Our daughter Sara came home from school the other day laughing about an absurd presentation a guest lecturer made to her sixth grade class. It was about identity issues. Students were asked to stand up and tell classmates if they identified with one or more of five genders. (I'll bet you didn't know there were five genders, did you? Can you name them? There will be a test tomorrow.)
Sara's mom Colleen, who completed a career as a school psychologist back in the day when there were only two genders, was amazed and perplexed. She contacted school administration, who referred her to the lecturer. Colleen asked the lecturer if she had heard of the concept of parental permission? Why were the parents not given the opportunity to withhold permission for their children to be subjected to this crap?
The dialogue has only just begun.
3 comments:
Parental permission? That's a bourgeois concept. Parents might teach their children values that state does not countenance.
So what do you make of folks who say they feel like they are trapped in the wrong body? There's a young man at work who decided to "switch" and as far as I can tell is sincere in this conviction. It certainly wasn't an easy thing to do because of all the awkwardness at work.
Ryan,
Enabling is not love. Stop celebrating mental illness!
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