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originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
No, but why is it "helping" the kid to remove the color?
Part of the reason why the teacher tells all the children to pick up their red crayons is to make sure those kids learn their colors. Believe it or not, not every child knows them, so it wouldn't be helpful to erase the colors from the curriculum to avoid hurting the feelings of the blind and color blind children.
Similarly, we can avoid the labels of boy/girl, male/female, but eventually they will be taught those concepts in science class and biology and the hurt will have to come up all over again. "Mom, why did I get born a male if I'm a girl?"
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
No, but why is it "helping" the kid to remove the color?
originally posted by: Gryphon66
What do you do with the intersex kid? What do you do with the trans* kid?
Why does the suggestion that there might be other ways to group kids together that are less hurtful to some make you so ... passionate?
originally posted by: thesaneone
Lets just call them its and get on with the real important issue that's actually important you know that thing called education this is why we are behind other countries.
Similarly, we can avoid the labels of boy/girl, male/female, but eventually they will be taught those concepts in science class and biology and the hurt will have to come up all over again. "Mom, why did I get born a male if I'm a girl?"
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
originally posted by: ketsuko
This idea that somehow we can completely eliminate it is about as utopian as the idea that we can make everyone's outcome in life perfectly equal.
No one is suggesting that we completely eliminate it. A suggestion has been made to help make it better. WTF's wrong with striving to get closer to Utopia, anyway?
Would it be OK for the teacher to say, "OK, all the fat kids over here, the thin kids over there"? Or "OK, all the kids with funny-looking teeth over here, the kids with good teeth over there"?
What people don't realize is that gender identity issues cause as much of not more emotional distress as everything else kids get teased about. Why WOULDN'T teachers, who love their students and want the best for them, be willing to take suggestions to help kids to grow up more stable and emotionally secure. What's WRONG with that??