Oakland Unified School District’s sexual education curriculum teaches middle school students that gender is on a spectrum with “Genderbread Person”; teaches fifth grade students about “ejaculation” and “lubrication”

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The Oakland Unified School District has its sexual education curriculum posted online for students in the fifth grade through the ninth grade. The curriculum cannot be downloaded from the district’s website and can only be viewed. This curriculum involves using the “Genderbread Person” to teach students about “gender identity.” Students will “make up imaginary characters with different bodies, gender identities, and sexual orientations and explore different possible combinations of these identities.” Students will also “brainstorm how to stand up for someone who is being teased about their gender identity or sexual orientation.”

The “Genderbread Person” is an image that educators use in an attempt to teach students that gender is on a spectrum. The image also attempts to argue that “gender identity,” “gender expression,” and “anatomical sex” are different.

The school district uses the “Genderbread Person” to teach sixth grade students that gender is on a spectrum.
The “Genderbread Person” attempts to argue that gender is on a spectrum.

There is also a lesson for seventh grade students using the “Genderbread Person.” Students in this lesson will “review strategies for how to respond if someone is bullied about gender or sexual orientation.” Students will also watch a video “about the experience of a student who identifies as genderqueer.” The video is titled “Erika’s Story” but is locked to the public.

The school district also uses the “Genderbread Person” to teach seventh grade students.

Lessons on the “Genderbread Person” are also provided to students in eighth grade and ninth grade. Ninth grade students will “discuss how homophobia and transphobia impact characters in a set of scenarios, and identify possible supportive allyship strategies.”

Eighth grade students learn about the “Genderbread Person.”
Ninth grade students also learn about the “Genderbread Person.”

Fifth grade students in the sexual education curriculum learn about “menstruation,” “erections,” “ejaculation,” “lubrication,” and “what is a wet dream.” The “erections & ejaculation” video is not accessible to the public. The “wet dream” video discusses how genitalia work in these dreams in detail. A similar lesson is provided to sixth grade students.

The school district teaches fifth grade students about “ejaculation” and “lubrication.”
The district also teaches a similar lesson to sixth grade students.