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[–]Hankypants 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

In a way it's understandable - there's no mention of sex or of being a particular sex so this "gender identity" could be a psychological condition that genderbread.org is trying to advise young people about. In a round-about way it's highlighting stereotypes.

However, it's terribly sad that this concept isn't being used to get rid of sex-based stereotypes when it could so easily be used to show that boys or girls don't need to be constrained by blue or pink, and that the only difference between them is the role they might play in reproduction.

[–]FlippyKing 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Imagine if they did call it a psychological condition. They avoid saying anything concrete because they would necessarily point to stereotypes. I don't know what's worse, subjecting kids to word salads uncritically so they think this is a reasonable way to speak, or openly subjecting them to obvious stereotypes which at least can be opposed.