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Transgender Curriculum for Kindergarten
Our schools have been corrupted in many ways that are difficult to fathom: U.S. History has been distorted, English composition has been bastardized, standards continue to be lowered to accommodate the worst students. And now we are brainwashing students as early as kindergarten, saying that transgender students are normal. How did we arrive at this place?
We often point to the Leftist agenda for these changes in education. Just to give you an idea of how sophisticated these efforts are, we can look at Washington State, where the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) has established new requirements. This summary gives you the highlights, from K-12. In the case of the OSPI, parents were not notified of these changes.
There is abundant data, which the mainstream media ignores, to show that allowing children to pursue changes to become transgender is child abuse. The potential damage these efforts can cause to our children are frightening. Michelle Cretella, M.D., pediatrician and president of the American College of Pediatricians, warns:
These professionals are using the myth that people are born transgender to justify engaging in massive, uncontrolled and unconsented experimentation on children who have a psychological condition that would otherwise resolve after puberty in the vast majority of cases. Today’s institutions that promote transition affirmation are pushing children to impersonate the opposite sex, sending many of them down the path of puberty blockers, sterilization, the removal of healthy body parts, and untold psychological damage.
Yet Harvard Medical School has started a project:
. . . ‘The Sexual and Gender Minorities Health Equity Initiative,’ [is] styled as ‘a three-year plan to amend the core MD curriculum’ to reflect recent beliefs about transgenderism and gender ideology. The program is meant to teach medical students how to ‘provide high-quality, holistic health care for sexual and gender minority patients of all ages.’
The new program seeks a broad overhaul of the medical school’s curriculum in order to eliminate ‘assumptions or errors about sex and gender, such as conflating sexual orientation with gender identity, presuming gender is immutable or treating heterosexuality as a default.’
The thought of a six-year-old child who is trying to figure out his or her place in the world being bombarded with data that insists on “gender fluidity” is unconscionable.
And yet parents are believing this claptrap. Why?
The Progressives in our society have a tremendous advantage in spreading these lies. First, they rely on “authorities.” These authorities thrive on touting the latest thought and innovations in their fields, whether they are therapists, doctors, scientists or other professionals who tend to be elevated by the rest of society. They are, after all, “in the know.” They are supposed to be the guardians of society, the people who care for us, heal us, alleviate our pain and doubts.
Next, parents want their children to be special, to be seen by others as different from the rest. What better way to have a special child than to have him or her (or her or him) on the forefront of acknowledging their own gender fluidity? He or he is free to choose who they are and to do everything they can to realize and complete their own identity. And of course, parents want to be known as loving and supportive and caring, so they encourage these children to express and live their sexuality, however they “feel.”
Another reason that may be discussed less often is the single parent family or the socially isolated family. They have been raised with little or no religious identification, and do not see a religious community as a source for companionship, fellowship or counseling. Those communities are demonized in every way possible, so if a parent is looking for guidance in trying to decide how to respond to a child in distress about his or her sexuality, where should a parent go? Even if they went to a church or synagogue, the church leader could support gender fluidity and criticize parents for not supporting a confused child.
Not only are medical professionals seen as reliable authorities, but the education system is still held in esteem by many. If a teacher assures parents that they are doing the right thing to encourage a child to switch genders, they must know what is the proper thing to do — right? Many schools are now providing curricula that teach these distortions, and the curricula look professional and age-appropriate. Why should parents question what is true, when the schools have gone to all this trouble to educate their children?
A caring parent wants to do everything he or she can do to make a child feel whole and complete. The “abuse” from the school authorities needs to be offset by loving, protective parents, according to supporters of this movement:
Too often, school officials themselves single out these youth by refusing to respect their gender identity and even punishing them for expressing that identity. For example, 59% of trans students have been denied access to restrooms consistent with their gender identity. Rather than focusing on their education, many students struggle for the ability to come to school and be themselves without being punished for wearing clothes or using facilities consistent with who they are. Some are denied opportunities to go on field trips or participate in sports. Together with bullying and victim-blaming, these conflicts can lead to disproportionate discipline, school pushout, and involvement in the juvenile justice system.
