Anonymous asked: About your post regarding not splitting stuff up by gender: I get that they shouldn't do that in high school, but in elementary school, you're most likely not going to find a trans* 10 year old. At that age, anything having to do with sex doesn't go beyond thinking soandso is cute. Plus, young children tend to prefer spending time with people of their own gender, so it makes sense for teachers to do that. Of course, I'm not saying there are no exceptions. I respect trans* and LGBQ people.

Trans* and gender variant adults often start as trans* and gender variant children. Even if there aren’t trans* youth in a particular class, that still doesn’t make it okay to reinforce institutional oppression. Also, there really isn’t much of a legitimate reason to do it in the first place.

-Alex

I came out as trans* at age 8. I would have had a lot easier childhood if my class wasn’t split up between boys and girls. Several studies have been done to find when trans* people first realized their gender identity. The most common age range in these studies is 5-10.

- Eli