Posted on 02/16/2015 7:56:55 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Zaneta Rago, the Director of Rutgers’ Social Justice Center, said that she was surprised there were not more millennials who believed that gender exists on a spectrum.
“It's wonderful that approximately half of the respondents understood gender as a spectrum, but that means we're only half way there," she said.
Daniella Anconetami, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said that she believes in the gender spectrum.
She said that she discovered that gender “wasn’t black and white” in high school, and said that her opinions about gender identity changed after meeting someone who was transgender in high school.
Jennifer Oh, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said that she believes gender exists on a vast spectrum.
She said that parents of the millennial generation usually taught their kids that male and female were the only two categories for gender, but doing research and meeting transgender people can change millennials' minds.
Rago also emphasized the importance of education in spreading awareness about non-binary forms of gender identity.
"The data [in the poll] showed that the numbers shifted between regions and level of education," she said. "There is quite a bit of work being done across campuses in regards to inclusion and awareness, and I think the numbers accurately reflect the work."
She said people should still keep in mind that not everyone will have the economic access to a college education, so making sure campuses are reaching their surrounding populations and partnering with community-based organizations will be key to spreading awareness.
Rago also said that she thinks millennials are “courageous” because they are “defining their experiences for themselves” instead of following more rigid binaries of gender.
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The fact that there even exists such a thing is a clear indication this country is doomed and circling the toilet bowl.
“She said people should still keep in mind that not everyone will have the economic access to a college education, so making sure campuses are reaching their surrounding populations and partnering with community-based organizations will be key to spreading awareness”
The arrogance!!! I strongly suspect if this little libtard were to follow through with her advice above, and came out to rural areas to “spread awareness”, where us ignorant poor folk live, she probably wouldn’t even pick up on the unspoken yet polite looks of “she’s just a wee bit ‘touched’” she would be receiving.
How can we label people with a vagina ‘women’ in our Brave New World?
Anti-science progressives. A person with XY chromosomes is male. A person with XX chromosomes is female. No spectrum.
Here is a thought project for liberals.
According to homosexuals, they are hard wired to be homosexuals. It is who they are, its in their DNA according to them. They cannot change.
But you can be whatever gender you want even if it is different than your DNA. You can change it whenever you want.
Do these two arguments contradict each other?
Good point!
One more reason, as if we needed another, to chain and padlock the doors of the “public” schools and universities.
A barely science literate college freshman discovers a new word from the science of physics, misapplies it to political BS, and beams at having invented a clever new catch phrase.
Reminds me of that other puerile misapplied physics word, "optics."
TOTAL FAIL!
Also total BS.
Nothing is black or white, right or wrong, good or bad; all comparisons are 50 Shades of Grey.
Why do freaks like Zaneta Rago hate gender? I mean, even if they think that gender differences are used to justify societal sex roles, aren’t we about 50 years past that argument? Don’t women enter pretty much any profession they want to without fear of discrimination?
“...Since when is it “courageous” to reflect the views of popular culture...”
Sadly, since liberals gained so much footing on campus. There was a similar refrain during Vietnam...”the brave ones went to Canada”.
But Bruce Jenner’s Mom really bought into this thinking when she said she was never prouder of her son than we he decided to go to high heels instead of the high jump (words to that effect).
Yes, and it’s been facilitated by government intrusion into education through its loan programs. Were it not for available cash, colleges couldn’t afford to create curriculum for the few mentally impaired who might enjoy the reinforcing “education.”
But you can be whatever gender you want even if it is different than your DNA. You can change it whenever you want.
Do these two arguments contradict each other?
I'd suppose that the second argument would be closer to this: this transgendered person's DNA or other "hardwiring" (not all arguments are DNA-related) would align less with what we might call one's chromosomal gender (or whatever the term would be) than with one's gender identity (or whatever the term would be).
At the end of Beauty and the Beast by Disney there is a dedication to an Howard Ashman, lyricist, who died of aids. Other works include Little Mermaid, Oliver & Co, Alladin, Little shop of Horrors. Survived by partner Bill Lauch.
Have to say he was talented, but I believe Disney has quite a stock of the gender spectrum types. I wonder with the kids being there how much they allow the ‘spectrum’ to bend.
The leftists are winning the war on sanity folks. I had to even correct my wife today! There is no transgender. You have an innie or an outie, that’s it. The rest is confusion.
There do seem to be a hell of a lot of androgynous millenials, but almost all of them clearly belong to one of two genders, however much they wish otherwise.
propaganda and indoctrination works
here just as in commie-lands
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