Students should learn eggs come from ovaries, not women, to support transgender kids

“In our classroom we need to be a stickler for inclusive language in any conversation, and especially in the content that we teach. I’d like to give some examples from my content, which is science. I’ve mostly taught biology, and we’re teaching about life and living things,” Long said on what appears to be a Zoom call with Department of Education staffers and fellow teachers.

“We need to be clear that we’re including all living things, including all people in that. So I want to offer one resource that I’m going to drop in the chat from my website. So, me and two other trans-identifying high school teachers put together a language guide. Our site is called GenderInclusiveBiology.com and some things that we come up on a lot are for teaching about cell division or reproduction,” Long added.

“A lot of textbooks, a lot of existing teaching will say, well, women produce eggs. Males are more likely to be color-blind. The mother carries the fetus for this many months. And some ways that we can show our support for trans and non-binary students just to clean up that language, be more precise,” Long said. “We can be more accurate and be more inclusive. So I would say, no, it’s not women that produce eggs. It’s ovaries that produce eggs. That’s accurate, that’s precise. We’re acknowledging that not all women produce eggs and also, not all egg producers are women, for example.”

For the antidote to media bias, check out ProTrumpNews.com!

The post ‘Students should learn eggs come from ovaries, not women’… appeared first on Citizen Free Press.