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Posts tagged gender
LGB…T…QQIA…LMNOP…what?
I’ve been asked to break down these various initials recently by a number of friends and students, so I thought I’d write a bit on them. LGB is a group of initials that most people are familiar with to one degree or another: Lesbian (women who are attracted to women) Gay (often referring to men […]
Thinking about what it means to be transgender
Yesterday in my college classes, we talked about gender. I went to some pains to make sure that our conversation about gender was not confused with a conversation about sex – which refers to the anatomic gender that is generally assigned at birth. Most toddlers are well aware of their sex by about 18 months […]
When girls wear tuxes and boys wear heels
The Western world has been divided into male/female for many years. This division is slowly dissolving, and not surprisingly it is our young people who are pushing this crusade. There’s a recent article in the New York Times called Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School? It’s not a terrible article, although it does […]
Why we link sex and menstruation
Yesterday someone commented on an earlier post called Making menstruation personal again. Here is what she (or he) said: I find the “medicalization” of menstruation abhorrent, but I disagree that “menstruation is one of the first parts of teaching young women about sex and sexuality.” Of course sex ed is really important, but I think […]
Advertisements – the good, the bad, and the ugly
Happy Friday! I had a serious post in the works that went back to Wednesday’s post about The Hurried Child, addressing Dr. Elkind’s assertion that middle school and even early high school is too young for sex education and that a class is an inappropriate place for sex education to be taking place. But it’s […]
