Submitted on Tuesday 19th April 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 20th April 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Make school books acknowledge the Gender Non-binary and not just Male and Female
I was revising in my GCSE textbooks, and realised there was just mention of two genders, Male and Female here's a quote;
"... worker is male
or female, ... is irrelevant. He or she is a factory worker." is used and imply's only male and female, this needs to change, there is way more than two.
Class stratification is based on economic inequality.
In a class society:
An individual’s position in the system of stratification depends only
on his or her economic situation. Whether a factory worker is male
or female, black or white, Catholic or Hindu, cockney or Geordie,
Guardian or Sun reader is irrelevant. He or she is a factory worker.
Also a section in the AQA Sociology GCSE book on Gender inequality only mentions a study about girls and body image, never about the Trans* community.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. Decisions about what content appears in books is a matter for the author and decisions about which books to include on the syllabus for GCSE exams are the responsibility of individual exam boards. You could start a petition calling on the Government to require exam boards to include non-binary gender in the texts that they select, or to add education about non-binary gender to the national curriculum.
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