They are rotting the minds of our children!!!

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or hold some stories out discussing my gender with my students. So I have one student who ever since I explained to my students that I was not binary, it's been living in his head a little bit. I think that he is still confused and fascinated by it. It doesn't upset him but it's something that like clearly he's like processing because he'll ask me questions fairly often about it. So we are doing arts and crafts again. I guess arts and crafts is a good time to have conversations. Things are quiet, kids are focused, I'm walking around checking on how they're doing. So he and his friend are sitting down and drawing so I go up to their table and he goes, teacher Rebecca, are you ever going to decide if you want to be a girl or boy? Because I say, well, it's not really a decision like that and I don't, you don't have to choose between one or the other. I already figured out that I'm neither. Do I seem like a girl to you? Do I act like a girl? And he said you kind of act like a girl and a boy. And I say, would you prefer if I acted more like a girl? And he kind of paused and he was like, I think if you acted like a girl, I would be less confused. So I said, I understand that. I know that, you know, I look like a girl so it would be less confusing if I acted like one too. And I turn over to his friend and I say, what about you? Do you think I'm confusing? And his friend just goes, no. Do you think that I'm a boy or a girl? No. Oh, what do you think I am? I think you're a boy and a girl. And then it gave me a certain amount of euphoria. Like even though I don't identify as either a girl or a boy, I think what he was saying, you know, being eight years old was that that's how he interprets me as a person. He interprets me as a blend. And that works because that is in a way how I am. My gender moves and my gender is not either. And I have both feminine and masculine qualities to me. So I'm glad that they're getting it. And I'm glad that they're curious too.