QUEER THEORY in elementary schools! WHY???
Library books in public schools are teaching children about queer theory. What is queer theory? On its website, LGBTQ Nation states that
"Queer theory is a field of study that challenges existing traditional ideas about identity, sexuality, and gender – particularly that of heteronormativity, or the belief that heterosexuality is the natural, moral, or “normal” expression of sexuality. For queer theorists, heteronormativity permeates various aspects of society, is reinforced by institutions (think the Church and the legal realm), and is ultimately a way to yield power and control."
I have found that the Marxist agenda in elementary schools tends to introduce children to different gender identifies including transgender, gay, nonbinary etc. They also focus on introducing children to gay parenting and children who enjoy wearing clothes of the other gender.
Diane Ehrensaft, a developmental and clinical psychologist as well as the director of mental health at the University of California, San Francisco's Child and Adolescent Gender Center and author of "The Gender Creative Child" states that a transgender child, "wants to get into his sister's closet, but he's not going to go for the princess dress — he's going to go for her school uniform," she says. "He's going to put on her everyday clothes because he wants to be a regular girl, not a pretend princess."
She also says, "What we know is, you have a son who likes princess dresses. I would say get him the dresses. Have your child feel free to choose."
How do you know if your child is transgender? "Are you having daily battles about clothing before school?" says Johanna Olson-Kennedy, medical director of The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles.
In his book American Marxism, Mark Levin wrote
With respect to Critical Gender Theory, Andrea Jones and Emilie Kao, in a Heritage Foundation essay titled "Sexual Ideology Indoctrination: The Equality Act's Impact on School Curriculum and Parental Rights", explain: "In recent years, activist groups have strengthened pressures on legislators and educators to require the teaching of radical Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ideology in schools. They argue that inclusion and non-discrimination toward students who identify as gay or transgender require radical revision of curricula. Schools across the country and around the world have attempted to implement curricula that teach students the nonscientific belief that gender is fluid and subjective, and that traditional beliefs about marriage and family are rooted in bigotry."
So, now that we know where this is coming from, let's examine how queer theory is being pushed into our schools to indoctrinate our children while the parents are often completely unaware.
First of all, let's examine what library books and supplemental classroom books are available to elementary students in a smaller school district. I randomly chose Denton ISD. It has six high schools compared to 41 high schools in Dallas ISD and 17 high schools in Austin ISD. So, Denton ISD would not be considered a large urban school district. And yet, even in smaller school districts, our children are being indoctrinated while most parents are completely unaware. Below are books found in at least one ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Denton ISD according to their own district library catalog.
These PICTURE books in Denton ISD in ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (with the descriptions of the books given by Denton ISD in their school library catalog) include:
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Thorn (See my previous blog post to view scanned pages of this book!) "Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere in between."
Familias by Tax "Available for the first time in Spanish....divorce, step families, single parents, and gay and lesbian parenting are explored."
Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship by Walton "Introduces the youngest reader to understanding gender identity and transition....."
I Love My Purse- DeMont "Charlie loves his bright red purse, so why does everyone else have a problem with it?"
In Our Mothers' House- Polacco "How can a family have two mums and no dad? But Marmee and Meema's house is full of love - and the mums teach their children that different doesn't mean wrong."
Sparkle Boy- Newman "When his older sister, Jessie, shows off her new shimmery skirt, Casey wants to wear a shimmery skirt too."
Jacob's New Dress- Hoffman "Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school."
Jacob's Room to Choose- Hoffman "The beloved lead character from Jacob's New Dress is back in an encouraging story about gender expression. When Jacob goes to the boys' bathroom he is chased out because the boys think he looks like a girl because of the way he is dressed. His classmate, Sophie, has a similar experience when she tries to go to the girls' bathroom. When their teacher finds out what happened, Jacob and Sophie, with the support of administration, lead change at their school as everyone discovers the many forms of gender expression and how to treat each other with respect."
