closet-keys: [ID: Tweet by @TamarPedsRheum reading, “My 8 year old’s homework tonight.&r
closet-keys: [ID: Tweet by @TamarPedsRheum reading, “My 8 year old’s homework tonight.” Attached is a photo of a worksheet with two printed homework questions, answered in a child’s handwriting. The first question shows 6 beach balls, 3 of which are striped and 3 of which have stars on them. The question asks, “What fraction of the balls have stars?” The answer is worked out below in a child’s handwriting: “3/6 = ½ of the balls are striped. 3/6 = ½ of the balls are stared [sic].”The second question depicts 7 cartoon children in various clothes and with varying lengths of hair. The question asks, “What fraction of the children are girls? What fraction of the children are boys?” The child’s handwriting below says “4/7 = 4/7 have long hair, 3/7 = 3/7 have short hair. I can not tell who is a girl and who is not a girl from a picture.” End ID]__So often transphobes, homophobes, intersexists, and misogynists try to forward this idea that if we teach children about the true diversity of bodies and ways of existing (or even just acknowledge and validate their own observations of the world around them!), they’ll be confused, but it’s literally not confusing to kids. It’s only “confusing” to those adults, and that’s because they’ve wed themselves so deeply to these hyperspecific idealized binaries of gender and sex that anything that even challenges their ideology slightly feels like an affront to “the way things should be.” -- source link