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‘Boy or Girl?’ Gender identity a new challenge for schools

Submitted by ONE Community on May 28, 2013 - 8:43am
‘Boy or Girl?’ Gender identity a new challenge for schools

CHICAGO — From the time they are born, we put our boys in blue beanies and our girls in pink ones. It’s a societal norm, an expectation even, that you just are what you are born — a boy or a girl.

From early on, we divide toys and activities by very distinct gender lines, with superheroes and trucks and muck on one side and princesses and dolls and all things frilly on the other. Read more »

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Transgender at five [VIDEO]

Submitted by ONE Community on May 21, 2012 - 2:08pm
Transgender at five [VIDEO]

She first insisted she was a boy at the age of 2. "I am a boy" became a constant theme in struggles over clothing, bathing, swimming, eating, playing. Eventually, a psychologist diagnosed gender identity disorder. Now Tyler 's parents allow him to live as a boy, and the 5-year-old is reveling in his new identity. (The Post is using the name his parents would have given him if he had been born a boy to protect the family's identity outside their community, where their situation already is widely known.) (Whitney Shefte/The Washington Post) Read more »

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