Welcome to the state of California where gender is...fluid. According to the proposed teachings by San Leandro's middle school, which was on the Armstrong & Getty show this a.m. You see, they want to teach students who are questioning their gender at this transition time. Okay, last time I checked, kids going through puberty weren't questioning their gender. The memo goes on to suggest reading stories with different pronouns each day, making a lion a girl one day, and a boy the next. This encourages them to understand that gender is fluid.
http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/11573/02/11573_1328116104.pdf
Okay, except gender IS NOT fluid. People are generally born boys or girls, with a few anomalies. It says so right on the birth certificate. The memo suggests reading the same stories to kids and mixing up the pronouns, so that one day, the lion is a boy and the next day, the lion is a girl! Do some research! Children take comfort in hearing stories read to them, the same stories. It builds security and safety, but now we're going to mess with their minds and make Leo the Lion a girl.
We should not use words like "He's all boy!" Because that indicates bias. Which I'm sure, my blog, GIRLY GIRL, does. But tell me, do you get an image of pink? Well, that's bias too. There should be no such thing as a "girl color."
They would also encourage schools to have gender-neutral restrooms. Okay, seriously, as mother of a middle-schooler, do I want "gender-neutral" restrooms? You don't think this might encourage something worse?
We're supposed to screw up 99.9% of kids so .01% feels okay? That would be nice if it worked, but considering that kids will find ANYTHING to tease other kids about, it's not going to work.
No matter how young you start. Most boys play with guns and love to wrestle. Most girls like dolls. But girls could like guns and boys could like dolls. Note to crazy gender folk: Those kids are different and that's great. It doesn't make their sex fluid. My daughter likes bugs and snakes. It doesn't make her a boy. Gender is not fluid. It is an either/or and maybe, just maybe, you could teach my kids, math. Ya think?
Can you imagine if romance novels were written with "fluid genderdom?" It would make for a very confusing book. What does this do to English classes now that pronouns are interchangeable?
Besides, even if you do get middle-schoolers to go along with this kind of thinking, they'll still make fun of your big ears.
And by the way, I'm so grateful for Cupertino, where none of this crazy garbage has time to be taught. These kids have college to get to, so we're not going back to toddlerhood and teaching them there is more than male/female.
