Scottsdale Unified School District’s “Unitown” leadership camp asks students personal questions regarding sex; uses “Gender Unicorn” to teach students that gender is on a spectrum

The Scottsdale Unified School District has a camp for students called “Unitown” that “is taught through diversity activities.” While at the five-day camp, students “discuss issues such as stereotypes, prejudice, and privilege, to name a few, in an open forum.” Students will develop “an action plan of activities to bring back to their individual schools with the goal of increasing diversity, empathy, acceptance, and knowledge in their communities.”

The 2025 schedule for the camp features topics for students such as “identity walk,” “ableism,” “sexuality,” “stereotypes,” and “gender night.” One topic is called “violence continuum” that labels “eye-rolling/disapproving looks or gestures” as a form of violence. The directions for “gender night” ask male students to stand up if they had heard certain phrases before that appear to teach that the phrase “act like a man” is a bad thing. Another phrase is if boys “have ever been called a wimp, queer or fag.” Girls are asked to stand if they have been called a “bitch, a slut, a whore or a cunt” or if they have had sex with men.

Previous curricula for this camp were more explicit in gender ideology. A document labeled as “sexual orientation exercise” appeared to portray heterosexual relationships in a negative manner. Another document was labeled as “safe zone training.” This curriculum told students that “gender is in fact a social construct.” The document then labels “gender orientation” as “an individual’s sense of their gender.” Students are also shown the “Gender Unicorn.” The “Gender Unicorn” is an image that schools have used in an attempt to teach children that gender exists on a spectrum.