Remember that old anecdote when Daddyare they interested in a boy or a girl? The father responds, they say, will grow up - he will decide himself. Now this is no longer an anecdote. Fortunately, not in our country, but in the UK, which we are accustomed to consider prudish. There, in one of the schools, teachers were forbidden to call girls girls. Now they will have to invent some kind of gender neutral treatment. And all because among the students there may be someone who has not yet decided on their gender and sexual orientation. What is the most ridiculous, the school has been proud for 107 years "The School for Girls Altringham." For girls, Carl! No gender neutral beings.
Photo:GettyImagesNow England's largest single-sex grammar school is sending letters to parents of its students telling them that their daughters are no longer girls. But something in between. "I thought it was a joke," said one of the mothers of Altrincham's schoolgoers. "I don't think the school administration has any idea whether they have anyone who hasn't decided on their gender or not." Those parents who agree that the feelings of people born "in the wrong body" should be respected are also perplexed. "It may be old-fashioned, but girls should be called girls and boys should be called boys," they say. And school representatives say they just want all their students (students?) to feel comfortable within the walls of the educational institution. "We are ready to do anything if it helps our students to accept their own self and live in harmony with themselves," Altrincham's school said. In short, a complete victory for tolerance. But what is it - discrimination or common sense?
