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Anonymous
How would promoting the concept that gender is a social construct make women inclined to work in STEM? I'm a woman in STEM and don't see the connection you're making. I don't think there's anything about femininity that is at odds with working in science. |
Anonymous
I guess what I worry is that, because of the historical association with men and physical sciences, that women who find themselves drawn to the physical sciences may worry they "feel" like a man, if this is not taught carefully and at an age where they can understand this subtlety. |
Anonymous
NP. The standards include teaching about the ways that gender stereotypes can be limiting (it's directly in the standards) and the particular lesson that Fox News is freaked out about (Pink Purple and Blue) is essentially a lesson about how both boys and girls can do most things, it expressly has the teacher teaching that girls be doctors and work with rockets. None of this is groundbreaking obviously, but it's definitely geared toward making sure girls know that they can do STEM stuff. |
Anonymous
DP. I'm another female STEM and that's just nuts. There are some "barriers" for women in STEM but that's not one. |
Anonymous
Ummm. MIT has approximately 1,050 faculty members, of whom 250 are women (June 2019). |
Anonymous
And that is 2019. 2019. |
Anonymous
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Im guessing the reason my posts keeps on being deleted is because no one wants to talk about the truth regarding trans kids/people.
I’m so glad that this forum is open for discussion …. |
Anonymous
You are inferring the wrong conclusion from that number. I assure you. |
Anonymous
+1 million |
Anonymous
| Here is what scientists have to say on the topic. I am fine with this being taught to any ages child. https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Sex-Chromosome |
Anonymous
I don't think people are freaking out about the part you mention here. I think, from the OPs post, they are freakng out over the part that says ""Gender identity is that feeling of knowing your gender. You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl," the lesson plan states. "You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts." |
Anonymous
Exactly. This is the part that is causing issues for parents. |
Anonymous
You really think someone is going to feel like their gender identity doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth solely because of their interests/strengths? That seems highly unrealistic. However, there is some research linking androgens to better performance on spatial and mathematics tasks. So it is possible that someone with a more “male” brain is good at certain STEM things AND also has a deeply held sense of self that matches up more with being male than female. That sense of self part is really hard to explain well to little kids IMO and makes more sense to introduce a little later. Most adults probably don’t even have a good understanding of the idea that “maleness” and “femaleness” in terms of identity can exist on a spectrum. At least we’re not used to thinking or talking about it on that way. But it’s been there all along — all of us knew girls who were “tomboys” and boys who were “girly”. It doesn’t mean those kids go on the be transgender or gay. Some may but most will not. There has always been a spectrum just like there’s a spectrum for introversion and extraversion for example. That’s not the same thing as saying gender doesn’t exist or that people flip back and forth as they so choose. But that spectrum has been there all along and all of us fall somewhere along it. Social influences may play a role but we can’t discount the role of exposure to hormones before we were even born and how those influence brain development — something scientists are very much still trying to understand People who feel like their sex assigned at birth doesn’t match their gender identity usually “know” from a young age but probably can’t articulate it. Maybe telling kids this stuff earlier will help those kids? I don’t know. It aea just as likely to confuse kids who haven’t spent much time thinking about gender identity. |
Anonymous
This is what your brain on gender/women's studies looks like kids. Because I studied the hard sciences, I clearly must be confused about my gender. FFS, this is why progressives should not involved in any type of education. |
Anonymous
kids are very imaginative and playful. so yes, I can easily imagine them wondering if the fact that they like boy things means they are transgender. If you put the idea of God in their heads, they can be fiercely religiously. Kids are very suggestive. I would let them play, and wouldn't discourage them if they came up with this idea on their own, but purposefully putting it in their heads is indeed grooming. |