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[–]luckystar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was looking this up recently and I actually felt a bit better after I read what San Francisco schools are teaching kids. It's not as extreme as I thought. And personally I do think that kids should at least learn what transgender people are because they are likely to encounter them (around here at least) so it's good for them to have a fairly neutral basic understanding. The definition they teach kids of "transgender" is:

Transgender (K-5): When someone of one gender feels like they are another gender. For example, when a boy thinks and feels like he is a girl inside.

This seems fine to me. You can see the rest of the definitions here: https://www.healthiersf.org/LGBTQ/InTheClassroom/vocabulary.html

As for the lesson plans, I found they have one on that Jazz Jennings book for kids, but they also have one on a boy who wears a dress (and is not labeled a girl for it) that is pretty anti gender roles. They also have books featuring kids w/ same sex parents which is also somewhat common here so I do think it's good for kids to know that is okay too. Jazz Jennings lesson plan - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cadowxmUYh8J:www.healthiersf.org/LGBTQ/InTheClassroom/docs/curriculum/I%2520am%2520Jazz.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Jacob's New Dress lesson plan - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:L19-MI_wWvAJ:www.healthiersf.org/LGBTQ/InTheClassroom/docs/curriculum/Jacob%27s%2520New%2520Dress.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Asha's Mums lesson plan - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vMfwBh3phJIJ:www.healthiersf.org/LGBTQ/InTheClassroom/docs/curriculum/Asha%27s%2520Mums.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.

I'm not as hardcore as some GC people so even this may be too much for them, but for me it was nice to see they aren't going to ridiculous extremes to trans kids or erase lesbians or anything like that.

On the down side, they do have policies that basically say gender trumps biological sex for gendered spaces at the schools: https://www.healthiersf.org/LGBTQ/GetTheFacts/pol-transgender.html This FAQ ( https://www.healthiersf.org/LGBTQ/docs/AB1266%20FAQ.pdf )seems to imply some sort of screening process (it claims kids can't just capriciously change their "gender identity") but it's very vague on what that actually entails. I'll have to do some digging to see if there have been issues over this policy so far especially because negative news of that nature is likely to go unreported.

[–]emissch[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And personally I do think that kids should at least learn what transgender people are because they are likely to encounter them (around here at least) so it's good for them to have a fairly neutral basic understanding.

definitely agree.

I was looking this up recently and I actually felt a bit better after I read what San Francisco schools are teaching kids. It's not as extreme as I thought.

that's good to hear!

they do have policies that basically say gender trumps biological sex for gendered spaces at the schools

yeah this is no bueno. teaching girls that they are not allowed to have boundaries with their spaces is bad news