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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea what it means not to partake in "identification".  Are you saying that your kid refuses to answer questions about their gender, or religion, or nationality, or family status or hobbies?

Everyone I know identifies as something.  [/quote]

If you're a white male, cis/het, not religious, UMC, family been here a long time and intermixed (generic European), truly what is there to say?

I'm not in this category but I feel like these Qs should be optional. Otherwise it is very cringe and fake.[/quote]

Just off the top of my head, if given the prompt in the article, my white male high school student who is cis/het, Catholic, either MC or UMC depending on who you ask, and whose family has been here for many generations could write about the following:

1) His identity as a musician, and his decision to step back from athletics to pursue music.

2) His identity as a Catholic who doesn't always agree with choices that the Catholic church has made, or with choices made by individual Catholics in the name of Catholicism.

3) His lived experience as a Special Olympics coach and the skills he learned in that setting.

4) His lived experience as his grandfather's grandchild, and the things he learned from him.

I could go on, but it's really not that hard to come up with things to write about.

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