76 trombones
One of the funnier ledes of all time:
Sex education has been suspended in Isle of Man schools after a drag queen allegedly told 11-year-olds that there are 73 genders.
That’s what we’re calling “sex education” these days?
Parents of pupils at Queen Elizabeth II High School in Peel, on the Isle of Man, have reported that Year 7 pupils were taught by a drag queen who told them there are 73 genders.
And who parodied women in the process. Why are drag queens teaching anything?
Some 11-year-olds at the school were taught about oral and anal sex, while another group learned about sex change operations and were shown how skin graft taken from a girl’s arm could be used on an artificial penis, according to reports.
When a penis and an anus love each other very much…
A little graphic for 11-year-olds, maybe? And I agree; what is this obsession with drag queens? They’ve been around my whole life, and I don’t remember people thinking they needed to be the focus of everything kids were learning – story hours, sex ed, what next?
Sex ed is important, and suspending it may be the wrong approach. I hope they reinstitute it with a properly credentialed and vetted individual teaching age-appropriate things, and things that need to be known. Like, what happens in puberty? I could have used a better explanation of that myself.
Right here on the Isle of Man,
Trouble with a capital T!
And that rhymes with P
And that stands for Paraphilia.
How many genders can dance on the head of a pin? (Maybe Judith Butler knows?)
The Nine Billion Genders of God by Arthur C. Clark (Mrs.)
I found an article that listed the genders, and gave brief descriptions of each. For the first half of the alphabet, there were very many genders all bunched up, and those more the majority of the 73. But it seemed like whoever was trying to compile the list got bored because it kind of petered out. How many different ways can you define a new gender that has a variation on “sometimes identifies as male, but mostly defines as female with masculine traits?” It’s hard work!
What are the Other 72 genders?>
I don’t think that there is an official repository of genders and their hit points.
I admit, I only read the first six (or however many; didn’t most of them have ‘also known as’ options?) and not one single ‘definition’ was meaningful; mainly because there was no definition of ‘gender’ itself, so any definition using that word is going to be meaningless, but also because they were circular.
Maffleblerk A blerk which is maffle.
I’m afraid that in the Internet Age, teaching 11 year-olds about anal sex may be necessary, if only to get them to understand that it can be very painful if done improperly, and that even done ‘right’, it’s not always pleasurable for both partners. Because I can guarantee you that 11 year olds with access to a computer know that ‘stick it in the butt’ is a thing, and is made to seem fun-dirty all the time.
And oral sex… yeah, I’d say they need to know about that on a more pragmatic scale. You teach BEFORE they need to know, remember, so you want to catch even the early experimenters. Letting them know that mutual masturbation and oral sex are options, and ones that are considerably less likely to have bad consequences than either anal or PiV, is something that has to occur before one of them starts exploration with a classmate.
OTOH, the idea that such should be taught by a drag queen is both ludicrous and bizarre. It’s even a pretty hefty self-own by the TRA crowd, as the one thing they absolutely should be avoiding is an easy ‘grooming’ accusation in the right-wing media, you’d think.
I mean, clear and unambiguous information presented at a young enough age might be the only thing that can finally head off that whole arm graft thing.
“…and as they rode away from Drag Queen Story Hour, they looked up to the sky where, one by one, without fuss, the sequins were going out.”