THIS IS NOT PROGRESS – AT 11:45 A.M. ET:   We don't disparage those with gender-identity issues, but please don't afflict all of society with this problem.  From Breitbart: 

Following State regulations to counteract traditional gender roles, a number of Swedish preschools have begun experimenting in innovative ways to blur the differences between boys and girls.

The Swedish government has been committed to the deconstruction of gender for decades, and in 1998, added a requirement to its national curriculum that all preschools “counteract traditional gender roles and gender patterns” and encourage children to explore “outside the limitations of stereotyped gender roles.”

At preschools across the country, toddlers are addressed by gender-neutral pronouns, encouraged to play at games commonly associated with the other sex, and forced to overcome natural tendencies toward aggression or passivity, according to a March 24 article in the New York Times.

The State curriculum “urges teachers and principals to embrace their role as social engineers,” the Times article declares, despite the fact that the effect of this teaching method on children “is still unclear.”

At the Seafarer’s Preschool outside Stockholm, for instance, teachers remove gender-specific toys like cars and dolls and have the boys play kitchen while the girls are made to shout “No!”

COMMENT:  I always thought that the purpose of the women's movement was to enhance the equality, safety, and dignity of women.  Apparently I was misinformed.  Now the political left, without, apparently, any dissent from feminists, is diminishing women, making them part of some vague blur.

Maybe some like it.  Some don't.  I don't think this is the proper role for a state-supported school.

March 26, 2018