Original credit for this story goes to Mass Informed Parents, who published an October 13 story on Lexington’s elementary school curricula. Their report included a first-grade social studies handout featuring gender ideology, Lexington’s Kindergarten DEI Curriculum and more. 

In Lexington Public Schools’ Kindergarten DEI Curriculum, educators provide parents with links to Embrace Race and Gender Spectrum as additional resources for adults on the first page.

Some of the resources that Gender Spectrum provides for parents discuss “Changing Bodies to Match Gender Identity” as well as offering advice for educators that includes advocating for gender neutral bathrooms and using “boy, girl, blends, both, or neither”.

Gender Spectrum, recommended by Lexington Public Schools, also advises educators and parents to have their children question gender in conversation.

In one of the lessons from Lexington’s Kindergarten DEI curriculum titled “Heroes Have a Voice,” students read You Have a Voice by Vera Ahiya. In this picture book, aimed at “empowering both kids and grown-ups to use their voice”, one of the penultimate pages features a variety of political signs accompanied by the text, “You know what’s right, you know what’s wrong.”

After reading the book, during the “Active Engagement” component of the lesson, students are asked to examine the signs from the book and generate ideas to “speak up.”

In a separate lesson on “getting along with others,” the list of “connected read alouds” includes two books, Lovely by Jess Hong and Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima, both of which are known for featuring gender-neutral characters.

Lovely features illustrations of a man with facial hair in high heels and a corset dress, two men posed as a couple, among other gender-related drawings, while Not Quite Narwhal is often praised by LGBTQ+ advocates for dismantling the “gender binary.”

Defending Ed most recently covered Lexington Public Schools’ first grade social studies curriculum, which teaches that “a person might feel like a boy, girl both or neither” while using a text called ‘Jacob’s New Dress.’ Lexington Public Schools has also designed DEI curricula for all PK-12 classrooms, which has been under development since 2022.

Thank you to Mass Informed Parents for sharing these curriculum documents and photos with us.