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The bathrooms at an elementary school in Epping, New Hampshire, have a state representative upset.

Rep. Sean Morrison (R-Epping) says that an image on restroom doors is confusing and leaves parents out of an important conversation.

At Epping Elementary School, the bathroom sign shows three figures: a man, a woman and a combination of both.

Morrison posted a picture of the sign on his Facebook page, writing that parents should have been notified before the gender-neutral bathroom sign went up.

"Simply, so that we could have the conversation with our 5, 6, 7, 8-year-olds," he said.

Morrison said that it's a "ridiculous notion" for some people to accuse him of being transphobic.

Some residents wish that parents had been informed somehow. Others don't take any issue with the sign.

"I don't have a problem with the sign, and my kids don't have a problem with the sign," said Nicole Kukesh.

Kukesh commented on the Facebook post, calling it irresponsible.

"I fully trust our teachers and administrators to do the right things for our kids," she said. "I just felt like I had to say something for the school."

Morrison said his concern isn't the sign, but the lack of notice that would have allowed parents to parent how they wanted.

"The idea of sexuality being introduced to grammar school children, my main point is that we as parents want to be informed of that, and we want the opportunity to have those conversations with our children," Morrison said.

The representative said that the bathroom sign will be taken down, and that he has a meeting scheduled with the school superintendent.

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It was not long ago that, if you wanted to reduce the impact of your consumer choices on the environment, your only option was to use your own shopping bag. These days, the eco-minded shopper is overwhelmed with "green" choices. With the rise of reusable pads and menstrual cups, your period can now be plastic-free. Cosmetics increasingly come in glass and aluminium containers. Even hosiery brands are swapping nylon for more eco-friendly material.

Given the devastating toll of consumer waste on the health of the planet, you may find this visible drive towards sustainability on supermarket shelves cheering. But if you are a man, you may not have even noticed it: most eco-friendly products are marketed to women.

There is an obvious (and depressing) reason for this: women are not only more powerful consumers, but also disproportionately responsible, still, for the domestic sphere. The result of this is what the market research firm Mintel has termed an "eco gender gap", where green branding might as well be pink.

In a 2018 report by Mintel on the subject, Jack Duckett, a senior consumer lifestyles analyst, said women "still tend to take charge of the running of the household", with laundry, cleaning and recycling falling under that banner. But "with eco-friendly campaigns and product claims largely aimed at female audiences", advertisers run the risk of communicating the message that sustainability is women's work.

The idea is already insidious due to the persistent portrayal of women as caregivers - even of the planet. Janet K Swim, a professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State University who has done extensive research into the social consequences of environmentally friendly behaviour, points to a political cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt, the US president from 1901 to 1909, wearing an apron, "trying to mock him as feminine" for his conservation policies.

The highest-profile climate campaigners are two young women: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) and Greta Thunberg. Composite: Rex/Shutterstock; Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

While it is true that women are more likely than men to be green, in the past that gender gap has been attributed to personality differences. Research from the mid-90s to early 00s pointed to women's greater tendency to be prosocial, altruistic and empathetic; to display a stronger ethic of care; and to assume a future-focused perspective. "Research suggests that women have higher levels of socialisation to care about others and be socially responsible, which then leads them to care about environmental problems and be willing to adopt environmental behaviours," says Rachel Howell, a lecturer in sustainable development (a subject that is, she notes, studied overwhelmingly by women at undergraduate level) at the University of Edinburgh.

Whether women are born caring about the planet or learn to do so, there is evidence to suggest that femininity and "greenness" have come to be cognitively linked (by men and women) - and that this, as absurd as it may sound, is partly what puts off men from doing their bit.

In a study published last year in the journal Sex Roles, Swim and her fellow researchers at Penn State found that men could be disinclined to carry a reusable shopping bag - or recycle, or any environmentally friendly activity that had been gendered as feminine - for fear of being perceived as gay or effeminate. (The same concern has been well established as a factor in men's reluctance to adopt vegetarian or vegan diets.)

One study found that men could be disinclined to carry a reusable shopping bag for fear of being perceived as gay

Similarly, a 2016 paper in the Journal of Consumer Research found that "men may be motivated to avoid or even oppose green behaviours in order to safeguard their gender identity" and that their participation could be encouraged by weakening the association between femininity and sustainability, such as "by using masculine rather than conventional green branding".

