Government Survey Asks 13-Year-Olds to Pick Their Gender (or Genders) from a List of 25

National Review ^ | 02/03/2016 | Katherine Timpf

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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.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Jeese Louise.

We're each Elizabeth Warren now.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

If you can pick your sex, then you can pick your race

Why pick just one race? If you can be "gender-fluid", then why not "race-fluid" too?

[LucyT]

That list left out attaboy.

and pajama boy.

[ExCTCitizen]

Jeez, I'm behind the times, I only thought gender was just male/female. Isn't Male and Female the same as boy and girl?

Other: 'Today, I feel like I'm a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich, tomorrow, I might be a female and maybe the day after that, I might be a trisexual, then maybe I'll be a Chipmunk then I'll end the week as a normal human boy...

[ExCTCitizen]

My thoughts exactly!! Unless a man makes you a grown up, a young man makes you be a 13 year old and a boy makes you be able to act like a 5 year old...

[ExCTCitizen]

Glastonbury is going insane...it was a nice town...oh well, I hope the citizens will wise up...(the town is a suburban towns just outside of Hartford. Most of the towns are homes on acre lots...).

[ExCTCitizen]

My teen son said that he’s trisexual, he wants to TRY SEX...lol.

[Daffynition]

I wonder when they are going to change the name of their HS sports team ..........................wait for it.............................................the TOMAHAWKS...............GASP! GAG! That should be next. Soon.