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   Militant transgender advocates are imposing their agenda with   
   uncompromising zeal on schoolchildren.   
      
   That’s fine with President Joe Biden. His administration announced   
   this month that by April, it will enhance the legal entitlements of   
   transgender public-school students, with new guarantees regarding   
   access to bathrooms, locker rooms and sports competitions.   
      
   These issues grab the headlines, but they’re less harmful to most   
   students than the damage being done by the distortion of the school   
   curriculum. From the youngest age, students are being brainwashed   
   with gender ideology.   
      
   Children — as young as 5 — are being encouraged to disregard their   
   anatomy and choose their gender based on their feelings.   
      
   Last week, a California mother raged at the Spreckels Union School   
   District board for allowing teachers to coach her 12-year-old   
   daughter on becoming a boy, choosing a boy’s name and hiding the   
   plan from the family.   
      
   A book school libraries offer for kids ages 4 to 8 reads, “This is   
   Ruthie. She is a transgender girl. That means when she was born   
   everyone thought she was a boy. Until she grew a little older — old   
   enough to tell everyone that she’s actually a girl.”   
      
   Gender dysphoria — a rare medical condition that makes people feel   
   mismatched with their sexual anatomy — occurs in about 0.6 percent   
   of the adult population, according to the UCLA School of Law’s   
   Williams Institute. Anyone afflicted should be treated with kindness   
   and offered medical help.   
      
   It first appears in childhood, but with so few children affected,   
   the curriculum should not be distorted for everyone. Elementary-   
   school teachers are putting words on the blackboard like “nonbinary”   
   and “transgender” even before kids have learned multiplication.   
      
   But Maine’s Department of Education reports that between 13 percent   
   and 18 percent of public high-school students say they’re “lesbian,   
   gay, bisexual or unsure” of their sexual identity. It’s no wonder   
   when the curriculum programs them to doubt their identity. In school   
   it’s cool to be anything but heterosexual.   
      
   Maine requires public-school teachers to explore the achievements of   
   LGBTQ+ individuals, not just in health class but also in history and   
   social studies. That’s indoctrination since teachers are not asked   
   to do the same for the celibate, for example.   
      
   This indoctrination offends many Christian and Jewish parents. Most   
   Christians say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined   
   by their sex at birth, according to Pew Foundation research (which   
   did not cover Muslims, who’d likely agree), while agnostics and   
   atheists are more likely to go along with gender ideology. In the   
   document “Male and Female He Created Them,” the Vatican rejects   
   gender ideology.   
      
   Public schools shouldn’t be taking sides. But in Maine, and many   
   other states, they are.   
      
   On Dec. 8, when the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case   
   involving Maine’s public schools, the state’s attorney, Christopher   
   Taub, insisted that they’re “religiously neutral.” That’s a laugh.   
      
   Justice Samuel Alito was skeptical, asking Taub if he’d say that   
   about schools that teach critical race theory. Taub ducked the   
   question. Alito would have been even more on the mark asking about   
   Maine’s transgender curriculum. It’s the left’s new religion, and   
   there’s nothing neutral about it.   
      
   Where do parents go for help stopping this propagandizing? Sorry,   
   not to the American Civil Liberties Union, despite its century-long   
   record protecting the free exercise of religion. Lately, the ACLU   
   has demoted religious rights, putting them below transgender rights.   
   The ACLU declares that “religion is being used as an excuse to   
   discriminate against others.”   
      
   The International Olympic Committee is also kowtowing to transgender   
   apostles. Last month, the IOC announced it’s recommending   
   eliminating any tests whatsoever — including of testosterone levels   
   — for transgender athletes to compete in women’s events. Fairness be   
   damned.   
      
   Don’t count on Biden. He’s already told the transgender crowd that   
   “your president has your back.” His administration is unlikely to   
   strike a middle ground that respects the majority as well as the   
   transgender minority.   
      
   Truth is, if students are to be educated, rather than indoctrinated,   
   parents will have to stand up to the transgender militants. No one   
   else has the nerve.   
      
   Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.   
      
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/12/22/how-public-schools-brainwash-young-   
   kids-with-harmful-transgender-ideology/   
      
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