I believe we live in a society of fools; of people who have forgotten, or never had a clear idea of what evil looks like; of how in trying to help our children we can destroy their lives; of how the pressures to conform can cloud our vision, distort our understanding and turn the meanings of good and evil on their heads.
As Ryan T. Anderson said and elaborates on in his book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment :
We should begin by recognizing that sex reassignment is physically impossible. Our minds and senses function properly when they reveal reality to us and lead us to knowledge of truth. And we flourish as human beings when we embrace the truth and live in accordance with it. A person might find some emotional relief in embracing a falsehood, but doing so would not make him or her objectively better off. Living by a falsehood keeps us from flourishing fully, whether or not it also causes distress.
I have no remedies. Do you?
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We live in incredibly stupid times. Our elites are hellbent on normalizing and championing psychological confusion and deviancy. As recently as twenty years ago, no one, except for a handful loonies would have supported such lunacy.
And not even home schooling can insulate you completely. You’ll never believe me, but the Houston Public Library has a thing called “Drag Queen Storytime” where they have men in makeup and evening gowns with giant bouffant wigs and their giant hairy feet in satin pumps read stories to children.
They had to apologize on Friday when it was learned that one of the drag queens reading stories to young children is a registered pedophile sex offender. Yes, that is correct. What will it take? I mean I really want to know. What will finally be a bridge too far?
I know one thing: the Left is handing 2020 to Trump on a silver platter.
Meet Alberto Garza. A lot of five-year-olds already have:
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Library-apologizes-for-letting-registered-sex-13693986.php
One of the reasons I get a perverse kick out of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom is the bit where the main character tries to demonstrate that the Democrats are better than the Republicans because the Democrats never embraced the “crazy wing” of the left. While the Republicans embrace folk like the Tea Party, who the character derides as the American Taliban, the Democrats never embraced people like Bernadette Dohrn or Abbie Hoffman.
The show aired from 2012 to 2014, and was set between 2010 and 2013. Oh my, how Sorkin’s charitable characterization of the Democratic Party has been tarnished since then.
Only from the outside looking in, not the inside looking out. You know the old joke about how for the second row horse in a team of horses the view never changes. Well, that’s an example of the inside looking out.
Oh indeed, I’m not arguing that the Democratic Party has changed since 2014. Even when the show first aired people could easily point to Hilary Clinton’s thesis about Saul Alinsky and/or Barack Obama’s close relationships with folk like William Ayers.
My point is simply that Sorkin’s veil has come off the Democratic Party in the eyes of way more people since 2014, including many Democrats themselves.
Beyond sick – so disgusting
This is the stuff that makes me glad to be homeschooling.
The only remedy I see is separation. Parents who want to protect their children from the pernicious effects institutional child abuse (otherwise known as “public schooling”) must have the legal means and funding to place their kids into private schools, parochial schools or provide home schooling. This means 100% school choice AND full access to school vouchers. Money follows the child, and parents choose where.
Local control also helps. Unfortunately, a lot of conservatives are very, very selective about where they want to allow local control of anything. But if you don’t like local control of fracking, GMO labeling on the grocery shelves, and occupational licensing, it makes it harder to switch gears and demand local control of schools.
I thought conservatives were for local control, as opposed to federal control. I think most of us would be delighted to have the Dept. of Education eliminated and let state or locals control their destinies. Don’t you think so?
That’s what we thought when we moved to one of the most Conservative areas in the country before our daughter started kindergarten. But what I found out is that it no longer matters where you live. What matters more is the way they train teachers now. It’s ubiquitous and its tentacles are deeply entrenched. Until they stop training them to have Self-Esteem Hour and to tell 8-year-olds that Thomas Jefferson got a slave pregnant, nothing will change. My daughter came home from school one day – in Texas – and announced to me that the most important person in American History was Jesse Owens.
I think they would. That is one of the local controls they would select.
Yes, this is true. I graduated from the elementary education program at a conservative Lutheran college that I attended in the late 60s. After graduating I thought that we had been maybe 10 years behind the educational trends in the bigger, state schools but we were on the same trend. Local control did matter, though.
