What happens when you bring gender training to an elementary school? In Creating Gender Inclusive Schools the Peralta El | dG1fYUNNVHZZYllNaXc
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00:00Some people think, oh, boys should only do this, and girls should only do that, or girls
00:09should think this, and boys should think that.
00:11It's not true.
00:12And I told my dad, I want some purple skinny jeans.
00:14He was like, are you crazy?
00:16My closet was literally pink, and now it's almost all blues, blacks, and browns.
00:22Remember that gender is not binary, right?
00:24There's a spectrum.
00:25We'd been discussing a lot of the gender issues in class, and to be honest, I didn't know
00:29what to expect.
00:30Some of them seemed to be really thinking about it.
00:32I think it had never occurred to him that you could look at the world this way, that
00:36you could take off these labels.
00:39Turns out that they couldn't stop talking.
00:41I like to wear sneakers, jeans, and I don't like dolls, I hate the color pink.
00:46It doesn't matter what gender you are, it matters what kind of person you are.
00:50It says here that she is too weak to stand up for herself.
00:56Are you too weak to stand up for yourself?
00:58No.
00:59If I give you a marker, I want you to look at that color of marker and think to yourself,
01:03is this a boy color?
01:05Yes.
01:06Or is this a girl color, or could this be both?
01:10I thought that it was different, like you should dress like a girl if you're a girl,
01:14but I don't think that anymore.
01:15Raise your hand if you're a boy and you can dance.
01:18Stand up, everybody can dance.
01:201, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
01:22I like doing things that boys like doing, like climbing trees and making paper airplanes.
01:29It's okay to be what you want to be.
01:33I was born as a girl, and then on the inside, I feel in the middle.
01:42Think about your own issues.
01:44Think about what it brings up for you.
01:45Think about what you want for your children in the classroom.
01:47You'd be surprised at how open-minded parents are, and even more so, how welcoming children
01:53are to learning about this.
01:54You see kids embracing each other, loving each other, and that's the kind of community
01:58that we want to foster and model for the world.