{"id":2179,"date":"2017-08-04T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1776again.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2017-10-04T23:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:16:03","slug":"planned-parenthood-teach-your-preschoolers-their-genitals-dont-determine-their-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/2017\/08\/04\/planned-parenthood-teach-your-preschoolers-their-genitals-dont-determine-their-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood: Teach Your Preschoolers “Their Genitals Don\u2019t Determine Their Gender”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently children as young as 4 are not too young to be told that gender and sex are different and that their genitals don’t indicate their gender, according to\u00a0new Planned Parenthood guidelines for parents.<\/a><\/p>\n

On a page of its website titled \u201cHow do I talk with my preschooler about their body?\u201d the nations leading abortion provider says if a child inquires why boys and girls have different bodies, a parent should introduce the concept of transgender identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the most simple answer is that girls have vulvas and boys have penises\/testicles, that answer isn\u2019t true for every boy and girl,\u201d the organization says. \u201cBoy, girl, man and woman are words that describe gender identity, and some people with the gender identities \u2018boy\u2019 or \u2018man\u2019 have vulvas, and some with the gender identity \u2018girl\u2019 or \u2018woman\u2019 have penises\/testicles. Your genitals don\u2019t make you a boy or a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parents should then point out to their child, the page continues, that genitals do not definitively establish gender, and that their children \u201ccan make that decision based on your values and how you plan to talk with your kid about gender as they grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics, mainly from conservative ranks, say Planned Parenthood\u2019s encouragement of parents to discuss gender identity with children who barely can string a sentence together and haven\u2019t yet learned the alphabet is preposterous.<\/p>\n

Some people with the gender identities ‘boy’ or ‘man’ have vulvas, and some with the gender identity ‘girl’ or ‘woman’ have penises\/testicles. You genitals don’t make you a boy or a girl.<\/p>\n
– Planned Parenthood’s new guidelines on discussing the body with preschoolers<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cGender is not fluid, either you have a penis or you don\u2019t,\u201d said Tim Wildmon, president of American Family Association, a Mississippi-based group that promotes conservative values. \u201cWhat Planned Parenthood is promoting here is just stupidity masked as sensitivity. If you\u2019re an adult and trying to talk to a child about whether they\u2019re really a boy or girl, you\u2019re at risk of harming them psychologically.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless a boy or girl is exhibiting behavior or says that they\u2019re messed up about what they are, there\u2019s no reason to bring something like that up\u201d at such a young age, he said.<\/p>\n
What Planned Parenthood is promoting here is just stupidity masked as sensitivity.<\/p>\n
– Ted Wildmon, president, American Family Association<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Efforts to obtain a comment from Planned Parenthood were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Critics also say that Planned Parenthood\u2019s suggested talking points are misleading.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf all the things it is \u2014 absurd, irresponsible, pretentious \u2014 one thing it definitely is not is scientific,\u201d\u00a0New York Daily News columnist S.E. Cupp wrote about the guidelines.\u00a0\u201cIf you do need help talking to your kids about gender and gender identity \u2014 and there\u2019s no shame in that \u2014 please, use real science as a guideline, and not garbage propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is, sex is more complicated today. But the conversations you\u2019ll more likely need to have with your kids will center on technology \u2014 the dangers lurking on the internet, sexting, revenge porn \u2014 and not anatomy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apparently children as young as 4 are not too young to be told that gender and sex are different and that their genitals don’t indicate their gender, according to\u00a0new Planned Parenthood guidelines for parents. On a page of its website titled \u201cHow do I talk with my preschooler about their body?\u201d the nations leading abortion provider says if a child inquires why boys and girls have different bodies, a parent should introduce the concept of transgender identity. \u201cWhile the most simple answer is that girls have vulvas and boys have Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[1075,1740,1744,1741,1745,1746,1458,1742,859,1743,1747],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-boy","tag-gender","tag-gender-identity","tag-genitals","tag-girl","tag-penis","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-pre-school","tag-preschool","tag-tim-wildmon","tag-vulva"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.1776again.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/planned-parenthood-fight-against-mike-pence-donald-trump-95220a08-6ead-40b0-9529-b094bb4f9b08.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}