In Michigan it was a Republican governor, John Engler, who did a lot to remove local control of public schools. I used to attend school board meetings occasionally, usually when there were local controversies. After Engler’s changes, I noticed that at each meeting there was one board member who had contacts in Lansing and at each meeting would report back on which way the educational winds were blowing in the state capitol. Everybody would listen with rapt attention. But I also noticed that there was no board member, ever, who had been out talking to parents and other community members in the district, and who would report on what he had been hearing. Once in a while, after a bond measure was defeated, the board might try to poll the community with a questionnaire that tried to lead the discussion in the way it wanted, but there was never anybody who made it his or her business to put an ear to the ground in the local community. And why should they? The important decisions had been shifted to Lansing.
Yeah, homeschooling sounds a great option, but our family is incapable due to health reasons. We’re breaking the bank getting my girl in a private school, but even private school isn’t a total safe haven. Not even being in a Red State is safe, as teachers are drawn from some rather left-wing schools much of the time.
My girl is four. She pretends to be a cat, a pony, a knight, a superheroine, a mermaid, and yes, sometimes says she’s a boy. And as parents we can’t laugh at that last part of imaginative play, no we have to sit and be worried that some fool will overhear and take her at face value and make our life hell.
It’s one of the few times I’m glad not to be living in my home state of Oregon.
Oh my gosh, @cudouglas! How awful! She sounds like a sweetheart with a creative mind. Prayers for her safekeeping.
Is that makeup? on a 5-year-old?
They are their own future. I hope I don’t sound indifferent when I say that I take comfort knowing that at some point they will own everything and I won’t have to worry about fixing it.
I don’t think so. He/she is just one of those adorable little kids with gorgeous coloring. Drat him/her!
Lets just hope they don’t become president. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone!
An apology is insufficient.; that was a fall-on-sword offense.
She’s a great kid. It’s because she has great parents.
Which is a great option if you live in a homeschool-friendly state.
Have you seen what they’re trying to do to homeschoolers in Iowa, Illinois, and New York?
So I’ve heard!!
Just so. No one has much problem blowing off a kid’s belief in an imaginary friend or claim of membership in the Sauropod class.
But should a boy entertain the idea that he is really a girl, these guys are ready to spring into action.
Which is also an over-reaction.
Once upon a time a boy thinking he’s a girl would have brought a hush to a room as the adults tried to figure out the best way to not make a big deal out of it while gently guiding him back towards his pants-destiny.
Now the challenge seems to be how to not make a big deal out of it while guiding him away from his pants destiny.
There is utility in telling children they can be anything they want, but considerably less utility in continuing with, ‘especially if you want to change gender!’
I could spit nails . . . g-r-r-r-r-. . .! I hope the state organizations will fight back with all their might!
I’m reminded of when our then 9th grader announced at the dinner table during the Obama years that they had been learning about Christian terrorists in honors history or social studies. Public high school in an area of TX that went for Bush 73% in 2004.
Funnily enough, he had no specific examples to point to when we asked how they had illustrated this concept. Just that it was important to know that it all wasn’t one sided.
What??!! Good grief. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Wasn’t all one-sided”? Right. I really do have to get myself under control!!!!
How one dresses or conducts one’s intimate relations is a personal matter, still, it is prudent to maintain an intact urogenital system.
This post makes me very angry. Thank you @susanquinn – it needs to be talked about in a bigger capacity, and I am thankful for the comments that it’s attracted. We have witnessed the most profound and astounding changes within our culture, and around the world is such a short period of time.
That being said, I would be quick to blame Obama, and still do. I blame liberalism – but we are seeing this obscenity within European Western culture. Ok – I am fine with gays, with the transgender movement. I am Christian. I like gays, I pray every day for the gay community. I also know my Bible. Enough said.
This is crossing the line. Children are off limits. Period. They are being exploited beyond belief, and I hate it.
Haven’t read it. But what they’re talking about has been done in many Orthodox Jewish communities for generations.