Make school books acknowledge the Gender Non-binary and not just Male and Female

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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.

Timeline

19 Apr 2016	Petition opened for signatures
20 Apr 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Apr 2016

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