Plastic Freedom and Package Free Shop, two popular zero-waste online retailers, say they are careful to use gender-neutral marketing - but both say about 90% of their customers are women. Lauren Singer, the founder of Package Free Shop, which sells items such as bamboo cutlery and eco cleaning products, suggests that the imbalance presents women with an opportunity to lead. "Let's be the ones that absorb the responsibility of being the stewards and educators of sustainability," she says.

But with analysis in 2016 from the Office for National Statistics showing that women carry out an average of 60% more unpaid work than men, Howell's suggestion may hold more appeal: to close the eco gender gap, close the associated gap "in terms of who does the laundry, who does the grocery shopping, who does the cleaning at home". Also, get rid of "false ideas of what a sustainable product must look like", she says, pointing out that men may carry a rucksack or reusable sports bottle without it being sold or perceived as green.

The British men's skincare company Bulldog stands out for making sustainability a cornerstone of its brand. Its plastic tubes are derived from sugar cane, not fossil fuel; it sells bamboo-handled razors and shower gel in cardboard packs; and its Original Moisturiser is certified carbon-neutral. "We've never thought that there's really a gender perspective on the idea of sustainability," says Simon Duffy, the brand's founder. "It's a crazy idea to me, that that is considered more feminine than masculine. Everybody should be focused on this."

Eco-friendly products from Plastic Freedom.

For female beauty brands, sustainability may well be a way of standing out in a crowded market, says Duffy (for male beauty, "the challenge is getting men to use these types of products at all") - but commitment should not be only skin deep. "We're trying to make it inherent to everything we do," he says, "because it's the right thing to do. It doesn't have to be a marketing story. Companies that try to use that as a tactic to sell more products are missing the point."

It is a reminder that, for a company to be truly green, its attention to sustainability should extend to every level of its business - not just the one that draws consumers. Areeba Hamid, a senior campaigner at Greenpeace, says the impact of individual choices - even giving up meat or air travel on a large scale - is negligible: "If the corporations keep drilling for oil and gas, that is not going to amount to anything."

Howell says: "While individual action is important, the individualisation of responsibility can go too far. We have got to look at the whole and try to do something at a societal level."

Even arguments about meaningful action on the climate crisis are are split down gender lines. Another study by Swim, published in the journal Global Environmental Change last year, showed that men preferred arguments that centred on science and business and tended to "attribute negative feminine traits" to men who argued on the basis of ethics and environmental justice - as women typically did.

Women tend to have less trust in institutions, Howell says, which may mean they have less faith in the ability of science, technology and the government to address the issues that face us. Men, however, having been historically well served by the status quo, "are much more inclined to believe that, if they accept there is a problem, then somebody or some technology will sort it all out - that we don't need to change our lifestyle".

Misogyny has been shown to be a factor in climate denial. A 2014 paper in the International Journal for Masculinity Studies found that: "For climate sceptics, it was not the environment that was threatened; it was a certain kind of modern industrial society built and dominated by their form of masculinity." As Martin Gelin wrote last year in the New Republic, the highest-profile climate campaigners in the world today are two young women: Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Those shouting them down are primarily older conservative men.

Adidas's Parley shoes are made from upcycled ocean plastic. Photograph: Adidas

"Occasionally, I feel quite angry," says Howell, "because a lot of the problems have historically been created more by men, because they have more power, but it sometimes seems that women are getting more desperate about trying to solve them - and maybe have less power to do it."

But the world is changing. Millennials and Generation Z (those born between the early 80s and the mid-00s) have been shown to align broadly on the climate crisis, according to recent data compiled in the US by the Pew Research Center; even young Republicans are more likely to say that governments need to do more. "If you look at the youth climate movement, and Greta, there are a lot of young men as well as women," says Hamid. "I think this is generational."

Duffy says that brands are changing, too. More than two-thirds (68%) of Europeans rate being environmentally friendly as more important to them than it was five years ago, according to a European Consumer Packaging Perceptions survey from 2018. For 19- to 29-year-olds, it was 80%.

