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1st July 2015
01:27pm BST

“This question is especially intrusive and irrelevant,” she wrote in the New York Times.
“It reminded me of some awful blind date asking if the carpet matched the drapes.
“My vagina was not up for discussion by a stranger then, and it’s certainly not up for public examination now.”
She later went on to explain that while ‘type of birth’ might be common enough on a school form, she added that it was not appropriate on “a kindergarten application”.
“Unless evidence-based medicine or pedagogy shows the type of birth to be valuable for assessing a child’s current health, ability to learn, or safety, or whether it poses a medical or security risk to others, why should I respond?"
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