Speakers at Little-Noticed Biden Admin Webinar Urged Teachers to Avoid Using ‘Girl’ and ‘Boy’ to Refer to Students
A teacher and a school principal at a Department of Education (DOE) webinar encouraged teachers to use gender-neutral language when referring to students and to don Pride gear at school in an effort to support LGBT individuals.
The DOE held a presentation, titled “Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students,” on June 21, which included a panel made up of teachers from across the country discussing how to make their classrooms a more “inclusive” environment for LGBTQ students, according to a video taken by Higher Ground, a parental rights group, and provided to the DCNF. Teachers on the panel advised educators to avoid using terms such as “girls and boys” because students might feel as if they “aren’t being seen” if gendered language is used.
“I encourage educators to kind of move away from using expressions that maybe they’ve grown up with like ‘boys and girls’ or ‘ladies and gentlemen,’” Bill Farmer, a science teacher in Evanston, Illinois, said. “These gendered ways to address students may make some students feel uncomfortable because they don’t feel they’re being seen or that they’re being excluded. It’s easy to replace those types of expressions with gender-neutral or gender-inclusive terms such as ‘class’ or ‘students’ or ‘fifth graders.’”
Officials from the DOE, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services spoke at the webinar, according to an archived version of the webinar’s website. The event, which was closed to the press, was for teachers, staff and school leaders looking to create “supportive school environments for LGBTQI+ students and all students.” (Read more from “Speakers at Little-Noticed Biden Admin Webinar Urged Teachers to Avoid Using ‘Girl’ and ‘Boy’ to Refer to Students” HERE)
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