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A New Generation Overthrows Gender
NPR ^ | May 2, 2017 | Jon Brooks

Posted on 05/02/2017 3:03:09 PM PDT by EveningStar

Edited on 05/02/2017 3:45:51 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Max, age 13, is agender — neither male nor female. When referring to Max, you don't use "he" or "she;" you use "they."

Once strictly a pronoun of the plural variety, "they" is now doing double duty as singular, too — referring to individuals, like Max, who do not see gender as an either/or option. (NPR agreed not to use Max's last name, because the family feared the sort of online threats that have been made to other transgender families.)

If the whole he/she pronoun thing feels awkward to you, Max is sympathetic — and patient.

'We are seeing more and more kids saying, 'You know what? What's with this either-or business? What's with this boy-girl and you have to fit in one box or the other?' "

"I can't expect anyone to use the right pronouns for me because it's not a thing that people know," Max tells me. "It's been great being myself, but it's also been really hard for people to get it, and for even family to get pronouns and stuff."


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: agender; gender; mentalillness; npr; sex
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1 posted on 05/02/2017 3:03:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Max is a nutcase. Max’s parents are cowardly fools. And Max will be screwed up for the rest of HIS life, while HE — and a few other nutcases in the world — pretend that HE is perfectly okay.


2 posted on 05/02/2017 3:04:48 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: EveningStar

There are two sexes, male and female.

Gender refers to language.


3 posted on 05/02/2017 3:05:27 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EveningStar
Max is mentally ill and his mother is probably the instigator of his malady.

All of this crap is just sheer insanity!

4 posted on 05/02/2017 3:05:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: EveningStar
Ridiculous....

Bruce is Bruce....no matter what....even without the hardware. One very screwed up man.

5 posted on 05/02/2017 3:06:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: EveningStar

NPR presents by itself with this article why it should be defunded, its properties sealed in concrete & any equipment destroyed sealed in glass and buried with radioactive waste!


6 posted on 05/02/2017 3:07:03 PM PDT by Reily
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To: EveningStar

Clearly we should be increasing the funding for NPR so we can read more and more articles just like this one. In fact, I’ll bet the new budget does just that!


7 posted on 05/02/2017 3:08:27 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: IronJack

Now “they” are elevating bad grammar to the level of a “principle”. They just should admit that number agreement between nouns and pronouns is simply too hard for this generation ;-)


8 posted on 05/02/2017 3:08:39 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Gender refers to language.

I agree.

9 posted on 05/02/2017 3:08:51 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

NPR takes advice from a 13 year old child.


10 posted on 05/02/2017 3:09:32 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: nopardons

Max is mentally ill....

They are mentally ill


11 posted on 05/02/2017 3:09:39 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: EveningStar

Camille Paglia: ‘Transgender Mania’ is a Symptom of West’s Cultural Decline, The Collapse of Cultures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDVuHsVwKs


12 posted on 05/02/2017 3:10:36 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: EveningStar

NPR seems to go around lifting rocks to find their stories.

Good production values, lousy stories.


13 posted on 05/02/2017 3:11:40 PM PDT by dangerdoc (disgruntled)
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To: IronJack

Those who accommodate Max and kids like him that reject their own biology are committing child abuse in the guise of helping them.


14 posted on 05/02/2017 3:12:06 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sacajaweau

Glen Or Glenda .... Plan 9 From Outer Space. It all makes sense now.


15 posted on 05/02/2017 3:13:59 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: dangerdoc

They should have good production values, they have two or three times the number of producers per show as any non-public broadcaster.


16 posted on 05/02/2017 3:14:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

No the term gender means which sex. The techinical term gender dysphoria gives the issue away. Its not called sex dysphoria. The canard that gender is technically the social construct is an attempt to change lanuage by misrepresenting it.


17 posted on 05/02/2017 3:15:08 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: EveningStar
When referring to Max, you don't use "he" or "she;" you use "they."

FU MAX! You don't tell me what to do. You need to sue your parents for child abuse you poor kid.

18 posted on 05/02/2017 3:16:14 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: EveningStar

Which pair of chromosomes represent a non gender? Is there a scientific answer to this?


19 posted on 05/02/2017 3:16:18 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: EveningStar

“When there are no absolutes to govern society, society becomes the absolute.” —Francis Schaeffer. We are there.


20 posted on 05/02/2017 3:16:56 PM PDT by Fungi (No tagline.)
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