A reader writes to say, “Here we go. This is state indoctrination in transgender ideology.” He’s right:
Kindergarten used to be a place for children to learn how to add, subtract, and read. Next year, Washington school children as young as five years old will instead be learning about gender fluidity and the differences between gender and sexual identity.
The newly-minted health and physical education standards, released by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), will be implemented in schools across the state for the 2017-2018 school year.
As reported by The Daily Caller, the new standards require students to learn about gender identity and expression beginning in kindergarten.
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Beginning in Kindergarten, students will be taught about the many ways to express gender. Gender expression education will include information about the manifestations of traits that are typically associated with one gender. Crossdressing is one form of gender expression.
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Third graders will be introduced to the concept of gender identity. These children will be taught that they can choose their own gender.
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Fourth graders will be expected to “define sexual orientation,” which refers to whether a person identifies as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual; they’ll also be taught about HIV prevention. Children in fourth grade will be told that they can choose their sexual orientation.
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Fourth and fifth graders will learn about the relativity of gender roles and why such roles are social constructs that are not inherent to who we are as male or female human beings.
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Seventh graders will be expected to “distinguish between biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.”
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High school students will critically “evaluate how culture, media, society, and other people influence our perceptions of gender roles, sexuality, relationships, and sexual orientation.”
You can read the complete list of details on the sex and sexuality education starting on page 28 of the PDF version of the guidelines.
This is incredible. The public schools in the state of Washington will deliberately demolish family, sex, and gender norms, starting in kindergarten. And notice that they’re smuggling in a radical moral agenda under the neutral language of health and wellness.
I don’t see how orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews who have the means to leave the public schools in states like Washington can justify remaining. How are Christian (et al.) teachers supposed to teach this stuff in good conscience? The state is directly attacking not only the fundamental teachings of faith, but also the fundaments of anthropology — that is, what it is to be a person.
This is radical stuff!