American Thinker
January 9, 2023
Who Gave the Government the Right to Push LGBT Propaganda into Schools?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes
Obviously, the message has not resonated with the federal government that parents are fed up with government dictating what their children are being taught and being told they have no rights as parents. On December 27, the CDC republished a “self-assessment tool” that encourages teachers, administrators, and school health staff to promote LGBT-inclusive “school environments, policies, programs, and practices.”
The CDC website has an entire section under “For Schools” devoted to “Supporting LGBTQ Youth” that includes professional development for staff. There, under “Tools for Supporting LGBT Youth,” is the self-assessment document, “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool.”
The CDC claims the assessment resources and their ideas do not reflect the “official opinion” of the CDC yet highly recommends the assessment document as “a focused, reasonable, and user-friendly approach to identify strategies to increase LGBTQ inclusivity in schools[.] … [O]ne strategy for improving the health and academic success of all youth.” The development of LGBT-inclusive curricula or the adaption of curricula and materials is promoted.
Claiming that the assessment is optional, the CDC attempts to deflect attention from its unconstitutional intrusion into public education and its promotion of dangerous sexual activities for students.
Although parents are opposed to LGBT symbols in the public school, the self-assessment tool ignores that and promotes creating a safe space for LGBT students with “rainbow flags, pink triangles, unisex bathroom signs.”
The document recommends using politically correct radical sex terminology — “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” are out, and “partner” is in. School clinics should offer pamphlets with descriptions of anatomy and physiology as “a body with a penis” and “a body with a vagina.” Preferred pronouns are to be used, along with preferred student names. Gender-neutral clothing should be encouraged and students allowed to use the bathroom and locker rooms that align to their chosen gender.
This is not the only way the CDC promotes LGBT in public education. How many parents know that, every two years, the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey — supposedly anonymous — is given to high school students, and the results are sent to the CDC in return for federal funds to the ISD?
Recently, the Fort Worth School District in Texas was exposed for giving students the YRB Survey on radical gender ideology. Texas grassroots activist Carlos Turcios tweeted screenshots of the nosy survey, which asks students about their sexual activity and gender identification.
Americans should not be surprised at the actions of the CDC, given that the Biden administration includes a transgender medical doctor as assistant secretary of health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. “Rachel” Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, has already raised alarms over his public promotion of puberty-blockers and surgical removal of healthy body parts. His September 2022 video speech to the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Pediatrics, which went viral on Twitter in December, urged medical professionals to become “ambassadors” for the transgender movement.
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