Sacramento City Unified School District has adopted a queer theory–based pedagogy that encourages teachers to “normalize gender exploration,” confront their “cisgender privilege,” and maintain strict secrecy when facilitating a child’s gender or sexual transition.
I have obtained a collection of publicly accessible documents from Sacramento City Unified that traces the evolution of the district’s sexual politics. The process began a decade ago, when the district invited Elizabeth Meyer, a professor of Women’s, Gender & Queer Studies at California Polytechnic State University, to conduct presentations on how the district could adopt the principles of academic queer theory and translate them into K-12 pedagogy. The “foundational concepts” of this approach, according to Meyer’s presentation, follow the standard left-wing narrative.
Western society has created a “Heterosexual Matrix,” composed of “Hegemonic Masculinity,” “Emphasized Femininity,” “Heteronormativity,” and “Heterosexism,” that underpins an oppressive system of “patriarchy,” “homophobia,” and “transphobia.” To liberate schools from this system, administrators and districts must adopt “queer pedagogy” and “anti-oppressive pedagogy,” which will disrupt the “commonsense view of the world” and replace it with queer alternatives, emphasizing “gender non-conformity” and “gender and sexual diversity.”
During this workshop, Meyer laid out a set of recommendations for administrators and teachers. Her recommendations for administrators included promoting gender-identity lessons in the curriculum, creating collections of sexuality books in school libraries, and hosting speakers and performers who address “sex, gender, and sexual orientation.” Teachers, according to Meyer, should follow different rules of classroom speech based on their own sexual identity. “If you are heterosexual, don’t state it.
Allow yourself to be an ally while allowing others to be uncertain about your sexual orientation,” the presentation stated. “If you are GLBT [sic], consider coming out to your employer, and if you get their support, your students/school.” Finally, Meyer recommended that administrators work to build teacher-driven sexuality clubs and “equity task force[s]” within individual schools to promote “queer pedagogy” and “anti-oppressive pedagogy.”
In another training document titled “How to Be a Transgender Ally,” the district provided teachers and administrators with the entire range of queer theory terminology, promoting concepts and sexual identities such as “bi-gender,” “genderqueer,” “two-spirit,” “polysexual,” “pansexual,” “drag queens,” and “transsexuals.” The document instructed school staff to “normalize gender exploration and gender variance” and to “encourage exploration of options” for transgender students, who “may turn to hormones and/or surgery as validation of their emerging identity.”
Other rules in the handbook presented a form of queer theory etiquette: “don’t ask a trans person what their ‘real name’ is”; “don’t ask about a trans person’s genitals”; “don’t police public restrooms”; and “don’t just add the ‘T’ without doing work,” meaning that “to be an ally to trans people, gays, lesbians and bisexuals need to examine their own gender stereotypes, their own prejudices and fears about trans people, and be willing to defend and celebrate trans lives.”
Heterosexual teachers, on the other hand, are told that they must confront their “cisgender privilege” and complete a questionnaire designed to elicit guilt and facilitate the adoption of a “transgender ally” identity. The questions include: “Does the state of your genitals cause you to fear violence should they be discovered?”; “Does the government require proof of the state of your genitals in order to change information on your personal identification?”; and “Can you wait at a bus stop at noon without passers-by assuming that you are loitering for sex?”
Ten years later, Sacramento City Unified has adopted all these recommendations and turned academic queer theory into pedagogy. The district’s schools, including many elementary schools, have put gender-identity theory into the curriculum and created teacher-driven “Gender & Sexuality Alliance” clubs. This ideology has also influenced districtwide policy on gender transitions, bathrooms, and athletics.
According to the district’s official guidelines, school employees must provide “gender transition support” to students, recognize their “lived name and/or gender marker and/or gender pronouns,” allow them to use bathrooms and participate in athletics according to their “gender identity,” and follow a strict nondisclosure policy, which includes withholding information from students’ families. “Transgender and gender non-conforming students have a right to privacy, including keeping their sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status or gender non-conforming presentation at school private,” the policy reads.
“School personnel should not discuss information that may disclose a student’s transgender or gender non-conforming status to others, including parents/legal guardians and other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure.” In other words, teachers and administrators can facilitate a child’s gender or sexual transition without notifying that child’s parents; in fact, the default is to conduct this process in secrecy….
The above comes from an August 17 posting by Christopher Rufo in City Journal.
This is the greatest evil in America right now, and it’s being promoted by the Anaheim Religious Education Congress with trans affirming workshops and speakers.
I think it is none of the schools business what someone’s sexuality or gender identity is.
Just google Sacramento school sex abuse for all the information you need to know what’s going on.
Who puts their kid in public school in California?
