In recent years, critical gender theory activists have turned America’s education system into a tool to reach millions of children in an effort to teach and promote gender ideology. Schools now teach students—including kindergartners—that gender is malleable and disconnected from one’s sex.
Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright explains gender ideology this way:
Proponents of gender ideology have completely decoupled the terms “man,” “woman,” “boy” and “girl” from biological sex. Gender ideology teaches that the terms “man/boy” and “woman/girl”—and their corresponding “he/his” and “she/her” pronouns—refer to a person’s gender identity, while “male” and “female” refer to biological sex. While you may define a woman as a female human adult, gender ideology contends that a “woman” is an adult of either sex who simply “identifies” as a woman.
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The clear message of gender ideology is that, if you’re a female who doesn’t “identify with” the social roles and stereotypes of femininity, then you’re not a woman; if you’re a male who similarly rejects the social roles and stereotypes of masculinity, then you’re not a man. Instead, you’re considered either transgender or nonbinary, and Planned Parenthood assures you that “there are medical treatments you can use to help your body better reflect who you are.” According to this line of thinking, certain personalities, behaviors and preferences are incompatible with certain types of anatomy.
(Wall Street Journal)
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Gender Ideology 101
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Understanding Gender Jargon
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Questions to Ask Your School about Gender Ideology and Gender Policy
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Groups Pushing Gender Ideologies in Schools
GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educator Network, Planned Parenthood, Learning for Justice, Gender Spectrum, CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, Panorama Education Inc., Human Rights Campaign, Advocates for…
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Gender Identity Guidance – Departments of Education by State
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GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network
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Cape Elizabeth High School receives $10,000 to create training material “for educators focusing on LGBTQ+ knowledge and inclusion”; school district mandates that schools allow transgender students to use their preferred locker rooms and restrooms
In 2022, the “It Gets Better Project” allowed schools to “apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding to support school-based projects empowering LGBTQ+ students.” The…
Incidents
P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School provides students in sixth grade with in-depth lessons on the three forms of “sexual intercourse” and on “gender identity” using the “Gender Unicorn”
A concerned community member provided Parents Defending Education with presentations given to sixth graders in a sexual education curriculum at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School. The school provided the…
Incidents
Haynes Academy receives $10,000 to “fund LGBTQ+-inclusive training for students and faculty”
In 2022, the “It Gets Better Project” allowed schools to “apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding to support school-based projects empowering LGBTQ+ students.”…
Incidents
Grand Island Senior High School receives $10,000 to create LGBTQ mural; school district pays Panorama $52,000 annually for surveys and services
In 2022, the “It Gets Better Project” allowed schools to “apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding to support school-based projects empowering LGBTQ+ students.”…
Incidents
Scottsdale Unified School District librarian had document promoting hormone replacement therapy in official school communications
On June 19, 2022, the Arizona Daily Independent reported that a concerned parent filed a public records request to the Scottsdale Unified School District. The…
Incidents
IDEA North Mission College Preparatory receives $10,000 to create a “region-wide Queer Youth Conference”
In 2022, the “It Gets Better Project” allowed schools to “apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding to support school-based projects empowering LGBTQ+ students.” The…
Incidents
Positive Outcomes Charter School receives $10,000 to train educators and parents “to support LGBTQ+ students”
In 2022, the “It Gets Better Project” allowed schools to “apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding to support school-based projects empowering LGBTQ+ students.” The…
Incidents
Ida B. Wells APAC High School Program receives $10,000 to design murals that highlight “queer black history”
In 2022, the “It Gets Better Project” allowed schools to “apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding to support school-based projects empowering LGBTQ+ students.”…
Incidents
Layton High School receives $10,000 to support events during “Pride Week”; district mandates that schools allow transgender students to use their preferred restrooms and locker rooms
In 2022, the “It Gets Better Project” allowed schools to “apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding to support school-based projects empowering LGBTQ+ students.” The…
Incidents
Los Angeles Unified School District promotes “Queer All School Year” calendar to provide teachers and students with new LGBTQ resources every month
The Los Angeles Unified School District promotes a document online titled “Queer All School year.” The document is labeled as the school district’s “queer and…
Incidents
Avonworth School District forces teachers to participate in “equity” and “social justice” training; uses outside consultant with focus on ‘gender and sexual identity’; creates social justice club
The Avonworth School District promotes “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” on its website. The school district explains that a “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee” was established…
Incidents
Centennial School District 12 provides teachers and parents with resources in equity and gender ideology; promotes an organization that helps transgender individuals acquire free “chest binders”
Centennial School District 12 promotes a page on its website labeled “Equity and Inclusion Resources.” In one of the page’s categories titled “…
Incidents
Boulder Valley School District Gender Support Plan includes mandatory use of pronouns
Boulder Valley School District’s Gender Support Plan and Gender Transition Plan for students asks what the student’s gender is as well as their “assigned sex at birth.”…
Incidents
Glendale Unified School District sends teachers resources to teach young children about LGBTQ issues during Pride Month
