Parents may think they know what “gender” really means, but after attending school in San Francisco, their elementary students will be able to define that word in a radical new way.
Read the vocabulary taught in San Francisco. Are these definitions coming to your school next?
Bisexual: A person who is physically and emotionally attracted to males and females.
Discrimination: Denying equal treatment to individuals or groups of people.
Gay (K-2): A term used to describe a person who has romantic feelings for another person of the same sex, usually used to describe a man.
Gay (3-12): A term that can apply to either men or women who are physically and emotionally attracted to persons of the same sex. However, it is usually used to describe men (e.g., "gay men").
Gender: Gender is a person's innate sense of themselves as being male or female, which may differ from their biological sex. Sex and gender are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. People whose sex and gender differ are known as Transgender.
Gender Identity: Refers to a person’s internal, deeply felt sense of being either male, female, boy or girl or something other. Everyone has a gender identity.
Heterosexism: An overt or tacit bias against homosexuality rooted in the belief that heterosexuality is superior or the norm.
Homophobia: A fear or hatred of homosexuality, especially in others, but also in oneself.
Prejudice: A belief, usually negative, about all people within a given group (e.g., "people from California are all weird").
Transgender (K-5): When someone of one gender feels like they are the other gender. For example, when a boy thinks and feels like he is a girl inside.
Transgender (6-12): People whose gender identity is different from their birth or biological sex. Sometimes they may hormonally and or/surgically change their bodies to more fully match their gender identity
Queer: Originally used as an insult for being different, a movement emerged in the 80’s to reclaim the word as positive. It is currently being used by many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons to describe their pride in being different.
San Francisco Unified School District is not the only district with such definitions, but at this point, is one of the first to post student vocabulary words online for people to review.
Read more SFUSD definitions online
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