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Sex shop owner to teach sexual 'pleasure' classes
at her sex shop for kids as young as 9
By Samantha Kamman,
Christian Post Reporter
A member of the Bellingham School Board in Washington state who's also the owner of a sex shop is offering sexual education classes to children and teens as part of a workshop series on a variety of topics, including gender and sexual identity and sexual anatomy for pleasure.
The “Uncringe Academy” workshop series is scheduled to take place at the Wink Wink Boutique, a sex toy shop in downtown Bellingham, in August for children ages 9 to 12 and 13- to 17-year-olds. Shop owner Jenn Mason is teaching the lessons, which are described as “sex education that's based in empowerment and information, rather than shame, fear, and judgment.”
Mason adds that the classes offer “honest, supportive, and inclusive sex education classes to help young people of all genders and sexual identities understand this important part of their life.”
The workshops will divide children and teens by age. The topics covered during the two-day workshop range from “The science of puberty” to “Sexual anatomy for pleasure and reproduction.”
Other topics listed include “Safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities” and “What IS sex? Kinds of solo and partnered sexual activities.”
“We use an accepting, informing, and affirming framework,” the workshop’s event page reads. “Our focus is helping young people to feel comfortable around these topics so that they can advocate for their own bodies, health, and well-being.”
As KGMI reported, Mason has been a school board member since 2017. She claims that “it’s possible and important” to talk about sex with kids in “age-appropriate and healthy ways.”
The Bellingham School Board did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment, but a spokesperson for Bellingham Schools said in a statement to KGMI that Mason’s sex shop and the classes she’s offering are not connected to the district or its schools.
WHO Announces Plan to Mainstream Gender Ideology
By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. | C-Fam
July 22, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22 (C-Fam) The Word Health Organization (WHO) announced it is updating its manual on “gender mainstreaming” claiming that “gender identity exists on a continuum and that sex is not limited to male or female.”
The manual was last updated in 2011, and the WHO is updating it in “light of new scientific evidence and conceptual progress on gender, health and development.” The description of the new manual’s focus areas does not mention new scientific evidence, however, but rather illustrates the political shift that has taken place in the past decade, at least in elite circles.
The process of updating the manual, which will take place in partnership with the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, will include a period for comments and inputs from other stakeholders during this summer and fall. Based on the description of the project, many of the most controversial elements are already included by design, including a focus on “intersectionality” between different identity categories with a focus on power dynamics, which has its roots in Marxist feminist scholarship.
Similarly, its focus on “going beyond binary approaches to gender and health to recognize gender and sexual diversity” does not appear to be open to discussion or critique.
This, of course, means that it is far from scientific! It is also antichristian - "Jesus answered, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' - Matthew 19:4.
To the extent that these matters are political rather than scientific or medical, they arise from political processes that are outside the democratic and consensus-based structure that produced the UN’s foundational documents through negotiation in the General Assembly and other bodies. Rather, they originate in the work of activist groups and largely unaccountable human rights experts that often share close ties with these groups, all of which are funded by a minority of wealthy donor countries and billionaire philanthropists.
The WHO’s politicization on social issues has accelerated in recent years, as it released a radical update to its abortion guideline calling for the removal of all barriers—including conscientious objection—to accessing abortion for any reason. Again, funding and support was provided by pro-abortion activist groups.
The WHO also updated its diagnostic manual to remove “transsexualism” from its chapter on mental health disorders and move “gender incongruity” into a new chapter on sexual health. This came after intense pressure from transgender activists who wanted to avoid the stigma of being diagnosed with a disorder, but still wanted to be able to obtain a diagnosis in order to obtain “gender-affirming” treatments such as hormones and surgeries—and make their insurance or national health service pay the cost.
The UN has defined “gender” in negotiations in the past. At the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the word was only accepted in the outcome document if defined according to its “ordinary, generally accepted usage.” The hard-law 2000 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court states that “gender” refers to the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society. Even the WHO’s soon-to-be-replaced 2011 manual defined gender as referring “to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men.”
Socially constructed? Seriously?
It may be useful for national governments and members of civil society to participate in the WHO’s call for inputs, even if only to lodge objections to a predetermined outcome. Nevertheless, the WHO has once again signaled its willingness to follow not the science, nor the consensus of the governments that provide its mandate, but rather, the most radical positions of extreme gender activists.
LA school district encourages teachers to reject gender 'binary,'
embrace LGBT ideology
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter
IT Support Technician Michael Hakopian (R) distributes computer devices to students at Hollywood High School on August 13, 2020, in Hollywood, California. With over 734,000 enrolled students, the Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest public school system in California and the 2nd largest public school district in the United States. | Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
One of the largest school districts in the United States has urged teachers to embrace LGBT ideology denouncing the gender "binary," according to a new report.
Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the conservative think tank Manhattan Institute, shared documents he obtained from the Los Angeles Unified School District's Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity Department on Twitter Wednesday.
LAUSD is the largest school district in California, serving more than 500,000 students.
"Los Angeles Unified School District encourages kindergartners to experiment with non-binary pronouns, trains teachers to subvert 'mainstream white cis-heteropatriarchy society,' and promotes sexual identities such as 'trans,' 'pansexual,' 'two-spirit,' and 'genderqueer,'" Rufo tweeted.
The outspoken critic of critical race theory and LGBT ideology being incorporated into public schools provided screenshots of a "treasure trove of documents from the district's Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity department, which has created an entire infrastructure to translate the basic tenets of academic Queer Theory into K-12 pedagogy."