On June 8, 2022, the Gender LCGB newsletter reported that Glendale Unified School District’s Director of Teaching and Learning, Christopher Coulter, sent an email to teachers…
Incidents
Scottsdale Unified School District promotes “Gender Unicorn” in effort to teach children that gender is on a spectrum; club questions the “heterosexuality” of students
The Scottsdale Unified School District’s website has a document titled “Support Services February Newsletter” that is dated from February 2021. This document promotes the “Gender…
Incidents
Seventh and Eighth grade ethnic studies course features ‘Genderbread Person’ activity and unit on ‘Intersectionality’
Long Beach Unified School District’s middle school ethnic studies course description states that students will “understand the politics of privilege and the historical reasons for structural racism, classism and…
Incidents
Department of Education and CDC host webinar on ‘supporting transgender and nonbinary students’ featuring directors from GLSEN and the Trevor Project
On April 13, 2022, the Department of Education, in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, hosted a webinar titled “Lessons from the Field – Supporting…
Incidents
New York City public schools’ ‘Universal Mosaic Curriculum’ recommends transgender picture book for 1st graders
The New York City Public Schools’ is dedicating $202 million to the development and execution of its Universal Mosaic Curriculum. It remains unclear if that money came out…
Incidents
East Side Elementary School librarian shows presentation to third grade students on LGBTQ topics including children choosing their gender and how they should “spread radical queer joy”
On June 9, 2022, The Livingston Enterprise reported that an East Side Elementary School librarian “violated school district policy last week when she showed an…
Incidents
Eisenhower Elementary School celebrates “Pride Wednesdays” every week; sports participation and sleeping arrangements on overnight field trips determined by gender identity
On May 24, 2022, Alpha News reported that Eisenhower Elementary School holds “Pride Wednesdays” every week. This is one day every week where young elementary…
Incidents
Brevard Public Schools mandates that teachers use the preferred pronouns of students and students can use whatever bathroom/locker room aligns with their “gender identity;” parents have no right to know
Brevard Public Schools has a document on its website called “LGBTQ+ District Guidance” that serves as guidelines regarding how school staff and teachers must act…
Incidents
4 Elementary Schools in Erie, Colorado team up to promote Drag Queen Story Time
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee at Meadowlark Elementary School in Erie, Colorado announced that it would be teaming up with three other local elementary schools to pass…
Incidents
KIPP SoCal Public Schools teacher provides his kindergarten students with “queer” education; states that teaching “queer” topics to kindergartners is “highly developmentally appropriate”
On June 2, 2022, KIPP Public Schools posted on Twitter that a teacher at KIPP SoCal Public Schools “identifies as a ‘proud queer Asian-Latinx educator’…
Incidents
3rd Graders in Milton taught lesson in library class about Harvey Milk and the importance of the letters LGBTQ+
In April of 2022 the school librarian at Collicot Elementary School read a book to a 3rd grade class about Harvey Milk and the history of the rainbow flag.
Incidents
Shelby County Public Schools seventh grade English teacher has students write about LGBTQ issues and racial politics
A concerned community member reached out to Parents Defending Education about a seventh grade English teacher at Marnel C. Moorman School giving assignments to students promoting LGBTQ issues and racial…
Incidents
Stanley Middle School states in sexual education curriculum that the school should “guide the discussion” for students on gender identity; tells students that “what is said here stays here” regarding discussions of gender
A concerned community member provided Parents Defending Education with material used to teach eighth graders in the sexual education curriculum at Stanley Middle School. A presentation that is part…
Incidents
Lafayette School District holds presentation for parents stating that gender is on a spectrum; allows transgender speaker to tell parents that children should “explore their gender”
The Lafayette School District has a “District Parent Education Committee” with the mission “to give parents the encouragement, resources, and skills to address the behavioral…
Incidents
Broward County Public Schools states that “parental/guardian participation is not required” for students to transition to another gender; advises students to transition over “summer break” to “maintain privacy”
Broward County Public Schools has embraced the idea of promoting gender ideology to students. The school district’s website has a document titled “Transgender and Nonbinary…
Incidents
Internal documents in Olentangy Schools reveal transgender guidelines
Based on email correspondence from the Olentangy Local School District Superintendent Mark Raiff, the district has developed transgender “guidelines.” These guidelines were only shared internally “following the issuance of new…
Incidents
Missoula County Public Schools trains teachers in “interrupting oppression”; shifts to “gender identity” for participation in school programs, activities
Missoula County Public Schools has a policy titled “Equal Education, Nondiscrimination and Sex Equity.” The policy states: “Equal educational opportunities shall be available for all students…
Incidents
Sentinel High School freshman health teacher gives questionnaire to students stating that most “rapists” and “molesters” are heterosexual
A teacher of a freshman health class at Sentinel High School reportedly handed out a questionnaire to students that contained “questions regarding students’ sexual orientation,” according…
Incidents
Howell Township Public Schools teaches second graders “how gender-role stereotypes may limit behavior”; mandates that “parental consent is not required” to use the preferred name and pronouns of students
Howell Township Public Schools is a district specifically for kindergarten through the eighth grade. On April 14, 2022, Assistant Superintendent Bruce Preston published a letter discussing the school district…
Incidents
Rawlinson Road Middle School teacher has students read by “Stamped”; school district promotes racial affinity groups and mandatory equity training for educators
FITSNews reported that a Rawlinson Road Middle School teacher had students in seventh grade read the book Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by political activists…
Incidents
Bedford Central School District focuses on racial equity and gender ideology despite special needs students facing traumatic abuse; bans one outspoken community member from public meetings
Nude photographs of special needs students were reportedly taken at Fox Lane High school in a boys’ bathroom and shared in December 2021 and March 2022.
