Todd Starnes, host of Fox News & Commentary, reports that America’s public school indoctrination centers are teaching our children that sexuality is a “broader spectrum”:
One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity to its classroom curriculum, including lessons on sexual fluidity and spectrum – the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls.
Fairfax County Public Schools released a report recommending changes to their family life curriculum for grades 7 through 12. The changes, which critics call radical gender ideology, will be formally introduced next week.
“The larger picture is this is really an attack on nature itself – the created order,” said Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council.
“Human beings are created male and female. But the current transgender ideology goes way beyond that. They’re telling us you can be both genders, you can be no gender, you can be a gender that you make up for yourself. And we’re supposed to affirm all of it.”
The plan calls for teaching seventh graders about transgenderism and tenth graders about the concept that sexuality is a broader spectrum — but it sure smells like unadulterated sex indoctrination.
Get a load of what the kids are going to be learning in middle school:
“Students will be provided definitions for sexual orientation terms heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality; and the gender identity term transgender,” the district’s recommendations state. “Emphasis will be placed on recognizing that everyone is experiencing changes and the role of respectful, inclusive language in promoting an environment free of bias and discrimination.”
Eighth graders will be taught that individual identity “occurs over a lifetime and includes the component of sexual orientation and gender identity.”
“Individual identity will also be described as having four parts – biological gender, gender identity (includes transgender), gender role, and sexual orientation (includes heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual).”
The district will also introduce young teenagers to the “concept that sexuality is a broader spectrum.” By tenth grade, they will be taught that one’s sexuality “develops throughout a lifetime.”
“Emphasis will be placed on an understanding that there is a broader, boundless, and fluid spectrum of sexuality that is developed throughout a lifetime,” the document states. “Sexual orientation and gender identity terms will be discussed with focus on appreciation for individual differences.”
As you might imagine – parents are freaking out.
“Parents need to protect their kids from this assault,” said Andrea Lafferty, president of Traditional Values Coalition. “Who could imagine that we are in this place today – but we are.”
Last week, the school board voted to include gender identity in the district’s nondiscrimination policy – a decision that was strongly opposed by parents.
Lafferty, who led the opposition to the nondiscrimination policy, warned that the district is moving towards the deconstruction of gender.
“At the end of this is the deconstruction of gender – absolutely,” she told me. “The majority of people pushing (this) are not saying that – but that clearly is the motivation.”
School Board spokesman John Torre told the Washington Times the proposed curriculum changes have nothing to do with last week’s vote to allow boys who identity as girls to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice.
He would have us believe it was purely coincidental.
To make matters worse, Lafferty contends parents will not be able to opt their children out of the classes because the lessons will be a part of the mandatory health curriculum.
However, Torre told me that parents will indeed be able to opt out of those classes “including the sexual orientation and gender identity lessons.”
“They are not being forthright with the information,” Lafferty said. “They are not telling people the truth. They are bullying parents. They are intimidating and they are threatening.”
I must confess that I’m a bit old school on sex education. I believe that God created male and female. My reading of the Bible does not indicate there were dozens of other options.
However, I’m always open to learning new things – so I asked the school district to provide me with the textbooks and scientific data they will be using to instruct the children that there are dozens and dozens of possible genders.
Here’s the reply I received from Torre:
“Lessons have not been developed for the proposed lesson objectives,” he stated. “Because of the need to develop lessons, the proposed objectives would not be implemented until fall 2016.”
In other words – they don’t have a clue.
And the Family Research Council’s Sprigg said there’s a pretty good reason why they can’t produce a textbook about fluidity.
“It’s an ideological concept,” he told me. “It’s not a scientific one.”
He warned that Fairfax County’s planned curriculum could be harmful to students.
“It’s only going to create more confusion in the minds of young people who don’t need any further confusion about sexual identity,” he said.
The board will introduce the changes on May 21. Lafferty said she hopes parents will turn out in force to voice their objections.
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This is sicker than Ebola and more dangerous.
this is total crap you are either male or female there is no inbetween and god doesnt make mistakes its your own fault if your screwed up in the head and dont go get help for it. its a made up group to make them feel better about themselves for being mentally disturbed and not seeking psychological help. psychiatrists had to put a name to it so that the wackos had a diagnosis for their illness so that they could claim disability which is another load of crap. if your in need of psychiatric help and dont go get it its your own fault, not the tax payers and we shouldnt have to pay for you to be lazy and collect disability instead of acting like a grown up and getting a job as a man or woman like you were born.
