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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is pretty trendy right now.

Ten years ago it was being bi sexual ( as a teen) that was edgy - now its being bi gendered or non gendered.

A very, very small percentage of teens will go on to identify as neither male nor female into adulthood. For 99% of these kids, they are just being edgy and cool.[/quote]

Where are all these kids?

Maybe I misunderstand what trendy means. To me, if less than 30% of adolescents are doing it or claim to do it, it isn't a trend.

For over 20 years, I've been a parent, a secondary school teacher, and a leader in groups like GS, GOTR, etc. By my estimation, less than 5% of the kids I've encountered have been out as bisexual or gender queer. Met more kids who were gay/lesbian or trans.

I saw the same panic among parents about being pagan. Only met two Wiccan kids during that entire period.[/quote]

Do you still work with teens, because from what I've heard this whole bi-gender thing had just exploded in the past year and a half. [/quote]

I do. I teach MS and ran a camp for rising 9th-10th graders in late June. 25 girls. One out "soft butch" lesbian. She would have corrected me if I had misgendered her.[/quote]

The day I would allow a MS age girl to "correct" me on something like this is the day I would most likely lose my job. Because I wouldn't stand for it. This is nonsense beyond belief. Just because these kids' idiot parents go along with it does not mean that all adults do, or should.[/quote]

What does this even mean? If shes lesbian, she is lesbian, it's not all a trend so I don't see a problem.[/quote]

I think the pp misunderstood what the pp before her stated. [/quote]

She misunderstood me. I don't see a trend. And even if I saw a trend, I wouldn't see a problem. If I misgendered a kid, I'd expect them to correct me the same as if I had called them by the wrong name.[/quote]

You would "expect" a middle school or slightly older age kid to "correct" you for calling a girl a girl or a boy a boy?

Truly, some of you are nuts.[/quote]

[b]If a kid tells me "I'm a boy.[/b]" I respect that. I don't care what's on their birth certificate or between their legs. I have way more important stuff that I need to get into with them.[/quote]

Well, if this person is actually a girl, then you're just as crazy as she is.[/quote]

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