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- That a large chunk of her class picked out “alternative names that they choose primarily from Greek mythology and outer space”
Heh, while the “large chunk” may perhaps be an exaggeration, I can actually kinda believe this :)
I mean, have you met trans and enby (non-binary) people? Have you seen their chosen names?
I have, a fair number of them. And as a trans woman, I can certainly tell you that we tend to have a fondness for, shall we say, exotic names.
Hell, sometimes it seems that the people with the ‘normal’/common names are the exceptions!
Taking an ‘out-there’ name is not my thing, but why would anyone judge those people for it?
- That “the social studies teacher down the hall taught his students that the concept of binary gender was a western colonialist imposition”.
Completely believable story, actually. This view is actually very common and very normalized among that part of the left which is sometimes (and often derisively) called “woke”.
Hell, in quite a few of the leftie communities I’ve been in, the view quoted above is considered basically an obvious and well-known fact. Especially in certain parts of academia in the US.
And if any such person became a teacher, you could bet your ass that this is what they’d be teaching! Again, not as part of some ‘woke’ conspiracy to corrupt good ‘normal’ children, but simply as a truth that is worth grappling with.
Therefore, in that view, the "western colonialist imposition of binary gender" should be overcome for the good of us all, leaving us more free to be ourselves without oppressive limitations.
So, again, quite likely not a fake claim.
- That the school is encouraging 4-year-olds to be trans.
Now this one does seem like it’s just plain fake. Or, if there’s a grain of truth to it, it’s probably something far more innocuous, like teaching children of that age something like “some girls feel like boys, and some boys feel like girls, and some feel like a bit of both — that’s okay and they shouldn’t be teased for it.”
Which is actually a good and age-appropriate thing to teach to little kids, but of course to someone like these “PITT parents” that is interpreted as “encouraging 4-year-olds to be trans” and of course awful and harmful (in their minds).
- That third-graders are being made to announce their pronouns on the first week of school.
Again, this is more a case of “Is ‘being made to’ what actually happened?”, i.e. is it true that it was forced, rather than whether it’s true that such things happen.
After all, such ‘pronoun circles’ are a thing, especially in some adult communities, and I don’t see why a queer-friendly teacher (or one who’s queer themselves) wouldn’t want to do this with their class.
In other words… again, a perfectly likely story in some places, except for the “being made to” part.
- Ending the removed section of the article off with that “many public school districts have been overtaken by activist teachers who are deeply interested in dismantling the concept of gender and are profoundly anxious to talk about it with their students.”
While this is of course tendentious and alarmist like the rest of that post, I have little doubt that teachers who would like to actively dismantle the concept of gender do exist. I mean, there are plenty of such people, so why wouldn’t some of them be teachers?
Anyway, all in all… @PLMMJ, please don’t take what I’m about to say as arrogant, as it’s not intended that way.
But I would suggest familiarizing yourself more with the actual LGBTQ community before claiming that a story about them espousing views which are rather common and typical in said community (and stated openly and proudly by many of its members!) are some sort of evidence for the story being obviously fake.