Transgender teacher to return to California classroom as 'true self'

[glo]

Gender can change though, sex cannot.

Gender quite literally refers to being male or female. The word has been twisted to suit the agenda, however.

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gross.
shouldn't be allowed to teach (thinking somoething like don't ask don't tell)

I'm going to assume you're hardly an oil painting yourself, lol.

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Gender quite literally refers to being male or female. The word has been twisted to suit the agenda, however.

Gender is a fucking social construct.

SEX IS BIOLOGICAL. There is no agenda you're just too paranoid about what other people do and think there is an agenda, there isn't.

[Ragnarohk]

Gender quite literally refers to being male or female. The word has been twisted to suit the agenda, however.

No, the word has been "redefined" because like I said before, "female" and "male" are complex terms that have to be defined on various fields (psychology, biology and others) so instead of sex/gender meaning the same thing they now mean different things in order to try and represent and comprehend the complexity of such topic

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Good for her! Hope she feels better now.

[Sky High]

well, it's not an issue unless someone wants to make it one.

[glo]

Gender is a fucking social construct.

SEX IS BIOLOGICAL. There is no agenda you're just too paranoid about what other people do and think there is an agenda, there isn't.

Oh boy, calm down. You're taking my word choice way too seriously. Gender is only a "social construct" in recent years. In the not so distant past, it was a word that was used concisely in a scientific setting. Now it can't be, and I think it's stupid.

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Gender is a fucking social construct.

SEX IS BIOLOGICAL. There is no agenda you're just too paranoid about what other people do and think there is an agenda, there isn't.

Oh boy, calm down. You're taking my word choice way too seriously. Gender is only a "social construct" in recent years. In the not so distant past, it was a word that was used concisely in a scientific setting. Now it can't be, and I think it's stupid.

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Oh boy, calm down. You're taking my word choice way too seriously. Gender is only a "social construct" in recent years. In the not so distant past, it was a word that was used concisely in a scientific setting. Now it can't be, and I think it's stupid.

Well it must suck to be you then. You can't use a word the way you want to because it doesn't mean what you think it means, I really do hope you are able to continue living even with this fact.

[Mormolyce]

Kids can be extremely cruel, hope she knows what is coming to her.

They don't really need a premise for it.

Anyway better that's aimed at the teacher than the students wouldn't you say?

[glo]

No, the word has been "redefined" because like I said before, "female" and "male" are complex terms that have to be defined on various fields (psychology, biology and others) so instead of sex/gender meaning the same thing they now mean different things in order to try and represent and comprehend the complexity of such topic

Or a new term could have been used instead of hijacking an existing prominent term, making mountains of reference material instantly irrelevant.

[lockedout]

Gender is a fucking social construct.

SEX IS BIOLOGICAL. There is no agenda you're just too paranoid about what other people do and think there is an agenda, there isn't.

Gender is the range of physical, biological, mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.

[Ragnarohk]

Oh boy, calm down. You're taking my word choice way too seriously. Gender is only a "social construct" in recent years. In the not so distant past, it was a word that was used concisely in a scientific setting. Now it can't be, and I think it's stupid.

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You think it's stupid that a language changes in order to adapt to a societies social evolution. Ok, that says plenty about you.

[Kalis]

Once again I am reminded why I still haven't done anything for my own Gender Dysphoria... every day I have to live with the fact that I am in the wrong body. I was born 'male'. It took me YEARS to figure out what my feelings meant, why I felt my hands were too big, why I always thought that women got better clothes, why I was always envious of women who were with child.

The bolded part makes absolutely no sense to me.

Would you not have gender dysphoria to the same degree if fashion changed to allow men to dress far more flamboyantly, or wear a skirt/dress, as they have done in the past and even still do in certain parts of the world?

Also thinking body parts are too big, or too small, seems a fairly run-of-the-mill insecurity that most people have to some degree.

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Oh boy, calm down. You're taking my word choice way too seriously. Gender is only a "social construct" in recent years. In the not so distant past, it was a word that was used concisely in a scientific setting. Now it can't be, and I think it's stupid.

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Words change all the time, what's the problem? You can still use sex in a concise scientific setting if that's what you want to talk about.

[glo]

Well it must suck to be you then.

Why? Because I disagree with some nominal facet of language relating to homosexuality? Get off the high horse.

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Gender is the range of physical, biological, mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.

Right? That is not male and female, that is not determination of sex, that is determination of characteristics. It also not biological, again sucks to be you.

[Mormolyce]

Gender is a fucking social construct.

SEX IS BIOLOGICAL. There is no agenda you're just too paranoid about what other people do and think there is an agenda, there isn't.

Gender and sex are synonyms.

[Krommm]

That's fine and all, but IT is really fucking creepy. Dat trollgrin.

[Deleted]

Why? Because I disagree with some nominal facet of language relating to homosexuality? Get off the high horse.

It relates to homosexuality? Who's the one with the agenda?

Nowhere in this thread has anyone related anything to homosexuality.

Boy, it really does suck to be you if you are wrong this often.

[Meiluy]

This is the part I don't get. I say I'm male because I have a penis. There's no waking up and going, "It sure is great to be male in this male body," or any sort of feeling of maleness. It's literally a description of my genitalia and nothing more. Behaviors, likes, dislikes, and whatever else are just expressions of the individual that is me, not an extension of the genitalia I possess. Cordoning off certain behaviors or whatever as some sort of description of something other than personality or as indicative of something more just seems incomprehensible.

That's just it, I don't. I wake up, and see my huge hands and body, and feel nothing but disgust over them. I guess a better question is "Are you happy you're a man?"