Incidents
Perrysburg Schools asks teachers and students to complete Panorama surveys; school district intends to change curriculum to implement SEL and an “inclusive perspective”
Perrysburg Schools is providing teachers and students with Panorama surveys in an effort to better implement Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in the school district. Three surveys are provided for grades…
Incidents
12-year-old student invited to after-school art club finds herself in a meeting about trans and queer identity where she is told to keep secrets and that parents aren’t safe
On May 4th, 2021, Erin Lee’s 12-year-old daughter was invited by her art teacher, Jenna Riep, at Wellington Middle School in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado,…
Incidents
West Chester Area School District trains teachers in “talking to children about gender”; board votes to keep sexually explicit graphic novel, ‘Gender Queer,’ in school libraries
The West Chester Area School District promotes perceived accomplishments at achieving equity on its website under a page titled “Equity Mission.” This page provides numerous resources…
Incidents
10th grade English class assignment in Eau Claire Area School District teaches students about “gender identity,” “personal pronouns,” and the “patriarchy”
A concerned resident provided Parents Defending Education with an English assignment given to tenth grade students English class at Memorial High School. This school is part of the Eau…
Incidents
Kutztown Area School District pays consultant $11,000 to provide teachers with equity training; reportedly offers the books “Gender Queer” and “All Boy’s Aren’t Blue” in school library
On December 6, 2021, the School Board for the Kutztown Area School District implemented a new policy titled “Educational Equity.” The policy ensures that the…
Incidents
Horry County Schools counselor promotes race-based event for students; school district promotes organizations that push for educators to teach “social justice” and “LGBTQ” issues in classrooms
A concerned community member sent an email to Parents Defending Education that a counselor from Conway High School had forwarded to parents. The email promoted a specifically “Latinx Student…
Incidents
Wellesley Middle School stages “Day of Silence”
On April 8, 2022, Wellesley Middle School (WMS), in Wellesley Mass., staged a “Day of Silence” to, according to the school’s principal, “recognize the silencing…
Incidents
Albemarle County Public Schools assistant superintendent appears to tell staff to quit if they disagree with district’s “Anti-Racism Policy”; middle school principal hosts training session for faculty with presenter encouraging adults to allow toddlers to “explore” their gender identity
Albemarle County Public Schools has a page on the school district’s website titled “Anti-Racism Policy” that features the district’s policy on the issue of racial…
Incidents
All-girl Catholic Carondelet High School stages GLSEN activist org “Day of Silence” to protest the “silencing” of “LGBTQIA+ voices”
On April 8, 2022, Carondelet High School, an elite all-girls Catholic high school in Contra Costa County, Calif., took an all-day “vow of silence” to “protest…
Incidents
Chatham Grove Elementary School plans to punish students for reports of “homophobic” and “xenophobic” behavior in K-5; Chatham County Schools provides teachers with learning material specifically mentioning “Critical Race Theory”
Parents Defending Education received a letter that the principal of Chatham Grove Elementary School emailed to parents on March 23, 2022. The principal wrote in the email: I…
Incidents
Adams High School teacher promotes using “preferred pronouns” in lesson to students; supports eliminating “gendered sports”
Adams High School reportedly has an elective course called “True Stories.” The teacher of the course decided to focus one day’s class on gender ideology, according to a…
Incidents
Waukee Community School District adopts Learning for Justice’s “Social Justice Standards”; teachers reportedly promote race and gender ideology in classrooms
The Waukee Community School District has a page on its website titled “Equity and Inclusion.” The school district states on the page that it “is committed…
Incidents
Georgetown Day School teaches students about so-called “anti-LGBTQ” bills with lesson and school-wide art collage project
Georgetown Day School students “across the grade levels” spent class time “learning about” and “creating artwork” about what the school calls “anti-LGBTQ bills” passed recently in…
Incidents
Lessons on how to use Condoms are part of middle school health curriculum in the Austin Independent School District
Documents from the school district website highlight that the health curriculum being used by Austin ISD for six through eighth grade includes a lesson activity titled “Correct Condom Usage.” The…
Incidents
Daily bulletin at Moses Brown School in Providence urges students to write letters during lunch in opposition to what school officials call a “Don’t Say Gay” bill; students are given “pronoun pins”
In the daily bulletin for upper school students on March 30th, 2022 known by students and families as the “Daily Information Board” or “DIB,” officials at Moses Brown, an…
Incidents
Austin Independent School District hosts Pride Week, lessons for middle school students about “coming out and how to use pronouns correctly”
Pride 22 flyer – Austin ISD, TX – 2022Download The Austin Independent School District (AISD) hosted Pride Week from March 21- March 26,…
Incidents
Edmonds School District teaches children in first grade that there are more than two genders; encourages students to pick their preferred pronouns
A parent on Twitter posted images of the material that Edmonds School District is teaching children in the first grade. In a lesson taught to first…
Incidents
Eau Claire Area School District provides school staff with “Administrative Guidance” to support transgender students; appears to support students using “medical” and “surgical” procedures to transition to another gender
Parents Defending Education previously received training material and videos that the Eau Claire Area School District provided to teachers. The training sessions included praise for…
Incidents
Miami-Dade County Public Schools states that “outside confirmation from medical or mental health professionals” is not required for students to change their chosen gender identity; mandates teachers to use the preferred pronouns of students
Miami-Dade County Public Schools has a website dedicated to the school district’s “Office of Educational Equity, Access, and Diversity.” The school district states on the website…
Incidents
All-girl Catholic Carondelet High School hosts repeated celebrations of trans agenda
Carondelet High School’s new STEM “I-Center”, the Jean Hofmann Center for Innovation On Jan. 28, 2022, Carondelet High School’s “DEI Council” hosted a “Community During Community” cultural festival that included…
Incidents
Burlington School District supports allowing young children to choose their gender identity and pronouns; promotes segregated “affinity spaces” for students and staff