Really??? How do you account for the 3 in 1,000 born Intersex???
First get your facts straight it’s more like 1 in 2000 http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency. And secondly your argument has nothing to do with anything… just because someone is born with a genetic deformation doesn’t meen society as a whole has to accept every whim and fancy of that persons behavior… people are born as phycopaths (an actual genetic condition) which causes them to kill other people without remorse. Do we have to accept their behavior as well? More and more research is showing that pedophilia may be a genetic disorder do we make that ok too? Just because you feel a certain way doesn’t give you the moral right to act in that way. The vast majority of Intersex babies are still clearly one sex or the other and hormonal tests can be done to verify which sex they truly are. Those people as well as people with homosextual tendencies have a moral obligation to refrain from immoral behavior.
I have a question. I am a Christian, and I have personally struggled with this issue. I am not transgender or anything, I’ve just struggled with knowing how to think about it. A lot of people on the left will say that there’s a difference between physical/anatomical sex (the sex of your organs) and gender, which they say is a social construct. I’m wondering if this is correct, or if boys and girls are inherently different from birth, apart from their sexual organs? What I mean is are girls born with certain personality traits that boys are never born with? It seems like there are many gender norms that our culture puts on us (for example, girls are given pink things from day one and boys are given blue things, but babes are not born liking one color over the other). If you could help me think biblically about this, I would really appreciate it.
It’s complicated. Much of what we call “gender” is indeed a social construct, that has no biological basis.
Unfortunately for the far Left, some of it does. Men and women really do differ, not just in appearance, but in neuro-anatomy. This isn’t a matter of upbringing or socialisation, they are literally different from before birth.
Unfortunately for the Religious Right, the differences are relatively minor, and because biology is fuzzy, while “men are taller than women” – a truth – not all people below average height are female, and not all above average height are male. There’s overlap, and any individual can be mostly male in most areas, but somewhat female in a few. And matching neither stereotype in yet others.
It’s anything but a simple binary – though the binary model works pretty well most of the time for most purposes, as we can observe in everyday life. Just as a flat Earth model works pretty well when walking to a corner shop or driving around town.
Maybe this will help – for this is the kind of thing that will be taught round K12:
Sexual Hormones and the Brain: An Essential Alliance for Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation Garcia-Falgueras A, Swaab DF Endocr Dev. 2010;17:22-35
The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. In this way, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation are programmed or organized into our brain structures when we are still in the womb. However, since sexual differentiation of the genitals takes place in the first two months of pregnancy and sexual differentiation of the brain starts in the second half of pregnancy, these two processes can be influenced independently, which may result in extreme cases in trans-sexuality. This also means that in the event of ambiguous sex at birth, the degree of masculinization of the genitals may not reflect the degree of masculinization of the brain. There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation.
Hi – feel free to contact me and I will gladly explain things to you. I’m a 37 year follower of Christ who is also transgender. Gender and anatomical sex are two completely different terms. I’m in a few Christian transgender groups, have spoken publicly sharing my story as well as on a medical panel for transgender awareness. I’ve served in ministry. God does not make mistakes, however, please remember, we are in Plan B… the fall of hu/mankind… Procreation… ALL born into sin, separated from God. Life begins at conception, however genitalia do not begin to develop until 6-8 weeks into gestation, well after conception or separation from God. It’s theological logic. It’s also why we all desperately need a Savior and why Christ was sent to us through man – without sin… and without yielding to every form of temptation a man could have. Life is not all black and white – or pink and blue… and neither are people. We are all uniquely created in the image of God… but what does that mean? I believe that means love, because that is what God is… love – and at times, tough love, but love nonetheless. Search your heart, open your mind in prayer and praise to allow the Holy Spirit to test all words (including my own) in that perfect love of us imperfect beings.
