Public Schools Teach Students Queer Theory As Young as Kindergarten

City Journal: Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.” I have obtained a cache of documents from a source inside Portland Public Schools that exposes the nature of this curriculum. The lessons seek to turn the principles of academic queer theory into an identity-formation program for elementary school students; it has been adopted in many of the district’s K-5 classrooms.  The premise is simple: privileged white heterosexuals have created an oppressive gender system in order to dominate racial and sexual minorities. As the curriculum explains, “gender is colonized,” and Western societies have used language to erase alternative sexualities. “When white European people colonized different places, they brought their own ideas about gender and sexuality,” the curriculum reads. “When the United States was colonized by white settlers, their views around gender were forced upon the people already living here. Hundreds of years later, how we think and talk about gender are still impacted by this shift.” (When reached for comment, Portland Public Schools wrote: “We make certain that our curriculum is LGBTQ+ inclusive for students who identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, gender-queer, and queer to create a safe and inclusive environment for all of our students.”) The curriculum begins in kindergarten with an anatomy lesson featuring graphic drawings of children’s genitalia. The lesson avoids the terms “boy” and “girl” in favor of the gender-neutral variants “person with a penis” and “person with a vulva,” because, according to the curriculum, some girls can have penises and some boys can have vulvas. “Any gender and kid can have any type of body,” a related presentation reads (City Journal). Christopher Rufo: Portland Public Schools is now teaching elementary school students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers,” acknowledge that girls can have penises, and begin experimenting with “ze/zir” pronouns and exploring “the infinite gender spectrum” (Twitter).

Los Angeles Unified School District has mainlined academic Queer Theory in the K-12 school system, encouraging children as young as kindergarten to experiment with synthetic sexual identities such as "trans," "genderqueer," "pansexual," and "two-spirit."pic.twitter.com/SkXWJepKpS

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 22, 2022

Portland Public Schools is now injecting academic queer theory into elementary school, teaching children to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers,” acknowledge that girls can have penises, and begin experimenting with “ze/zir” pronouns and “the infinite gender spectrum.” pic.twitter.com/IESDyNBk8F

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 28, 2022

By the end of fifth grade, the curriculum explicitly asks students to become political activists make a “commitment to change,” according to the dictates of queer theory. Students receive a list of six commitments: pic.twitter.com/viQkIhTyOn

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 27, 2022

In third through fifth grade, it’s pure queer theory. “The culture, systems, and assumptions that everyone is straight and cis is called cisheteronormativity.” This system is a form of “oppression” designed to benefit “white straight cis boys” and to punish “LGBTQIA2S+” people. pic.twitter.com/8Nxy1Dridb

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 27, 2022

The new curriculum translates the principles of academic queer theory into K-12 pedagogy. The premise is simple: privileged heterosexual “white colonizers” have created an oppressive “gender binary” in order to exploit racial and sexual minorities. pic.twitter.com/GZWNYVOqdj

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 27, 2022

In first and second grade, students are introduced to basic queer theory. “Many people think there are only two genders, girls and boys, but this is not true. There are many ways to be a boy, a girl, both or neither. Gender identity is about how you feel about yourself inside.” pic.twitter.com/IqrdjqIaVu

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 27, 2022