Anonymous wrote:Why can't there be boys who feel like they imagine girls feel, and girls who feel like they imagine boys feel? Why can't there be every kind of boy and every kind of girl? Why are boys who feel like girls "really girls"? Why aren't they really boys who don't feel the way society says stereotypical boys feel? I seriously don't get this issue. I don't think it's liberal or accepting to have a boy cut off his penis because he doesn't think he feels like a 'real' boy on the inside. Bizarre.
It's especially nonsensical for children, who are thinking and feeling all kinds of crazy stuff until the dust settles.

I wanted a tail when I was a kid. Should I have demanded I be treated like a monkey?

Good news! There can! And there can ALSO be people who are transgender or non-binary.

I think the best thing for the county to do would be having staff professionally trained and available to talk to kids who are at a very confusing crossroad. This path seems to be more pandering than trying to be actually helpful.

Why can't there be boys who feel like they imagine girls feel, and girls who feel like they imagine boys feel? Why can't there be every kind of boy and every kind of girl? Why are boys who feel like girls "really girls"? Why aren't they really boys who don't feel the way society says stereotypical boys feel? I seriously don't get this issue. I don't think it's liberal or accepting to have a boy cut off his penis because he doesn't think he feels like a 'real' boy on the inside. Bizarre.
It's especially nonsensical for children, who are thinking and feeling all kinds of crazy stuff until the dust settles.

I wanted a tail when I was a kid. Should I have demanded I be treated like a monkey?

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This is not helping the mental illness -- it is pandering to it. If my mental illness makes me say that I am from the planet Zetron beyond Pluto, it does not help me to have the school have a additional category for extraterrestials.

The people who actually professionally study and treat mental illness disagree with your opinion about gender. But don't let that stop you.

While no dog in what is to these eyes a point less fight, most professionals dont actually weigh in on the issue due to the toxicity and delicacy.

That's not true at all.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6897269/amp/Workers-transgender-clinic-quit-concerns-unregulated-live-experiments-children.html

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This is not helping the mental illness -- it is pandering to it. If my mental illness makes me say that I am from the planet Zetron beyond Pluto, it does not help me to have the school have a additional category for extraterrestials.

The people who actually professionally study and treat mental illness disagree with your opinion about gender. But don't let that stop you.

That’s not true.

Anonymous wrote:I find the letter X offensive, as in x rated movies, not having a meaning in math.

Ha ha.

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This is not helping the mental illness -- it is pandering to it. If my mental illness makes me say that I am from the planet Zetron beyond Pluto, it does not help me to have the school have a additional category for extraterrestials.

The people who actually professionally study and treat mental illness disagree with your opinion about gender. But don't let that stop you.

Are you saying that we should have another student category for extraterrestials?

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This is not helping the mental illness -- it is pandering to it. If my mental illness makes me say that I am from the planet Zetron beyond Pluto, it does not help me to have the school have a additional category for extraterrestials.

The people who actually professionally study and treat mental illness disagree with your opinion about gender. But don't let that stop you.

While no dog in what is to these eyes a point less fight, most professionals dont actually weigh in on the issue due to the toxicity and delicacy.

That's not true at all.

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Anonymous wrote:If a gender is not needed why ask anyone for a gender? Same question for MD drivers license. Just leave it off.

Because its a way of narrowing down info. If there are 2 Taylor Smiths and one is a M and one is an F this helps. Even if one is now an X its still helpful

LOL

That sounds bogus. You can have two Taylor Smiths who are both M.

DOB is really a better way to distinguish.

Exactly because 2 people are ever born on the same day

Ridiculous. You can also have two M kids, born on the same day, who have the same name. That’s no reason to randomly add in another Gender category.

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Anonymous wrote:If a gender is not needed why ask anyone for a gender? Same question for MD drivers license. Just leave it off.

Because its a way of narrowing down info. If there are 2 Taylor Smiths and one is a M and one is an F this helps. Even if one is now an X its still helpful

Every student is issued a unique ID number. So...gender and race designations seems unnecessary for this particular purpose.

Unless the numbers get mixed up
and these are numbers assigned to the kids, they are looking for ways to identify the ACTUAL KID, not the id ASSIGNED TO the kid
so if the number assigned to Dolly, M was accidentally mixed up mid-year with Dolly X ...there are actual ways to distinguish them based on personal identity not MCPS identification

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Anonymous wrote:My question is how many parents asked to have this change?

I know lots of parents have asked for lots of things from MCPS (smaller class sizes, for one!) and those parents are completely dismissed.

How many parents lobbied to have this changed? Maybe if we can get that many parents to lobby for smaller class sizes, then we could get that also?

I can’t believe I’m acknowledging your hateful question, but in the event that you’re not a bigot and rather just an idiot, you should know that adding the option to classify gender X costs $0, and smaller class sizes costs millions.

If you bigots keep supporting morons like Trump and DeVos, then class size is going to increase, not get smaller.

No need to call anyone moron. To the PP the other poster is entitled to her/his opinion.

MCPS can’t focus on smaller class sizes when it’s responding to outside lobby groups trying to force their agenda on children

NP, you really are a moron with that dumbass response.

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This is not helping the mental illness -- it is pandering to it. If my mental illness makes me say that I am from the planet Zetron beyond Pluto, it does not help me to have the school have a additional category for extraterrestials.

The people who actually professionally study and treat mental illness disagree with your opinion about gender. But don't let that stop you.

While no dog in what is to these eyes a point less fight, most professionals dont actually weigh in on the issue due to the toxicity and delicacy.

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Anonymous wrote:If a gender is not needed why ask anyone for a gender? Same question for MD drivers license. Just leave it off.

Because its a way of narrowing down info. If there are 2 Taylor Smiths and one is a M and one is an F this helps. Even if one is now an X its still helpful

LOL

That sounds bogus. You can have two Taylor Smiths who are both M.

DOB is really a better way to distinguish.

Exactly because 2 people are ever born on the same day

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Anonymous wrote:If a gender is not needed why ask anyone for a gender? Same question for MD drivers license. Just leave it off.

Because its a way of narrowing down info. If there are 2 Taylor Smiths and one is a M and one is an F this helps. Even if one is now an X its still helpful

Every student is issued a unique ID number. So...gender and race designations seems unnecessary for this particular purpose.

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This is not helping the mental illness -- it is pandering to it. If my mental illness makes me say that I am from the planet Zetron beyond Pluto, it does not help me to have the school have a additional category for extraterrestials.

The people who actually professionally study and treat mental illness disagree with your opinion about gender. But don't let that stop you.