Should K-12 public schools be teaching Gender Ideology?
Here are a few quotes from an LA Times article on the rise in Gender Dysphoria diagnosis:
- “I think it’s gone too far. For a while, we were all happy that society was becoming more accepting, and more families than ever were embracing children that were gender variant. Now it’s got to the point where there are kids presenting at clinics whose parents say, ‘This just doesn’t make sense.’
- “Some clinicians are failing to subject minors to rigorous mental health evaluations before recommending hormones or surgeries.”
- “What happens when the perfect storm — of social isolation, exponentially increased consumption of social media, the popularity of alternative identities — affects the actual development of individual kids?”
- “We’re sailing in uncharted seas.”
Are these the words of a transphobic bigot?
Only if Erica Anderson, a 71-year-old biological male who identifies as female and a transgender psychologist, is a transphobic bigot.
Are the educators, who believe that teaching Gender Ideology does no harm, more qualified than Anderson to make these determinations?
Ultimately, should public education employees who are not licensed clinicians affirm adolescent self-diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria? This generally leads to the students being referred to medical professionals who fail to subject minors to the rigorous mental health evaluations needed in order for an accurate diagnosis before recommending hormones or surgeries. This feels like a revolving door with no oversight.
It is time to stop affirming practices that make adults feel good about themselves but put students at risk for mental and physical harm. These conversations are the ones that need to be happening in the hemispheres surrounding public schools. They impact our students and therefore deserve, at minimum, honest dialogue without inaccurate labeling and slandering of people as “transphobic.”
Free to Read Rochester echos the do no harm claims of Gender Ideology.
Why You Have Not Seen This Story
Per Ground News, 100% of the media outlet picking up the LA Times article lean to the right, creating a blindspot for anyone who gets their news from only establishment left-leaning media outlets.
Who Is Trying to Ban Books?
An online petition was started, there was support from the ACLU, and Target even pulled Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters By Abigail Shrier for a short time. Why would Shrier’s book need to be banned? Shrier’s book is looking at the same social contagion that Anderson is.
