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Started 10/24/22 by WALTER784; 6662 views.
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From: WALTER784
10/24/22
Report: Michigan’s Education Department Is Urging Teachers To ‘Transition’ Kids Behind Parents’ Backs
BY: SHAWN FLEETWOOD
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
A Michigan program pushes teachers to ‘facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent,’ Christopher Rufo reported.
A new program from Michigan’s Department of Education (MDOE) advocates for gender “fluidity” starting at the elementary school level and pushes educators to “facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent,” according to a new bombshell report.
After obtaining “videos and internal documentation from the state’s training program, which first took place in 2020 and was repackaged for public school employees for the 2021–2022 school year,” senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Christopher Rufo reported that the “training program mimics the basic narrative of academic queer theory: the presenters claim that the West has created a false notion that ‘gender is binary’ in order to oppress racial and sexual minorities.”
“In response, the department encourages teachers to adopt the principle of ‘intersectionality,’ a key tenet of critical race theory, in order to ‘dismantle systems of oppression,’ which are replicated through the culture and institutions of education,” Rufo explained. “The first step to dismantling these systems, according to the presenters, is to disrupt the gender binary.”
In one video, self-described “Black, masculine-identified, cisgendered lesbian baby boomer” trainer Amorie Robinson describes the vast array of gender “terminology out there for [educators] to learn,” such as “gender fluid,” “gender queer,” or “gender non-conforming.”
Students may identify as “asexual, lesbian, straight, gay, bisexual, queer, questioning, demisexual, demiromantic, aromantic, and skoliosexual,” said Robinson. “I’ll leave that to you to go Google on those. Because we ain’t got time today!”
When asked in a separate clip by a teacher who wanted to know “how to respond to a student in her classroom who claims to have ‘she/he/they/them’ pronouns,” Amorie replied by telling the instructor to “go with what the kid says” because “they’re the best experts on their lives.”
“They’re the best experts on their own identities and their own bodies,” Amorie said. “You may have to sit with some discomfort sometimes.”
Rufo detailed how the training program advises teachers to “abandon so-called gendered language, such as ‘boys and girls,’ and replace those terms with gender-neutral variations such as ‘earthlings,’ ‘people with penises,’ and ‘people with vulvas,'” with the MDOE also recommending that teachers “create ‘Gender & Sexuality Alliance’ clubs targeting students as young as elementary school, using private communications and fictitious names to conceal the nature of these initiatives from parents.”
“In private, however, the trainers are straightforward about their objectives: these clubs, using cover names such as ‘Leadership Club’ or ‘Everyone for Equality,’ are explicitly designed to advance left-wing gender ‘activism’ and to promote gender ‘fluidity’ beginning in elementary school,” Rufo noted.
One of the more concerning aspects documented in the training program, however, is the MDOE’s bid to “facilitate the sexual transition of children” without parental knowledge. When asked how liability is affected if a student “dies by suicide and parents did not know the student’s chosen name or pronouns were being used at school,” Kim Phillips-Knope, who serves as the project lead of MDOE’s LGBTQ+ Students Project, said that while “the law is really clear” about reporting acts or intended acts of self-harm, teachers can notify parents without “outing” the student or “saying why” their child is suicidal.
“If you’re sort of into that area of like, ‘you’re going to hurt yourself or somebody else,’ and you have a duty to report—I mean, the law is really clear about that—you can also talk to parents, though, about like that ‘your kid is having suicidal thoughts,’ without outing them, without saying why,” Phillips-Knope said. “You can say, ‘We have some concerns, your child has shared this,’ [but] I would one-thousand percent recommend working with the student to let them guide that proces
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From: Showtalk
10/24/22
What makes them think there are that many children who seriously want to transition? It appears to be the case now because it’s become a huge public spectacle and a fad, but in reality those who experience true gender dysphoria have always been few and that hasn’t changed.
