Finally: Gender questioning children: draft schools and colleges guidance

[WarriorN]

Gender questioning children: draft schools and colleges guidance

consult.education.gov.uk/equalities-political-impartiality-anti-bullying-team/gender-questioning-children-proposed-guidance/

@Tandora

If gender is just knowing what sex you are, then my kids both know what sex they are - they refer to their parts by the correct names and say things like "I am a boy because I have a willy and you are a girl because you have a vulva". My kids are 3 and 5, btw. They share a bath often, so they know why they have different bits.

Is this enough to be "their sense of their own sex" to have fixed their gender at their young ages?

If they think they are trans when they are 14, what has happened? Does gender suddenly just change depending on what ideas and stereotypes they get exposed to? In which case, why is it more important than sex, which is a constant through everyone's life and a key determinant of strength, aggression, bone density, propensity for violent crime and risk taking, likelihood of getting pregnant?

We don't all "have a gender". Gender is a set of regressive stereotypes which is imposed on us all because of our sex. We know what sex we are because of what type of body we have. None of us have to comply with gender stereotypes.

Sex is the system of scientific knowledge that gives meaning to the anatomical differences concerning the sexual and reproductive functions of bodies (eg sex chromosomes, gonads, gonadcorticoids, reproductive organs, genitals ) .

Gender identity is your own knowledge or understanding of self as a sexed subject (male, female, or otherwise).

I appreciate this may sound complex. Science often is complex. It doesn’t mean it’s “made up”.

The only people promoting regressive stereotypes are the people writing nonsense guidance that says that because I have a vagina I must wear a certain type of uniform to school or be addressed by a certain type or pronoun or engage in certain types of activities.

Again, please spell out your concern. Can boys enter other boys changing rooms and “expose themselves and watch other boys dressing?” Do we need guidance to prevent this?

(I won't hold my breath for a reply to my questions. Your science is bollocks by the way @Tandora, extremely regressive stuff. I hope that you are not involved in education at any level)

Of course a boy can enter the boys' changing room, because he's a boy. He shouldn't enter the girls' changing room (because he's a boy, not a girl). Boys' bodies are not the same as girls' bodies. I'm sure you know that really.

tandora, are you seriously arguing for the removal all sex-segregated spaces, including in schools?

This is not correct

Gender is not ‘how you know what sex you are’

As put by pp

Sex is biologically defined. What is gender and what is its relationship to sex?

How do you know that your gender identifier is working properly? Have you tried turning it off and on again?

I should add, that no doubt there will also be a biological underpinning to gender.

Ah. So we've reached the 'yes absolutely children should be made to undress in front of a child of the opposite sex because it suits my adult politics' posters.

Take your own kit off in front of whoever you want. Deny reality, embrace naturalism, follow the faith of your choice and do whatever floats your boat. You're an adult and whatever boundary issues you may have are your problem. But no adult should be using their own or other people's children in their own agendas and psychological enactments, and children must be protected from adults who are out to try.

This is not correct

lol ok; this is like me saying “the earth is round” and you responding “this is not correct”.

Not much we can go from here.. so let’s move on perhaps?

No you’ve just stated something that’s not correct

We don’t rely on gender to know what sex we are at all. Sex is biologically defined

And unfortunately for believers of gender ideology it’s more the Earth is flat variety.

No biological basis

Are you school age?

Interesting that sex exists, and gender is how people understand their own sex, but at the same time people can have a gender that is different to their sex isn't it! Almost like...it doesn't make any sense

Tandora- thanks for reminding us all why children need responsible adults who understand safeguarding.

In that case "gender" is entirely subjective.

If you make the concepts of "man" and "woman" entirely subjective then you can't assign rights to them which belonged to those words when they referred to something material.

You can't have it both ways - if you want to divorce gender identities from biological sex then do so but you then have no logical claim on rights that appertain to sex.

I agree that not allowing girls to wear trousers to school is regressive. Trousers are perfectly acceptable attire for women and girls and insisting that girls wear skirts to school is pretty regressive (does that still happen?)

Use of pronouns is not stereotyping. Pronouns for people denote sex. We use male pronouns for male people and female pronouns for female people. This says nothing about your personality.

You're right that suggesting that some activities are "for boys" or "for girls" is stereotyping. This really shouldn't be happening. What have you been prevented from doing?

Given that we haven't yet seen any evidence of that, what actual evidence was it that convinced you of the existence of gender?

Maya Forstater in the Critic

https://thecritic.co.uk/return-from-planet-gender/

Incorrect.

Everyone has a basic sex. There fixed it for you. Sex cannot be changed. I know what sex I am.

People might chose to live as they perceive females or makes live eg by wearing dresses, make up and growing hair, cutting hair, often using stereotypical ideas of male and female, however they still have a biological sex which cannot be changed. They might add bits or chop bits off but tge Dna is there in the cells and not how someone feels.

It's more like you saying "the earth is flat" and us responding "this is not correct".

You don't seem to have a firm grasp on what you mean by gender and gender identity which is perhaps why your explanations don't make sense.

It's school holidays now isn't it?