Bish, a British sex-education website for teenagers, says that ‘you get to choose your gender identity, whether you are a he/she/they or zie and you get to choose how you want to do your own gender.’ It recommends placing yourself on several ‘gender scales’. Listed under ‘looks masculine’ are rational, tough, takes charge, independent, headstrong, active and outgoing; under ‘looks feminine’ are emotional, soft, takes part, sharer, sensitive, passive and shy. It notes that these are what men and women are ‘supposed to be like’. Indeed, and if it endorsed smashing those stereotypes to your
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