Jury awards non-binary former Albany student $317K in school discrimination lawsuit
Jury awards non-binary former Albany student $317K in school discrimination lawsuit
The jury agreed that the former Greater Albany School District student was discriminated against based on their gender identity.
You're viewing a single thread.
I know this is going to sound horrible to some people, but what 3rd grader identifies as nonbinary? IMHO sex and gender may as well be treated as the same thing until puberty, at least.
3rd grade is around the time I realized I'm trans. More like kindergarten, but when I decided I was "sure" is a bit fuzzy.
Trans kids can identify their own gender just as well as their cis peers.
Really, 3rd grade huh? Shit that sounds way to young to be worried about all that. That must have been a pretty difficult time for you. I guess I had assumed assumed it would correlate with puberty, so around age 12, or 6th grade.
It's unintuitive for me because I never felt like I came to "identify" as my gender, so it's difficult to imagine about what age I would have noticed a difference.
It certainly got worse at puberty, but I've known this on some level for as long as I can remember.
For some kids that's true. For a surprisingly large percentage though, gender identity can be known before they start school. Most will conform to their birth-assigned gender, so for those people, it isn't something they express clearly.
Wow before school ? I never would have guessed.
What social situations are kids put in that make them confront the question of their gender? Is it mostly like marketing and toys and stuff? Or more like family/social pressure to conform to "roles" (baseball v ballet)?
Just seems so odd for a kid to have to think about gender in general, I'm trying to imagine non-creepy situations where it would come up lol
Both of those situations, and also kind of neither. If you ask a kid what gender they are they can reliably tell you. Not just because they were told what to say, but because they can identify it themselves
I can't think of any situations where it would be creepy. Asking about a kid's sex or sexuality is kinda weird, but I don't see how gender is the same
I think it feels creepy to me because I have 30+ years of brain wires telling me that sex and gender are the same thing. I know they are not, but my brain doesn't.
but what 3rd grader identifies as nonbinary?
This one do.