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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.  I don't know anything about the class and probably FL is being dumb about this.

But AP Psych?  This isn't a class that kids should take in high school.  AP has jumped the shark.  And by adding such a plethora of AP classes, while also diluting them, they have reached their peak and are on the other side now.  [/quote]

I took AP psych in high school 30 years ago![/quote]
What “definitions of gender” did you learn back then?

Or did you already know, and didn’t need to be told?[/quote]

I remember talking about Erikson and his stages of development (the physcosocial stages which sets up different challenges between the self and society that you have to work through at different stages in your life).  The teen years are about “identity versus confusion” and I do remember we talked about as an example of where this is the period where you are coming to grips with your identity.  We had (in 1989) an example of a trans person in an article we read for an assignment.  It certainly wasn’t the focus of the course and it was a throw away example.  But I remembered it all these years later as something that a child living in Florida today would not be able to access.  Seems so bizarre.  [/quote]
My, have politics changed everything! Back then it was teens leaning about their identity, which is totally great. But now preschool children are getting told they’re “born is the wrong body”, which is complete bs.

My friend’s teen daughter wanted a breast reduction, so they went for a doctor’s consult. Thank goodness the doctor had the intelligence (and guts!) to say, first let’s try some physical therapy for the back pain. I suspect there’ll also be some nutritional discussion for the obesity situation. These surgeries yield gigantic profits for the industry, but should not be so quickly done to minor children.

“Born in the wrong body” children most often have mental situations which should always first worked through, and not with just risky meds.

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Cite your statistic for the last statement.[/quote]

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