Christopher Rufo is back with more receipts. Today, he’s looking at the Los Angeles Unified School District and its efforts to integrate academic queer theory into all aspects of student life, from kindergarten on up. When Rufo drew attention to schools’ efforts to incorporate critical race theory, states began to take notice and passed legislation that critics said was only meant to shelter white kids from feeling guilty. We expect the backlash against Rufo to be even greater now that he’s taking on queer theory in schools. But as we’ve learned from so many teachers on TikTok, they see their function as being a safe space between children and their parents, who aren’t as enlightened. And the same goes here: If a kid wants to be a different gender at school and use a different name and pronouns, that’s fine, and it will be the school’s little secret.
SCOOP: Los Angeles Unified School District encourages kindergartners to experiment with non-binary pronouns, trains teachers to subvert “mainstream white cis-heteropatriarchy society,” and promotes sexual identities such as “trans,” “pansexual,” “two-spirit,” and “genderqueer.”🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 20, 2022
I have obtained a trove of documents from the district’s Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity department, which has created an entire infrastructure to translate the basic tenets of academic Queer Theory into K-12 pedagogy. pic.twitter.com/9vYlOoEXWh
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 20, 2022
Tip: If your school has a DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) coordinator on staff, learn to expect this sort of training.
The narrative follows the standard academic slop: white, cisgender, heterosexual men have built a repressive social structure, divided the world into the false binary of man and woman, and used this myth to oppress racial and sexual minorities. pic.twitter.com/elvrCeoojJ
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 20, 2022
As we’ve seen so many times before, these workshops often kick off with students filling out forms to determine how much privilege they have, so they can be ranked from oppressor to oppressed.
In a conference last fall, the district hosted presentations on “breaking the [gender] binary,” understanding “what your queer middle schooler wants you to know,” and producing “counter narratives against the master narrative of mainstream white cis-heteropatriarchy society.” pic.twitter.com/eFsVIhpy3Q
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 20, 2022
Honestly: This workshop “will produce counter narratives against the master narrative of mainstream white cis-heteropatriachy society that seeks to erase and oppress our lived experiences.”
In another training, the district encouraged teachers to “avoid gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls” and “ladies and gentlemen.” The district also warned teachers that they might need to work against black families, who are guilty of “homophobia and transphobia.” pic.twitter.com/dy1W7UszW5
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 20, 2022
Uh-oh … “The Black community often holds rigid and traditional views of sexual orientation and gender expression.” Same goes for the Hispanic community, the Muslim community, and communities all over the world.
Los Angeles Unified has gone all-in on “trans-affirming” programming, encouraging kindergartners to experiment with non-binary gender identities and organizing “trans & gender nonbinary” sexuality clubs for middle school students. pic.twitter.com/07AQa9ZYRQ
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 20, 2022
Woke Read Alouds: “They, She, He Easy as ABC.”
The district has adopted the policy that schools must use the "names and pronouns" selected by the student and keep them a secret from families. In other words, teachers can facilitate a child's gender and sexual transition without notifying parents. https://t.co/1rG2YQK8yB pic.twitter.com/KAKL3Bwn1o
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 20, 2022
As a kindergarten teacher, this hurts my heart.
— Archersmom (@teachkreaders) July 20, 2022
My middle name is Marie. I told my kindergarten teacher to call me that but then my Mom was like no that’s not her name. So she stopped. Step up parents, it’s the only way this will end.
— Upton 🇺🇸 (@byrnesmom) July 20, 2022
I feel like I'm missing out on something here. I'm a 60 something year old straight white man, and I've never been invited to one of those patriarchy classes that teaches me how to oppress people.
— Jack Spitz (@JackSpitz5) July 20, 2022
Imagine being a white, cis-hetero male boy being dropped into this environment. That’s the enemy.
Just imagine the kind of adults they will become.
I'm so glad I'm getting old.
— Gronko Plankton (@Gronkoplankton) July 20, 2022
Related:
Luke Rosiak shows ‘the actual bizarre stuff’ school districts are teaching about ‘whiteness’ https://t.co/QzbexkpDA1
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 14, 2022
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