Portland School District Indoctrinates Students To Become LGBTQ Activists In K-5th Grade

Portland’s public school system is indoctrinating its students to become 
queer activists as early as kindergarten through 5th grade.

Documents obtained by writer and activist Christopher Rufo show that from 
as early as kindergarten, students are taught the tenets of radical queer 
gender theory. They are taught that ideas about human sexuality are 
“colonized,” that white colonizers from Europe forced their views on other 
people and cultures, and that current discourse around sex and gender is 
still affected by colonization. The curriculum instructs children to 
experiment with their own gender expression, and to commit by as early as 
fifth grade to become queer activists.

The curriculum begins in kindergarten. Several PowerPoint presentations 
obtained by Rufo, entitled “Understanding Our Bodies: Kindergarten Health 
Scientists,” exposes children to talking about their genitalia, by framing 
it in the context of “being scientists to know about our bodies.” The 
presentations then show graphic drawings of male and female genitalia. The 
presentations place particular emphasis on the word “BODIES,” and refer to 
either a “person with a penis” or a “person with a vulva,” because, 
according to the presentations, “Any gender and kid can have any type of 
body.”

In first and second grade, students are indoctrinated into the basic 
tenets of queer theory. It teaches students to think about gender as a 
social construct. “Gender is something adults came up with to sort people 
into groups,” one of the presentations reads. Another presentation, 
entitled “Our Names, Genders, and Pronouns,” encourages children to 
present their gender pronouns.

Another presentation teaches students that “[g]ender is like outer space 
because there are as many ways to be different genders as there are stars 
in the sky!” In another presentation, students are exposed to gender 
pronouns, including transgender pronouns like they/them and ze/zir. “Or 
you can make up your own,” it states. It also says that students can go by 
more than one set of pronouns.

In third through fifth grade, students are introduced to “LGBTQIA2S+” 
concepts. Students are also taught to use gender-neutral terms for people: 
“girls and boys” is replaced with words like “learners,” “y’all,” and 
“folx”; words like “mom and dad” are replaced by “parents,” “family,” or 
“your adults”; and the honorifics “Mr.,” “Mrs.,” and “Miss” are replaced 
by the gender neutral “Mx.” In another presentation, students are 
introduced to the concepts of “cisheteronormativity,” which is used as a 
means of “oppression for nondominant” sexual and gender identities.

“Being straight and cisgender (cis) are both dominant identities,” the 
presentation says. “The culture, systems, and assumptions that everyone is 
straight is called heteronormative. The culture, systems, and assumptions 
that everyone is cisgender is called cisnormative. Therefore, the culture, 
systems, and assumptions that everyone is straight and cis is called 
cisheteronormativity.”

Finally, students are asked to make a “commitment to change” according to 
the tenets of queer ideology. The six commitments students are asked to 
make are: “I commit to learning more about what LGBTQIA2S+ words mean and 
how they have changed over time”; “I commit to learning about the history 
and leadership of Black trans women”; “I commit to practicing pronouns and 
correcting myself EVERY time”; “I commit to attending QSA/GSA and being a 
leader at my school”; “I commit to watching and reading books, movies, and 
TV shows that have LGBTQIA+ characters”; and “I commit to being my full 
self!”

The Portland School District is home to more than 49,000 students across 
some 79 schools in the city of Portland, Oregon.

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