During a training session recently held by the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), teachers were told how infuse sex and gender ideologies into science classes and make classroom more “LGBTQIA+ supportive.”
The training session, titled “Queer Your Classroom: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Students,” featured a presentation prepared by Jamie Kubiak, a New York City-based high school chemistry teacher who uses pronouns they/he. The NSTA said it is aimed to help teachers learn “simple tricks and strategies to affirm and represent queer students” in their classes.
The 20-slide presentation started with a statement that gender does not equal sex. “Sex is biological, what a child has been assigned at birth. It’s not always correct and it doesn’t always match with gender identity,” it states. “Gender is multi-faceted and a social construct. Gender identity is how you see yourself. Gender expression is how you express/display your gender to others, and gender attribution is how other people see your gender. These can align to each other and they might not.”
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