“Sixty Genders for Secondary School Students”

What to say to that?

ds. If one follows the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, humans are “endowed with reason and conscience”. But sometimes you wonder: …?
  For example, in its issue of 15 April 2023, Weltwoche reports on three “theme days” at a secondary school in Zurich, where the students of the second grade were taught about “identity, love, sex and gender issues”. The fourteen-year-olds learned that the number of genders depends on how one defines gender. Biology, with its reproductive terms “male” and “female”, would see this far too narrowly. It is about “gender in a social-cultural context, in short: gender”.
  Among other things, the fourteen-year-olds were asked to answer the question why it is irrelevant today which gender a person has. They had to assign “various symbols” to the “various genders”. The symbols were “androgynous, agender, bigender, demiboy, demigender, asexual, gay, genderqueer, transgender, demigirl, neutrois, homosexual, lesbian, nonbinary, transgender, travesti and intergender”. Anyone who takes the trouble to count the number of possible “genders” comes up with exactly sixty, writes Weltwoche.
  Being curious, I ask Google: How many university chairs for “gender studies”, as it is correctly called, are there?
  There are supposed to be 4.5 in Switzerland and over 200 [according to Google] in Germany.
  And when asked about suitable teaching materials, Google reports: “About 92,000 results in 0.35 seconds”.
  Yes, one wonders: …? Or are these already signs of artificial dementia?  •

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