This is great information. We must continue to educate parents, caregivers, and grandparents about these issues to ensure this gender nonsense is stopped in schools. Shame on those schools that refused to respond. What are they hiding?
About this: "“Te reo Māori does not differentiate gender, there is no word that represents he or she separately, and our kura ethos reflects this.”
That's not true, yes we use gender neutral pronouns, but we have very distinct roles for men and women. In particular the tie woman has to the land or the role she plays between birth and death.
Tapu and Noa - are roles for Male and Female - to set apart (sacred) to set a thing free (ordinary) - these tie to the sexes.
It's not my field - but a lot of these 'Maori' ideas aren't from our cultures - but from the new colonialism of Yogyakarta +10.
recent post you might be interested in: https://robertirvine.substack.com/p/the-tragedy-of-transgenderism
Very informative. Thanks for your work.
This is great information. We must continue to educate parents, caregivers, and grandparents about these issues to ensure this gender nonsense is stopped in schools. Shame on those schools that refused to respond. What are they hiding?
This is excellent Fern et al.
About this: "“Te reo Māori does not differentiate gender, there is no word that represents he or she separately, and our kura ethos reflects this.”
That's not true, yes we use gender neutral pronouns, but we have very distinct roles for men and women. In particular the tie woman has to the land or the role she plays between birth and death.
Tapu and Noa - are roles for Male and Female - to set apart (sacred) to set a thing free (ordinary) - these tie to the sexes.
It's not my field - but a lot of these 'Maori' ideas aren't from our cultures - but from the new colonialism of Yogyakarta +10.
Thanks. I think the school was probably answering the question about pronouns and I didn’t make that clear in my report. I will check and correct it.