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"After all, little children are by nature extremely inquisitive. So it could lead to some terribly awkward conversations at home.

Just imagine…

“Daddy, what’s ‘non-binary’?”

“Well. Er. Let’s see. How shall I put this… Basically, darling, ‘non-binary’ is a type of gender identity.”

“What’s ‘gender identity’?”

“Good question. Very, very good question. Er… Think of it like a special sort of game, played by grown-ups, and which has extremely strict rules. What happens is, a man says he’s now a lady – and then everyone else has to agree, or they get in lots of trouble and lose their jobs. Especially ladies. Men can sometimes get away with saying they think the man who’s now a lady is still a man. But if ladies say they don’t want the man who’s now a lady to take his, or rather her, clothes off in the ladies’ changing room, everybody gets very cross and shouts at them.”

“I see. But what’s ‘non-binary’?”

“Well. ‘Non-binary’ is someone who says, ‘I’m not a man or a lady.’ Or, in this case, ‘I’m not a man raccoon or a lady raccoon.’ So, instead of calling the raccoon ‘he’ or ‘she’, you have to call it ‘they’, as if it – or rather, they – were several raccoons, instead of just one. And if you don’t call it – or rather, them – ‘they’, you’ll get in lots of trouble, too.”

Wouldn’t be easy, would it? Especially if your five-year-old goes on to repeat your explanation to other children at school. Because the teachers might deem your phrasing to be insufficiently inclusive. In which case, both you and your five-year-old will probably be spending the rest of the year in detention."