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Debate grows over elementary sex education textbook highlighting gender diversity
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Social media is abuzz with debate over a sex education textbook for elementary school students that advocates the distinction between sex and gender. A passage from the textbook, shared by Rep. Kim Jae-sub of the main opposition People Power Party on his Instagram account, reads: “Sex has multiple meanings. There is biological sex, which distinguishes males and females based on reproductive organs and physical differences, and social gender, which refers to criteria based on social and cultural