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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]It’s pretty disturbing grown adults feel a need for 11 year olds to be educated on their sexuality.  Leave the kids alone.  [/quote]
Apparently you were never in middle school. Kids are aware. Hormones are everywhere. You can smell in the halls. (Or was that just more Axe?)[/quote]

When I was 11, I was entering 6th grade, my last year of elementary school. Middle school was a world away. These kids are still 11 and prepubescent, even though we push them into middle school with kids who already smell like hormones and Axe.[/quote]

It was in direct response to your comment. You were replying to the fact that kids are already aware of the issues in this book. You're trying to say 11 year olds are prepubescent and pushed in with middle school kids too soon, implying a book like this is too soon for them. Also, the world has changed since you were 11. Try and keep up.[/quote]

That's because MCPS started talking about them in ES.[/quote]

Talking about who? Talking about what?[/quote]

MCPS starts introducing kids to the idea of being non-binary or trans in ES.  There are boos available in the library and the librarians will sometimes choose these LGBQT-friendly books to read to the kids.  [/quote]

You’re delusional if you don’t think they know this without any help from mcps or a book. Join the rest of us in the real world.[/quote]

So throughout history, there were all of these non-binary/trans people suffering in silence, and only now they have the freedom to burst forth?  I think you are the one who is delusional to discount the impact of social sanction of these "conditions."  Any troubled kid is now treated as "brave" and "cool," getting special attention from adults and peers at school and work if they articulate discomfort with the normal process of puberty and/or body self-image.

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Ummm, yes actually. Do you think being trans is a new concept? People did suffer in silence. They didn’t have communities for support. That is the entire point of this book. Now people don’t have to suffer in silence, they can find supportive people to surround themselves with. And if you’re binary and straight, it teaches you to be empathetic to others. It’s not a how to manual on “how to be non-binary”. That wouldn’t work anyway if you knew anything about being trans and you sound so uneducated that I’m sure you haven’t spent a single moment researching. Be better. [/quote]

I saw a documentary about 25 years ago, about someone who was "trans" in a tribe in the middle of a jungle in the middle of nowhere. The tribe was accepting. They even had a word for a boy born in a girl's body or a girl born in a boy's body, even though it hadn't happened in like 4 generations. No one in the tribe was alive the last time they had had a trans member. So yes, it has always happened -- but not at this rate.

I think it has more to do with plastics and other hormone disruptors than school reading lists, but I also think parents have a right to object without being told they're backward and close-minded and bigoted. That's simply not the case.[/quote]

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