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School asks 3 year olds what gender they are

gunner said:
"Brighton and Hove parents have raised concerns about being asked to support their three and four-year-olds to choose which gender, if any, they identify with when accepting a place for primary schools."

Brighton and Hove News » Brighton and Hove schools ask three-year-olds what gender, if any, they identify with

I cannot claim any expertise on this subject; but it does seem a bizarre question to ask 3 and 4 year olds. Watching the interview on Sky News, the teacher kept insisting it was for the 'protection of a handful of children'; but when pressed on what that actually meant, didn't have answers. Is there really a need for 3 and 4 year olds to be asked such questions, and do they the have the capacity to answer ? To me, it seems very disturbing at such a young age.
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What a bunch of PC nitwits . :roll:
 
German guy said:
My guess is that you are confusing something here.

There is a certain number of kids that are born with traits of both sexes; IIRC, it's somewhere between 1 baby out of 500-1000.

In the past, it was common practize to just cut away the (underdeveloped) male traits and make "girls" out of the babys, sometimes even without asking the parents. That turned out to be complicated, because many of these kids in fact had other male traits, including an Y chromosome, and turned out to self-identify as male later (after being raised as girls). Or vise versa.

It's well possible that the case you're describing is not actually a case of parents having the penis of a healthy boy cut away (which asfaik would be illegal in most countries), but a case of an ambigous, not clear sex being altered to match a certain identity.
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that is not what we are talking about.
we are talking about a group of people attempting to convince 2 and 3 year olds that they are not the sex they are.
that is child endangerment. kids that age have no clue what gender is. they don't even understand the concept.

anyone that says otherwise is a moron.

as for the case if you would have read further I corrected that.

their parents convinced their 2 or 3 year old boy he was a girl.
I think it came out that they didn't want a boy but a girl.

too me that is child endangerment.

we are not talking about abnormal genetic mutation.
 
ludin said:
that is not what we are talking about.
we are talking about a group of people attempting to convince 2 and 3 year olds that they are not the sex they are.
that is child endangerment. kids that age have no clue what gender is. they don't even understand the concept.

anyone that says otherwise is a moron.

as for the case if you would have read further I corrected that.

their parents convinced their 2 or 3 year old boy he was a girl.
I think it came out that they didn't want a boy but a girl.

too me that is child endangerment.

we are not talking about abnormal genetic mutation.
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If that's what really happened, I'd agree with you.

But as I said, I have strong doubts that this is what really happened. I wasn't talking about "genetic mutations" either, but IIRC problems in fetal development.

Even biologically, not every baby with a penis is "male".
 
German guy said:
If that's what really happened, I'd agree with you.

But as I said, I have strong doubts that this is what really happened. I wasn't talking about "genetic mutations" either, but IIRC problems in fetal development.

Even biologically, not every baby with a penis is "male".
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which are genetic mutations. anything other than XY or XX is a genetic mutation.

yes that is what was happening here go read the article.
they are asking 2 and 3 year olds what their gender is.

they don't know as they don't have a concept.
 
ludin said:
which are genetic mutations. anything other than XY or XX is a genetic mutation.
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No, what you say (other than XY or XX) is not a "mutation", but a chromosomal abberation.

And that's not even the only case I was talking about; it well happens that a fetus has either XY or XX chromosomes, yet fails to develop the according traits in the womb.

"Mutation" is when a genetic information on a chromosome is accidentally changed.
 
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