Chicago Public Schools push kids toward “hardcore queer theory” in health education classes, according to a new report on the district from parental rights group Parents Defending Education.
With all eyes on Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, Parents Defending Education released a report on Wednesday showing that first graders are taught about “gender identity” while fifth graders are instructed about “puberty blocker medications that transgender young people may use.”
Parents Defending Education researcher Rhyen Staley told The Daily Wire on Thursday that Chicago Public Schools’ “Personal Health and Safety Education & Sexual Health Education Scope and Sequence” curriculum appears to be designed toward pushing kids to question their gender.
“You can start to see the process where they just slowly inch the kids and nudge the kids in the direction of hardcore queer theory,” he said. “That’s why by the time you get to fifth grade, you see that they are starting to teach the kids about transgenderism and puberty blockers.”
When looking at the curriculum as a whole, Staley said that it was a “generative process that slowly moves” the students toward queer theory.
For example, pre-K students are taught to “name at least three different types of family structures” and explain “why no one type of family is better than another.”
First graders are then taught to “define gender, gender identity and gender role stereotypes” and “name at least two things they’ve been taught about gender role stereotypes, and how those things may limit people of all genders.”
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In third grade, students are told to “explain the difference between sex assigned at birth and gender identity.” Students are also told to “expand their understanding of what it can mean to be transgender and the concept of gender expression.”
The curriculum defines “transgender” as “when a person’s gender identity (how they feel) is different from what doctors/midwives assigned to them when they were born (sex assigned at birth).”
The gender ideology is turned up a notch in fourth grade, where men are referred to as a “body with penis and testicles” while women are referred to as a “body with ovaries.”
They are taught the concepts of “gender identity, sexual orientation, sex assigned at birth, and gender expression” and given a handout on the “gender snowperson” to teach them about “gender expression” and “gender identity.”
By fifth grade, students in the system began to be taught about “puberty blockers,” which have been linked to myriad health issues, including fertility problems, lack of bone development, and heart issues. They are taught about the “connection between puberty and gender identity” and are “introduced to puberty blocker medications that transgender young people may use.”
The focus on gender ideology comes as only 31% of elementary students in the district are proficient in reading and 19% in math.
“When we talk about developmentally inappropriate content soaked in left wing ideology, Chicago Public Schools provides the perfect example,” said Erika Sanzi, the director of outreach for Parents Defending Education. “No one, regardless of their grade level, should be taught that sex is assigned at birth because that is pseudoscience. And talking to fifth graders — also known as ten- and eleven-year-olds — about puberty blockers? What exactly is the goal here? All of it is reckless and indefensible.”
