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Christian group calls on parents to pull kids out of
private schools over LGBT activism
By Ryan Foley,
Christian Post Reporter|
Thursday, February 24, 2022
| keepmyncsafe.com
Christian groups are urging parents to remove their children from a group of private schools after video footage revealed an effort to teach pre-k students about LGBT ideology.
Breitbart News obtained video footage from a National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) workshop in 2020. NAIS describes itself as a “nonprofit membership association that provides services to more than 1,900 schools and associations of schools in the United States and abroad, including more than 1,600 independent private K-12 schools in the U.S.”
At the training session, which took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, speakers addressed how to “prepare your PK-8 Students for Their World” through “the lens of gender, identity, and sexuality education.”
NAIS lauded the workshop for enabling Belmont Day School, a private school in Belmont, Massachusetts, to share its “comprehensive, dynamic, responsive Health and Wellness curriculum with a developmentally appropriate PK-8 Gender, Identity, and Sexuality strand.”
One speaker who presented at the workshop discussed how “with the younger children starting in pre-k, we talk about their bodies, about the parts that they were born with, about penises and vaginas and whether that makes somebody a boy or a girl.” The speaker explained that students as young as pre-k are asked, “What do they feel like inside? Do they feel like a boy or a girl? What does their head say? Does (sic) their head and their heart and their body match up?”
As the woman spoke, a picture of the “Every” Body Tool appeared on the screen. The image on the left side of the screen featured a human body with icons representing the brain, heart and DNA. A key on the side of the screen had the phrase “gender identity” next to the brain icon, the phrase “sexual orientation” beside the heart icon and the word “sex” alongside the DNA icon. A star appears in the middle of the diagram to represent “gender expression,” which is implied to be a sum of an individual’s gender identity, sexual orientation and sex.
In a statement to The Christian Post, Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for education studies at the Family Research Council, explained that because “parents with children in private schools do not enjoy basic civil rights protections that are afforded in public institutions,” “their recourse is to remove their child from the school since groups like NAIS are training private school teachers and administration to promote LGBT materials even to very young students.”
“Parents of children in private schools often have a false sense of security about the intellectual safety of their children from sexualized materials we see promoted in public schools,” she added. “Whether they are teaching in public or private schools, teachers and administrators are produced by the same university system that’s obsessed with queer theory and critical race theory. The post-Obergefell world is fraught for parents seeking to protect children from sexualized content or instill a worldview based on traditional sexual ethics.”
The 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Critics of the decision expressed concern that it would have negative implications for religious liberty and lead to schools promoting same-sex relationships as equally beneficial to children as the nuclear family.
“LGBT interest groups and advocates have significant influence in public education settings, Kilgannon told CP. “Private institutions are the next step, to the degree some were not early adopters of sexualized identity trends in education. The HRC rating and scores for businesses can easily be applied to private schools.”
Kilgannon warned that “LGBT activists and advocates are ready to name and shame any organization that doesn’t go along with their demands for affirmation and applause, including private schools and the organizations that are part of the private educational infrastructure, like NAIS.”
In a statement to The Christian Post, Jeff Johnston, culture and policy analyst for the Christian conservative advocacy group Focus on the Family, proclaimed that it's "important for parents to be aware that this false ‘gender ideology’ is being promoted in public and private schools across the country – for children from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade.”
“‘Queer inclusive curriculum’ sexualizes and confuses children, from an early age, and it’s completely inappropriate for the classroom. This ideology teaches that gender is fluid, people can change from one sex to the other, and that your bodily sex can somehow be different from your so-called ‘gender.’ We encourage parents to lay a strong foundation, even with very young children, about how God designed individuals to be male or female, in His image. Both are good, both are valuable, but they are different from each other.”
Jordan Peterson says that much of the transgender craze is caused by children not being affirmed in their biological sex. That makes causing a little child to question their gender an extremely destructive act that should be disallowed.
Johnston also urged parents to “help kids embrace their bodily reality and support their daughters as they grow into a healthy sense of their femininity and their sons as they grow into a healthy sense of masculinity.” He cited “helpful, free resources” compiled by Focus on the Family for parents with children who encounter "queer ideology" in schools. They include webpages titled “Back To School – For Parents” and “Resources When Your Child Encounters LGBT Ideology at School.”
The video footage of the NAIS conference reveals that the effort to expose young children to LGBT ideology continues throughout the elementary school years. Suggested reading material for first-grade students includes the book, What Makes a Baby, characterized by Amazon as a “twenty-first century children’s picture book about conception, gestation, and birth.”
