Gender Options
The Children’s commissioner in the UK has been asking children as young as 13 to describe their gender.This is the list they can choose from:- (Daily Mail)
Girl or Boy
Male or Female
Trans-Girl: Someone has or transitioning from male to female.
Trans-Boy: Transitioning from female to male.
Agender: No gender identity or neutral identity.
Androgynous: Partly male and female, of indeterminate sex.
Bi-Gender: Those experiencing two gender identities, either at the same time or varying.
Non-Binary: Describes those who don’t feel exclusively male or female.
Demi-Boy: Partly male regardless of birth gender.
Demi-Girl: Female version of above.
GenderQueer: Those who don’t subscribe to conventional gender distinctions.
Gender-Nonconforming: Those who don’t follow how they should look or act based on their birth gender.
Tri-Gender: Shifts between Male, Female or genderless.
All Genders: Someone who identifies as all possible genders.
Intersex: Someone with genetic or hormonal features that are typical of male and female.
Do you think young kids should be choosing their gender?
What are you?
Comments (63)
Doing a bit more research, an example of what I deem peer and in this case mommy pressure, Gwen Stefanis son has a makeup and dresses like a girl, pictures show he was dressed up like that as a baby.
Is some of this due to the parents wanting a different gendered baby and therefore dressing a boy up as a girl, and giving it solely girly toys OK?.....I think not. ( I wont post pics as her boy/girl is a minor)
I am sure the kids aren't given the list and told to number them 1-16 or however many there is.
I think that it will just be good for kids to know that what they are feeling is an actually recognised thing, and that they are not the only ones in the world that feel, and are, like this.
From how i felt as kid=====I now know it was because of racial biggots, did not need to feel everyone was against me at all. All kids growing up feel strange about something you get past it and grow or it continues and you do something about it. Many kids feel suicical sadley for many a reason in later years they will understand it for what it was,. Todays society seems to make a big deal of every emotion thats all.
But for those it does affect, it being recognised will totally change their lives.
Yes, there are many issues out there, and many affect children as well.
Should people not be informed about depression, just because it only affects a minority of the population?
Red, Lots of things are changing, I suppose we do have to conform or be labeled "fuddy duddies". With regards to the form, I think the kids would have been given it to complete individually and not in front of a class.
Molly, Yes so many things will affect children from gender and depression to illness, I suppose kids are people too.
Long gone are the days when kids played outside in the mud after dark, boys wore blue, girls wore pink, now its iphones and god knows what else.
The reasoning for it I get: It's basically cultural Marxism: Change the language, to change behaviour and eventually society. It's a good thing. People should be who they are. of course!!, BUT how much does everyone else need to participate in your self image?, especially under 13.
Is it appropriate to substitute the two gender biological reality for an amorphous mess of definitions that it's up to the individual to come up with. Maybe it is I dunno .
Again, speaking purely from the point of view of pronouns, languages move towards simplicity over time, and these new words could easily just be replaced by 'they'. In the context in which it's used, it doesn't need to imply a plurality.
Ultimately anyone who worries about the right term to use or the right box to put someone in to respect their identity is a kind tolerant person, but our obsession with being PC at all times is excessive.
If I were a trans girl, I wouldn't give a hoot if someone referred to me as a he but rather how he treated me a person.
She gave up when I was old enough to fight back
I'd say I was about 6
Having said that....my oh so cutey daughter....just never looks feminine.....
She didn't get the girly girl princess she wanted
She got a tree-climbing tomboy instead
Perfectly said!
I'm female...XX...straight one
my son is 11 years old and he knows nothing about other genders except male and female...he noticed some males wearing wigs and make-ups and acting funny when we were in Philippines though...made him giggle but I don't think he fully understood what it means...another gender that's not in his vocabulary yet