The Burlington School District has a “Diversity and Equity” page on its website that promotes using the preferred “pronouns” of students. The school district explains that…
Incidents
Jefferson County Public Schools promotes material pushing young children to choose their gender identity; provides resources to disrupt “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure”
Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky is an urban school district that has been plagued with an “achievement gap,” that its school superintendent said in a June 2021…
Incidents
“Gender Snowperson” used to teach 4th graders that their sex and pronouns were “assigned at birth” and that they should use non-binary language with strangers
In October 2019, fourth-graders in Lexington, MA were taught to “articulate what gender identity is and why it’s important to use non-binary language in describing people we don’t know…
Incidents
Investigations
Corpus Christi teachers union distributes LGBTQ+ books to students as young as five; promote the initiative with drag performers
The Corpus Christi American Federation of Teachers distributed hundreds of LGBTQ+ novels to students, as part of its Pride Patrol campaign to educate children on pronoun usage and LGBTQ rights.
Resources
California school district surveys middle schoolers on Title IX issues
Sacramento City Unified School District is surveying middle school students on “gender equity.” The California school district conducts a school climate survey every year in which it asks students in…
Resources
‘National School Counseling Week 2022’ reveals how K-12 schools increasingly try to get into children’s heads with activist agendas
Everyone cares about the wellbeing of children. Unfortunately, the launch of “National School Counseling Week 2022” from Monday, February 7, through Friday, February 11, illustrates how a national network…
Press Releases
Media
WND: CDC instructing school officials to be LGBT activists
Campaign ‘amounts to little more than bullying teachers, administrators, and school health professionals’…
Media
BIZPAC REVIEW: Biden’s disgraced nuke guru helped create school policy keeping parents in the dark over kids’ gender identity
Disgraced former Energy Department official Sam Brinton may officially be gone from the federal government after he was outed for allegedly stealing women’s luggage from two airports but his impact…
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: San Francisco public schools partnered with local children’s hospital for transgender trainings
The University of California, San Francisco ‘s Benioff Children’s Hospital has provided trainings to the staff of the San Francisco Unified School District for at least four years on responding…
Media
KTSA: Paxton pushes back against school district’s attempts to help children change “gender identity” without alerting parents
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is joining 17 other states on an amicus brief filed in federal court regarding one school district’s policy of allowing students to begin ‘transitioning’ their…
Media
DAILY MAIL: $40,000-a-year Chicago private school hold ‘affinity groups’ for children as young as four that white students are banned from attending: Dean also bragged about handing out dildos in lesson about queer sex
The elite, $40,000-a-year Chicago school that was recently revealed to have students as young as 14 discussing sex toys also has ‘affinity groups’ that ban white children from attending.
Media
THE BLAZE: ‘Parent/guardian consent not needed’: School board discusses how to hide students’ gender identities from parents
Parents Defending Education, a grassroots parental rights group, obtained and released a North Carolina school board presentation that detailed the district’s transgender policy, which explained how faculty should hide a…
Media
THE WASHINGTON TIMES: San Francisco grade schoolers can change gender on campus, public records request shows
Students in San Francisco’s public elementary schools have the unquestionable right to identify as other genders on campus, according to school system policy documents obtained by a parental rights advocacy…
Media
THE DAILY SIGNAL: ‘What Else Are They Willing to Lie About?’: Indiana School Compels Staff to Hide ‘Gender Support Plans’ From Parents
An email unearthed by parents at an Indiana high school has revealed a districtwide support plan for students undergoing gender transition and a policy to withhold and hide information from…
Media
THE POST MILLENNIAL: Wisconsin parents sue school district for transitioning their daughter without their permission
The parents of a Wisconsin girl whose middle school allowed her to adopt a male name and pronouns without their knowledge or permission are taking legal action against the school…
Media
DAILY CALLER: Virginia School District Seeks Feedback On New ‘Gender Combined’ Sex-Ed Lessons With ‘Inclusive’ Language
Fairfax County Public Schools’ proposed changes for the sexual education curriculum feature gender-combined lessons on human reproduction using “inclusive” words and are currently under community review, according to the school…
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: ‘Affirming of all’: Teachers union authored pronoun guide for using ‘ze’ and ‘zir’
The nation’s largest teachers union offered its members a guide on how to use pronouns in an “affirming” manner properly and included a guide to using “ze” and “zir.”…
Media
NEWSMAX: Republican AGs Back Lawsuit Against School District Transgender Policy
Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit that advocates for parental rights in education, received backing from 17 Republican attorneys general in its lawsuit against an Iowa school district’s policy allowing students…
Media
FOX NEWS: Connecticut education dept pushes back on watchdog allegations of stealth editing state framework
Gov. Lamont said gender identity instruction in sex education does not happen in schools, countering his own education department…
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Colorado elementary school officials hid student gender transition from parents, emails show
Officials at an elementary school in Colorado discussed how to defy the wishes of parents who did not want the school to accommodate their child’s request to transition to a…
Media
TOWNHALL: Virginia County Formally Opposes New Guidance on Transgender Students
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to send a letter to the Virginia Department of Education stating that its new transgender student policies will not be implemented in…
Media
NEW YORK POST: New Jersey school board’s lawyer says parents cannot ‘dictate what their children are taught’
A lawyer for a school board in New Jersey gave his interpretation of the law at a recent board meeting, in which he said parents do not have a right…
Media
THE NATIONAL DESK: Sex education starting in kindergarten creates ‘gender confusion,’ nonprofit says
There was an uprising in a Wisconsin school district after teachers called parents names because they were opposed to a controversial sex education curriculum.
