Gender on School Form

[ItsSnowJokes]

My daughter starts school in September, today we received the enrollment form and on it it has gender instead of sex. My husband has said I will be "that parent" if I cross it out and put sex. He is worried that she will be there for 7 years of primary and they will always remember what we did on the form.

What would you do?

Start as you mean to go on. Cross it out and write sex

I would cross it out and put sex, female. I don’t believe in gender but even if you do, I’m presuming your child hasn’t expressed a gender to you, so therefore how can you possibly answer.
That’s my polite answer.

If it's a paper form I absolutely am 'that parent' and cross it out and write sex.

I think pick your battles. There are loads and loads of very important issues I believe in, but I can't fight everything. Not enough time/energy/desire to be labelled a nutter. I choose which issue(s) are the top of my list, and fight for those. If this is your issue, go for it.

The only thing is that I presume you are filling this out on behalf of you AND your husband. If so, as you're representing him too, he does maybe need to be on board? Depends on how the form's laid out though.

You are unlikely to be the only one - I religiously cross out gender and replace it with sex on every form (incl school, scouts, clubs etc etc) and I know I am not the only one doing it.

Ours were electronic, so I changed the field to read "sex".
No-one commented.

I crossed it out and changed it to sex on my sons form.

You are all right. And I knew I had to stick to my principles but had a wobble as I don't want my daughter affected by this in the school environment (which is ironic, as being female its a given she will be any way!)

Thank you for the back up.

Put sex in if challenged tell them you put sex as your child Currently has no gender preference

Or explain for medical reasons its vital they know the actual sex of the child

I change it to sex. Nobody has commented.

I would cross it out and put sex too.

Its done. Husband is muttering but I have to do it.

Sex.

It's only if we all speak up that people will get the message that this matters to us.

Thank you for doing it!

Let him mutter. 😂

pick your battles

Personally I think this is THE battle

@MrsBongiovi

Let him mutter. 😂

I have left him to it. As a white male he has enough privilege already.

I know what he was saying, and I am sure the school will not even comment but as I am slowly outing myself as GC these things matter.

Sex not gender

I did it on my dd's school form. I do it on everything!

I do it on every form I ever have to fill in, whether it’s for ds or me.

You did the correct thing. Alternatively you could have sent the form back and asked for all parents to be given a correct form, failing which you will complain to the Information Commissioner.

So you took the lesser option.

I had this exact dilemma last month.
The only difference is that I’ve already got myself a “that parent” label for requesting politely exercising my parental right that my daughter starts on a part-time basis.
The school were adamant this had never happened before and they had to look into the legal requirements etc. They reluctantly contacted me to say they would allow me to home school for one day a week.
So when the form came, I just ticked female and sent it in.
Once the dust has settled, I will absolutely start crossing out “gender” and correcting it to say “sex”.

I've noticed on surveys posted on MN there are more and more with claptrap 'gender' questions with bizarre choices of answers that confuse biological sex and social gender self-identifications.

Like the Grandparent Kinship Care one currently running.

The answers are supposed to inform social policy.

@newnortherner111

You did the correct thing. Alternatively you could have sent the form back and asked for all parents to be given a correct form, failing which you will complain to the Information Commissioner.

So you took the lesser option.

I love this!

Is this an option?

I put sex and then also a little paragraph about the Equality Act!