Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

Parents of schoolchildren in Brighton, England were outraged when their children, some as young as 13, were given a government survey to fill out that asked them to pick their gender (or genders) from a list of 25 options.

Katherine Timpf, a reporting for National Review Online, is reporting on the list presented to the students who were asked to select “as many as they want”.

(Editor’s Note: the list did not include the definitions which are being given here in an effort to educate the public about the insanity that is creeping into our schools.)

1. Male
2. Female
3. Girl
4. Boy
5. Tomboy
6. (Young) woman
7. (Young) man
8. Trans-girl (born male but identifies as female)
9. Trans-boy (born female but identifies as male)
10. Gender fluid (having your gender change over time)
11. Agender (without gender)
12. Androgynous (of indeterminate sex)
13. Bi-gender (two gendered)
14. Non-binary (neither male nor female)
15. Demi-boy (only partially a boy)
16. Demi-girl (only partially a girl)
17. Genderqueer (identifies with neither gender, both genders or a combination)
18. Gender non-conforming (refusal to conform to gender stereotypes)
19. Tri-gender (having three genders – male, female and any non-binary type)
20. All genders (an infinite number of genders or expressions of gender)
21. In the middle of boy and girl (somewhere in between genders)
22. Intersex (refers to a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals)
23. Not sure
24. Rather not say
25. Others

Apparently, the survey originated from the office of Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, and was forwarded to some schools by local councils.

Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England

Longfield told a local news source, the Argus, that “We want to know how gender matters to young people: what does gender mean to them; how does it affect their lives; what do they want to change?

“To explore these important questions, we have constructed a survey, and hope to hear from as many young people (13-18 years old) as possible.”

Students’ answers “may be used in Government reports, presentations and publications,” the survey stated.

It also encouraged children under 16 to “check whether your parents/carers are happy for you to complete this survey.”

However parents of at least one school, Blatchington Mill, said the school had not sought their permission before distributing the survey.

“Those choices include terms I’ve never heard of,” said Katy Rice, a mother who wrote a column against the survey in the Argus.

“The majority of teenagers should feel secure in the knowledge that they are simply boy or girl, but by pandering to a minority with gender issues, schools are introducing confusion and insecurity, unnecessarily making all teenagers question their basic identity. Surely it’s parents who should be dealing with their children’s sexuality, not schools.”

However, a trans-activist named Sophie Cook said she attempted suicide at the age of 12 because of gender confusion.

“It is so important that children who are going through gender dysphoria are given all the support they can get. . . . I really think it could help young people who are going through this to be given a list of terms that they may find relate to what they are going through.”

Children with these issues should definitely receive the professional help they need, but introducing this confusion to other children is hardly a sensible way to deal with the issue.

As the Christian Institute told the Daily Mail, asking children to define their gender can be “profoundly confusing” for girls and boys.

“We must not intrude on childhood by deliberately confusing schoolchildren about what makes a boy a boy or a girl a girl just to satisfy adult political agendas,” spokesman Simon Calvert said. “We must protect children from being made to feel that passing phases of confused feeling about themselves, which many go through, must be turned into life-changing moral and political decisions.”

Thankfully, common sense prevailed – at least for now – and the survey has been withdrawn, supposedly due to a “clerical error”. But a spokesman told the Mail that it would be redrafted with the question about gender identify removed.

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