Media
TOWNHALL: Another California School District Is Concealing Students’ Gender Transitions From Parents
A California school district is reportedly instructing teachers to conceal students’ gender identities from parents. Teachers are instructed to not share this information without permission from the student.
Media
KFOX 14: Teacher’s trans comments set off firestorm, Education Department under scrutiny
During a U.S. Department of Education webinar, a teacher created a firestorm after saying this: “Some ways that we can show our support for trans and nonbinary students who, just…
Media
THE BLAZE: Drag queen recruited by school district to serve as crossing guard
On Wednesday, Denver Public Schools recruited a celebrity drag queen to serve as a crossing guard for the day.
Media
THE DAILY SIGNAL: Parents May Face Felony ‘Child Abuse’ Charges for Disagreeing With Kids’ Gender Identity; AG Vows to Fight Back
Virginia’s Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, is vowing to protect parental rights after a Democrat in the state House of Delegates voiced support for a bill to criminalize a parent’s…
Media
THE EPOCH TIMES: Students Nationwide Face Pressure to Become LGBT
In a small, conservative town in North Dakota, 12-year-old Rebecca has faced unrelenting pressure from friends to announce an LGBT identity. It’s a pressure she doesn’t want or need, according…
Media
THE DAILY WIRE: Top National School Psychologist Part Of Group Offering To Resettle Gay Kids With New Parents
Chair of National Association Of School Psychologists LGBTQ Committee admits to circumventing parental permission requirements, “put[ting] parents in their place”…
Media
DAILY CALLER: Philadelphia Gender Clinic Hosts Trainings In Pennsylvania Schools
A Philadelphia gender clinic is hosting training seminars in at least 15 schools across Pennsylvania and appears to tell educators to hide a student’s gender identity from their parents, according…
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: ‘Even in wild Wyoming’: Parent group rips school district for secret gender transitions
A parent activist organization blasted officials in the rural Wyoming school district of Sweetwater County after the school board defended its policy of hiding student gender transitions from parents and…
Media
DAILY CALLER: School ‘Gender And Sexuality Alliance’ Clubs Encourage Teen Girls To ‘Bind’ Their Breasts, Despite Health Risks
“Gender and Sexuality Alliance” (GSA) clubs at public and private schools nationwide encourage teen girls with gender dysphoria to “bind” their breasts, according to GSA resources reviewed by the Daily…
Media
DAILY CALLER: Student Group Staging Walkouts Over Virginia’s Trans Guidance Pushed Pro-Abortion, Gun Reform Bills Funded By Dems
An allegedly student-run group that staged school walkouts across Virginia is funded by Democratic donors and appears to coordinate with other “student-led” groups that host pro-abortion and gun reform protests,…
Media
MRCTV: NEA Creates Web-Linked Faculty Badges Directing Kids to Pro-LGBTQ Site
The giant public-sector albatross of the National Education Association (NEA) has created for its members QR-code-loaded lanyards and badges that underage students and other teachers can scan to be linked…
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Fairfax teacher asks students to walk out in protest of Youngkin transgender policy
A teacher in Fairfax County Public Schools is urging students to walk out of school next week in protest of new statewide policies for transgender students from Gov. Glenn Youngkin…
Media
THE POST MILLENNIAL: Parents Defending Education EXPOSES ‘trans’ guidance for educators across the US
Media
CBS AUSTIN: Poll: Majority of Americans oppose instruction on gender identity for young students
There is a fierce debate raging right now over what can or can’t be discussed in public schools and one of the main topics stirring controversy is gender identity.
Media
FOX 5 DC: Gov. Youngkin introduces new model policy for Virginia transgender students
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday updated “model policies” regarding the treatment of transgender students, claiming that the previous “guidelines disregarded the rights of parents.”…
Media
FOX NEWS: Ohio school district tells teachers they don’t have to inform parents of students’ name, pronoun changes
Teachers ‘can just use those preferred pronouns/name with the student, and there is no need to share the info,’ Mentor Public Schools advised…
Media
DAILY CALLER: Michigan Public School Appears To Hide ‘Gender Support Plans’ From Students’ Parents
A Michigan public school district denies that it hides the transgender identity of students from their parents, though documents obtained by a concerned parent organization show otherwise.
