Can we Implement a Tolerance for all based Solution to Transgenderism among Schoolchildren?

[BreezeWood]

There is a lot of intolerance surrounding this issue. The problem with those who say that tolerance is the answer is that they often limit that suggestion of tolerance to mean only to tolerate what they themselves are willing to tolerate. Tolerance could solve this issue, but only if we are not selective in what is tolerated.

We should encourage all to tolerate a person who identifies as a different gender. No skin off anyone else's nose, as far as I can see.

Can we also tolerate those who do object to a person representing themselves as the opposite of their biological gender? Can we say, "you're welcome to your opinion," or must we seek to change that opinion? Can we be tolerant of those opinions, hoping that they will change, but accepting that they may not? If we can tolerate those who disagree, then we can end much of the angst that seems to be driving the transgender movement.

If there are parents who do not want their children to express that they are the opposite gender from their biological gender, can such parents be tolerated, and their parental rights left uninfringed? Can teachers and staff advise these children to tolerate their parents' rules, as they must tolerate their parents' curfews, chore expectations, and family visit requirements, as well as the school rules with which they disagree? That would help parents avoid seeing the school as the enemy and help educators avoid seeing parents as terrorists.

If there are parents, teachers, and staff who would not feel honest if they addressed a child by the gender that matches the child's biology, can we tolerate that, or must we apply consequences to change them so that we can tolerate them? Can we advise the transgender students that no one is required to think as they do and that being misgendered need not be a scarring event, if they can practice tolerance of those alternate ways of thinking?

The most important tolerance that should be taught to transgender schoolchildren is tolerance for their own bodies. The healthy human body is an incredibly beautiful machine, capable of serving the human that it embodies, providing for wants and fulfilling needs for a lifetime. Any altering, by surgery or by chemicals, is best left to the child's future adult self. Permanent changes to that beautiful machine have far too great a potential downside for such decisions to be made by a child.

Can we tolerate that idea, and convince transgender children to tolerate it?

There may indeed be people who are so convinced that their body does not match their gender that they will never be happy unless they can have that body altered. Fine, so long as they are old enough to make such a decision. But we should not allow them to do that before a certain age, anymore than we allow them to drop out of school, or join the military, or get a tattoo, or visit a brothel, when they are fourteen, no matter how strongly they identify as a gung-ho Marine or the like.

But we should not allow them to do that before a certain age ... (when they are fourteen)

you would rather they commit suicide ...

age is a very bad caliber to set as a guide - if being guideful is the true purpose.

 

[Seymour Flops]

you would rather they commit suicide ...

age is a very bad caliber to set as a guide - if being guideful is the true purpose.

People commit suicide because the are suicidal, often because of depression. Not because they are not allowed to lop off their primary and secondary sexual organs.

 

[BreezeWood]

People commit suicide because the are suicidal, often because of depression. Not because they are not allowed to lop off their primary and secondary sexual organs.

does that even make sense ... you're on a slippery slope -

But we should not allow them to do that before a certain age ...

age is a very bad caliber to set as a guide ...

jenner still has their parts, the deep end should be the last resort - nothing wrong making that clear.

their spirit is no one else's.