Amazon's summary of the book notes that the work “reflects the reality of our modern time by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families, regardless of how many people were involved, their orientation, gender and other identity, or family composition.”
The summary also states that “the story doesn’t gender people or body parts, so most parents and families will find that it leaves room for them to educate their child without having to erase their own experience.”
Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity is listed as recommended reading for second-graders. Second-grade students are taught about gender identity “in terms of your head and your heart and your body parts matching up” and asked, “Does that work for you?” and “What happens if it doesn’t?”
“The kids draw wonderful self-portraits … dealing with all aspects of their identity, including specifically, their gender identity,” the speaker explained. Under this curriculum, fifth-grade students are reintroduced to the “Every” Body tool and told that “hormones and chromosomes” are “something that you can only change with a whole lot of effort.”
The speaker suggested that fifth graders are told that “gender expression” is “something that you can change from day to day.”
Describing fifth grade as “our big year,” the speaker discussed the “Gender Unicorn,” where students are asked to check off their “gender identity” as either “female/woman/girl,” “male/man/boy” or “other genders.” Additionally, students have the option to check off their gender expression as “female,” “masculine” or “other,” their sex assigned at birth as “female,” “male” or “other/intersex” and indicate whether they were physically or emotionally attracted to “women,” “men” or “other gender(s).”
A Google drive account featuring “Workshop Resources” lists “Anything by Planned Parenthood, but especially their Sexuality Education Conference Series” as one of several “recommended resources” for NAIS schools looking to implement similar curriculum. Other recommended resources included the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Educators Network, an LGBT advocacy group.
Five pages of recommended reading for students and parents included books promoting transgenderism, such as Jacob’s New Dress and My Princess Boy, and books that promote same-sex relationships with titles like A Tale of Two Daddies and A Tale of Two Mommies. The list also featured a book titled Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity.
Another document outlines scenarios for teachers to respond to, including one where “a male kindergarten student wants to wear a princess costume in the Halloween parade” but “his parents have communicated with the homeroom teachers that they do not under any circumstances want their son wearing a princess costume.”
In another scenario, a student comes to the teacher saying that his parents refuse to let him participate in a gay pride parade the school is spearheading and uses “homophobic and transphobic language as well as perpetuating LGBTQ+ stereotypes.”
In each scenario, teachers are encouraged to consider guiding questions asking, “Who does this impact?” “Who do we need to respond to?” “How does the approach change for different constituents?” “What would I like to do vs. what would I probably do?” “Can you use this framework with other scenarios in your school” and “How do you move or encourage others to move from an accomplice to ally?”
Breitbart’s reporting about the NAIS workshop comes as many American families increasingly turn to private schools and other alternative methods of education due to dissatisfaction with the sexually charged curriculum their children are exposed to in public schools. The inclusion of the books Gender Queer and Lawn Boy, which critics liken to child pornography and a promotion of pedophilia, in school libraries has caused particular concern.
Illinois’ recently enacted sex education guidelines teaching children in grades as low as kindergarten about gender identity have also resulted in parental protest. Outrage over public schools’ embrace of critical race theory, “woke” ideology and sexually explicit curriculum has led to the rise of advocacy organizations such as Parents Defending Education and the 1776 Project PAC, which is working to elect school board candidates opposed to such ideology.
Breitbart credited the video footage and screenshots included in its reporting to tips from “Undercover Mother,” a group that describes itself as a “Mom Collective with children in independent schools” seeking to protect their children from “the abuse being inflicted by the schools and the cartels of the regional and National Association of Independent Schools.”
It seems most TV watchers don't want to Approach Sodom
Audiences Reject Woke Television:
Many Leftist Shows Cancelled in 2022
Elise Ehrhard, Media Research Center
February. 25. 2022
It turns out Americans don't want to watch woke television. The new year has brought a flood of series cancellation announcements. Many of the worst woke shows of 2021 have been cut for 2022 due to low ratings and audience rejection.
Below, from cable to streaming, are leftist, agenda-driven shows from the past year getting the ax in 2022 due to audience rejection.
1. Audiences continue to reject LGBTQUIA-centered series.
Hollywood desperately wishes most humans rejected "heteronormativity," and they regularly pump out shows centered on LGBTQUIA narratives. Naturally, most of those shows fail because the majority of television audiences find current Gay Inc. obsessions alienating.
Last month, for example, Showtime announced the cancellation of Work in Progress, a self-described show about “a 45-year-old self-identified fat, queer dyke.” Remarkably, that description did not entice viewers.
Then last week, FX officially cancelled Y: The Last Man after only one season. The dystopian show about an apocalypse that kills all biological men, but leaves trannies, had ridiculous lines like, "We've found plenty of men. None with a Y chromosome."