Media
DAILY CALLER: Second-Graders To Learn About Genitals, Gender Identity As New Jersey’s New Sex Ed Standards Begin
A New Jersey public school district’s health curriculum forces second graders to learn about genitals and gender identity, according to the district’s guidelines obtained by a concerned parent organization.
Media
THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Ze Started It: Maryland High School Pushes ‘Ze, Zir, Zirs’ Pronouns on Students
A Maryland public high school is teaching students to use gender-neutral pronouns such as “ze, zir, and zirs” to address classmates rather than assuming anyone’s gender.
Media
DAILY MAIL: Virginia school district requires all teachers to complete training program that says that children of all ages – including pre-school – can request to be addressed by different names and pronouns WITHOUT their parents’ permission
A school district in northern Virginia is requiring all teachers to complete a training program that says all students – including preschoolers – can request to be addressed by different…
Media
FOX NEWS: California Department of Education advocates books promoting gender transitions to kindergartners
The recommended books were part of the California Department of Education’s ‘curriculum and resources’ on their website…
Media
DAILY CALLER: Los Angeles Unified School District Promotes Video Linking To Partially Nude ‘Non-Binary’ Person
An Instagram account for the largest public school district in California featured a video that linked to pictures of a partially nude “non-binary” person, according to screen recordings taken by…
Media
THE TENNESSEE STAR: Pennsylvania Department of Education Instructs Teachers to Host ‘Gender-Neutral Day’ with Southern Poverty Law Center Affiliate’s Resources
The Pennsylvania Department of Education is encouraging teachers to host a “Gender-Neutral Day” for children with resources from Learning for Justice, the education affiliate of the disgraced Southern Poverty Law…
Media
FOX NEWS: Parents’ rights group sues Iowa school district over gender transition policies
Parents Defending Education allege the school’s policies violate parent’s Fourteenth Amendment rights…
Media
FOX NEWS: Pennsylvania dept of education website lists gender-neutral pronouns ‘ze,’ ‘xe,’ for students
Pennsylvania education website recommends article claiming kids can identify as transgender as young as 3 years old…
Media
DAILY CALLER: Poll Finds 62% Of American Voters Think Gender Activists Are ‘Going Too Far’
New national polling finds that 62% of likely American voters think that gender activists are “going too far” with their demands, according to polling obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Maryland school district bars staff from telling parents about gender transitions
School staff in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland are prohibited from disclosing students’ transgender identity to their parents if the school deems the students’ parents to be unsupportive of…
Media
NEWSBREAK: Middle school survey asked if students identify as ‘transgender’ or ‘non-binary’
A Long Island middle school has come under fire for allegedly failing to tell parents about a question on a student survey asking about sexual orientation and whether they identify…
Media
BREITBART: Report: Arizona Students Taught Only 4% of Men, 2% of Women ‘Exclusively Heterosexual’
A psychology teacher in Arizona’s Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) taught students that only four percent of men and two percent of women are “exclusively heterosexual” and that “sexuality is…
Media
FOX NEWS: California school board weighs Planned Parenthood clinic on high school campus
‘The Norwalk-La Mirada school board should be ashamed,’ parents’ rights group says…
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Arizona Education Department spent COVID-19 relief funds on LGBT books
Coronavirus relief funds allocated by the Arizona Department of Education were used to purchase several books depicting gay and transgender characters.
Media
NEW YORK POST: Florida school tells kids women are ‘people with a vulva’ in sex-ed lesson
A Florida public school told students in May that boys were better described as “people with a penis” and girls as “people with a vulva,” according to a report.
Media
DAILY MAIL: Woke National Education Association looks to change ‘mother’ to ‘birthing parent’ in contracts ‘to be inclusive for LGBTQIA+ people’ as furious moms brand teachers’ union the ‘K-12 Cartel’
The National Education Association has proposed changing the word ‘mother’ to ‘birthing parent’ in its union contracts to be more inclusive to the LGBTQ community.
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: School district says transgender students must be addressed by preferred pronouns
The Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado , says transgender students have a “right” to be addressed by their preferred pronouns and that a person’s failure to do so…
Media
BIZPAC REVIEW: Wake up, parents! Just another teacher telling her students, ‘I’m your mom now’
‘Groomer’ has sadly become a common term in society’s current lexicon as more find concern in what is believed to be an insidious agenda from the woke to indoctrinate the…
Media
Gender Spectrum Infiltrates America’s Schools to Influence Impressionable Children
Organizations that prioritize extreme gender ideology over a proper education in America’s schools have gained tremendous ground in the past decade. Through consultation services and training programs, these organizations have…
Commentaries
DAILY CALLER: Montana Elementary School Librarian Reportedly Taught Third-Graders How To ‘Spread Radical Queer Joy’
A Montana elementary school librarian reportedly “violated school district policy” by teaching third-graders about spreading “radical queer joy,” according to a local news outlet and a concerned parent group.