Pink is for Boys- Pearlman "This timely and beautiful picture book rethinks and reframes the stereotypical blue/pink gender binary and empowers kids-and their grown-ups-to express themselves in every color of the rainbow. Featuring a diverse group of relatable characters, Pink Is for Boys invites and encourages girls and boys to enjoy what they love to do..."
(Anytime they start talking gibberish like this about "rethinking and reframing the gender binary", you know it's a huge red flag!)
Julian is a Mermaid- Love "While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress."
My Princess Boy: A Mom's Story About a Young Boy Who Loves to Dress Up- Kilodavis "My Princess Boy tells the tale of a four-year-old boy who happily expresses his authentic self by dressing up in dresses, and enjoying traditional girl things such as jewelry and anything pink or sparkly."
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress- Baldacchino "Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves wearing the tangerine dress in his classroom’s dress-up center. "
AGAIN, these are PICTURE BOOKS for LITTLE KIDS!
Call Me Max- Lukoff "Written with warmth and sensitivity by trans writer Kyle Lukoff, this book is a sweet and age-appropriate introduction to what it means to be transgender."
I Am Jazz- Herthel "From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way."
Hold that Thought!- Galbraith "In the middle of the night, Finn wakes up with something buzzing around in their head." (I added the bold-faced for emphasis to show that they are teaching kids about different gender pronouns.)
A Tale of Two Daddies- Oelschlager "A Tale of Two Daddies is a playground conversation between two children. The boy says he heard that the girl has two dads. The girl says that is right--she has Daddy and Poppa."
A Tale of Two Mommies- Oelschlager "A Tale of Two Mommies is intended for 4-8 year olds.
This book lets us look inside one non-traditional family, a same sex couple and their son. As the children talk, it's clear this boy lives in a nurturing environment where the biggest issues are the everyday challenges of growing up."
Mommy, Mama and Me- Newman "A heartwarming board books about gay parents!"
Heather Has Two Mommies- Newman "Heather's favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two pets--and two mommies. When Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks her about her daddy, but Heather doesn't have a daddy."
Donovan's Big Day- Newman "Donovan's two moms are getting married, and he can't wait for the celebration to begin."
My Two Moms- Harrington "My Two Moms is the story of a normal day in Elsie's life. When classmate Lenny visits her home, he discovers Elsie has two moms."
My Footprints- Phi "Every child feels different in some way, but Thuy feels "double different." She is Vietnamese American and she has two moms."
Rainbow: A First Book of Pride- Genhart "A must-have primer for young readers and a great gift for pride events and throughout the year, beautiful colors all together make a rainbow in Rainbow: A First Book of Pride. This is a sweet ode to rainbow families, and an affirming display of a parent's love for their child and a child's love for their parents. With bright colors and joyful families, this book celebrates LGBTQ+ pride and reveals the colorful meaning behind each rainbow stripe."
Papa, Daddy, and Riley- Kirst "Riley is Papa's princess and Daddy's dragon. She loves her two fathers."
Stella Brings the Family- Schiffer "Stella's class is having a Mother's Day celebration, but what's a girl with two daddies to do?"
Denton ISD also has library books for older elementary age children in their ELEMENTARY school libraries. These novels and nonfiction books include:
Rick- by Gino "From the award-winning author of George, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend. Rick's never questioned much. He's gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. He's let his father joke with him about which hot girls he might want to date even though that kind of talk always makes him uncomfortable. And he hasn't given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him seemed to have figured it out.But now Rick's gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. One of them leads to the school's Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities congregate, including Melissa, the girl who sits in front of Rick in class and seems to have her life together."
George- Gino "BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl."
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World- Blake "..her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from someone telling her to open up about her identity. Ivy thinks--and hopes--that this someone might be her classmate, another girl for whom Ivy has begun to develop a crush. Will Ivy find the strength and courage to follow her true feelings?"
