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Hi everyone,I found this paragraph in a book and I don't understand what it means. Are they even grammatically correct? I would appreciate it if you tell me the meaning of each sentence separately:1)Be inclusive of a child who identifies as another gender to the one they were assigned at birth. 2)Your modelling of how this child is included and referred to will be paramount to the attitudes of the other children and their families.Thank you in advance.

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SpradiniI found this paragraph in a book and I don't understand what it means. Are they even grammatically correct?

He sounds like a foreigner who swallowed a dictionary, but I suspect that he is merely a native speaker who never bothered to learn his own language. You would not like my interpretation of this empty-headed, misguided social engineering garbage. I recommend you take its ineptness as an indication of its worth and read something else.

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Spradini1) Be inclusive of a child who identifies as another gender to the one they were assigned at birth.

A boy who thinks of himself as a girl (and most likely acts like a girl and may want to dress like a girl) is a boy who "identifies as another gender to the one they were assigned at birth".
A girl who thinks of herself as a boy (and most likely acts like a boy and may want to dress like a boy) is a girl who "identifies as another gender to the one they were assigned at birth".

Be inclusive ~ Do not leave the child out of groups of children (at school, at play, etc.). Welcome them into the group.

Spradini2) Your modelling of how this child is included and referred to will be paramount to the attitudes of the other children and their families.

The way that you behave toward this child is a model for how others will behave toward the child. This behavior involves including the child in group activities and it also involves how you refer to the child in speaking about him or her.* This behavior is very important as a cue to other children and their families as to how they, too, should behave toward this child.

*This may involve the use of pronouns like "he", "him", "she" and "her". I don't know if anything else in your text mentions this or if they have some other way of interpreting "how this child is ... referred to".

You do not have to translate word by word. Write what is idiomatic in the target language that delivers the same message even if you don't use the same words in the same order as they occur in the English text.

CJ

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