I work at an Aquarium where we teach marine biology to thousands of students each year. Part of our presentation is to talk about sex change in fish. Quite a few fish species change sex at some stage in their lives, e.g. Nemo, our Disney clown fish, would have become a girl at around 4 years of age. We had a school group in recently led by an obviously transgender teacher, and our instructor chose to leave out the part of our presentation on sex change, as she thought it might make the transgender teacher uncomfortable.
My take on this is that our trans teacher would have benefitted from the students learning that sex change is not only part of nature, but quite common.
What do you think?
Allie