While some companies will change their ways only when forced, Duffy looks to Adidas's range of trainers made from upcycled ocean plastic, and the footwear company Allbirds, as examples of those with "sustainable stories", irrespective of the gender of their target market. "It's certainly seeping in," he says. "If you're a man and you're not picking up that this is important, something is wrong."
Additional reporting by Ruby Abbiss

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Jazz Jennings is your average teenage girl, except she happened to be born in a boy's body.

The transgender teen - who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at age 3 and appeared on at age 6 - has since raised the visibility of trans youth through her TLC docu-series, (Wednesday, 10 p.m. ET) and her work as a youth ambassador for the Human Rights Campaign. But her new memoir, Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen (Crown), sees the 15-year-old getting more personal than ever. We spoke with Jazz about the book, which hits shelves Tuesday.
Q: You co-wrote a children's book, I Am Jazz, in September 2014. What made you want to do a memoir next?
A: I Am Jazz was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with Being Jazz, I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people and we have to live our lives authentically.
Q: What are the biggest misconceptions about the trans community that you were looking to debunk?
A: One of the biggest is that people think it's a choice, but it's not. It's the way we were born.

Another misconception is that it's all about what's between your legs rather than what's between your ears. Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are. And the last is this: A lot of people think I was too young to transition. I was 2 years old when I first started expressing myself but from the start, I knew I was a girl. And I think most children out there just know - whether they gravitate toward Barbies rather than trucks - they know.
Q: In an ideal world, how would we handle gender?
A: I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.
Q: How does it feel to see public figures addressing discrimination and standing in solidarity against laws like House Bill 2?
A: The hate is real, and it's not just people hiding behind their computers. Now, it's politicians. But the fact that so many people are rallying in support of the transgender community means so much. Look at the Obama administration - they've put out a directive (on the use of bathrooms by transgender students), telling states they can't discriminate against kids on the basis of gender identity. So many people are finally understanding that this is not OK.
Q: You've been called brave for speaking on trans issues but in your book, you admit that you were privileged to have the resources and support that you had. What would be your advice to trans kids who don't have that?
A: Those are the people with true courage. I'd tell them to stay strong and keep moving forward... and know that one day things will get better. And I'd also tell them to try to find one peer, one adult, one person in your community that you can be yourself around.

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In meetings and retreats, chastened menfolk are working stuff out.

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This won't hurt a bit: A member of the ManKind Project is invited to explore his emotions with the help of others at a weekly meeting in Midtown Manhattan. Credit... Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times

On a Monday night in a sparsely decorated room in Midtown Manhattan, a group of approximately 20 men including an endocrinologist, a sportscaster, a policeman and an employee of the United Nations were baring their souls.

"I've been digging deep with my girlfriend and we are having those talks about moving forward in our relationship, and I'm having nights where I can't sleep," said Andrew Cummings, 44, an opera singer in New York who has performed at Carnegie Hall.

"I'm angry that my health is deteriorating. I'm not ready to be an old man," said Jeff Nichols, 70, a former consultant.

"I'm checking in with some anger. I didn't get accepted to the Ashtanga Institute, and I smashed two candles, which I know isn't very yogic," said another man, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of professional repercussions.

Ranging in age from 30 to 70, the men were gathered as part of the ManKind Project (MKP), a 33-year-old nonprofit with 24 chapters in the United States and 11 regions abroad. It focuses on men's emotional well-being, drawing on elements like Carl Jung's theories of the psyche, nonviolent communication, breath work, Native American customs, and good old-fashioned male bonding. Minus ogling women, drinking or fist fighting, of course.

The goal, according to many affiliated with MKP, is to break down patriarchal and hierarchical ideas of masculinity. And the place to start is where another man, Socrates, did centuries ago: with the mandate of "know thyself."

MKP translates this as a process of cultivating awareness around one's emotions, so they aren't projected onto others in harmful and destructive ways. This is accomplished through a series of facilitated exercises, some of which involve props, aimed at bringing feelings to the surface and to hold a mirror to oneself.

Men, who are less likely than women to seek out individual therapy, are increasingly looking for outlets in this fraught cultural moment of political acrimony, widespread economic instability and major societal reckoning over their behavior.

The new popularity of mindfulness, yoga and wellness has helped men shift their focus away from work relationships, said Lucas Krump, 39, a founder of Evryman, a for-profit company that brings men together to talk about their feelings. (Mr. Krump used an exercise metaphor for his venture: "CrossFit for your emotions.")

