ABSTRACT The paper marks the growth of interest in transgender rights and argues for the value of transgender awareness as a challenge to gender binary thinking. It identifies early years education as a powerful site for a focus on gender non-conformity and aims to draw together theoretical and practical forms of support for the EYE staff who respond to young children’s gendered expressions on an everyday basis. The authors draw on data gathered within their respective research and professional training trajectories which are understood through queer and feminist poststructuralist theory, together with approaches from transgender studies. These are combined to emphasise gender multiplicities and pluralities of sexuality. The paper examines how staff can be supported towards greater gender sensitivity and considers how the presence of more male teachers in EYE can act as a catalyst for developing a gender flexible pedagogy. It concludes that a growing awareness of transgender benefits the mental health and wellbeing of all young children, and protects gender- variant children from peer abuse.

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早期教育中的跨性别意识（EYE）：“我们这里没有这些”

摘要 本文标志着对跨性别权利兴趣的增长，并论证了跨性别意识作为对性别二元思维的挑战的价值。它将早期教育视为关注性别不一致的强大网站，旨在为每天回应幼儿性别表达的 EYE 工作人员提供理论和实践形式的支持。作者利用了各自研究和专业培训轨迹中收集的数据，这些数据通过酷儿和女权主义后结构主义理论以及跨性别研究的方法来理解。这些结合起来以强调性别多样性和性行为的多样性。该论文研究了如何支持员工提高性别敏感度，并考虑了 EYE 中更多男教师的存在如何作为发展性别灵活教学法的催化剂。它得出的结论是，对跨性别的日益增长的认识有益于所有幼儿的心理健康和福祉，并保护性别变异儿童免受同伴虐待。