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Video: Sexless children: the West is winning the fashion for gender-neutral parenting
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At the end of 2018, in the US state of Virginia, a French teacher was fired at one of the schools. He never allowed himself to be disrespectful to his students, did not engage in assault and knew his subject very well. Peter Vlaming was fired just because he used the pronoun "she" in relation to his student, who "feels like a man." The school leadership called the teacher's act discrimination, leading to a hostile learning environment.
He or she
By and large, no one is interested in the beliefs of the teacher himself. He tried to explain his reservation by saying the pronoun mechanically, looking at the girl. And she (or he?) Felt insulted and, with the support of her parents, made a complaint against the teacher.
Attempts by other students to defend their teacher came to nothing. The headmaster accused her subordinate of insulting the child, depriving him of the right to be called who he feels.
Peter Vlaming himself filed a counterclaim to the school, explaining: to call a woman a masculine pronoun means to lie, which he cannot do for religious reasons. However, the school board and school management consider it much more important to create a friendly environment for all students, including transgender people.
Fashion trend
In fact, the situation with the teacher from Virginia exposed a problem that has existed in the Western world for several years now. More than one family strives to educate their children as asexual creatures.
For example, Chanty and Jake from Great Britain call their child "they" in the same way as the Russian "it". Young parents believe that their Anush, when he grows up, will determine who he wants to be, a boy or a girl. In the meantime, parents buy "them" dresses for them pants in equal quantities, and among the toys there are dolls and cars.
The parents have already made their choice, they sincerely believe: raising a child of a certain gender deprives the child of the right to self-determination and imposes one or another model of behavior. Even from the child's grandmother, young parents hid Anush's physical sex for a long time.
The compatriot of Chanty and Jake Ari Dennis is raising her second child as a sexless creature. However, the word "child" in her family is also prohibited. Little Sparrow can not be called the English word "baby", for such babies they came up with a new definition - "theyby". In the Russian language, this word has not yet been found.
Hazel, the eldest child of Ari Dennis, only recently decided on her own gender, accepting herself as her nature created, and began to call herself a girl. But Sparrow has yet to realize himself as a boy or as a girl. Mom believes that she should not make a choice for the child and only the baby will be able to determine who he wants to become. Hazel, when asked if she has a brother or sister, answers: a half-child. At the same time, she does not specify the gender of the baby.
Stars in trend
Western stars keep up with the new trends in education. As you know, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt wore boyish clothes since childhood, and now she persistently demands to call her John and does not hide the fact that she is preparing for gender reassignment surgery.
However, Shiloh's younger sister Vivienne Marcheline, who until recently wore charming dresses and long hair, seems to have begun to imitate her older sister. She cut her hair shorter, and now the dresses in her wardrobe have been replaced by trousers and T-shirts. True, she has not yet made statements about the change of gender and name.
Alisha Beth Moore, known as the singer Pink, and her husband Carey Hart also believe that the child must decide for himself who he likes to be more, a boy or a girl. Therefore, they do not protest when their daughter Willow Hart chooses not a dress, but a man's suit to appear at events with her parents, and plans to marry an African girl in the future.
Charlize Theron also welcomes freedom of expression and gladly buys girlish outfits for her adopted son Jackson, which he loves very much.
Jennifer Lopez proudly calls her nephew Brandon "they" and shares his academic success. True, until the age of 14, Brandon bore the name Rebecca, and now she is waiting for the age of majority to change her sex.
Singer Celine Dion, following the new fashion trends in parenting, launched her own line of clothing "Celinununu" for gender-neutral children, confident that such a product will be in demand.
However, parents who are trying to educate not boys and girls, but asexual creatures, psychologists warn about the future problems of such children. The lack of a confident understanding of who you really are can lead to behavioral disturbances, a lack of understanding about how to behave, and what actions are considered unacceptable.
All this leads to depression, and in especially severe cases, the lack of basic self-identification can even end in suicide.
Mattel, the same company that was once branded as being extremely sexist in positioning its flagship doll, the blonde Barbie, is now at the forefront of adapting its dolls to literally every taste. The new doll is officially gender neutral. and she can portray both a girl and a guy, either one of them, or both at once.
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