The malleability of gender during childhood.
Should parents be concerned?
Gender and sexuality have always been difficult topics, especially when it involves parents, children and the education system. Over the past year, these issues have been brought to the forefront by the media and America's social discourse.
However, the discussion and subsequent controversy surrounding gender and sexuality is nothing new. Although challenging, these topics need to be discussed openly.IIn that vein, I would like to share my thoughts regarding the subject matter.
I would like to begin by examining the various acronyms you've likely heard on TV and social media. "LGBTQIA" some of these terms are quite new in the American vernacular and it's important to familiarize ourselves. The L G B stands for gay, lebian and bisexual. These acronyms relate to individuals whose sexual preference deviates from the heterosexual Norm. It has nothing to do with their gender identity. Lesbians are women, gay people are men, bisexual people can be a man or a woman that likes men and women.
T Q I A are somewhat newer additions standing for, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual.
Transgender, queer and asexual relate entirely to gender identity. This puts them in an entirely different category than lesbian, gay and bisexual.
According to Wikipedia, intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome pattern, gonads, or genitals that, according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights, "do not typically fit binary Notions of male or female bodies." This place is intersex people in an entirely different category because it relates directly to biology and genetics.
Ask yourself, why has three distinct groups of people been conveniently bulked into the same category? Conspiratorially inference notwithstanding, I honestly don't know.
My concern, along with many conservatives and millions of parents is the well-being of children. The idea of sexual preference being malleable is almost universally condemned by society. We've heard the horror stories of a Teenage young man who happens to be gay getting sent off to straight camp. The gay community has long said, sexual preference is something you're born with. I agree with this assertion.
However, and it's a very very big however, is it wrong to ask if gender identity is malleable to the influences of society? Social progressives have emphasized the difference between gender and sex, let's continue the discussion.
As someone who has worked with children for 20 years, I have a hard time believing gender is something that isn't malleable. Young children are incredibly trusting and impressionable. They mimic their role models and take on their characteristics. A child's personality is incredibly malleable. Remember, the social progressives told you that gender identity is a different subject. Yes, indeed it is
Should parents be concerned?
Gender and sexuality have always been difficult topics, especially when it involves parents, children and the education system. Over the past year, these issues have been brought to the forefront by the media and America's social discourse.
However, the discussion and subsequent controversy surrounding gender and sexuality is nothing new. Although challenging, these topics need to be discussed openly.IIn that vein, I would like to share my thoughts regarding the subject matter.
I would like to begin by examining the various acronyms you've likely heard on TV and social media. "LGBTQIA" some of these terms are quite new in the American vernacular and it's important to familiarize ourselves. The L G B stands for gay, lebian and bisexual. These acronyms relate to individuals whose sexual preference deviates from the heterosexual Norm. It has nothing to do with their gender identity. Lesbians are women, gay people are men, bisexual people can be a man or a woman that likes men and women.
T Q I A are somewhat newer additions standing for, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual.
Transgender, queer and asexual relate entirely to gender identity. This puts them in an entirely different category than lesbian, gay and bisexual.
According to Wikipedia, intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome pattern, gonads, or genitals that, according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights, "do not typically fit binary Notions of male or female bodies." This place is intersex people in an entirely different category because it relates directly to biology and genetics.
Ask yourself, why has three distinct groups of people been conveniently bulked into the same category? Conspiratorially inference notwithstanding, I honestly don't know.
My concern, along with many conservatives and millions of parents is the well-being of children. The idea of sexual preference being malleable is almost universally condemned by society. We've heard the horror stories of a Teenage young man who happens to be gay getting sent off to straight camp. The gay community has long said, sexual preference is something you're born with. I agree with this assertion.
However, and it's a very very big however, is it wrong to ask if gender identity is malleable to the influences of society? Social progressives have emphasized the difference between gender and sex, let's continue the discussion.
As someone who has worked with children for 20 years, I have a hard time believing gender is something that isn't malleable. Young children are incredibly trusting and impressionable. They mimic their role models and take on their characteristics. A child's personality is incredibly malleable. Remember, the social progressives told you that gender identity is a different subject. Yes, indeed it is