"The programming includes a wide range of conferences, presentations, curricula, teacher-training programs, adult-driven 'gender and sexuality' clubs, and school-sponsored protests," Rufo wrote in an article for City Journal.
The Christian Post reached out to LAUSD for comment. A response is pending.
Among the documents Rufo shared online are LAUSD's "Queer and Trans-Affirming School Calendar" titled "Queer All School Year."
One PowerPoint presentation focused on "Queering Culture & Race." The PowerPoint has been removed from the LAUSD's Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity Department's website.
A slide from an October 2021 professional development workshop discussing "breaking the binary in education" asserted that "our language is binary due to the society around us." The stated purpose of the workshop was to provide a "start for educators to look at how they can shift their thinking, language, and approach to LGBTQ+ topics in the classroom." The workshop was presented by a fifth grade magnet school teacher whose pronouns are "they/them."
Other workshops at the same conference featured a panel discussion with queer seventh-grade students to "produce counter narratives against the master narrative of mainstream white cis-heteropatriarchy society that seeks to erase and oppress our lived experiences." They included a list of resources for trans-identified students, including "trans-affirming clothing."
Another workshop advised teachers to use "non-gendered expressions" and abandon the use of the phrases "boys and girls," "ladies and gentlemen" and "guys."
A school district policy issued in 2019 proclaimed, "Students shall be addressed by the name and pronoun that corresponds to their gender identity asserted at school without obtaining a court order, changing their pupil records or obtaining parent/legal guardian permission."
The document clarified that "if school personnel are unsure how a student wants to be addressed in communications to home or in conferences with parents/legal guardians/educational rights holders, they may privately ask the student how they want to be referred to when communicating with parents/legal guardians."
A chart obtained by Rufo listed the "privileged social groups" within individual "social identity categories," along with the "border social groups" and the "disadvantaged social groups."
The chart identified "white people," Anglo-Saxons, citizens, males, gender-conforming men and women, heterosexuals, rich people, the able-bodied and mainstream Christians as privileged social groups. The document classified "People of Color," females, trans-identified people, LGBT individuals and non-Christians as "disadvantaged social groups."
Rufo cited the chart as an example of the narrative that "white, cisgender, heterosexual men have built a repressive social structure, divided the world into the false binary of man and woman, and used this myth to oppress racial and sexual minorities."
As of Sunday, all but one of the links on the Office of Human Relations, Diversity & Equity's "Advisory Lessons" webpage redirect to a page informing visitors that "this page has moved." The only document remaining is a PowerPoint presentation outlining "10 Ways to Talk About Sensitive Issues in the News." Two of the PowerPoint documents removed from the website include "Critical Race Theory, Racism and K-12 Education" and "Say Gay: Protect LGBTQ+ Futures."
The department has a separate webpage devoted to lessons on "Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression."
While most of the documents have been removed, a presentation on the meaning of the term "2 Spirit" remains. A lengthy glossary of LGBT terminology defined the phrase as an "umbrella term traditionally within Native American communities to recognize individuals who possess qualities or fulfill roles of both feminine and masculine genders."
The PowerPoint contended that "European colonizers" imposed a "binary, European understanding of gender" on Western civilization. Additionally, it stated that "colonizers imposed homophobia, gender binaries and misogyny among other abuses towards the Indigenous nations" when they first arrived in what is now the U.S.
Another presentation available on the website discussed "names and pronouns" and included advisories to "ask [people] for their pronouns when meeting someone new, correct people when they use the wrong pronouns, use the name and pronouns they ask you to use and apologize and correct yourself if you get it wrong."
An LAUSD spokesperson told The Washington Examiner that the district "supports and respects the diversity of our students and families, which includes providing safe and affirming learning environments."
Rufo's reporting comes three years after 43.9% of students in the district met or exceeded standards in the 2019 Smarter Balanced assessments' state English testing, which constitutes part of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress.
That same year, 33.47% of students in the district met or exceeded the standards in the state math testing.
When compared to all the school districts in the state, LAUSD scored in the bottom 50% in both categories. SchoolDigger ranked the district 1,029th out of 1,496 school districts in California.
LAUSD is not the only major U.S. school district to embrace LGBT ideology amid mediocre student performance on state assessments.
Rufo previously shared footage of professional development training teachers in the School District of Philadelphia were encouraged to attend. The training consisted of sexually explicit workshops, including one where the speaker informed attendees that "I have tried and touched many d---s" and showcased prosthetic penises.
The most recent data from the school district reveals that 22% of Philadelphia public school students received a proficient or advanced score on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment math test. Additionally, 33% of third-graders scored proficient or advanced on the PSSA ELA test, and 36% of students in grades four through eight received scores of proficient or higher on the same test.
SchoolDigger ranked the School District of Philadelphia 473rd out of 579 school districts in Pennsylvania.
A poll commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers showed most Americans are "dissatisfied" with how schools teach students about issues related to sexual orientation, gender identity and race.
The survey indicated that 58% of respondents living in battleground states were "dissatisfied" with "the way students are taught about issues related to sexual preference and gender identity," while just 23% were "satisfied."
At the same time, 60% of those surveyed described themselves as "dissatisfied" with "the way students are taught about racial issues and the role of race in America," while 27% were "satisfied."
Two of America's biggest school districts have completely lost sight of their real objectives. I wonder how many more are so far off-track.
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