Last night my little sister (5th grade) was making an e-mail account
She saw gender and went to click female when she noticed the “other” choice
She looked at me confused and I started to explain that some people don’t think they fit in with strictly male or female
“Oh! You mean like transgender and stuff like that. I was freaked out for a second- I thought they meant robots.”
Yet another example the kids are more open-minded than adults
the three genders: male, female, robot
Seriously. Kids don’t have the bigotries adults do until adults teach them. It’s incredibly easy to explain being, say, trans to a kid. They get it and move on.
