Posted on 02/03/2016 7:35:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Schoolchildren as young as 13 in Brighton, England were told to fill out a government survey that asked them to pick out their gender (or genders) from a list of 25 options.
Yes -- gender or genders.
Among the options were "tri-gender" (having exactly three genders,) "gender fluid" (having your gender change over time,) "demi-boy/demi-girl" (someone who is only partially male/female,) and "all genders" (which would be an infinite number because gender is obviously a spectrum.)
Below is the complete list, from which instructed students to "choose as many as [they] want:"
Male
Female
Girl
Boy
Tomboy
(Young) woman
(Young) man
Trans-girl
Trans-boy
Gender fluid
Agender
Androgynous
Bi-gender
Non-binary
Demi-boy
Demi-girl
Genderqueer
Gender non-conforming
Tri-gender
All genders
In the middle of boy and girl
Intersex
Not sure
Rather not say
Others
Note: The "others" option was not included as part of the checklist, but rather as a free-form box below it where students could write in absolutely anything that they wanted. After all, just 24 choices would clearly not be enough.
Transgender activists are praising the survey as a win, but local news source the Argus reports that a lot of parents weren't so happy about it -- calling it "unnecessary" and worrying that it might even confuse kids who wouldn't have otherwise thought to be confused.
The survey came from Office of the Children's Commissioner and was distributed to every school in Brighton and Hove, according to the Argus.
The survey states that the results may be used in government reports about children and gender identity. However, it remains unclear if the method will be able to actually provide accurate data or if kids might see the form as a joke and fill it out as such.
According to the Argus, students younger than 16 were supposed to ask their parents if they should complete the survey -- but parents of at least one school, Blatchington Mill, claim that their kids were not instructed to do so.
-- Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
Briton is lost! Are we soon to follow?
It’s not gender, it’s sex, and there are only two.
You can’t pick your gender. You were either born with a penis or you weren’t. You’re either a male or a female.
If you can pick your sex, then you can pick your race. I’d like my kids to be black when taking tests or applying to colleges or for jobs. Identifying as a black woman would be ideal.
They make this stuff up and then are offended when people resort to the two choices nature provides. This is the kind of worldwide pseudo "science" that we are supposed to accept as settled along with climate change.
But to the liberals, it is binary and hetero normative to talk of only two sexes. And such thinking offends their sensibilities.
Should be only two.
But this is a fallen world.
Scripture recognizes eunuchs.
God isn’t wrong.
That said, these people are mentally ill.
YES.
there was an OTHER box on my medical few last month at a hearing clinic of all places.
And from now on i’d like to be referred to as Miss DP
and i’m tri gender.
Changing Mark to Marcia. hope the wife doesn’t mind
Right...Chromosomes can’t be changed...
The inmates are running the asylum.
How is male, boy and young man different from each other for a school age person with an X and Y chromosome?
Demi-boy? Demi-girl? It sounds like something out of Dungeons & Dragons.
And why is there only a Demi-boy and a Demi-girl?
Can’t there be Demi-More?
Parents unhappy this makes the kids confused ?
Thats the entire purpose of it.
There are only two sexes. It is biologically determined and it can be identified by a simple visual inspection.
Sorry for shouting.
If they are confused they can have Hillary flip the coin.
It will come up “witch” every time.
Britain is way behind.
Facebook started this a couple years ago.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.