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04-20-2016, 03:33 PM
Parents asked to help their 4-year-olds choose their gender
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LONDON — A city council has sent a letter to thousands of parents asking them to support the gender their children "most identify with" when confirming school places.*
The letter, sent this week, requested that parents help their children "choose" their gender identity, asking them to leave the gender section of the form blank if their child is **n-binary.*
SEE ALSO: Doctors 'refusing' UK gender dysphoria patients hormone treatments (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/gender-dysphoria-treatment-nhs/)
“We recognise that **t all children and young people identify with the gender they were assigned at birth or may identify as a gender other than male or female, however the current systems (set nationally) only record gender as male or female," read (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7089698/Parents-blast-council-after-kids-told-to-choose-their-gender.html) the letter.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/gender-identity-children-brighton/)
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LONDON — A city council has sent a letter to thousands of parents asking them to support the gender their children "most identify with" when confirming school places.*
The letter, sent this week, requested that parents help their children "choose" their gender identity, asking them to leave the gender section of the form blank if their child is **n-binary.*
SEE ALSO: Doctors 'refusing' UK gender dysphoria patients hormone treatments (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/gender-dysphoria-treatment-nhs/)
“We recognise that **t all children and young people identify with the gender they were assigned at birth or may identify as a gender other than male or female, however the current systems (set nationally) only record gender as male or female," read (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7089698/Parents-blast-council-after-kids-told-to-choose-their-gender.html) the letter.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/gender-identity-children-brighton/)
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