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How to help children understand gender diversity in unsupportive environments

My eight-year-old keeps asking why some kids at school say there are only two genders when they know that's not true about our family.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children's natural acceptance of diversity collides with institutional and peer messages that contradict their lived experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gender identity — full spectrum?”

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