Activity 36 in The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids by Kelly Storck (IHB, 2018) asks to kid to write a letter to their Gender asking it to shut up its persecution
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But Activity 1 is called ‘What is Gender?’ No kid is worried about their gender until they know there is such a thing.pic.twitter.com/R7wsleSKr7
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This is a book that repeats the word ‘gender’ compulsively on every pagepic.twitter.com/MdfBuXLZzx
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Revealing its author’s and our culture’s obsession. Yet this word was not used in this sense until 1950s and did not become a cultural obsession for kids till 21st century.
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We have made a new God that is not always kind: ‘Go ahead, write a note to let your gender know you need some time to enjoy or deal with something else.’
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My first question.... why do kids even need to worry about this? I did not even know what that word meant until I was an adult.
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More to do: "Write a letter to gender explaining why you reject it and are quite happy to just be the boy/ girl that you are, in the manner of your own choosing." Practise using the phrases "fuck off" & "with your crass stereotypes" in your letter.
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