Log in Subscribe

Letter to the editor, May 6

Posted 5/6/23

Editor,

Here is some information that might be of interest to your readers:

In response to a citizen question relayed by the Bedford County Department of Education to the Tennessee …

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in

Letter to the editor, May 6

Posted

Editor,

Here is some information that might be of interest to your readers:

In response to a citizen question relayed by the Bedford County Department of Education to the Tennessee Department of Education, TDOE has sent to BCDOE explicit, written confirmation that there are two different sexes, female and male.

Some of your readers may be thinking, "Duh! What was the clue, Sherlock?"

"Identify and describe the organs of the human male and female reproductive systems" is cited by TDOE as a Tennessee Academic Standard for Science that affirms that there are females and males and that they are different. Another cited standard refers to "the female menstrual cycle." (It is now asserted in some schools in other states that males menstruate, but Tennessee schools make no such claim.)

The question of female/male sex differentiation has become a controversial one. In some school systems in America, children are now being taught that regardless of their chromosomes and anatomy, they can choose to be either female or male, and whatever they choose will be the true reality.

Here in Bedford County and throughout Tennessee public education, that is not to be taught. Students are to be taught that female and male are real, different categories of human beings.

Tennessee is a great state. 

John Anderson

Bell Buckle