Nine of my students in my elementary class came out as non binary and

This is the shit that gender politics has caused, totally fucking up kids brains. It’s become a fad to change genders, not a genuine thing at all.

If I were in sixth grade, I would sign on as non-binary so I could go in the third bathroom and smoke a joint.

That's a lot for one class, they're probably doing it, because they think it's cool.

Hand them a signed paper requesting that you be referred to as "Your Royal Highness".

They’re kids, they’re probably going to do 5 more petitions that involve getting a dragon as a class pet and Icecream Sunday’s on Mondays. 3 more are going to identify as Spider-Man

Just let them figure things out, it ain’t harming anyone

Just call them they/them. Even if you don’t understand being non-binary using they/them is hardly a Herculean task and if you don’t like the idea of a gender neutral bathroom just don’t use it. Take a breath and ask yourself if this harmless stuff is really worth getting enraged over because personally I really don’t think it is.

heres your solution: leave them the fuck alone and mind your own business.

That's fucked up, man. Welcome to the new world.

Just call them they/them, what does it matter? I don't believe they are all non-binary tbh, most of them are probably just doing it to fit in with the others, but so what? It isn't harming them. They'll figure it all out when they're older.

Bunch of shit!!! How in the hell that a six grader worry about what fucking gender they are?? Either you a boy or girl. boys go to boys bathroom and girls go to a girl's bathroom that's it. There's no fucking way 6th graders know any difference unless they have gay parents!!!, just saying from hard rock dude

When I was growing up there was only 2 gay dudes in my highschool and 0 transkids. My sister is a teacher and she said theres like 15 trans kids in that same school today. I think they're putting frogs in the water that make the kids gay or whatever

I'll take "shit that didn't happen" for 500.

Just learn to call them by their name, I wouldn't play their game. If their parents are aware they're probably just waiting on a reason to get the media and some lawyer involved.

Its common for sexual maturity to start by the 6th grade - and sexual identity is not a dot on the sexual identity map - its an area (often with lobes or fingers). Some experimentation with the boundaries of a person's area are normal.

I'd say what it means is that these growing/maturing children are at the stage where they are unsure... and identifying themselves as "non-binary" is a safe place for them to be while they figure it out.

As far as what are they really and your belief's. The psychologist have known for decades that there are people in between. When my wife and I was going through marriage sexuality counseling we got introduced to the following chart (which is a simplistic 2 dimensional view looking at a globe of human sexuality). I'm going to dry to draw this here and hope it works: Vertical and Horizontal axis - I need to add dots to make it work.

...........Monogamist..........
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...........Monogamish.........
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Homo------------------Hetero
sexual..........|..............sexual
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............Polygamish..........
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............Polygamist...........

(This app squished this horizontally - it should be a square)

Some people are clearly heterosexual and other homosexual (and there are actually measurable brain differences between the extremes). But, a fair amount of people actually are towards the middle of that - and clearly at least experiment before settling on what they want.

At the same time: Some people are solid hard wired Monogamist, who cannot conceive of having more than one sexual partner (and to force it would cause mental distress if not harm). Others are clearly Polygamist who need to live with multiple partners to function best. Again, there are a fair amount of people towards the middle of this (I'm personally hard heterosexual and just past the polygamish towards polygamist - where I naturally think in plurals and function best with multiple partners; but, don't need to live with them).

This chart explained to both me and my wife our "difficulties" as our area blobs of personal sexuality comfort are centered in different places on this chart (with an overlap between the two areas). Knowing who we each are sexually allowed us to adjust and live with the other (instead of getting a divorce).

Most people's sexuality area is an oblong blob squished circle(with bulges) that covers circular area about 1/4 of the height and width of a square version of this chart (just squish a circle into an oblong and add a few extended blob fingers). A few people have smaller areas than that, a few larger.

The sex therapist, and the literature I read at the major research universities on human sexuality all indicate that while Hetrosexulity is far more common than Homosexuality. That most "Monagamist" beliefs are in fact culturally taught and people who grow up without that culture tend to naturally fall between the Monagamish and Polygamish lines. Yes there are some pure Monagamist, and there are some pure Polyagamist. But, that's not where most people naturally go if not taught religious beliefs about what is so called "right."

I hope this chart and the personal sexual interest area concept helps you understand the most common types of human sexuality.

Note: I understand that chart is at least several decades old.

Edited to add (after fixing the chart): A persons personal belief about sexuality does not change the facts about what the researchers have found about natural sexuality.

You are also free in believing that gravity does not exist and walk off a tall building.

Stay away from those kids. They will always be unhappy and find some grievance or another to complain about.

Kids influence by their surrounding. And adults have the responsibility to make a better environment. Who to blame?. Us ofc. If we happened to grow up ok, our adults have the credits. Because they created a healthy atmosphere for us, if kids are talking, acting and doing stuff that we are confuse of now days, it's our own failure. We have created a shitty world.
Go to discord if you have. See how men is proud to to be called sissies in those chanels. And that's just a one. Two years of pandemic and digital society. What else we can expect.

It's not their fault. We need to be aware what kinda environment they are living in, we have to take actions.

Theres no way in hell id ever let my elementary age child get involved in that gender pronoun bullshit If he brought that bullshit home id take him out of that school that day and move to a different school zone or put him in private school. You gotta really be involved in your kids schooling now you dont want to have some trendy teachers explaining to them they might feel like the other gender and indoctrinate them into pointless bullshit that is just gonna hurt them in life.

idk sounds like you should bring it to the upper level authorities

idk sounds like you should bring it to the upper level authorities

Were they all girls? Kids that age are very group-oriented and will mimic the others. I would add some critical thinking lessons to your curriculum.

Yup. Who'd of thought that when you make something as fuckin' useless and unimportant as your gender an easy means to instant value that kids trying to find their identity would opt to that method of instant value to gain an easy to obtain sense of importance?

Nothing you can do about it, bud. I'd anonymously inform their parents. Dont refer to them by their pronouns at all, simply refer to them by their names.

Kids need to explore themselves. Maybe allowing a child to have gender changing surgery is a bit much, but letting them figure out who they Identify as as a person is important for their growth. Tweens and teens typically follow trends like the weather, so I wouldnt be too concerned right now.

That being said, the school probably has protocol for this and you should inquire the proper channels before anything else.

You really want to bw fired dont you? Just call the children Them. Its likw asking to bw called terry and not terrisa

no, it’s not messed up at all. it’s just a couple of kids figuring things out and experimenting with different identities, it isn’t harming you, OP, or anyone at all. YOU get a clue, and educate yourself. be better.