How public schools brainwash young kids with harmful transgender ideology

Militant transgender advocates are imposing their agenda with 
uncompromising zeal on schoolchildren.

That’s 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 they’re 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 — as young as 5 — 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 boy’s name and hiding the 
plan from the family.

A book school libraries offer for kids ages 4 to 8 reads, “This 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 — old 
enough to tell everyone that she’s actually a girl.”

Gender dysphoria — a rare medical condition that makes people feel 
mismatched with their sexual anatomy — occurs in about 0.6 percent 
of the adult population, according to the UCLA School of Law’s 
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 “nonbinary” 
and “transgender” even before kids have learned multiplication.

But Maine’s Department of Education reports that between 13 percent 
and 18 percent of public high-school students say they’re “lesbian, 
gay, bisexual or unsure” of their sexual identity. It’s no wonder 
when the curriculum programs them to doubt their identity. In school 
it’s 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. That’s 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, who’d likely agree), while agnostics and 
atheists are more likely to go along with gender ideology. In the 
document “Male and Female He Created Them,” the Vatican rejects 
gender ideology.

Public schools shouldn’t 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 Maine’s public schools, the state’s attorney, Christopher 
Taub, insisted that they’re “religiously neutral.” That’s a laugh.

Justice Samuel Alito was skeptical, asking Taub if he’d say that 
about schools that teach critical race theory. Taub ducked the 
question. Alito would have been even more on the mark asking about 
Maine’s transgender curriculum. It’s the left’s new religion, and 
there’s 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 “religion is being used as an excuse to 
discriminate against others.”

The International Olympic Committee is also kowtowing to transgender 
apostles. Last month, the IOC announced it’s recommending 
eliminating any tests whatsoever — including of testosterone levels 
— for transgender athletes to compete in women’s events. Fairness be 
damned.

Don’t count on Biden. He’s already told the transgender crowd that 
“your president has your back.” 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.


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