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From: WALTER784
10/24/22
They're teaching/pushing/forcing kids to transgender. Even if they're not really transgender, the teachers make them feel good about transgendering and feel bad if they don't! Warping their young minds which has side effects like wanting to commit suicide.
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- Edited October 24, 2022 11:01 am by WALTER784
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From: WALTER784
10/24/22
Even if it's child abuse!
That's really sad... Blue State education departments pushing for child abuse!
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- Edited October 24, 2022 9:49 pm by WALTER784
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From: WALTER784
10/25/22
DeSantis banned teaching such subjects in Florida. While Blue States punish schools that don't follow their warped narrative.
State punishing schools that DON'T teach young kids about gender identity!
Students should be able to explain difference between gender identity and sexual orientation
By WND News Services
Published September 20, 2022 at 4:50pm
The New Jersey Department of Education will intervene in school districts that do not implement the state’s new sexual education standards that teach 10-year-olds the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity, according to statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The New Jersey Department of Education told the DCNF that schools that fail to adhere to their new sexual education standards will face “disciplinary action,” resulting in monitoring or intervention from the state government. The standards were passed in 2020 but their implementation was delayed until the 2022-2023 school year because of the pandemic.
Under the new standards, by the end of fifth grade, students should be able to explain the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation. The 10-year-olds must be taught to “describe gender-role stereotypes” and how those stereotypes effect themselves and those around them.
The fifth grade students are also taught how to “promote dignity and respect” for those with different sexual orientation, gender identity, race and socio-economic status, the standards showed. By the end of fifth grade curriculum, the students should be able to explain all the ways “pregnancy can be achieved.”
In eighth grade, students are taught to define vaginal, oral and anal sex. The students are also asked to create a plan to foster an inclusive environment for all “gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations.”
Additional training principles in the standards include definitions on transgender men and women while noting that one’s “gender assigned at birth” doesn’t necessarily match their sex.
Using the “New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC),” the state Department of Education monitors how school districts implement the sexual education standards, the department told the DCNF. The schools are tracked in five categories and if they score below an 80% in any category, they are subject to punishment and intervention by the state.
“Following the assessment, the district is placed on a performance continuum that will determine the level of oversight, and technical assistance and support it receives,” the state said in a statement. “Dependent upon the percentage of quality performance indicators a district satisfies upon review of the improvement plan, the Department may determine whether additional monitoring or intervention is warranted.”
School districts across the country are pushing to implement sexual education curriculums that implement sexual orientation and gender identity; the Wauwatosa School Board in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, implemented a curriculum that teaches sixth graders that the definition of a female was a “person with a vulva.”
A majority of nationwide voters, 70%, believe that elementary school students should not learn about sexual orientation and gender identity. About 53% still oppose instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity through eighth grade.
“For children to be excused from any part of instruction in health, family life or sex education, their parent or guardian must inform the school principal in writing that the instruction conflicts with their conscience or sincerely held moral or religious beliefs,” the New Jersey Department of Education told the DCNF.
State punishing schools that DON'T teach young kids about gender identity! (wnd.com)
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From: Showtalk
10/25/22
I wouldn’t have stood for this as I never believed young children should learn about sex in school. Parents need to stand up for their beliefs.
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From: WALTER784
10/25/22
Showtalk said...
I wouldn’t have stood for this as I never believed young children should learn about sex in school. Parents need to stand up for their beliefs.
And then the FBI intimidates them as domestic terrorists!!!
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From: Showtalk
10/26/22
Polis, Ganahl highlight rural and western Colorado concerns in Grand Junction face off
From the future of the Colorado River to how to boost rural economies, the two candidates made their arguments for why each would be the better leader for the state.
Read more from Colorado Public RadioParents are now running for office as pushback. Heidi Ganahl is a Mad Mom and proud of it. She has a good chance of winning.
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From: WALTER784
10/26/22
Polis's weakest stance is weaning Colorado off of Natural gas.
Maybe sometime between 2030 ~ 2050... perhaps... but not in 2022!
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