Cable and streaming services had already introduced and then pulled multiple off-season LGBTQUIA-centered shows last fall due to lack of viewer interest. Shows included Freeform's Everything Gonna Be Okay, which had a wedding of two "aromantic homosexuals" (a newly invented "sexual identity" that really just describes best friends) and Lena Dunham's awful Generation on HBO Max. Generation's sick dialogue included a child asking two gay men if they were going to "touch penises."
2. Anti-White Show Receives Low Ratings
Besides LGBT, Hollywood also likes to push Critical Race Theory (CRT). In 2021, HBO Max released a "re-imagining" of In Treatment. The original In Treatment, starring Gabriel Byrne, was about a psychiatrist who treats patients while struggling with his own personal issues.
All the reboot writers did was re-imagine the old show with vicious anti-white hatred instead. The revival used new therapy sessions to rant about white people.
The new therapist, played by actress Uzo Aduba, expressed her most extreme vitriol for white men in particular, calling them "Fu**in' white guys!" The show's audience score on Rotten Tomatoes was a meager 38% and it's not getting a second season.
3. Audiences Reject Anti-Christian Attacks
A number of anti-Christian shows officially announced cancellations this month. The worst of these was Showtime's nasty Black Monday. Episodes included a character throwing a drink at a crucifix and yelling, "F**k you God!" and turned the Last Supper into a homoerotic make-out scene. Of course, the show also pushed BLM lies and routinely attacked conservatives as "bigots." Good riddance to this unwatchable mess.
Peacock's adaptation of author Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol also turned off viewers. It attacked the Bible as a "bizarre book" with "outdated beliefs" and "outright absurdities." It turns out the public is finally tiring of Dan Brown's bigotry and hate. The first season of The Lost Symbol was a ratings bust and isn't being renewed.
Other woke shows covered by Newsbusters in 2021 that have been canned for 2022 include Netflix's Gentefied, which praised illegal immigration, and the Disney+ show Diary of a Future President, which used tweens to push radical feminism and attack "heteronormative rituals."
After Gentefied's cancellation, ABC News complained that "this keeps happening to Latino-led shows." Maybe it wouldn't happen if Hollywood stopped treating Hispanics like left-wing political pawns and instead green-lighted scripts that reflected their ideological diversity.
Audiences want stories that feel real, not agenda-driven. They will keep rejecting woke garbage no matter how much of it Hollywood produces. In the meanwhile, they are seeking out entertainment alternatives, whether it's the rare conservative show or crowd-funded favorites like Angel Studios' The Chosen. Left-wing studios may continue to reject good storytelling, but Americans are not watching.
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Parents of trans teen investigated under new Texas law,
according to lawsuit
Governor had ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming as abuse
The Associated Press ·
Posted: Mar 01, 2022 4:11 PM ET
The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.
The parents of the 16-year-old girl are asking a judge to block the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating them and the parents of other transgender youth under a directive Abbott issued last month.
"Their actions caused terror and anxiety among transgender youth and their families across the Lone Star State and singled out transgender youth and their families," the lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, said.
The lawsuit marks the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott's order and an earlier non-binding legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as "child abuse."
DFPS, which last week said it did not have any open cases, said Tuesday it had received three reports since Abbott's directive and Paxton's opinion but would not say how many resulted in investigations. The agency declined to comment on the suit. The governor's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit doesn't name the parents, but said the mother works at DFPS on the review of reports of abuse and neglect. The day of Abbott's order, she asked her supervisor how it would affect the agency's policy, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit said the mother was placed on leave because she has a transgender daughter and the following day was informed her family would be investigated in accordance with the governor's directive.
Abbott's directive and the attorney general's opinion go against the nation's largest medical groups, including the American Medical Association, which have opposed Republican-backed restrictions filed in statehouses nationwide.
Arkansas last year became the first state to pass a law prohibiting gender-confirming treatments for minors, and Tennessee approved a similar measure. A judge blocked Arkansas' law, and the state is appealing.
The Texas teen, who has received puberty-delaying medication and hormone therapy, has been "traumatized" by the prospect of being separated from her parents and losing her care, the lawsuit said.
"The stress has taken a noticeable toll on her, and our daughter, who is typically joyful and happy, is now moodier, stressed and overwhelmed," the mother said in a declaration filed with the complaint.
The plaintiffs include a licensed psychologist who the lawsuit said would be put in an "untenable situation" by putting her at risk of losing her license and other penalties if she doesn't report clients who receive gender-affirming care to the state.
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