Millennials were absolutely indoctrinated into this bullshit. We learned about gender identities in high school and college and had seminars on LGBTQIA++ issues in college for “Diversity Training”. This stuff has been brewing in universities for 12 years at least.
Millennials were absolutely indoctrinated into this bullshit. We learned about gender identities in high school and college and had seminars on LGBTQIA++ issues in college for “Diversity Training”. This stuff has been brewing in universities for 12 years at least.
Curious approximately when you were born? I was born in the late 1980s... it was definitely intruding by college (and far beyond the gender studies department, which I avoided like the plague... but we had LGBTQ safe spaces and all the beginnings of weird gender crap), but it's not like I was being taught this when I hit puberty or anything.
I was born in 1993. Definitely we were not taught this around puberty, but in HS we learned gender theory in Psychology class including about transgender, gender v. sex, and 'other genders'. A few students in HS had 'alternative' identities and used they/them, ze/zir but it was not so common. By the time I entered college 2011-2015 it was more mainstream. We were instructed to introduce ourselves with our preferred pronouns or include them in our email signature. By senior year of college, we had mandated LGBTQIA+ training to complete as part of the Anti-Bias / Diversity requirement for graduation. I saw many peers start college as she/her and graduated as they/them. I think college is a time when a lot of people are figuring out their identity, the first time independent of their parents, siblings, and hometown friends so it's a very impressionable age.
I think older millenials (pre-1990) had a different experience from core millenials. I sometimes find younger millenials and Gen Z seem to have more in common in terms of interests and attitudes than with older ones (in from the mid-80s, so I'm on the older end). I did get a 2nd degree a year or two after my 1st, and I did notice that there seemed to have been some kind of shift by the time I was finishing it up; seminars were no longer quite so free flowing and feminism was of the liberal, 3rd-wave variety.
Millennials were absolutely indoctrinated into this bullshit. We learned about gender identities in high school and college and had seminars on LGBTQIA++ issues in college for “Diversity Training”. This stuff has been brewing in universities for 12 years at least.
Curious approximately when you were born? I was born in the late 1980s... it was definitely intruding by college (and far beyond the gender studies department, which I avoided like the plague... but we had LGBTQ safe spaces and all the beginnings of weird gender crap), but it's not like I was being taught this when I hit puberty or anything.
I was born in 1993. Definitely we were not taught this around puberty, but in HS we learned gender theory in Psychology class including about transgender, gender v. sex, and 'other genders'. A few students in HS had 'alternative' identities and used they/them, ze/zir but it was not so common. By the time I entered college 2011-2015 it was more mainstream. We were instructed to introduce ourselves with our preferred pronouns or include them in our email signature. By senior year of college, we had mandated LGBTQIA+ training to complete as part of the Anti-Bias / Diversity requirement for graduation. I saw many peers start college as she/her and graduated as they/them. I think college is a time when a lot of people are figuring out their identity, the first time independent of their parents, siblings, and hometown friends so it's a very impressionable age.
I think older millenials (pre-1990) had a different experience from core millenials. I sometimes find younger millenials and Gen Z seem to have more in common in terms of interests and attitudes than with older ones (in from the mid-80s, so I'm on the older end). I did get a 2nd degree a year or two after my 1st, and I did notice that there seemed to have been some kind of shift by the time I was finishing it up; seminars were no longer quite so free flowing and feminism was of the liberal, 3rd-wave variety.