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Non binary Teacher year 4

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1982mommaof4 · 20/01/2024 23:21

Okay not sure if it's me being sensitive...
My daughter is in year 4 juniors and she has a new teacher who identifies as Non binary and has made the class aware of this. She likes this teacher which is great. However, my DD now has questions that to be honest I don't want to answer.
One being do they( daughters words)have what I have or my brother has because they look like a girl but aren't.

Does that mean that some girls aren't girls...

How would you answer these questions, I'm trying to be sensitive and not offensive but I'm finding difficult to not be brutally honest in what I think.

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SavBlancTonight · 20/01/2024 23:38

"The teacher doesn't want to be called she / he and doesn't want to be associated with traditionally male or female things" (you haven't said what the actual sex is so delete as appropriate). "So he/she prefers to be known as "they" (what honorific is used? There's no non gendered version of mr/ms?)

"I think that a girl who wants to do things that aren't traditionally for girls is fine, and the same for boys but some people feel uncomfortable with that, like your teacher. "

To be honest, I'd probably go a lot further as well though and say things like, "but really, she is a woman/he is a man, but sometimes people struggle with that. Its silly though isn't it- why can't a girl like football or a boy like pink?"

DD asked me today if a man can have a baby. I said no. She seemed to think maybe it was true, which I suspect is mixed gender messages she is picking up. I was firm, "no man has ever had a baby. Just like fishes can't breathe in air and.dogs can't talk like humans. Its just not possible."