• Re: Report: Michigan's LGBTQIA+ Education Department Is Urging Teachers

    From Lock Them UP!@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 30 07:20:37 2024
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    "Felcher - Inmate Number P01135809" <patriot1@protonmail.com>
    wrote:

    Homosexuals are recruiting and grooming children right in front of parents with the approval of the state.
    String them up! Now!


    A Michigan program pushes teachers to ‘facilitate the sexual
    transition of minors without parental consent,’ Christopher Rufo
    reported.

    Anew program from Michigan’s Department of Education (MDOE)
    advocates for gender “fluidity” starting at the elementary
    school level and pushes educators to “facilitate the sexual
    transition of minors without parental consent,” according to a
    new bombshell report.

    After obtaining “videos and internal documentation from the
    state’s training program, which first took place in 2020 and was
    repackaged for public school employees for the 2021–2022 school
    year,” senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Christopher Rufo
    reported that the “training program mimics the basic narrative
    of academic queer theory: the presenters claim that the West has
    created a false notion that ‘gender is binary’ in order to
    oppress racial and sexual minorities.”

    “In response, the department encourages teachers to adopt the
    principle of ‘intersectionality,’ a key tenet of critical race
    theory, in order to ‘dismantle systems of oppression,’ which are
    replicated through the culture and institutions of education,”
    Rufo explained. “The first step to dismantling these systems,
    according to the presenters, is to disrupt the gender binary.”

    In one video, self-described “Black, masculine-identified,
    cisgendered lesbian baby boomer” trainer Amorie Robinson
    describes the vast array of gender “terminology out there for
    [educators] to learn,” such as “gender fluid,” “gender queer,”
    or “gender non-conforming.”

    Students may identify as “asexual, lesbian, straight, gay,
    bisexual, queer, questioning, demisexual, demiromantic,
    aromantic, and skoliosexual,” said Robinson. “I’ll leave that to
    you to go Google on those. Because we ain’t got time today!”


    When asked in a separate clip by a teacher who wanted to know
    “how to respond to a student in her classroom who claims to have ‘she/he/they/them’ pronouns,” Amorie replied by telling the
    instructor to “go with what the kid says” because “they’re the
    best experts on their lives.”

    “They’re the best experts on their own identities and their own
    bodies,” Amorie said. “You may have to sit with some discomfort
    sometimes.”

    Rufo detailed how the training program advises teachers to
    “abandon so-called gendered language, such as ‘boys and girls,’
    and replace those terms with gender-neutral variations such as
    ‘earthlings,’ ‘people with penises,’ and ‘people with vulvas,'”
    with the MDOE also recommending that teachers “create ‘Gender &
    Sexuality Alliance’ clubs targeting students as young as
    elementary school, using private communications and fictitious
    names to conceal the nature of these initiatives from parents.”

    “In private, however, the trainers are straightforward about
    their objectives: these clubs, using cover names such as
    ‘Leadership Club’ or ‘Everyone for Equality,’ are explicitly
    designed to advance left-wing gender ‘activism’ and to promote
    gender ‘fluidity’ beginning in elementary school,” Rufo noted.

    One of the more concerning aspects documented in the training
    program, however, is the MDOE’s bid to “facilitate the sexual
    transition of children” without parental knowledge. When asked
    how liability is affected if a student “dies by suicide and
    parents did not know the student’s chosen name or pronouns were
    being used at school,” Kim Phillips-Knope, who serves as the
    project lead of MDOE’s LGBTQ+ Students Project, said that while
    “the law is really clear” about reporting acts or intended acts
    of self-harm, teachers can notify parents without “outing” the
    student or “saying why” their child is suicidal.

    “If you’re sort of into that area of like, ‘you’re going to hurt
    yourself or somebody else,’ and you have a duty to report—I
    mean, the law is really clear about that—you can also talk to
    parents, though, about like that ‘your kid is having suicidal
    thoughts,’ without outing them, without saying why,” Phillips-
    Knope said. “You can say, ‘We have some concerns, your child has
    shared this,’ [but] I would one-thousand percent recommend
    working with the student to let them guide that process.”


    According to Rufo, the Michigan Department of Education has
    defended the radical program by saying in a statement that it’s
    about “respecting all children” and “meet[ing] the needs of
    their LGBTQ+ students.”

    In response to the report, Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial
    candidate Tudor Dixon has blasted the department for “targeting
    and confusing our children at the most critical time in their
    development.”

    “It is astonishing that the activist-run education department is
    officially training teachers to hide important information from
    parents about their children at all, but it is unconscionable
    that they believe this is even appropriate when children are
    suicidal,” Dixon said in a statement. “What is wrong with these
    people? Make no secret about it – our own state agency is being
    weaponized to actively recruit our kids and advance their
    radical gender theory with zero input from parents.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/16/report-michigans-education- department-is-urging-teachers-to-transition-kids-behind-parents-
    backs/

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  • From Lock Them UP!@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 30 08:31:01 2024
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.republicans, alt.politics.usa.republican
    XPost: talk.politics.guns

    In article <t2vdl7$3t0gp$37@news.freedyn.de>
    "Felcher - Inmate Number P01135809" <patriot1@protonmail.com>
    wrote:

    Homosexuals are recruiting and grooming children right in front of parents with the approval of the state.
    String them up! Now!!


