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UkeleleEric@Natasha_Jay Except - even at school, I remember the reference in passing to XXY people. So, not true for me or many others of my generation in my country (UK), and I am approaching 60 in a few weeks.
TL JordanI learned about XXY in my freshman year of college here in the USA.
D2@UkeleleEric @Natasha_Jay so, their middle school grade was a C, too?! Shocked, I am.
(Not really. My FB is littered with pontificating dumbasses I remember being dumbasses that showed zero academic (let alone math & science) prowess in school.
Voxel@Natasha_Jay Would you mind sharing the source?
Miakoda 
@Natasha_Jay It's worth noting... Even IF they were "making it up", TF would someone of a "made up" gender be taking from anybody by doing so? The bigots put so much effort in to whining and crying about it... what actual difference to anyone else's life does it make if someone goes by they/them or something else?
The ones taking my EBT and jacking up prices are all he/hims and one or two she/hers. 🤷♀️️
Some1 else's pronouns makes 0 difference to my life.
The ones taking my EBT and jacking up prices are all he/hims and one or two she/hers. 🤷♀️️
Some1 else's pronouns makes 0 difference to my life.
Stefan Haslinger ☮️@hellomiakoda @Natasha_Jay so much this!
Sophia 🎶☃️🩵✨@Natasha_Jay I never went to college, but what you have learned is just my opinion, and I know different kinds of people, which shows me, that they exist.
Cameron Bosch@Natasha_Jay Aren't there also clown fish, which all are born as male and can change sex once in their life to female?
rood@Natasha_Jay university is a big barrel of: yeah, about that.
Looking for explanations…No, the author has it wrong. What she learned in middle school was wrong and should never have been presented to her as fact.
DB SchweinNobody is going to teach middle schoolers graduate level science - the students wouldn't understand it, and the teachers don't have the time!
What got lost somewhere is the lesson that "we teach you the basics, and if you want to learn more that's what the library/high school/college/etc. is for"!
Teaching that there are only 2 genders isn’t basics. It’s just wrong. I learned that there are intersex humans and that gender isn’t always clear at birth when I was still at school. In the 70s, & not in a radically hippy school.
Basic, common biological differences & reproductive differences can be taught, in science. The fact that gender is a construct can also be taught, probably not in science.
I was a middle school English & Humanities teacher. Taking time to discuss this sort of stuff was part of my job, mostly in “mentor” or “home group” settings, but sometimes in history. Making time to discuss it in depth was hard, but I could certainly find time to alert students to the idea of social constructs.
Gustavo@Natasha_Jay I learned that in high school, not during graduation. My school's standards, surely, were way above the average, but the thing is: education needs to improve around the world, and some people don't like that.
Li ~ Crystal System@Natasha_Jay the force of gravity is 10 newtons
Sabella@Natasha_Jay so many haven't.