Dallas City Wire

A Highland Park Independent School District (HPISD) eighth grade survey is asking students to tell the district their “gender identity,” suggesting options like “trans male” and “genderqueer.”

A HPISD parent provided a screenshot of the survey to Dallas City Wire. 

“What sex were you assigned at birth, on your original birth certificate?” it asks, giving “Male” and “Female” as options.

Screenshot of the survey.

The survey follows with “What is your current gender identity (check all that apply)?”

“Male”

“Female”

“Trans male/Trans man”

“Trans female/Trans woman”

“Genderqueer/Gender nonconforming”

“A different identity”

According to “Gender Wiki,” “Genderqueer is an umbrella term with a similar meaning to non-binary.”

“Non binary,” Gender Wiki writes, “describes any gender identity that does not fit the male and female gender spectrum.” This would include people who believe they “have a gender identity which varies over time, known as genderfluid” or “identify as a third gender that doesn’t exactly exist only within a specific culture,” such as “Maverique.”

“Maverique” was invented in 2014 by an American expatriate living in Japan who calls himself Vesper to describe his own gender.

“The word comes from "maverick" and the French suffix "-ique," and can be used as a noun ("some maveriques") or an adjective ("some maverique people”),” according to Gender Wiki.

Transgender activists encourage puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments and sex reassignment surgery in children who “identify” as the opposite sex, suffering from what is called Gender Dysphoria. 

Critics say 80 to 95 percent of children “naturally grow out of any gender-identity conflicted stage.”

Gender dysphoria is a psychiatric disorder in which men believe they are women and vice versa. The World Health Organization deemed it a mental illness until June 2018.

No laws in the United States prohibit the use of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for children, or regulate the age at which they may be administered.

A 30-year Swedish study of gender dysphoric people who tried to have their sex reassigned found that ten to 15 years after surgery, their suicide rate rose to 20 times of a comparable person.

HIPSD includes seven schools and 440 teachers serving 6,840 students.