Should public schools teach kindergartners that there are infinite genders, that people can pick their genders, and that people have different sexual orientations?
If you said “no,” then congratulations. You support the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida that Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to sign into law.
The bill isn’t bigoted, as left-wing activists and some in the media assert. Instead, it’s a commonsense bill that keeps kindergarten to third grade public education focused on what children need. Conservatives should force the bill’s opponents to defend the kind of material the bill aims to eliminate.
Woke gender ideology denies reality. People are male and female. A small portion of the population is intersex, but those people tend to live as either male or female. Meanwhile, concepts such as nonbinary, genderqueer, and other fringe genders don’t belong in the classroom at that age. Telling children young enough to believe in Santa Claus that they might not be a boy or a girl and that they can pick their gender is a great way to confuse young children.
This bill isn’t a solution in search of a problem, either. Graphics such as the genderbread person, gender unicorn, and genderbread cookie exist to teach younger students about not only transgenderism but all of the made-up genders that activists claim exist.
Moreover, why should children this young be learning about sexual orientation? Young children don’t need to spend their time thinking about their sexual orientation. They should have time to be children and not think about whom they may or may not find attractive later in life. Many children learn how to read in first grade. These are the years that children learn the kind of basic math they will need to know for the rest of their lives: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. And they learn some basic U.S. history.
If schools want to add to their curricula, they should add life skills — not lies about gender to small children.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.