Blessings & peace – Bree <
Any person that have same sex shouod be stoned, hanged, shot, or executed by any means
He without sin shall throw the first stone. Be blessed
I say that girls were designed in coming to the earth to nurture the boys to teach the boys how to release a masculinity and take them back to the light of God girls are the nurturers and men are the hunters vthey are the providers in the way that they need to be masculine not too sure about the mid happening from Sodom and gomora. Against the Law of God to cdo whatvtheyvarevsuggesting. Atlantis went under for the same reasons. Broke the laws of Duality in this 3d?dimention just a thought Love and light
This video should help answer your questions. It’s the testimony of an ex-transgender person. http://youtu.be/m7oeWvF_hj0
Thank you for sharing the link to this poem. It is the most powerful thing that I have heard in quite a while. Well worth listening to.
thanks! Was she transgender or homosexual?
Whether you know it or not, you just showed why they should have the classes. That is someone who claims to be an ex homosexual NOT ex transgender. They’re two completely different things. Homosexual: someone who is attracted to their same gender. Transgender: someone who identifies with the opposite gender in which they were born. There’s pre and post op as well, meaning pre operation and post operation, operation as in the surgery to have your sex organ changed. #JustSomeKnowledge
If it is true that boys and girls are completely separate, Where do transvestites came from then?
If you’re a Christian or a Jew and you believe the Bible/Torah, it’s pretty much impossible to build a case for anything other than heterosexuality. In the garden God made man and woman. He made them with procreation in mind (Genesis 1:27,28). That takes a man and a woman. The Bible tells about the creation of both man and woman. In Genesis 2: 21-24 it tells about the creation of the woman. It pretty much describes marriage when it says a man will leave father and mother, become united with his wife and become one. The chapter Leviticus 18 gives a long list of who you should not have sex with including Lev 18:22 “No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.
Lev 18:23 No man or woman is to have sexual relations with an animal; that perversion makes you ritually unclean.” Lev 20:13 says “If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.” Lev 20:15 If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he and the animal shall be put to death.
Lev 20:16 If a woman tries to have sexual relations with an animal, she and the animal shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. Check Romans 1:24-32 (esp 26,27). Then there is 1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
I didn’t write the Bible and I know and have known people of all “genders” who are precious people but the above texts are what the Word of God says. We all need a Saviour and we can have One. He is available to all who will call on Him to be forgiven and saved. The thing is He doesn’t save us TO sin. He saves us FROM sin.
This is not written in anything but love. If your friend is blindfolded and about to walk off a cliff to his death. Do you keep quiet or call out and warn him?
@Linda, just to play devil’s advocate…I think you’re confusing homosexuality and transgenderism. Homosexuality is attraction to the opposite sex, whereas transgenderism is thinking that you ARE the opposite sex. Two different things.
You mean attraction to the same sex…. Right?
Yes, sorry!
Amen amen amen and amen
You’re select-quoting things completely out of context, Linda. Also, you’re completely triumphing legalism – omitting the GRACE of Jesus’ ministry, essentially tossing away His perfect sacrifice for your own legalistic agenda. You’ve completely mixed gender and sexual orientation, which only demonstrates your ignorance. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news to your miserable take on the Good News.
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Amen Linda! Those are TRULY seeking the truth Which Christ has revealed through the sacrifice He gave will most assuredly find it, for that is what He promised! We must remember that is the Spirit of Christ that reveals all yo those who truly belong to the Father. One thing I do want to point out is someone mentioned the grace that is in deservedly given to us all not to excuse or to give reason but to given us a chance to make it right through the power of the Holy Spirit and ONLY through this.
If any other questions are brought up, I found this website (below)to be helpful. Though nothing should replace the Word of God, I know many will be hesitant to refer their questions there.
http://www.gotquestions.org/transsexualism-gender-identity-disorder.html
May God’s love and grace cover you all!
This is EXACTLY why people have a problem with Christians.
Here’s the thing …. Christians need to pull their heads out of their asses.
Gender identity disorder is real. The struggle with it is real. And perhaps they’d stop worrying so much about what the schools are teaching if they started living their own faith better at home.
By the way, it’s not the “homosexual” agenda. It’s the school’s agenda. And I would suggest readers get used to it.
Thank u!!! Pple are so close minded!!! Open your mind to the possibility that the world is not always black and white!!!
I love how you call it a disorder yet we are supposed to accept it as normal?? Maybe you should get your head out of YOUR ass.
