Sentences with phrase «chosen gender identity»

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Coalition of School Board Members (FCSBM) on May 13th 2016 condemned a directive from the Obama administration that required educators to let students use bathrooms according to their chosen gender identity, rather than birth certificate.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Coalition of School Board Members (FCSBM) today condemned a directive from the Obama administration that requires educators to let students use bathrooms according to their chosen gender identity, rather than birth certificate.

DALLAS — Texas» lieutenant governor said Friday that the state is prepared to forfeit billions of federal dollars in public school funding in defiance of an Obama administration directive requiring schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

On March 31, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz rescinded a previous administrative order stating that transgender Senate employees could use bathrooms and wear clothing consistent with their chosen gender identity.

Sunday, a judge in Texas issued a temporary injunction blocking an executive order that would've required public schools to allow students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

Not exact matches

In a post yesterday I suggested that the proliferation of choices for «gender identity» (legend has it that there are now 57 varieties to choose from on facebook) will have the effect of deconstructing the very notion of gender difference — or rather, to use the old and proper terminology, the difference between the sexes, male and female.

The point applies to our choices about gender identity — especially the choices our children will have to make as they grow up, unlike us, having no choice but to choose in this particular marketplace.

I have a problem with trying to get gay people to use clinical sounding terms like same - gender attracted (neatly accronymed to SGA) so they don't have to admit that they are in fact gay, with telling them that «gay» is an identity that they can choose to own or not own.

People do not typically choose their sexual orientations or gender identities the way one might choose to wear a watch or to take cream in their coffee.

The conclusion is we do not choose our sex (biological plumbing), our gender identity (the brain wiring), nor or orientation (who we are attracted to).

In the place of sexual identity, which is considered a thing of the past, queer theory proposes the notion of a «sexual orientation» chosen by each individual based upon the gender that somehow defines his or her interior being.

Refusing to refer to a trans person by their chosen name and a personal pronoun that matches their gender identity, or purposely misgendering, will likely be discrimination when it takes place in a social area covered by the Code, including employment, housing and services like education.

In a 2016 study in the journal Pediatrics, transgender children who socially transitioned (meaning they have changed their gender expression, choosing to go by a different name and pronouns and possibly also altering their clothing and hairstyle) and felt supported in their identities had normal levels of depression and only slightly elevated levels of anxiety compared to kids whose gender identity corresponded to their birth sex.

Tinder is making some bold moves lately, with the introduction of Tinder's Apple TV app and a new profile feature that allows users to choose from over 30 gender identities.

The two most controversial initiatives have come under Title IX: The office's seven - year effort to combat what it described as an «epidemic» of sexual violence on campus, and its 2016 directive on the right of transgender students to choose restrooms, locker rooms, overnight accommodations and sports teams on the basis of their subjective sense of «gender identity» rather than their biological sex.

The move is in recognition of gender dysmorphia, where an individual does not feel their biological sex matches their gender identity, and boys and girls will be able to choose which uniform they would prefer to wear.

This equity will not threaten their national and historical identity; on the contrary it will strengthen their commitment to build a better world, where leaders are chosen on the bases of their traits and achievements rather than on their gender, ethnicity, or religion.

She decried the movement against cultural appropriation, arguing that artists should be free to represent any ethnicity, gender, or other identity they choose.

-- Oscar Wilde BODY UTOPIA creates a visionary space that honors ideas and representations of the nonconforming body — a body that does not subscribe to cultural ideals, whether through size, age, disability, ethnicity, gender presentation, or «queer», self - chosen, outlier identity.

Barlow said: «One of the things we did not want to do was to be picking out sexual or gender identities that people themselves would not have chosen.

It's up to you to choose how, where, when, and with whom to be open about your sexual orientation (and gender identity).