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OPINION (CALIFORNIA GLOBE) – As battles rage between local school districts in California and the state Attorney General Rob Bonta regarding whether or not schools should notify parents if their child identifies as transgender or nonbinary at school, I think it’s strange—as a California public teacher—that no one is clarifying the definitions of transgender and nonbinary.
According to the California Department of Education’s Health Education Framework adopted in 2019 (p. 353), gender identity is defined as ever-changing and ever-expanding. People assume transgender means a girl identifying as a boy or a boy identifying a girl. However, according to 2023 trainings on sexual harassment used as part of state-mandated training for teachers and other employees, it’s much broader than this.
Our training program said, “Gender Identity is a person’s identification as male, female, non-binary, or other. Transgender involves identifying differently from a person’s sex at birth or something else.” After the training, I asked my employer, “What does the word ‘other’ or ‘something else’ encompass? It’s so open-ended, it could mean anything and everything.” No one could give me an answer, so I researched it myself.
In my quest, I found authoritative sources telling Americans to throw rational thinking out the window in order to embrace radical group think.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines gender nonbinary in part as “gender creative.” This means kids can create or make up their own gender(s).
The California Department of Education defines nonbinary with these descriptive labels: transgender, intersex, gender-neutral, agender, genderqueer, gender fluid, two spirit, bigender, pangender, gender nonconforming, or gender variant.
