The intentional effort by school boards and bureaucrats to confuse children about sex and gender continues, with the San Diego Unified School District peddling the same destructive falsehoods that liberals have embraced across the country.
Christopher Rufo detailed the school district’s woke “facilitator training,” which begins by encouraging people to introduce themselves with their pronouns, even if those pronouns are garbage, made-up words like “zie/hir/hirs.” The district claims that sex is “assigned at birth,” not biological, and that the idea of a “gender binary” is oppressive to people who claim to be nonbinary or gender-nonconforming — again, two nonsense terms that mean nothing but enable the confusion that comes with gender dysphoria.
The district has gone all-in on radical gender theory. The teacher training program mimics the narrative of the academic literature: white Europeans created a false “gender binary”—“man” and “woman”—that “oppresses trans, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people.” pic.twitter.com/lPL4lqZCOo
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 3, 2022
The district throws another of those nonsense terms, “genderqueer,” into the discussion when talking about children. The district wants a “linguistic revolution” to move beyond “gender binaries,” which includes rewriting the Spanish language to replace “Latino” and “Latina” with the made-up “Latinx.” (The district laughably claims that “Latinx is quickly gaining popularity among the general public.” Someone ought to tell the 97% of Hispanics who reject the term.)
San Diego Unified encourages teachers to promote “nonbinary identities” to Latino children. They want a “linguistic revolution to move beyond gender binaries,” including use of the term “Latinx,” which “makes room for people who are trans, queer, agender, nonbinary,” etc. pic.twitter.com/G3MpM9ImDu
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 3, 2022
This is all part of the district’s training for teachers on how to interact with their students. And that makes the final part so much worse.
The district wants teachers to know the “inclusive” responses to questions about how gay people have sex, what porn is, and what semen tastes like.
Finally, San Diego Unified trains teachers to use the principles of radical gender theory to answer questions such as: “How do gay people have sex?”; “What is porn?”; and “What does semen taste like?” pic.twitter.com/Txi2uen90B
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 3, 2022
Most of this content is wildly inappropriate for teachers to be discussing with underage children, at all, ever. The tamest of it is still wildly destructive, egging gender-confused children further down the rabbit hole of transgender ideology toward made-up pronouns and gender identities. None of this helps children. It only makes their gender confusion worse and pushes them down a path of irreversible medical procedures. Some of it even appears to justify conversation topics that could make children more vulnerable to sexual abuse.
This does not belong in schools, education departments, or school board training guidance. The school district should spend its energies on test scores and math and English proficiency, not rewriting Spanish or telling students what semen tastes like.
