I thought it was bad when a Michigan school district hid a girl’s gender transition from her parents, but Michigan doesn’t have anything on California.
From pre-school to high school, many of the more than 19,000 children enrolled in schools belonging to the Hayward Unified School District now get to experience the joys of pro-transgender propaganda! The school district, located in the Bay Area (what a surprise), has created numerous lesson plans and resource lists to help ensure its students are thoroughly groomed into the gender identity cult.
What we know as the “natural” family structure is being taught to children as merely “traditional”, and one of many structures. The same is true for gender, with children being taught that the binary of “male” and “female” is archaic and restrictive. What was once normal is being ostracized and what was once obscene is being normalized.
Those who don’t want to embrace these “alternative” ideas on family and gender themselves are at the very least encouraged to support them. And the school district has several guides and resources to help do that.
According to The Daily Wire:
HUSD even created a “Template for Pride Flag Ceremony” which specifies how to properly raise a pride flag for pride month, with speakers addressing the history of the celebration and what it means to be an ally, while staff hands out rainbow bracelets and “take pictures together with allies at the flagpole.”
A separate guide was created by the district to inform teachers of “SWAG Ideas for Pride Month.” It reads “Here are some suggestions of possible swag you can provide and offer by invitation to students or staff to use to show their allyship” before suggesting “pride/ally ribbons” and “mini pride flags.” Staff members are also encouraged to buy themselves t-shirts that read “protect trans kids.”
I’m not sure if this should go in my “Why are people still living in California?” category or my “Why are people still sending their kids to public school?” category.
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This is great! The money therapists will make is going to BE AWESOME!
Dedicated research–journalists place this as really starting around 2017, and evident in 2019; some great articles in The Epoch Times have explained the inclusion of SEL, or Social—Emotional Learning, also called “xi nao” from the original Chinese term: BRAIN WASHING, going back to procedures practiced on POWs during the Korean War (polularized by Richard Condon’s book, “The Manchurian Candidate” — — — highly recommend the late Mr. Condon’s “Mile High” where he fictionalizes Real History in order to get it published — CLASSIC!)!
The federal funding for this dates back to 2005 from the NIH and NSF, dramatically increased during 2015 to 2017!
The private sector funding comes from BILL GATES, SOROS, PRITZKER family, JON STRYKER of Switzerland, HANSJORG WYSS, formerly of Switzerland – now living in Wyoming or Montana, Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive (???), and WARREN and PETER BUFFET!
In December of 2019, awakened early one morning to listen to a bizarre interview on KIRO Radio in Seattle when I still lived there: Kristina Olson from the University of Washington (now at PRINCETON) was urging all to vote for the adoption of ADULT SEX education from the pre–K level to senior high school along with gender ideology (a referendum in the 2020 election by Advocates For Youth, a Gates Foundation–financed Maoist group to destroy children, called “COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION”). She was quite forthcoming on the agenda: first they would insert it into the higher grades, then primary school, then Kindergarten and pre–K — explaining her “research paper” proved 3–year–olds can be transgenders and that while there was no such item as “genders” little babies can immediately recognize their own genders (psychotics easily contradict themselves in tjh same sentence!?)!!!
Beyond depraved . . . . But that is exactly why MacArthur “Genius Awards” are given to all these sicko crazies — — all part of THE AGENDA!
Yes, love is love. But more to the point, stupidity is stupidity.