    A Michigan program pushes teachers to ‘facilitate the sexual
    transition of minors without parental consent,’ Christopher Rufo
    reported.

    Anew program from Michigan’s Department of Education (MDOE)
    advocates for gender “fluidity” starting at the elementary
    school level and pushes educators to “facilitate the sexual
    transition of minors without parental consent,” according to a
    new bombshell report.

    After obtaining “videos and internal documentation from the
    state’s training program, which first took place in 2020 and was
    repackaged for public school employees for the 2021–2022 school
    year,” senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Christopher Rufo
    reported that the “training program mimics the basic narrative
    of academic queer theory: the presenters claim that the West has
    created a false notion that ‘gender is binary’ in order to
    oppress racial and sexual minorities.”

    “In response, the department encourages teachers to adopt the
    principle of ‘intersectionality,’ a key tenet of critical race
    theory, in order to ‘dismantle systems of oppression,’ which are
    replicated through the culture and institutions of education,”
    Rufo explained. “The first step to dismantling these systems,
    according to the presenters, is to disrupt the gender binary.”

    In one video, self-described “Black, masculine-identified,
    cisgendered lesbian baby boomer” trainer Amorie Robinson
    describes the vast array of gender “terminology out there for
    [educators] to learn,” such as “gender fluid,” “gender queer,”
    or “gender non-conforming.”

    Students may identify as “asexual, lesbian, straight, gay,
    bisexual, queer, questioning, demisexual, demiromantic,
    aromantic, and skoliosexual,” said Robinson. “I’ll leave that to
    you to go Google on those. Because we ain’t got time today!”


    When asked in a separate clip by a teacher who wanted to know
    “how to respond to a student in her classroom who claims to have ‘she/he/they/them’ pronouns,” Amorie replied by telling the
    instructor to “go with what the kid says” because “they’re the
    best experts on their lives.”

    “They’re the best experts on their own identities and their own
    bodies,” Amorie said. “You may have to sit with some discomfort
    sometimes.”

    Rufo detailed how the training program advises teachers to
    “abandon so-called gendered language, such as ‘boys and girls,’
    and replace those terms with gender-neutral variations such as
    ‘earthlings,’ ‘people with penises,’ and ‘people with vulvas,'”
    with the MDOE also recommending that teachers “create ‘Gender &
    Sexuality Alliance’ clubs targeting students as young as
    elementary school, using private communications and fictitious
    names to conceal the nature of these initiatives from parents.”

    “In private, however, the trainers are straightforward about
    their objectives: these clubs, using cover names such as
    ‘Leadership Club’ or ‘Everyone for Equality,’ are explicitly
    designed to advance left-wing gender ‘activism’ and to promote
    gender ‘fluidity’ beginning in elementary school,” Rufo noted.

    One of the more concerning aspects documented in the training
    program, however, is the MDOE’s bid to “facilitate the sexual
    transition of children” without parental knowledge. When asked
    how liability is affected if a student “dies by suicide and
    parents did not know the student’s chosen name or pronouns were
    being used at school,” Kim Phillips-Knope, who serves as the
    project lead of MDOE’s LGBTQ+ Students Project, said that while
    “the law is really clear” about reporting acts or intended acts
    of self-harm, teachers can notify parents without “outing” the
    student or “saying why” their child is suicidal.

    “If you’re sort of into that area of like, ‘you’re going to hurt
    yourself or somebody else,’ and you have a duty to report—I
    mean, the law is really clear about that—you can also talk to
    parents, though, about like that ‘your kid is having suicidal
    thoughts,’ without outing them, without saying why,” Phillips-
    Knope said. “You can say, ‘We have some concerns, your child has
    shared this,’ [but] I would one-thousand percent recommend
    working with the student to let them guide that process.”


    According to Rufo, the Michigan Department of Education has
    defended the radical program by saying in a statement that it’s
    about “respecting all children” and “meet[ing] the needs of
    their LGBTQ+ students.”

    In response to the report, Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial
    candidate Tudor Dixon has blasted the department for “targeting
    and confusing our children at the most critical time in their
    development.”

    “It is astonishing that the activist-run education department is
    officially training teachers to hide important information from
    parents about their children at all, but it is unconscionable
    that they believe this is even appropriate when children are
    suicidal,” Dixon said in a statement. “What is wrong with these
    people? Make no secret about it – our own state agency is being
    weaponized to actively recruit our kids and advance their
    radical gender theory with zero input from parents.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/16/report-michigans-education- department-is-urging-teachers-to-transition-kids-behind-parents-
    backs/

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