State drops ‘birth gender’ wording

It was just two words in an application — but they left Erin Swenson confused and concerned. Swenson has two children in the Boise School District. When they applied for advanced opportunities programs, they were asked to list their birth gender. Swenson contacted the State Department of Education last week to ask about the wording, starting an email thread she shared with Idaho Education News on Tuesday.By midday Tuesday, the department had contacted Swenson and Idaho Education News, and said the wording had been changed from “birth gender” to “gender.” The birth gender wording was an “inadvertent typo,” department spokesman Jeff Church said/ Kevin Richert , Idaho Statesman. More here.

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