Bloody hell! Grooming indeed.
All that ‘parents say what gender you are’-Bull shit. The biological sex of a baby is noticed and recorded. Parents then dress their children in certain clothes, buy them certain toys and expect/encourage them to do certain things depending on how influenced they are by the social construct of gender. Some might go all Girls: pink, dolls, housework, butterflies, women’s work and, Boys: blue, naughty, boisterous, construction, cats, manly jobs, and others might spend a lot of time and energy trying to show their offspring that they can wear, like, do, be anything they want no matter what genitals they have. Some do something in between because the societal construct of gender is ingrained deeply.
We should be teaching children it’s OK to like pink if you’re a boy or play football if you’re a girl. It’s ok to want to wear sparkly shoes from the ‘girls’ section if you’re a boy or a batman top from the ‘boys’ section of your a girl. This self-ID stuff anyway, but especially when aimed at young children, does nothing to the gender binary but totally reinforce it. “Oh your silly parents put you in a box because they believe gender is binary, it’s ok though. Put yourself in this other box if you don’t feel you fit in.” Binary reinforced. Nice one chirpy chappy.
If I found out my child’s school were considering helping children to fill this out, particularly using the Stonewall “guidance”, I’d be fucking livid.