Hurricane Child- Callender "...Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and 12-year-old Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She's hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands, a spirit only she can see won't stop following her, and -- worst of all -- Caroline's mother left home one day and never came back.But when a new student named Kalinda arrives, Caroline's luck begins to turn around. Kalinda, a solemn girl from Barbados with a special smile for everyone, becomes Caroline's first and only friend -- and the person for whom Caroline has begun to develop a crush.Now, Caroline must find the strength to confront her feelings for Kalinda..."
The List of Things That Will Not Change- Stead "When Dad tells Bea that he and his boyfriend, Jesse, are getting married, Bea is thrilled."
The Best Man Peck "Archer Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in search of grown-up role models. Three of the best are his grandpa, the great architect; his dad, the great vintage car customizer,; and his uncle Paul, who is just plain great. These are the three he wants to be. Along the way he finds a fourth--Mr. McLeod, a teacher. In fact, the first male teacher in the history of the school. But now here comes middle school and puberty. Change. Archer wonders how much change has to happen before his voice does. He doesn't see too far ahead, so every day or so a startling revelation breaks over him. Then a really big one when he's the best man at the wedding of two of his role models."
The Deepest Breath- Grehan "An accessible and beautifully written middle grade novel-in-verse by award-winning Irish author Meg Grehan about Stevie, a young girl reckoning with anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand--including her feelings about her friend Chloe."
Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History- Prager "One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the lives of fifty influential queer figures who have made a mark on every century of human existence."
Inside the LGBTQ Movement- Lombardo "The history of the U.S. movement to achieve progressive rights for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, or queer is full of stops and starts and victories and tragedies, but also hope for the future."
The Pants Project- Clarke ""My name is Liv (Not Olivia)... I'm not technically a girl. I'm transgender. Which is a bit like being a Transformer. Only not quite as cool because I probably won't get to save the world one day."" Liv knows he was always meant to be a boy, but with his new school's terrible dress code, he can't even wear pants. Only skirts."
A Home for Goddesses and Dogs- Conner "It's a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother's death.
Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming--and a little quirky."
Redwood and Ponytail- Holt "A glowing, heartfelt addition to the middle-grade LGBTQ genre." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review"
The Best at It- Pancholy "From award-winning actor Maulik Pancholy comes a hilarious and heartfelt middle grade debut about a gay Indian American boy coming into his own."
Is this developmentally appropriate for young children? According to Stephen Camarata, PhD who wrote "The Intuitive Parent: Why the Best Thing For Your Child is You", the developing minds of children are not ready to receive complex information. I think we can all agree that gender theory is, indeed, complex information. Robert Walrath, a child psychologist, advises "Wait until your child asks you. If children are not asking, it's not important to them." How many children are asking about transgenderism before an adult told them about it?
Anderson, Ellis, and Jones conducted a study of kindergarten and first grade students. The students were asked to draw plants. The first-graders only drew soil 45% of the time. The rest of the students drew plants floating on the page. Again, young students are not ready for complex information, even if it's just understanding that plants need soil to survive. Thus, trying to teach them complex information is not appropriate. And, if this complex information includes topics that their parents might find morally wrong, it is even more inappropriate. Teaching about gender theory is not the job of teachers!
Children do know the difference between male and female at a very early age (somewhere around the age of 2), and after about age 5 children realize that changing clothes or hairstyles do not change one's gender. Wouldn't it confuse them to learn about gender theory and that "gender can change from day to day or year to year"? Children in elementary school solidify their concepts of themselves. Again, wouldn't gender theory confuse this?
So, what are the long-term effects of teaching kids queer theory? Kids need to learn to accept everyone, don't they? At least, that is the argument of the Marxists on the left. However, this indoctrination of queer theory in elementary school (and later) is having devastating effects on our children.
On July 6, 2021 Jessica Nye, PhD published an article titled "Increasing Trend for Youth in the US to Identify as Nonheterosexual". According to a study, nonheterosexual identity in high schoolers increased by 41.4% between 2015 (8.3%) and 2019 (11.7%). Girls reported a more pronounced increase of 45.8%.
