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Fifth-Graders Asked About Experience With Sex, Their ‘Preferred Gender,’ and the Gender of Their Sex Partners

Matthew McDonald

Some fifth-graders and sixth-graders in the town of Windsor, Vermont were given a survey asking whether they have engaged in sexual relations, what gender they identify with, and what gender their sexual partners identify with.

The survey was given to students by a nonprofit organization called WISE, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, which got the survey from the Preventions and Innovations Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, according to The Union Leader.

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Transgender Democrat Running for Governor of Vermont Thwacks Trump Administration Over Male-Female Designation Policy

Matthew McDonald

The Democratic nominee for governor of Vermont is promising to let the Trump administration hear it and feel it over a proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to define biological sex as male and female under federal law.

Christine Hallquist, a biological male who identifies as a woman, posted a tweet after The New York Times reported on Sunday, October 21 that the federal agency wants immutable characteristics of biological sex to determine how a person's status is stated on federal government documents:

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