Media
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Story hour: How drag queen shows for minors have become increasingly common
When a video of a gay bar in Dallas hosting a drag queen show for children drew widespread outrage from parents and conservatives, it represented the latest chapter in a…
Media
DAILY CALLER: Four Colorado Elementary Schools Team Up To Promote Pride Event
Four elementary schools in Colorado teamed up to promote a Pride event that included “drag queen story time,” according to a Facebook post from an elementary school Parent Teacher Student…
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THE DAILY WIRE: Four Colorado Elementary Schools’ DEI Groups Teamed Up To Promote Drag Queen Story Hour
Four Colorado elementary schools’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion groups joined forces to promote a drag queen story hour event earlier this month.
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FOX NEWS: Schools, organizations celebrate Pride Month with drag shows for minors
Schools and organizations across the country have marked the beginning of Pride Month with drag shows and events targeted at children, drawing criticism and questions about the appropriateness of such…
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THE NATIONAL DESK: DC Public Schools invite LGBT students to apparent drag ‘performances’ for Pride Month
As part of D.C. Public Schools’ Pride Month celebrations, the school system sponsored an event – advertised alongside an image of a drag performer – where LGBT students could come…
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WASHINGTON TIMES: D.C. Public Schools host drag queen performance for high school students
The D.C. Public Schools is hosting a drag queen performance as part of a pride month celebration for high school students to celebrate during the last month of classes.
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NEWSMAX: DC Public Schools Hosting Drag Queen Performance
D.C. Public Schools is hosting a drag queen performance in celebration of LGBTQIA+ students in the Washington area, The Washington Times reports.
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FOX NEWS: Florida school district guide suggests hiding transgender identity from parents: advocacy group
Florida’s Broward County Public Schools district’s support guide on LGBTQ+ youth appeared to suggest that parents can be kept at least somewhat in the dark on their child’s transition, according…
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WASHINGTON TIMES: Maryland school district to offer reading of book about transgender 4-year-old to young students
A Maryland school district is offering families with pre-K-5 students a Pride Week reading of the picture book “Calvin,” about a 4-year-old transgender boy who dresses as a boy for…
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DAILY CALLER: The Makers Of ‘The Genderbread Person’ Announce New Tool To Teach Kids About Sexuality: ‘The Sexualitree’
Two activists designed a supplemental learning device called the “Sexualitree” to help students learn about the 45+ components of sexuality, according to a review of the “Sexualitree” website.
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Ohio school district adopts policy of hiding gender transitions from parents
An Ohio school district is the latest to adopt a policy restricting staff from informing parents if a child chooses to adopt a transgender identity unless compelled to do so…
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NATIONAL REVIEW: Ohio School District’s ‘Transgender Guidelines’ Instruct Teachers to Socially Transition Students without Parental Consent
In recently developed K-12 “transgender guidelines” circulated among principals and school counselors, the Olentangy Local School District in Ohio instructs teachers to begin the social transitioning of non-gender conforming students…
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THE NATIONAL DESK: Parents push back against elementary school’s transgender bathroom policy
A Central Ohio mother says her two elementary school-aged daughters felt uncomfortable when a transgender student entered the girl’s restroom.
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THE NATIONAL DESK: 12-year-old girl invited to ‘art club’ that was actually LGBTQ club
A middle school in Fort Collins, Colorado, has come under fire after a 6th-grader was encouraged to attend an after-school art club. She found out it was instead a “gender…
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BLAZE MEDIA: Mom says middle school invited daughter to secret LGBTQ+ club, ‘did UNTHINKABLE things with the children’
A Colorado mother of three, Erin Lee, said her 12-year-old daughter was recruited by teachers to attend an “art club” after school, only to find it was a GSA or…
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DAILY CALLER: National Science Teaching Association Holds Seminar Instructing Teachers On How To ‘Queer Your Classroom’
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) held a seminar called “Queer Your Classroom: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Students” on April 2 instructing teachers on “simple tricks and strategies to affirm and represent…
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MRCTV: Are You SURE You Aren’t Transgender? Colorado Schools Think Otherwise
Highly concerned Wellington, Colorado mother, Erin Lee, sent her 12-year-old daughter to school one day where she attended an after-school art club. There was no drawing, painting or coloring in…
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BREITBART: Teacher Invited 12-Year-Old Girl to Afterschool Art Club that Was Really a Gender Identity Meeting
An art teacher at a Colorado middle school invited a 12-year-old girl to an afterschool club under the guise of it being about art, but it turned into a gender…
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DAILY CALLER: High School Questionnaire Asks Why Straight People Are ‘So Sexually Aggressive’
A Montana high school health class received a questionnaire that seemingly called heterosexual people rapists and child molesters, according to a report from a local NBC affiliate.
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DAILY CALLER: New Jersey K-8 School: District ‘Shall Accept A Student’s Asserted Gender Identity’ Without Parental Consent
A New Jersey public school’s policy states that “parental consent is not required” for students to use their preferred gender identity at school, according to a policy review conducted by…
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WASHINGTON TIMES: Colorado mom says school pushed transgenderism on her 12-year-old daughter
A Colorado mom says a public school’s LGBT group suggested her 12-year-old daughter might be transgender after inviting the girl to what she thought was an after-school art club.
