Remember such an old anecdote when daddy is interested in whether he has a boy or a girl? The father answers, they say, will grow up – he will determine himself. Now this is no longer an anecdote. Fortunately, not in our country, but in Great Britain, which we used to consider prim. There, in one of the schools, teachers were forbidden to call girls girls. Now they will have to invent some kind of gender neutral address. And all because among the students there may be someone who has not yet decided on their gender and sexual orientation. Suddenly offended?
What’s funny is that the educational institution has been proudly named “Oltringham School for Girls” for 107 years. For girls, Karl! Not gender neutral creatures.
Now the largest single-sex gymnasium in England sends letters to the parents of its students that their daughters are no longer girls. And something in between.
“I thought it was a joke,” said one of the mothers attending Oltringham School. “It seems to me that the school administration has no idea whether they have someone who has not decided on the gender or not.”
Parents who agree that it is necessary to respect the feelings of people who were born “in the wrong body” are also perplexed.
“It may be old-fashioned, but girls should be called girls and boys boys,” they say.
And representatives of the school say that they just want all their pupils (students?) To feel comfortable within the walls of the educational institution.
“We are ready for any measures, if they help our students to accept their own self and live in harmony with themselves,” – said the Oltringham school.
In general, a complete victory for tolerance. Only over what – discrimination or common sense?