The Florida bill, if passed, would bar teacher-led discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through 3rd grade. The restriction is debatable but should be viewed in light of teachers instructing 6 and 7 year olds to reconsider their gender identities if their behavior doesn’t conform to stereotypes for boys and girls. So, is it really a “don’t say gay” bill, as the Human Rights Campaign charges (think fundraising), or a move that will protect lesbian and gay kids from being told they’re in the wrong bodies.
Today’s gender ideology is premised on the widespread assertion of gender identity drawn from gender stereotypes, and is far distant from anything to do with the small number of people who might actually be considered transsexual.
Wright backs up his argument:
Gender activists believe that being a man or a woman requires embracing stereotypes of masculinity or femininity, respectively … A recent New York Times piece refers to “men, women and gender nonconforming people,” as though gender nonconformity were incompatible with being a man or a woman. According to the Genderbread Person, a popular educational tool for teaching young children about gender identity, the properties of “man-ness” and “woman-ness” include certain stereotypical “personality traits, jobs, hobbies, likes, dislikes, roles, [and] expectations.”
The clear message of gender ideology is that, if you’re a female who doesn’t “identify with” the social roles and stereotypes of femininity, then you’re not a woman; if you’re a male who similarly rejects the social roles and stereotypes of masculinity, then you’re not a man.
3 Comments for “Florida Bill: ‘Don’t Say Gay’ or Protecting Gay Kids from Gender Jacobins?”
posted by Tom Scharbach on
“The Florida bill, if passed, would bar teacher-led discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through 3rd grade. The restriction is debatable but should be viewed in light of teachers instructing 6 and 7 year olds to reconsider their gender identities if their behavior doesn’t conform to stereotypes for boys and girls. So, is it really a “don’t say gay” bill … or a move that will protect lesbian and gay kids from being told they’re in the wrong bodies.”
Of all the absurd apologetics I’ve seen about the bill, this is, without doubt, the most absurd — a bill to prevent gazpacho teachers instructing kids to reconsider their sexual orientation. It is a lot more likely that gazpacho teachers would reinforce cultural pressures on gay and lesbian in the direction heteosexuality, which is, after all, the point of bills keeping kids in the dark about homosexuality as long as possible.
posted by Tom Jefferson on
Also, “sex” and “gender” mean two distinct things when talking transsexuals and hermathidites.
posted by Tom Scharbach on
It all makes sense now. We are living in a time warp, returned to the days of Anita Bryant.
Laura Ingralls March 9: “When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals? As a mom, I think it’s appalling, it’s frightening, it’s disgusting, it’s despicable.”
A week ago, Governor DeSantis’ press secretary, Christina Pushaw, March 4: “If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children. Silence is complicity. This is how it works, Democrats, and I didn’t make the rules.”
Stephen, in this post, goes right along with the “grooming” theme: “The restriction is debatable but should be viewed in light of teachers instructing 6 and 7 year olds to reconsider their gender identities if their behavior doesn’t conform to stereotypes for boys and girls.”
As Yogi Berra once said …