As a parent, I have always been opposed to religious indoctrination of children being part of any curriculum. Perhaps the schools should focus on falling math scores, functional illiteracy, and preventing guns from getting into the schools.
Brian M
Because intersex people are so prominent and large in numbers!!
Papito
Was there some more information provided to the children apart from a basic drawing of a child with cat ears? Forgetting the extraneous “assigned at birth” dogma, there’s no way to be certain if the child depicted is male or female (the only two real choices – like a lot of standardized tests, it has obviously fake answers). This could easily be a sporty, short-haired 12 year old girl with little breast development. What it’s asking is for children to apply stereotypes – the child is wearing a hoodie and jeans, and uses a more typically male name, therefore must be male. Sorry, but I’ve met girls like that. The correct answer should be familiar from math tests, “Not enough information given.”
I’ve been girls like that – my entire life in fact.
Nullius in Verba
Intersex isn’t a third sex. No one is assigned intersex. Every person with an intersex condition is either male or female.
Someone, please make the stupid stop.
iknklast
Someone, please make the stupid stop.
If someone figures out how to do this, please let all of us know. There’s a lot more stupid to apply it to…Trump-vision, for instance.
guest
‘Olly’ might be Oliver or Olivia. My mom used to tell the story about how she asked her mom if she could have a sleepover with her friends – all women with nicknames that sounded like male names – and her mom said ‘hell no’. (She herself had a female name that was often shortened to a male-sounding name.)
Catwhisperer
Every single time, isn’t it? “There’s more than a hundred genders!” , they say. And you say “name some of them”, and they say “well, there’s men, women, nonbinary, umm, and so forth”. It’s the “and so forth” you need to try and explain, mate, don’t pretend you’re the gender genie and I’ve already used up my three wishes.
Sastra
Catwhisperer, from what I can tell the other genders come in three categories.
First, there are genders that are basically just permutations of male, female, and non-binary on a time spectrum, in percentages, or in order of preference, such as shifting between the three, having two or more of them, being mostly one but partly non-binary , a Demi-something, or being one way in some circumstances and another way in others.
Then there’s the WTF category, such as having the gender of a cloud or one which is inexpressible or unknowable.
The third category seems to be mixing sex up with sexual orientation, presentation, romantic style, etc. and calling it a “gender.”
Sastra
Oh, wanted to add that I saw somewhere that “Olly” was apparently part of a popular cartoon duo which appeared in various lessons. Not sure if this is limited to gender propaganda.
Found it. It’s called Pop n Olly and it’s specifically “LGBT” education. So interesting that both names suggest males. Girls are too busy mopping the all-genders loo, no doubt.
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As a parent, I have always been opposed to religious indoctrination of children being part of any curriculum. Perhaps the schools should focus on falling math scores, functional illiteracy, and preventing guns from getting into the schools.
Because intersex people are so prominent and large in numbers!!
Was there some more information provided to the children apart from a basic drawing of a child with cat ears? Forgetting the extraneous “assigned at birth” dogma, there’s no way to be certain if the child depicted is male or female (the only two real choices – like a lot of standardized tests, it has obviously fake answers). This could easily be a sporty, short-haired 12 year old girl with little breast development. What it’s asking is for children to apply stereotypes – the child is wearing a hoodie and jeans, and uses a more typically male name, therefore must be male. Sorry, but I’ve met girls like that. The correct answer should be familiar from math tests, “Not enough information given.”
I’ve been girls like that – my entire life in fact.
Intersex isn’t a third sex. No one is assigned intersex. Every person with an intersex condition is either male or female.
Someone, please make the stupid stop.
If someone figures out how to do this, please let all of us know. There’s a lot more stupid to apply it to…Trump-vision, for instance.
‘Olly’ might be Oliver or Olivia. My mom used to tell the story about how she asked her mom if she could have a sleepover with her friends – all women with nicknames that sounded like male names – and her mom said ‘hell no’. (She herself had a female name that was often shortened to a male-sounding name.)
Every single time, isn’t it? “There’s more than a hundred genders!” , they say. And you say “name some of them”, and they say “well, there’s men, women, nonbinary, umm, and so forth”. It’s the “and so forth” you need to try and explain, mate, don’t pretend you’re the gender genie and I’ve already used up my three wishes.
Catwhisperer, from what I can tell the other genders come in three categories.
First, there are genders that are basically just permutations of male, female, and non-binary on a time spectrum, in percentages, or in order of preference, such as shifting between the three, having two or more of them, being mostly one but partly non-binary , a Demi-something, or being one way in some circumstances and another way in others.
Then there’s the WTF category, such as having the gender of a cloud or one which is inexpressible or unknowable.
The third category seems to be mixing sex up with sexual orientation, presentation, romantic style, etc. and calling it a “gender.”
Oh, wanted to add that I saw somewhere that “Olly” was apparently part of a popular cartoon duo which appeared in various lessons. Not sure if this is limited to gender propaganda.
Found it. It’s called Pop n Olly and it’s specifically “LGBT” education. So interesting that both names suggest males. Girls are too busy mopping the all-genders loo, no doubt.
https://www.popnolly.com/