Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students
This week we were assigned to watch a Woke Read Aloud video and read the RI Department of Education's Guidance for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students. In this blog I will be connecting the video and reading. The video by Woke Kindergarten is a video intended for a younger audience. The reader is showing the viewers a book called They, She, He Easy as ABC which shows young children how it is easy to respect a person's pronouns and gender expression. The reader, Ki, does a great job at explaining how, yes it can be confusing at first, but that does not mean we should not listen to a person when they tell us their pronouns. They even go into explaining that just because a person presents as a certain gender, we should not assume that they use the pronouns attached to that particular gender. Ki also touches on people who use multiple sets of pronouns such as they/she. They do an awesome job at explaining it in a way that young students can understand but also...