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[quote=Anonymous]In my 8th ESOL class today, we were talking about multisyllabic words with Latin roots. One of the roots was trans- which means, as I'm sure you know, (move) across or through. Transport, transmit, translucent, transfer. We talked about the words and their meanings. One boy asked "What about transgender? What does that mean?" Do you think it would have been appropriate for me to talk about the meaning of the word? Part of learning vocabulary is learning how to use the word in context, and it's really hard to use the word "transgender" in context, without having the background knowledge to understand what it means. I'd be scared to say anything if I were a teacher in Florida. Not even "Ask your parents what transgender means" because then they'd go home and tell parents I was teaching them about transgenderism and I'd surely be fired from my job. [/quote]
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