So if I believe that I am a bird — then the schools should be more tolerant -and teach birdism — and the insurance company should let me have surgery to become a bird.?
I’m a lesbian with transgender friends and even I don’t agree with this. Not in the sense that I don’t think this should be taught, but I feel like gender fluidlity should be a college course not something you try to explain to a middle schooler who probably hasn’t even hit puberty yet. It will just confuse them. Now I do agree with including some information when it comes down the LGBT community i.e what a ltransgender is and respecting gender identity. I feel as though those topics can instill tolerance, but to go into gender fluidity? That’s such a large concept that’s too much for children to understand. How about installing ediquette classes or teaching students how to balance a checkbook? As an LGBT member I see the flaw in this, it’s trying to force acceptance and that’s going to cause more tension and hatred not teach the next generation in order to make a better world like was probably the mission. Their heart was in the right place though and kudos for admitting that something should be installed for the next generation.
Thank you for your post. I am a Christian and respect that my beliefs are my own. My objection to this is the public school setting of Middle School and early high school. Heck I was confused about EVERYTHING then, even religion. I didn’t identify myself, my sexuality, my spirituality or my goals etc until I was an adult in COLLEGE. I just think the topic is adding more confusion to an already confused time in a young person’s life.
It’s science. This isn’t some ‘agenda’. Unlike the book that has been passed down through generations, written and re-written by many men, without any objectively provable supernatural events, science is rational, for a rational world, and it is what leads our world forward. It relies on observation, experimentation, statistics, repeatable results – basically; on facts. Not everything is known by science, but people continue to learn – through research, and through compassion. Western culture and western religion are not the only civilization, and other advanced civilizations have long recognized the existence of 3rd gender, or gender fluidity. So people need to stop being so afraid of science. Humanity is moving along, and will continue to move along, without being held back by primitive beliefs that have oppressed, de-humanized, and led to the misery and death of so many people. These kids are old enough to understand the concepts being taught (in some cultures they’d already be laboring) and they are leaning what science knows about sexuality and gender, as it won’t be ‘confusing’ but enlightening to them. That is why God gave mankind science – we should follow that light – not men’s words (that men fight over whose is the ultimate word). None has the final say. Only God does. We should find it by opening our minds and seeking truth with the tools we’ve been given to seek them – logic and empathy.of
If god made us, then truly HE cannot be upset with us being transgender or any other form of gender informality. Even if you argue that we are mistakes, or some form of evil, how could he make us just to be evil. People are people, all people make mistakes, its the human fault. Let them be who they want to be, prevent your own children but at least let others decide for themselves.
It is high time we as Christians should support and help fund our churches to build and open private schools!! Or…maybe do home schooling with our kids!! I hate having the devil and his ways crammed down my throat!! Here we live in a free country and yet we are losing more and more of our freedoms on a daily basis!! “Even so, Lord Jesus, COME!!!
Its obvious were in the end of time. In bible jesus warn that when he commes back, it will be like the days of noah. Homosexuality will be rampid. Men will be lovers of themselves. There will be a lot fonication adultery. Bible says jesus will comme back at a time when no one expects it. Jesus says let no one be caught in their sins when he commes back. Dont follow people. Dont follow peoples beliefs. Jesus says to follow him. bible says to becareful the devil is looking for who he can devour. As christians we all do a lot of prayingand speak the word of god. In book of genesis in bible it says a man shall leave his mother and father and join with a women to join as one. A women shall also leave mother and father and join to a man as one. God made male and female. There are only two genders. People change. People change their beliefs. But god never changes. The word of god always remains the same. Even if the bible as been written rewritten many times, the meaning still stays the same. It is rewritten to be translated so to be easier for people to understand better. As christians we need to pray for all the children cause satan is trying to braingwash children to grow up to becocomming homosexuals, biesexual and all that other crap. We need
As christians we need to pray for all school kids because the enemy wants to bring confussion to school kids, and take the right away from parents. To teach their kids that the truth is their are only two genders. Male and female. The devil is also forcing teachers to teach kids that their are more than two genger.forcing teachers to teach kids agains their own will
In bible jesus says the world hates you because you belong to me. If you were the world, then the world would love you. But you are not of the world. Jesus says my sheep hear my voice and follow me.