UNESCO, in an attempt to stay relevant in the fast-changing, fluid world of gender politics within the UN family, has announced a new educational initiative: trans-ESD, which is to sit alongside the more usual ESD which is to be termed cis-ESD.<\/p>\n
From now on the ESD team, which will\u00a0henceforth be termed,\u00a0TEAM ESD<\/em>, will have two divisions cis-ESD and trans-ESD, each with the same rights, privileges and responsibilities (but separate\u00a0toilets). \u00a0They will work quasi-independently, coming together in carefully chaperoned sessions under the guidance of specially trained and vetted counsellors.<\/p>\n A UNESCO spokesperson, Mx Fatima\u00a0Cholmondeley-BloodAxe, said:<\/p>\n \"UNESCO is striving to become an institution where\u00a0people can live open gender-neutral lives. \u00a0As such, it signs up to what the\u00a0LGBTQIAGNC community stands for; that is to a world which is, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual and gender-non-conforming. \u00a0Our approach to ESD from now on exemplifies these values.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n When asked whether\u00a0LGBTQIAGNC wasn't a rather difficult acronym for public use, Mx Cholmondeley-BloodAxe said that UNESCO had considered using the rather briefer term 'GLOW\u2019 (gay, lesbian or whatever), but had decided that this did not do full justice to the nuanced complexity of the ideas embodied (in every sense) within\u00a0LGBTQIAGNC. \u00a0They added that UNESCO had also considered using\u00a0LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA as an alternative, but that it agreed with others\u00a0when they described this as \"silly\", and rather devaluing of the serious issues around sexuality and gender. \u00a0Cholmondeley-BloodAxe said that UNESCO was not\u00a0fearful of being caught between sex and gender, and claimed that this development\u00a0would rapidly result in\u00a0minorities being drawn into the trans-cis-ESD fold.<\/p>\n ...........<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n