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x_massIf the NHS was actually about us helping not hindering us, wouldn't the aim be to capture our community as young as possible and shift them so they grew up as the gender they thought themselves to be.
Imagine going to school for the first time and the teacher saying I want three groups. I want all the girls over there, all the boys over there and all those who are uncertain where to go to stay with me. Do this a few times on different days and see what drops out. Then after a month of this take note of the confused and those with cross-gender expression and track them. And make allowances for them that might use the correct toilets for them not what they were assigned. DON'T ATTACH LABELS, and recognize that the kids might be just exploring and give them room to explore. As they grow older then if your able to try to ask then why they like being a girl, or a boy, or why they feel confused. Allow children to play, and explore, give them time to be divergent. Make school a space where they can be themselves, even if at home they are expected to be a particular gender.
A radical solution that schools could try in early years, is that the school uniform is kilts in summer, trousers in winter! In summer everybody wears kilts to school, that what boys and girls wear is exactly the same. At that age underwear can cope with boys having small penises vs girls vulva. Make it that after the first two years you can then choose which of the uniform you want to wear. Obviously ideloging families will want their children to follow gendered lines, but at least it should remove the emphases a bit. And keep the rules so that what boys and girls can wear to school must be the same for both sexes. If its OK for girls to wear makeup, so its OK for the boys
Imagine going to school for the first time and the teacher saying I want three groups. I want all the girls over there, all the boys over there and all those who are uncertain where to go to stay with me. Do this a few times on different days and see what drops out. Then after a month of this take note of the confused and those with cross-gender expression and track them. And make allowances for them that might use the correct toilets for them not what they were assigned. DON'T ATTACH LABELS, and recognize that the kids might be just exploring and give them room to explore. As they grow older then if your able to try to ask then why they like being a girl, or a boy, or why they feel confused. Allow children to play, and explore, give them time to be divergent. Make school a space where they can be themselves, even if at home they are expected to be a particular gender.
A radical solution that schools could try in early years, is that the school uniform is kilts in summer, trousers in winter! In summer everybody wears kilts to school, that what boys and girls wear is exactly the same. At that age underwear can cope with boys having small penises vs girls vulva. Make it that after the first two years you can then choose which of the uniform you want to wear. Obviously ideloging families will want their children to follow gendered lines, but at least it should remove the emphases a bit. And keep the rules so that what boys and girls can wear to school must be the same for both sexes. If its OK for girls to wear makeup, so its OK for the boys
