who actually professionally study and treat mental illness disagree with your opinion about gender. But don't let that stop you.

While no dog in what is to these eyes a point less fight, most professionals dont actually weigh in on the issue due to the toxicity and delicacy.

That's not true at all.

That's true for awhile, but eventually the graduate school/field becomes so strident that people who believe in the liberal tradition of seeking knowledge/scientific method stay away. The older people already in the field keep their mouth shut. I know because I am in that field and have watched the slow train wreck.

[Anonymous]

Just do it by sex

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't there be boys who feel like they imagine girls feel, and girls who feel like they imagine boys feel? Why can't there be every kind of boy and every kind of girl? Why are boys who feel like girls "really girls"? Why aren't they really boys who don't feel the way society says stereotypical boys feel? I seriously don't get this issue. I don't think it's liberal or accepting to have a boy cut off his penis because he doesn't think he feels like a 'real' boy on the inside. Bizarre.
It's especially nonsensical for children, who are thinking and feeling all kinds of crazy stuff until the dust settles.

I wanted a tail when I was a kid. Should I have demanded I be treated like a monkey?

Good news! There can! And there can ALSO be people who are transgender or non-binary.

You really think there are people who are somehow really girls born in “boy bodies” and vice versa? Really?

Of course! I grew up with one in a very small town, and I'm in my forties.

Or maybe he was an effeminate gay man?

Um, no.

[Anonymous]

Could anyone please define what is male or boy and female or girl? As an immigrant and a biologist, I know sex of a person is determined by the sex chromosomes. Some sex organs ate developed before birth and others are matured as the kids grow to 9 to 10 years old. There are less than .1% people born with abnormal sex chromosomes.

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Anonymous wrote:Could anyone please define what is male or boy and female or girl? As an immigrant and a biologist, I know sex of a person is determined by the sex chromosomes. Some sex organs ate developed before birth and others are matured as the kids grow to 9 to 10 years old. There are less than .1% people born with abnormal sex chromosomes.

I'm wondering how being an immigrant is relevant to your knowledge of human sex chromosomes?

However, here's a short answer to your question: Sex is biology. Gender is personal identity and society's ideas.

[Anonymous]

What do you all think about the thing in Canada with Jessica Yaniv suing Brazilian wax salons for human rights violations for refusing to wax her male genitalia? This issue is such a slippery slope, and I say that as someone who empathize with the LGBTQ community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could anyone please define what is male or boy and female or girl? As an immigrant and a biologist, I know sex of a person is determined by the sex chromosomes. Some sex organs ate developed before birth and others are matured as the kids grow to 9 to 10 years old. There are less than .1% people born with abnormal sex chromosomes.

I'm wondering how being an immigrant is relevant to your knowledge of human sex chromosomes?

However, here's a short answer to your question: Sex is biology. Gender is personal identity and society's ideas.

I would guess that maybe the immigrant poster speaks more than one language, and maybe has English as a second language and is trying to understand the confusion that many of us feel about this issue.

[Anonymous]

Given the restorative justice will cause nonstop classroom disruption Liberia’s won’t even be able to brainwash kids anymore