I don’t remember “gender” ever being discussed in school....we all knew you were a boy or a girl.
The people in charge are playing games with the minds of our population.
The only time the subject of "gender" came up was when I was studying German in high school and college, and later Russian in college. Both languages have three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter, which determine the endings of nouns, adjectives and other parts of speech.
I'll say!
Curth's response insisted that the grade had nothing to do with Fulnecky's beliefs, but criticized the essay for lacking empirical evidence, which was not mentioned as a requirement in the grading rubric. Curth also described the paper as "offensive."
"Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting point [sic] for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive," Curth's response said.
Curth said that the concept of only two sexes is not backed by science.
"You may personally disagree with this, but that doesn't change the fact that every major psychological, medical, pediatric, and psychiatric association in the United States acknowledges that, biologically and psychologically, sex and gender is neither binary nor fixed," Curth said.
The teaching assistant also found Fulnecky's use of the word "demonic" to describe the idea of sex and gender on a spectrum "highly offensive."
"Additionally, to call an entire group of people 'demonic' is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population," Curth said.