Gender Roles and the Issue in Schools in the U.S.

Today on Facebook, this article came across my feed: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boys-nonbinary-student-suspended-over-long-hair-sue-texas-school-n1282048 .

This article made my temper boil, and I’m pretty good at controlling my temper nowadays. But now that I am calmer, I want to post my thoughts about it. I hope you all comment so we can have an adult conversation about it.

To begin, gender roles have been a hot subject lately. Yes, it has been a hot subject for a very long time thanks to the women who fought to get women more rights than we used to have. However, due to the LGBT+ community getting rights, FINALLY, the fight for gender roles and gender types has turned into a wildfire.

According to the World Health Organization: “Gender refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl, or boy…