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NEW YORK POST: Colorado middle school reportedly invited students to secret LGBTQ club
A Colorado mother has complained that students at her daughter’s former middle school were taught about LGBTQ-related issues — and told to keep mum about it — after hosting a…
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DAILY MAIL: Fury as Colorado teacher invites schoolgirl, 12, to after-school arts club that was actually a meeting about trans and queer identity: Kids were asked who they were sexually attracted to and told that it’s ok to LIE to your parents
A mother has been left fuming after her 12-year-old daughter’s teacher invited her to an after-school arts club that was actually a gender and identity group.
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FOX NEWS: Mom says presenter at daughter’s supposed art club asked of sexual attraction, suggested she was transgender
Erin Lee said the presenter at the school’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance told her daughter ‘if she’s not 100% comfortable in her body … she is transgender.’…
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REDSTATE: Colorado Mom Eviscerates School for Trying to Secretly Groom Her Daughter
In the latest episode of “Progressives Are Full of Bovine Excrement,” a Colorado mom made headlines when she called out her 12-year-old daughter’s school for trying to push transgender identity…
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DAILY WIRE: ‘Parents Aren’t Safe, But I Am’: Mom Says Daughter Was Told To Consider Being Transgender At ‘Art Club’
A Colorado sixth-grader was told to consider declaring herself transgender while attending what she thought was an after-school art club meeting last year, according to her mother and a parents’…
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FOX NEWS: CO mom says middle school invited her daughter to secret LGBTQ club, told students to keep info from parents
A Colorado middle school hosted a Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) club, in which students were taught about LGBTQ-related issues and told to keep the conversation confidential, a mother of…
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THE NATIONAL DESK: Emails show school counselor told teacher to hide student’s gender transition from parents
Besides the teaching of sexuality and gender identity to younger and younger students, sometimes as early as kindergarten, the failure to disclose to parents a student’s desire to transition has…
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DAILY CALLER: Disney Funds An Organization That Sexualizes Children Beginning In Kindergarten
Walt Disney Company has repeatedly donated to an organization that infiltrates public and private schools with LGBT ideology, according to Disney’s Pride Collection webpage.
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DAILY CALLER: GLSEN: An Instrumental Organization Responsible For Infiltrating Schools With LGBT Ideology
One organization is highly influential in infiltrating private and public schools with LGBT ideology in the form of teacher programming, resources, and research, according to an analysis conducted by a…
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DAILY CALLER: New Jersey Middle Schoolers Shown Video Endorsing Hormone Therapy
A New Jersey middle school showed students a presentation and video that endorsed the use of hormone therapy as a solution to gender dysphoria, according to documents obtained by a…
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THE DAILY WIRE: Girls With Erections? American Academy Of Pediatrics Targets Young Kids With New Radical Gender Ideology Puberty Guide
Can girls get erections? A co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newest guide to puberty not only says yes they can but that such occurrences are completely normal. In…
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THE POST MILLENIAL: School slapped with lawsuit after keeping children’s ‘gender identity’ secret from parents
Defendants in the Massachusetts case accused parents of “prejudice and bigotry” for raising concerns about being kept in the dark about their own children.
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Catholic girls school event included pronoun buttons craft table and gender flags
An all-girls Catholic high school near Oakland, California , held a community festival day that included a craft table for students to make buttons showcasing their preferred pronouns, along with…
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DAILY CALLER: All-Girls School Asks Students To Make Pronoun Buttons During ‘Cultural Festival’
A Catholic high school in California hosted a cultural festival in January which included a booth that asked women to make “pronoun buttons,” according to documents and testimony obtained by…
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The Human Rights Campaign against children
Recently companies of all types and backgrounds have coordinated to advance pro-LGBTQ viewpoints and attack legislation such as Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law.
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BREITBART: Iowa School District Trains Teachers in ‘Ethnomathematics,’ ‘Herstory’
Iowa City Community School District offers teacher trainings in “ethnomathematics” and queer “Herstory,” according to documents obtained by Parents Defending Education (PDE).
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THE DAILY WIRE: Massachusetts High School Biology Class Pushes Radical Gender Ideology As Fact
New Boston Post, a conservative aggregate news source for all things New England, recently reported Needham High School in Needham, Massachusetts, is teaching students in its biology class that humans…
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THE DAILY SIGNAL: California Teacher Describes Training Session Where Educators Were Pressured to Use Students’ Preferred Pronouns
A staff member at one of the nation’s largest school districts said he participated in a “cult retreat-like experience” during a teacher training session, according to a report from Parents…
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TOWNHALL: ‘Cult-Retreat-Like Experience’: California School District Trained Staff to Use Preferred Pronouns, Names
The Los Angeles Unified School District required its staff to participate in “socioemotional learning” training that involved educators agreeing to use students’ preferred names and pronouns.
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TOWNHALL: Massachusetts High School Biology Class Includes Instruction on Gender Identity
A Massachusetts high school biology teacher is teaching students about gender identity, gender expression and intersex individuals in a unit on genetics.
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THE EPOCH TIMES: Minnesota School District Partnered With Organization Promoting Resources for ‘Gender Expansive’ Children
Minnesota’s second-largest public school district is partnering with organizations that offer gender identity-focused curricula for young children to advance the goal of “interrupting systems of marginalization,” a report says.
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THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Parents Say Policies Meant To Help Transgender Kids Are Misguided
Many states instruct schools to keep students’ ‘gender identity’ secret…
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