Kamala Kisses Kranks
2021-12-23 09:42:05 UTC
Militant transgender advocates are imposing their agenda with
uncompromising zeal on schoolchildren.
Thatâs fine with President Joe Biden. His administration announced
this month that by April, it will enhance the legal entitlements of
transgender public-school students, with new guarantees regarding
access to bathrooms, locker rooms and sports competitions.
These issues grab the headlines, but theyâre less harmful to most
students than the damage being done by the distortion of the school
curriculum. From the youngest age, students are being brainwashed
with gender ideology.
Children â as young as 5 â are being encouraged to disregard their
anatomy and choose their gender based on their feelings.
Last week, a California mother raged at the Spreckels Union School
District board for allowing teachers to coach her 12-year-old
daughter on becoming a boy, choosing a boyâs name and hiding the
plan from the family.
A book school libraries offer for kids ages 4 to 8 reads, âThis is
Ruthie. She is a transgender girl. That means when she was born
everyone thought she was a boy. Until she grew a little older â old
enough to tell everyone that sheâs actually a girl.â
Gender dysphoria â a rare medical condition that makes people feel
mismatched with their sexual anatomy â occurs in about 0.6 percent
of the adult population, according to the UCLA School of Lawâs
Williams Institute. Anyone afflicted should be treated with kindness
and offered medical help.
It first appears in childhood, but with so few children affected,
the curriculum should not be distorted for everyone. Elementary-
school teachers are putting words on the blackboard like ânonbinaryâ
and âtransgenderâ even before kids have learned multiplication.
But Maineâs Department of Education reports that between 13 percent
and 18 percent of public high-school students say theyâre âlesbian,
gay, bisexual or unsureâ of their sexual identity. Itâs no wonder
when the curriculum programs them to doubt their identity. In school
itâs cool to be anything but heterosexual.
Maine requires public-school teachers to explore the achievements of
LGBTQ+ individuals, not just in health class but also in history and
social studies. Thatâs indoctrination since teachers are not asked
to do the same for the celibate, for example.
This indoctrination offends many Christian and Jewish parents. Most
Christians say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined
by their sex at birth, according to Pew Foundation research (which
did not cover Muslims, whoâd likely agree), while agnostics and
atheists are more likely to go along with gender ideology. In the
document âMale and Female He Created Them,â the Vatican rejects
gender ideology.
Public schools shouldnât be taking sides. But in Maine, and many
other states, they are.
On Dec. 8, when the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case
involving Maineâs public schools, the stateâs attorney, Christopher
Taub, insisted that theyâre âreligiously neutral.â Thatâs a laugh.
Justice Samuel Alito was skeptical, asking Taub if heâd say that
about schools that teach critical race theory. Taub ducked the
question. Alito would have been even more on the mark asking about
Maineâs transgender curriculum. Itâs the leftâs new religion, and
thereâs nothing neutral about it.
Where do parents go for help stopping this propagandizing? Sorry,
not to the American Civil Liberties Union, despite its century-long
record protecting the free exercise of religion. Lately, the ACLU
has demoted religious rights, putting them below transgender rights.
The ACLU declares that âreligion is being used as an excuse to
discriminate against others.â
The International Olympic Committee is also kowtowing to transgender
apostles. Last month, the IOC announced itâs recommending
eliminating any tests whatsoever â including of testosterone levels
â for transgender athletes to compete in womenâs events. Fairness be
damned.
Donât count on Biden. Heâs already told the transgender crowd that
âyour president has your back.â His administration is unlikely to
strike a middle ground that respects the majority as well as the
transgender minority.
Truth is, if students are to be educated, rather than indoctrinated,
parents will have to stand up to the transgender militants. No one
else has the nerve.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/22/how-public-schools-brainwash-young-
kids-with-harmful-transgender-ideology/
uncompromising zeal on schoolchildren.
Thatâs fine with President Joe Biden. His administration announced
this month that by April, it will enhance the legal entitlements of
transgender public-school students, with new guarantees regarding
access to bathrooms, locker rooms and sports competitions.
These issues grab the headlines, but theyâre less harmful to most
students than the damage being done by the distortion of the school
curriculum. From the youngest age, students are being brainwashed
with gender ideology.
Children â as young as 5 â are being encouraged to disregard their
anatomy and choose their gender based on their feelings.
Last week, a California mother raged at the Spreckels Union School
District board for allowing teachers to coach her 12-year-old
daughter on becoming a boy, choosing a boyâs name and hiding the
plan from the family.
A book school libraries offer for kids ages 4 to 8 reads, âThis is
Ruthie. She is a transgender girl. That means when she was born
everyone thought she was a boy. Until she grew a little older â old
enough to tell everyone that sheâs actually a girl.â
Gender dysphoria â a rare medical condition that makes people feel
mismatched with their sexual anatomy â occurs in about 0.6 percent
of the adult population, according to the UCLA School of Lawâs
Williams Institute. Anyone afflicted should be treated with kindness
and offered medical help.
It first appears in childhood, but with so few children affected,
the curriculum should not be distorted for everyone. Elementary-
school teachers are putting words on the blackboard like ânonbinaryâ
and âtransgenderâ even before kids have learned multiplication.
But Maineâs Department of Education reports that between 13 percent
and 18 percent of public high-school students say theyâre âlesbian,
gay, bisexual or unsureâ of their sexual identity. Itâs no wonder
when the curriculum programs them to doubt their identity. In school
itâs cool to be anything but heterosexual.
Maine requires public-school teachers to explore the achievements of
LGBTQ+ individuals, not just in health class but also in history and
social studies. Thatâs indoctrination since teachers are not asked
to do the same for the celibate, for example.
This indoctrination offends many Christian and Jewish parents. Most
Christians say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined
by their sex at birth, according to Pew Foundation research (which
did not cover Muslims, whoâd likely agree), while agnostics and
atheists are more likely to go along with gender ideology. In the
document âMale and Female He Created Them,â the Vatican rejects
gender ideology.
Public schools shouldnât be taking sides. But in Maine, and many
other states, they are.
On Dec. 8, when the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case
involving Maineâs public schools, the stateâs attorney, Christopher
Taub, insisted that theyâre âreligiously neutral.â Thatâs a laugh.
Justice Samuel Alito was skeptical, asking Taub if heâd say that
about schools that teach critical race theory. Taub ducked the
question. Alito would have been even more on the mark asking about
Maineâs transgender curriculum. Itâs the leftâs new religion, and
thereâs nothing neutral about it.
Where do parents go for help stopping this propagandizing? Sorry,
not to the American Civil Liberties Union, despite its century-long
record protecting the free exercise of religion. Lately, the ACLU
has demoted religious rights, putting them below transgender rights.
The ACLU declares that âreligion is being used as an excuse to
discriminate against others.â
The International Olympic Committee is also kowtowing to transgender
apostles. Last month, the IOC announced itâs recommending
eliminating any tests whatsoever â including of testosterone levels
â for transgender athletes to compete in womenâs events. Fairness be
damned.
Donât count on Biden. Heâs already told the transgender crowd that
âyour president has your back.â His administration is unlikely to
strike a middle ground that respects the majority as well as the
transgender minority.
Truth is, if students are to be educated, rather than indoctrinated,
parents will have to stand up to the transgender militants. No one
else has the nerve.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/22/how-public-schools-brainwash-young-
kids-with-harmful-transgender-ideology/