Started in 2016 and now a B Corp (a business with a codified social mission), Evryman has grown to over 800 men in around 85 groups across 50 cities. Its slick website - black and white portraits of men, many of whom have the requisite millennial beard - touts a finding from psychology researchers that most men would rather be electrically shocked than be left alone with their thoughts. More sobering, in 2017 men committed suicide 3.5 times more often than women.

At MKP, membership is at an all-time high and enrollment is up 8 percent over last year, said Boysen Hodgson, the director of marketing and communications. "With Time's Up Now and #MeToo, many men know they have to be more accountable," Mr. Hodgson said. "A lot of them are saying, 'I don't want that to be me. I don't want that to be how men are seen in the world."

Eka Darville, 29, an actor on the Netflix show "Jessica Jones," has been involved with MKP since 2012. "The stoic male who doesn't express or share his emotions, I see that as being extremely detrimental," Mr. Darville said in a phone interview. "A lot of pathologies in society, such as entitled masculinity, are related to men who are repressed. The evolution from boyhood to manhood isn't something that naturally happens."

MKP helped him navigate becoming a father of two. "There is no way I could have done that without a brotherhood telling me all the bull I was projecting onto my wife but also hold me with compassion," he said.

Many participants in these groups, including Mr. Darville, first try them in the form of a weekend retreat: The commitment is low, the camaraderie is high, and it can feel reassuringly like a return to summer camp (with faint echoes of the poet Robert Bly's 1990 treatise, " Iron John ").

MKP's retreat is the New Warrior Training Adventure, which has been completed by over 60,000 men: a two-day initiation of sorts that costs, on average, $675 and includes blindfolded walking tours and cold showers for those who choose. Some retreats have optional nudity, in an effort to promote healthy body image.

"The weekend is a little strange at first," recalled Zvika Krieger, 35, who attended one 11 years ago and now helps to facilitate the MKP retreats in the Bay Area, where he runs a technology policy organization. "You are pushed emotionally, but there is certainly nothing that happens you are ashamed of after."

After completing the New Warrior Training Adventure, many men join Integration Groups, or I-Groups, where they continue, on a weekly basis with the guidance of a trained peer facilitator, the "work," as it is called in MKP, that was started during those 48 hours.

I-Groups are attended not just by woke, liberal elites on the coasts. Kansas City, Mo.; the greater Carolinas; Atlanta; Indianapolis; Milwaukee; Memphis; and Louisville, Ky., all have sizable groups, according to the organization. Evryman has a half a dozen groups in Montana and over 20 in the Northern Rockies. In March, one of its retreats will take place in Logan, Ohio, the first in the Midwest.

The Evryman weekend is called the Open Source Retreat ($475 to $975, depending on accommodations) and brings together 50 men and eight leaders who have completed something called Men's Emotional Leadership Training (MELT) "to set aside cultural norms and be transparent, honest, and vulnerable with each other," to quote from the company's literature. The goal is to "leave feeling like we shed 30 pounds of emotional baggage."

Ebenezer Bond, 42, the founder of a marketing agency, said that until getting involved with Evryman he hadn't had a cathartic drag-it-out cry since he was 16. The retreat he attended in late 2016 opened the floodgates.

"I was skeptical at first - I even deleted an initial email with the invitation to the weekend," Mr. Bond said. "But it was the single most transformational experience I've had as an adult male. I was able to express emotions in front of other men, something I'd never done before."

Simon Isaacs, who was invited by Mr. Bond to a later retreat, said he "panicked" when he learned, five minutes before he arrived at Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield, Mass., that there would be no consumption of alcohol and minimal cellphone use.

"I thought, 'What am I supposed to do: express myself?'" he said. Now Mr. Isaacs, 38, a founder of the millennial parenting site Fatherly, attends a weekly Evryman group and calls it part of his "emotional retraining."

Perhaps the biggest endorsement is Mr. Isaacs's wife, who has told him to "keep going." "I'm a work in progress," he said.

Chimezie Uzodinma, 32, an information-technology professional in New York who has been involved with MKP for a decade, credited his weekly group for pulling him out of hopelessness and despair. "There was a moment when I thought I was going to die alone and I was very depressed," he said.

