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Denver School District Forces ‘LGBTQ+ Tool Kit’ On Students, Prohibits Teachers From Sharing ‘Gender Identity’ With Student’s Family
A “LGBTQ+ tool kit” was created by the Denver School District and updated in July, prohibiting students from opting out of LGBTQ+ lessons and curriculum. There is no parental permission required for teaching these topics and the only possible way to opt out is for sex-ed lessons.
The “living document” website states several books will also be offered; the tool kit notes that the age-appropriate “LGBTQ+” topics being taught will be allowed for every grade level.
Most notably is the disregard for parental oversight. The Denver school district does not require parents’ consent when using a student’s pronouns at school, according to the document. The tool kit provides an entire section on how to help a student transition, even if their parents are unaware.
It states in the document that faculty are not to “out” students and that it is prohibited to share a student’s “gender identity” or “sexual orientation” with their family. The kit also mentions that all “sexual orientations are valid” and that transgender individuals have more than one “sexual orientation.”
The “LGBTQ+ topics” are a part of the school district’s “commitment” to equity and inclusion, the document states.
The tool kit also outlines a glossary of LGBT-related definitions and specific rules staff must follow when handling a student who is transitioning, the document states. The document notes that no student, regardless of whether they are transgender or non-binary will be left out of an overnight trip and that a student’s “sexual orientation” and gender are to remain private on these trips.
When a student is transitioning, faculty and staff are encouraged to ask the student about their “self-asserted gender” and that transgender students do not have to physically prove they are transgender, the tool kit document states. The students who claim to be transgender have to be treated as such, no matter if they had any kind of surgery or if they don’t dress or act differently.
An elementary school in the suburbs of New York City has been teaching a “gender curriculum” to kindergarten children in an effort to promote “inclusion” in the school. Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, uses photos of children to introduce “different identities.”
The New York Post reports that the course includes showing kindergarten students photos of other children which are used to “introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” including teaching them about the terms “cisgender, transgender, and non-binary,” according to a message to parents regarding the curriculum.
“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity. The students will learn and discuss that there is a lot you can’t tell about a person by simply looking at them,” the kindergarten level course description reads.
“The students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they notice and what they think they know about the children just from the pictures. Using their observations, we will then take the opportunity to introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” the school writes.
The “identity” being taught to children includes discussing “gender and the pronouns that you use,” and that “as we learn and grow, the words we use to describe our gender identity can grow too,” as described by the school.
Fox News Digital reached out to the school about the curriculum, to which the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District communications team said that the lessons have been in place for several years and are rooted in “Hillside’s core values of respect and fostering dignity for all students.”
“One 30-minute gender lesson is taught in each class one time per year. The classes are led by a certified educator, following a specific set of lessons designed to help students value the full diversity of their classmates,” Superintendent William S. McKersie said in a message to faculty and parents.
“The lessons have been created in alignment with the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” he wrote. The school noted that the lessons do not address sex education or sexuality. The school district said that while they usually have the courses posted publicly online, the gender lesson description has been taken off the website since going viral.
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