Abigail Shrier reported in the New York Post on June 27, 2020 in an article titled "How 'Peer Contagion' May Play Into the Rise of Teen Girls Transitioning" and wrote that
"In the last decade, diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” — severe discomfort in one’s biological sex — has exploded across the West. Between 2016 and 2017, the number of gender surgeries for natal females in the US quadrupled; in the UK, the rates of gender dysphoria for teenage girls are up 4,400 percent over the previous decade. An ailment that typically began in early childhood, and overwhelmingly afflicted males, suddenly has a new dominant demographic: teenage girls.
In 2016, Brown University public health researcher Lisa Littman was scrolling through social media when she noticed that a group of teen girls from her small town in Rhode Island — all from the same friend group — had come out as transgender.
Intrigued by the statistical unlikelihood, Littman began to study the phenomenon and, in 2018, published the results. She hypothesized that transgender identification had become one more peer contagion among adolescent females. Anxiety-ridden, middle-class girls who once engaged in cutting or anorexia were now wearing “binders” (breast-compressing undergarments), taking testosterone and undergoing voluntary double mastectomies."
Also, the Neuropathic Doctor News and Review reported on the rapid rise of gender dysphoria (feeling like you don't match your assigned sex at birth) in young people.
One gender clinic in San Diego reported a 200% increase in children with gender dysphoria (feeling like they were assigned the wrong gender at birth) between 2012 and 2013 and some children are as young as five. And, “There’s no question that people are seeing more kids than had ever been seen before,” says Norman Spack, MD, an endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has treated transgender people for 20 years.
What is the Agenda of the Marxists? Dr. James Lindsay, author of six books and an expert on Critical Race Theory, does a great job of explaining!
Dr. James Lindsay on “The Jim Rogan Show “ (January 2022, transcribed)
“From the Marxist perspective, having studied the history of the Marixist perspective through the 20th century, I’m telling you this guy, Gyorgy Lucaks in Hugary, laid this plan out because you get these kids. You break down their innocence sexually, especially. What you can do is that then, they’re gonna go home and they’re gonna tell their parents that they’re some like “liff romantic”, you know? “Demi sexual”, you know? “Tree self-gender” something….and the parents are gonna be like “What?” You know? And they’re gonna be like “Mom, you just don’t understand!”, you know?
So, you separate the younger generation from the older generation. So, you get them (the kids) to break away and think that they’re “fogies”, that they’re repressive, you don’t want me to be my true self. etc. The goal, actually, is to destabilize the kid’s identity so that they’re groomable. That’s “identity without essence” in queer theory, and then they’re groomable. You groom them with this stuff, and then they look at their parents’ culture, they look at their parents themselves, they look at their parents’ generation, they look at their parents’ religion and they say, “That doesn’t represent me. We need something completely different”.
So, it’s just like in the Mao cultural revolution, and I mean that much more literally than you might suspect, to cut the tie between the continuity of culture up to that point, including the family, and to start a whole new culture afterwards. I mean, Pol Pot called it “Year Zero”, I guess Claus Schwab calls it the “Great Reset”, but the goal is to separate the new generation from the traditions and views of the old generation. For Mao, it was to destroy the so-called “Four Olds”: old culture, old habits, customs, and old ways of thinking.”
Dr. James Lindsay on the “Charlie Kirk Show” (December 2021)
“Queer and Queer Theory means an identity without an essence. You will not know who you are, you will not grow up well, and you are going to have some weird 18-syllable sexuality, different romantic orientation, and 12 genders, and you’re going to come home, and you’re going to tell your parents, “You don’t understand what it’s like."
And the family is broken. One generation to the next it split. And you’re going to not know who you are, and you’re going to be manipulate-able, and you’re going to break away from your religion. Christianity says God created man and woman, and they’re meant to be partners and complements. So, Christianity doesn’t get it, so the kids reject Christianity. Queer Theory is the gateway to hell.”
As one famous Marxist said....
This is the agenda of the American Marxist. They want to transform our country into what they want it to be. And, they know they must start with the youth. Is this okay with you? It is time for all of us to get informed and get involved!!!
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