But MKP and Evryman are very clear that they are not offering group therapy. "We don't pretend to be counselors or therapists, but sometimes people come at the suggestion of their individual psychotherapist," said Scott Fried, a motivational speaker who works with at-risk teenagers and often facilitates his I-Group on Monday nights in New York.

Still, personal-development groups such as this have raised concerns about unlicensed therapeutic work. "There is no meaningful accountability for Large Group Awareness Training," Rick Alan Ross, an expert on cults, wrote in an email, using the term to refer to a personal training program that claims to help people reach their full potential.

Mr. Ross said he has received complaints about MKP and a similar group, the Sterling Institute's Men's Weekend, which bills itself as two days of "introspection, fun, heartbreak, and triumph. "

However, elements of the MKP philosophy and curriculum have been used in state prisons since 2009 through the Freedom Within Prison Project, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated men work through their emotions.

The main facilitators of the prison groups are five men who credit MKP as the catalyst for their nonprofit. And in a 2010 peer-reviewed article about men's health and social outcomes, researchers concluded that "MKP-related beliefs and social support significantly predicated positive outcomes."

At Evryman, Mr. Krump said he and other organizers "intentionally didn't include spirituality" in their approach. "The groups, which don't have specific leadership, start with a rather agnostic meditation. Then participants share how they are feeling and try to identify where those sensations are appearing in the body.

Next is a more in-depth round in which the men are asked whether they have met "their stretch": a commitment or goal for the next week based on what the person had worked on in the group. These can vary from making time to do restorative yoga every day, to connecting on a deeper level with family over the holidays - something Peter Nesbit, 34, a finance executive at a software company, said he was able to do over Thanksgiving weekend with his parents in South Dakota.

Then each man is given around 10 minutes to talk more at length about what's going on with himself. Group members ask probing follow-up questions: "How do you feel? What do you need to let go of? What do you want? What do you need from the group?" The prodding often elicits frustration, anger and sadness. Screaming into a pillow is not uncommon.

"I'm just afraid to be with myself. I don't want to feel fragile and afraid," said Kevin Hermann, 27, an entrepreneur, at one Monday evening Evryman group at a Williamsburg loft.

There is something undeniably powerful about a group of people, let alone men, sitting and listening intently - cross-talk, interrupting and giving advice are highly discouraged - without distraction or interruption. And eye contact is a must.

This may sound like basic conversational etiquette, but "holding space," as it's called in the personal development world, is, at a minimum, cathartic in era of constant distraction and always looking for the next best thing. In some cases, it can feel quite profound.

Sex, sexuality and relationships are big topics. "We have millennials come to groups or training whose introduction to sex has been through porn, and no one talked to them about the link between sex, intimacy and love," Mr. Krieger said.

Now in his 30s, Mr. Krieger, who also goes to therapy, says he feels lucky to have started the MKP when he was 24, before he was married or became a father. "I can now see when I'm shutting down, or I'm really getting defensive," he said.

And in the #MeToo era, issues of reconciling past sexual behavior come up, said Ben Fleisher, 40, who runs a men's group in Woodstock, N.Y.

"We had one situation where someone talked about how they reached out to a woman because he felt like he may have crossed the line, but the woman didn't think it was sexual assault," said Mr. Fleisher, 40, an alumnus of Sterling's Men's Weekend who works as an acupuncturist. "This topic in general is an area where we need to dig deeper. Many men are struggling to come to terms with #MeToo and how they feel complicit in abuses, even if they aren't the perpetrators, by not taking a more active stand for a woman's sovereignty."

Lest this all comes off as self-indulgent, devotees of men's groups say blunt-force honesty is something that keeps them coming back. "I'm very verbose and have a lot of opinions," said Mr. Krieger, who has been training for almost seven years to be in a volunteer leadership position in the MKP. "I started getting feedback that it was totally killing the energy in the circle and wasn't leaving room for other people. Since I'm the boss at work, no one is going to tell me that to my face."

Some are unflinching in requesting feedback. Instead of having a blowout party on his 50th birthday, Mr. Fried told his I-Group that he wanted each person to tell him something he needed to work on. Mr. Fried, now 55, said the experience made him realize that "I come with a lot of victimhood because I got infected with H.I.V. But the group has called me on that and helped me recognize that I'm a powerful man."

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