Government Survey Asks 13-Year-Olds to Pick Their Gender (or Genders) from a List of 25 Parents of kids in Brighton, England are not too happy. By Katherine Timpf

Posted By on February 3rd, 2016

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Schoolchildren as young as 13 in Brighton, England were told to fill out a government survey that asked them to pick out their gender (or genders) from a list of 25 options.

Yes — gender or genders.

Among the options were “tri-gender” (having exactly three genders,) “gender fluid” (having your gender change over time,) “demi-boy/demi-girl” (someone who is only partially male/female,) and “all genders” (which would be an infinite number because gender is obviously a spectrum.)

Below is the complete list, from which instructed students to “choose as many as [they] want:”

  1. Male

  2. Female

  3. Girl

  4. Boy

  5. Tomboy

  6. (Young) woman

  7. (Young) man

  8. Trans-girl

  9. Trans-boy

  10. Gender fluid

  11. Agender

  12. Androgynous

  13. Bi-gender

  14. Non-binary

  15. Demi-boy

  16. Demi-girl

  17. Genderqueer

  18. Gender non-conforming

  19. Tri-gender

  20. All genders

  21. In the middle of boy and girl

  22. Intersex

  23. Not sure

  24. Rather not say

  25. Others

Note: The “others” option was not included as part of the checklist, but rather as a free-form box below it where students could write in absolutely anything that they wanted. After all, just 24 choices would clearly not be enough.

Transgender activists are praising the survey as a win, but local news source the Argus reports that a lot of parents weren’t so happy about it — calling it “unnecessary” and worrying that it might even confuse kids who wouldn’t have otherwise thought to be confused.

The survey came from Office of the Children’s Commissioner and was distributed to every school in Brighton and Hove, according to the Argus.

The survey states that the results may be used in government reports about children and gender identity. However, it remains unclear if the method will be able to actually provide accurate data or if kids might see the form as a joke and fill it out as such.

According to the Argus, students younger than 16 were supposed to ask their parents if they should complete the survey — but parents of at least one school, Blatchington Mill, claim that their kids were not instructed to do so.

— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.

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