'Transgender should be taught in schools: students deserve fuller education'
Joanna Johnson
Issue date: 2/3/11

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How young is too young to teach diversity? In a recent Huffington Post article, transgender activist Joanne Herman wrote about a new study suggesting children should be introduced to the concept of transgender people early on in their education. The studies' authors wrote that this would most benefit children who were transgender themselves.

Most public schools currently view gender-nonconformity as something wrong. This, understandably, makes school considerably more difficult for transgender children, and according to the study increases the likelihood that they will have mental health and learning problems - problems that will follow through their adolescence and adulthood.