Quote: “There are two genders and a lot of mental illnesses” – Daniel Tozke

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[–]msteacherlady 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

For the last three years I have gotten the "how many genders are there" in science class once each year, and it's always been from some griefer kid. Really puts me in a tight spot. These boys are trying to disrupt class by giving a hard time to the NB kids in the room while I'm just trying to draw a damn Punnet square on the board. What I'm trying to say is I would bet the cash in my wallet right now ($20.63) that given another social climate Danny's quote would be something about vegans and hamburgers. If I lost that twenty and change, I'd be happy to be wrong.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It only puts you in a tight spot because you can't/won't be honest and factual. That's your real problem. That's why kids can run rings around you.

As a teacher you need to be better than that. Those kids need to be taught facts not politics. Would you stop teaching evolution because you had creationist kids in your class?

[–]msteacherlady 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have had creationist kids in my class and have huge supports to continue providing facts-based science education to them from our state, district, and school site. I have had both the ACLU on my ass to support the religious freedom of a JW family and the Schlafly's Eagle forum try to push alternative textbook adoption on us. There have been countless other minor pushbacks against teaching evolution but for my entire career I have received immediate support, mediation, and protection from these push backs against science education.

Last school year we had a mandatory district workshop that included trans shit. It is clear I have no support on this issue, and I refuse to lose my job over it. That doesn't mean I will stop teaching biology as I always have. As long as I can, I will insist on speaking about sex and not gender. Right now, that's about the only way I can think of to weasel out of keeping both camps from destroying the civil classroom environment. Meanwhile science teachers are losing support from our trusted institutions like the National Teachers Association which has now included trans issues in two consecutive issues of The Science Teacher publication. Transman Sam Long, AP Biology teacher, is making a name by providing curriculum and teacher training for trans-friendly science education.

I'm doing the best I can in a freakish time so cut me some slack and take some action spreading the word what's going on in science education. No really, people, anyone reading this and feeling it's upsetting, get the word out. Science teachers are in danger.

[–]just_lesbian_things 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Just tell them gender is a social construct, not a part of the hard sciences. They're better off asking the English, Social Studies, or Arts teacher. Soft sciences and arts got themselves into this mess with their lenses and identity and PoMo shit. They can get themselves out.

[–]msteacherlady 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ha! That's what I said in fact. Gender is a social construct, and more the domain of sociology, not science, so in this course I will only be talking about biological sex. Ahem. Moving on...

The young teachers wearing pronoun pins at my site are a math and English teacher. Best of luck to 'em!