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[quote=Anonymous]I'm surprised by the number of people in this disussion who are conflating biological sex and gender. Sex is biology (male or female genitalia and hormones) and gender is a social construct (how someone expresses themselves to conform or not to a culture's expectations of how a male or female behaves, whether through dress, parenting duties, length of hair, etc.).

Here's an explanation:  https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/difference-between-sex-and-gender.

Also, I just don't see why so many adults are upset about this.  I think the most recent studies show about 10% of teens say they are either gender non-binary or genderqueer or identify in some way that does not conform with the sex they were born with. It's just a fact of life. Many of our kids are just rejecting the binary world that many of us grew up in and are more comfortable expressing a broader range of gender.  We can try to shame and stigmatize, or we can try to understand.

I imagine if a kid no longer felt at home in an all girl's school, they would leave (unless the parents were not supportive). The question is whether a school can embrace a child who is on a journey to figuring this out.
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