I would suggest that the Catholic schools and Catholic homeschools need to do everything they can to accept students of any income level.
I am not the usual poster that uses the name curious. I left the name thing blank and the website put that in.
School Choice: Freedom, Choice, Competition, Excellence.
We need good laws strictly prohibiting all of this mental sickness, immorality and perversion, being taught by liberal radical misfits, in the public schools, extremely corrupting and misguiding children! Children need to be raised and educated in a normal culture, with normal, Traditional (One Man, One Woman) Marriage and Family as the core of society. Children should grow up and become normal, healthy young men and women. The tiny percentage of kids with LGBT issues should keep their problems private, between the child and his/her family, or doctor. Their issues do not belong in educational curricula, nor in any school discussions, K-12, nor even in college– inappropriate and rrelevant. No “sex-ed” in public schools. Period.
Children in their formative years just need to be taught a few simple things: to live by the Golden Rule, and be nice to everyone, respect adults (parents, teachers, etc.), and learn morals and manners. Be a good student at your school, work hard, do your best. Sex-ed does not belong in a school. Definitely!
Smash “Gender Theory” into dust
Gender theory is a bunch of made-up garbage Freaks, fruitcakes all need good laws to restrain their crazy takeover of society. Kids go to school to learn and master the Three R’s. After that, go home and be a normal kid, with family and friends. So-called gender theory should be illegal in the public schools. I have been reading news stories, lately, of school districts banning all of this. Including LGBT, Rainbow Flags, Black Lives Matter, etc. This should also be banned to teach in all colleges and universities, and especially in their education departments, and in all teacher training programs.
There was an error in my comment of Aug. 19 at 11:04pm. There should be a period at the end of my first sentence. It should read, “Gender theory is a bunch of made-up garbage.”
Sacramento City Unified School District has adopted a queer theory–based pedagogy that encourages teachers to “normalize gender exploration,” confront their “cisgender privilege,” and maintain strict secrecy when facilitating a child’s gender or sexual transition.
Ha…yes…to further enable sexual predators in the public school system to victimize and exploit children…It’s as if they think no one is watching…well, no one that will do anything…oh, wait……
This content belongs in the psychiatric realm. I have worked in such an environment dealing with psychiatric patients with schizophrenia, affective, bipolar disorders and I believe that the psychiatric realm can take care of the host of identity crises that invariably coexist with these patients. (Irregardless of the “identity pronouns”). These so called “educational” discussions do not belong in the public square, the public school, or the cultural context of our society. They are the most private, sensitive, and protected individual aspect of a person’s sexual identity. The approach, in error, is to force this dialogue on innocent, impressionable youngsters and teens as “factual” and scientific when on the contrary, it only fosters confusion, deceit, a hidden agenda, and the manipulative bias of those incapable and unlicensed to enter into such discussions.
It is also the narcissism of thinking rather than I having to conform to society, society needs to conform to me.
The cult of the individual as opposed to the common good.
Why do sane parents continue to send their kids to these hellholes? Parents have been fighting for as long as I can remember to remove the trash from government schools, but nothing has changed for the better. But then, parents have been brainwashed themselves. For example, young parents today see nothing wrong with their kids having sex before marriage or smoking dope. They did it themselves and maybe still do.
What choice do they have? Parents have to work.
Children seem to be adaptable to their surroundings as long as they aren’t exploited nor abused. We need to think about how they will develop into adults and the responsibilities all adults must face. Bearing the weight of gender confusion of their peers is different; however, being sensitive to gender must be handled with care. Not everyone is binary, so acting in a way that is counter to the God’s love will prove disastrous for the child. It will prove to be abusive.
Jesus accepted children for their innocence and derided (strongly) those who corrupted innocent children. I argue we need to follow that example– love them as Christ would have done for them.
No bigotry.
No hatred.
Be charitable.
Be forgiving.
Be open to God.
Public schooling isn’t homeschooling. You cannot make accommodations to the individual child. You alternative is to treat everyone as if they have the problem. A lot of things are unnecessary like lining up girls and boys or school uniforms that are different for girls and boys. You don’t have to have rankings and competitions in gym class. Aside from that…what do you need?
According to NBC News, in the last 2 years over 600,000 teachers in the US have quit. Long hours, high stress and no support. And now that politics is entering the classroom, teacher can’t take it.
I just signed a parents’ petition to stop Marvel from making a Homosexual version of Spider-Man. The LGBTs really need to be legally restricted in this country. All LGBT materials, books, toys, films, etc, aimed at kids, should be strictly prohibited.
The kids’ movie DC Super Pets has gay couples in it.
” All LGBT materials, books, toys, films, etc, aimed at kids, should be strictly prohibited.” They should be burned to cinders